JeremyBadong's JumboTweets
- The habits of mind that our culture has instilled in us from infancy shape our orientation to the world and our emotional responses to the objects we encounter, and their consequences probably go far beyond what has been experimentally demonstrated so far. they may also have a marked impact on our beliefs, values and ideologies. We may not know as yet how to measure these consequences directly or how to assess their contribution to cultural or political misunderstandings. But as a first step toward understanding one another, we can do better than pretending we all think the same.
- "the nation remains divided, working its way through a subject as fiery as abortion yet imbued with more primal fears and deep social and religious constraints."
- There are no definitive means to exactly appropriate Ateneo’s LGBT community given the statistical complexity—for example closeted gays who do not tag themselves publicly are hardly accounted for. But atop this dilemma, one fact holds true, Ateneo hosts a considerable size of LGBT community, and that number is continually rising.
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