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If you believe in Mark Twain's famous line "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness", and if these earbuds promote travel by lowering the di
by CamelCaseName 9y ago
If you believe in Mark Twain's famous line "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness", and if these earbuds promote travel by lowering the discomfort of communication, then you can expect that the earbuds would help reduce things like racial conflict.
- dogma1138 9y agoThere seems to be far less narrow mindedness across large distances than in local sectarian conflicts. For the few cases when this isn’t the case those earbuds won’t save you from beheading.
- mulmen 9y agoYou don't think the language barrier played any part in dehumanizing communists during the cold war?
- mc32 9y agoI don't think so. We treated American communists with pretty much the same contempt --not that we were not right in condemning the ideology, which as we know leads to massive deaths due to ideology -gulags, cultural revolutions, etc., to reach "purity" but still, it's evident speaking a common language does not prevent us from treating others ill. We see it from new-Nazis as well as antifa --they actually hate people with mainstream views and, for the most part, we're the same culture, writ large.
- dogma1138 9y agoNo, a communication barrier did. They didn’t call it the iron curtain for nothing.
- sanderjd 9y agoLocal sectarian conflicts are definitely a problem in lots of places, but a bigger problem in the US right now is that lots of folks never meet anyone outside their own culture. I'm not sure making it easier to communicate will help (lots of people don't even have passports...), but maybe it will, and I don't see how it could hurt.