Quiz – Perspectives Lesson 6: Challenge the Culture of Contempt

In the training module, contempt was defined with these two words: and .

is defined as depriving someone of human qualities and dignity, making it easier to mistreat them.

is when it feels good to call someone out or to shame them for bad behavior.

In the digital world we live in, social media makes it to find people who agree with our negative expressions of other people and their ideas.

When you shame someone, it tends to provoke their emotional rather than their rational rider and they are more likely to respond emotionally and irrationally to you, which only the cycle of contempt.

By choosing over contempt, we break the cycle.

It is to navigate difficult conversations when they are handled one-on-one.

Moving difficult conversations into a one-on-one setting will most likely be more productive because neither person will feel the need to for others who are viewing their discussion.

Name the three life hacks associated with challenging our culture of contempt 1. 2. 3. ,

One way to embrace clumsy conversations is to with your conversation partner, before you even have the conversation, the idea to each other for mistakes you will inevitably make as you discuss hot-button issues.