{"id":50094,"date":"2016-11-21T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50094"},"modified":"2016-11-23T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:06:18","slug":"leaders-are-stoking-human-tendencies-toward-tribalism-but-this-instinct-can-be-overcome-more-easily-than-once-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50094","title":{"rendered":"The New American Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2016\/11\/stoking-stribal-bia\/508175\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The New American Face<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameshamblin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>James Hamblin<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2016\/11\/stoking-stribal-bia\/508175\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/img\/mt\/2016\/11\/checkon12\/lead_960.jpg?1479669825\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>The least and most attractive male faces, based on statistical models.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism\u2014but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the election of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> has shifted into a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/prophylactic\" target=\"_blank\">prophylactic<\/a> stance. He is warning that the world is complex, not a simple collection of binaries where things are either <em>completely fantastic or the absolute worst.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Obama sees, rather, an ecosystem, a global community where borders are increasingly illusory, where prosperity for one economy means prosperity for others. Still this is a difficult concept to impart even to competitive students or coworkers, much less a population of seven billion. Recounting how he explained the election outcome to his daughters, Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50091\" target=\"_blank\">said in <em>The New Yorker<\/em> this week<\/a>, \u201cThis is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it\u2019s messy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If biology is messy, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuroscience\" target=\"_blank\">neurobiology<\/a> is a dumpster filled with smaller dumpsters, all ablaze. We are <em>competitive<\/em> by nature, as a matter of survival, and this tendency is easily goaded into hate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2016\/11\/stoking-stribal-bia\/508175\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New American Face The Atlantic 2016-11-21 James Hamblin, Senior Editor The least and most attractive male faces, based on statistical models. Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism\u2014but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought. Since the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama has shifted into a prophylactic stance. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,24,2039,8,20],"tags":[25470,6001],"class_list":["post-50094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-arts","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-james-hamblin","tag-the-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50124,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094\/revisions\/50124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}