Anyone unfamiliar with the word "apartheid" (taken from Wiki)
Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ɐˈpɑːrtɦɛit]; from Afrikaans "the state of being apart") was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP) governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations and was practiced also in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution 2145), until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990
With that out of the way, I guess I should go on why I felt to share this term with you (well the title of this blog spoiled it a bit). Earlier today I ran into this article
The Science of What Makes an Introvert and an Extrovert
So, from what I'm understanding from this article is that Intro-/Extrovertedness is a neurological thing. Or at least that is something it is believed to be.
From the perspective how some people call autism a "disability" one can say that, depending on whom you ask, that being an introvert is just as much a disability. The same can be said about extroverts.
However, seeing as this is a trait that's part of everyone's typology (you can't be neither) there's no focus on it. Perhaps rightfully so. Imagine society would have to worry about even more things which make us different. In a sense we're already glad that racism isn't as much an issue as it used to be.
It would open up a really interesting debate in terms of discrimination at some point. It means that some people just don't have the same amount of skills based on neurological typology. One could even see this as a 3rd dimension for IQ (since it surely doesn't add or subtract to current intelligence scaling). It means that some people could be left out for certain job/education opportunities. And since performance is a factor, whereas religion, race and gender are not it would open up a totally new divide for employment. People would underperform on jobs and it technically isn't their fault, just as it isn't a deaf person's fault (and lack of ability) to be a ****** audio engineer (and props for that random really good deaf audio engineer. I just don't see it happening)
I can totally see it going the way where there's requirements for a certain degree, certifcations, a few minor demands (like a car for instance).. .but it would go further as to state certain jobs are probably not ok for people that can't deal with high stimuli (in this case, introverts). It would open up a whole new issue of unemployment because society and the "jobmarket" cannot cater to this need (it would mean that companies would have to restructure how their workspaces function), and I guess this goes for school as well. But we all know that these are expenses the current economy cannot deal with.
If anything, I think it's a shame people aren't utilized to their full potential. If I can do my job better in a quiet office, I should be accommodated. It seems unfair to let someone work under conditions that are detrimental to his or her functioning but furthermore assess functioning compared to others. It opens the door for unfair competition by basically setting a handicap and making sure someone fails. Framing someone for a crime is the best analogy I can come up with; though that might be the extreme example.
Society as a whole is not in a vacuum but dynamic. I feel the demand to be extroverted increasing; and it's worrisome because it's an artificial need. It's not survival of the fittest where man had to grow more hair to protect from the cold (or so I've read about evolution); it's sheer societal ignorance to trample over roughly between 33 to 50% of the population and their means to function. And the ignorance is growing. Like pointed out in the video on the bottom of the article; there is too much focus to be the extrovert and functioning in a group. That's just not for everyone.
And I guess a thing can be said about forcing people into situations that do not fit their typology. That might even go against their human rights. I mean, forcing people to be uncomfortable and setting them up to fail is what allegedly happened in places like Guantanamo bay and over a century ago when torture was common place. And side from sketchy modern prisons, torture got overruled by human rights laws and agreements. Yet infringement towards someone's psychological state might very well pose a threat to someone's wellbeing (directly and indirecty; since being left out of jobs means no money, means stress, means ****** living conditions etc.)
So with all this, and a clear line drawn how there's at least 2 kinds of people (and it in fact important enough since it determines how we can function as an individual as well as a group). Well, it's as clear as much as we can define someone being intro- or extroverted. But at least it's a real thing. And because it's a real thing I'm sure it will become a measure at some point to claim something is undesirable. It can create a divide amongst people and thus isolate a group.
Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ɐˈpɑːrtɦɛit]; from Afrikaans "the state of being apart") was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP) governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations and was practiced also in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution 2145), until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990
With that out of the way, I guess I should go on why I felt to share this term with you (well the title of this blog spoiled it a bit). Earlier today I ran into this article
The Science of What Makes an Introvert and an Extrovert
So, from what I'm understanding from this article is that Intro-/Extrovertedness is a neurological thing. Or at least that is something it is believed to be.
From the perspective how some people call autism a "disability" one can say that, depending on whom you ask, that being an introvert is just as much a disability. The same can be said about extroverts.
However, seeing as this is a trait that's part of everyone's typology (you can't be neither) there's no focus on it. Perhaps rightfully so. Imagine society would have to worry about even more things which make us different. In a sense we're already glad that racism isn't as much an issue as it used to be.
It would open up a really interesting debate in terms of discrimination at some point. It means that some people just don't have the same amount of skills based on neurological typology. One could even see this as a 3rd dimension for IQ (since it surely doesn't add or subtract to current intelligence scaling). It means that some people could be left out for certain job/education opportunities. And since performance is a factor, whereas religion, race and gender are not it would open up a totally new divide for employment. People would underperform on jobs and it technically isn't their fault, just as it isn't a deaf person's fault (and lack of ability) to be a ****** audio engineer (and props for that random really good deaf audio engineer. I just don't see it happening)
I can totally see it going the way where there's requirements for a certain degree, certifcations, a few minor demands (like a car for instance).. .but it would go further as to state certain jobs are probably not ok for people that can't deal with high stimuli (in this case, introverts). It would open up a whole new issue of unemployment because society and the "jobmarket" cannot cater to this need (it would mean that companies would have to restructure how their workspaces function), and I guess this goes for school as well. But we all know that these are expenses the current economy cannot deal with.
If anything, I think it's a shame people aren't utilized to their full potential. If I can do my job better in a quiet office, I should be accommodated. It seems unfair to let someone work under conditions that are detrimental to his or her functioning but furthermore assess functioning compared to others. It opens the door for unfair competition by basically setting a handicap and making sure someone fails. Framing someone for a crime is the best analogy I can come up with; though that might be the extreme example.
Society as a whole is not in a vacuum but dynamic. I feel the demand to be extroverted increasing; and it's worrisome because it's an artificial need. It's not survival of the fittest where man had to grow more hair to protect from the cold (or so I've read about evolution); it's sheer societal ignorance to trample over roughly between 33 to 50% of the population and their means to function. And the ignorance is growing. Like pointed out in the video on the bottom of the article; there is too much focus to be the extrovert and functioning in a group. That's just not for everyone.
And I guess a thing can be said about forcing people into situations that do not fit their typology. That might even go against their human rights. I mean, forcing people to be uncomfortable and setting them up to fail is what allegedly happened in places like Guantanamo bay and over a century ago when torture was common place. And side from sketchy modern prisons, torture got overruled by human rights laws and agreements. Yet infringement towards someone's psychological state might very well pose a threat to someone's wellbeing (directly and indirecty; since being left out of jobs means no money, means stress, means ****** living conditions etc.)
So with all this, and a clear line drawn how there's at least 2 kinds of people (and it in fact important enough since it determines how we can function as an individual as well as a group). Well, it's as clear as much as we can define someone being intro- or extroverted. But at least it's a real thing. And because it's a real thing I'm sure it will become a measure at some point to claim something is undesirable. It can create a divide amongst people and thus isolate a group.
