Dr. Joseph Lee
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first heard Aug 2022
last heard Aug 2022
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And I think, you know, the reason why we teach history in general, let's say, is because, you know, we didn't live at those times and oftentimes we didn't live there.
You know, it's a different country or a different part of the world.
And we do these exercises historically, you know, about history.
What would it have been like if you grew up in X amount of time?
What would it have been like if you were in that position?
What would you have done?
And those are great exercises because I think it creates not just deep thinking, but it creates this sort of like broadening of perspective.
And I think that if you take away the ability to do anything that seemingly says, well, that's not relevant to my kid, then indirectly what you're saying is, you know, the only perspective that my kid will ever learn is the one that's only relevant to them.
And I think that's really problematic.
I think that that ultimately translates into one, that person having a very small worldview.
And I think, you know, the larger sort of vulnerability, I think when we limit the scope of what we expose ourselves to, even, you know, even as adults, in terms of what we learn and are still learning, the cost of limiting our perspectives or being, you know, too certain about our understanding of things.
is that if the world ever presents us anything that we have not been open to, and that is potentially harmful to us, then we'll get blindsided.
We'll be unprepared.
We wouldn't have thought about, you know, the realities that things can exist outside of our belief systems.
I think this is why the pandemic, you know, has been such a challenge, you know, in the United States.
more so than other sort of first world countries that responded much more differently because like one of the things that, you know, we didn't really grow up with here is we don't have a very strong, like public health experience, you know, sure.
Our kids have gotten vaccinated, but that's just more like a sort of like a thing that we do, you know, but we don't have this like lived experience in the United States of having done something where our choices are,
affect the well being of like our whole community, whereas other countries, you know, public health is just something that's maybe a little bit more integrated.
So public testing, or if everyone was supposed to like self quarantine, and the context was given as like, well, you need to do this, because we need to stop the spread of this virus.
that could affect everyone, that sort of more collective reasoning, that collective mindset of like, we're all in this together was just an easier thing to digest, I think, in other countries.
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