Although, held almost three years ago, his TedTalk is very much related to today’s biased media.
Capt. Raman started his TedTalk by narrating two incidents. The first one was from 22nd of July 2011, when a very powerful car bomb went off just next to the Prime Minister’s office in Oslo. Eight people were killed instantly, and hundreds were injured in this incident.
Simultaneously another attack took place after a couple of hours in a school’s summer camp where more than 69 people were shot dead including personal friends of the prime minister and some other members of the royal family. Because of some assumptions, the needle of suspicion moved towards Muslim Jihadist and terrorist organisations like Al-Qaeda, etc.
Andes Berwick, he was a Norwegian and he hated Muslims But Ironically, it was the handiwork of one man whose name was Andes Berwick, he was a Norwegian and he hated Muslims. He was actually protesting against the multiculturalist and multi-racial policy of the Norwegian government.
When people read these words in the news like Al-Qaeda, Jihadist, their minds accepted that it was the work of Muslim terrorists. Whenever similar incidents take place, peoples’ mind always assumes that it is the work of a particular organisation. This is called stereotype writing.
This is how our pineal brain works. It accepts the information without drilling down into reality. Because of the wrong messages and information peoples’ mind jumps to the wrong conclusions.
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