Word: implicit
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...Assuming that most people understand the moral implications of her excuse—regarding the African as a subpar human being with inferior mental capacities—I won’t argue why I find such an implicit characterization both inflammatory, especially as the son of a North African, and dehumanizing. What makes the characterization worse, however, is that my project leader is an intelligent graduate of Makerere University—the most prestigious institution of its kind in Uganda—who is considering furthering her education at the London School of Economics and says her ultimate goal...
...These racial flare-ups were all the product of implicit assumptions about who belongs in a wealthy neighborhood or Harvard quadrangle and who does not—judgments made by police and nervous white neighbors—and the understandable indignation that African-Americans express when confronted with these assumptions. Gates grew angry when the cops come to ask him what he was doing in his own home because he, of all people, knew exactly why they were there...
...psychologists have been quick to note in the aftermath of the Gates arrest, racial biases are often implicit and unconscious, and their effects insidiously creep into even the most tolerant among us. Several studies find that even when we erase prejudice from our conscious mental processing, it lingers in the older, murkier corners of our cognitive architecture. In one experiment, researchers discovered that even subjects who demonstrated no racist attitudes still had increased activity in the amygdala—a part of the brain associated with fear and emotion—when shown images of black faces, and the results...
...persistent, subtle effects of implicit racial biases highlight the limits of the meritocracy. Gates’s arrest is a troubling reminder that overcoming the flaws of our society and minds requires more than talent and effort. Sometimes, try as we may, we can?...
What do you think of President Obama's fiscal stimulus package in helping to turn the economy around? The bill that provided something like $800 billion for spending on government projects was supposed to make people willing to spend their own money. But that hasn't happened. The implicit belief of the Obama Administration is that you needed fiscal stimulus [i.e., more government spending], and that's why they passed this enormous stimulus bill. But from my observation of how, historically, expansions have come to an end and how recovery has happened, it's always in terms of monetary stimulus...