Name: TEDx】最も危険な4文字の言葉。ディック・サイモン＠TEDxBeaconStreet (【TEDx】The most dangerous four-letter word: Dick Simon at TEDxBeaconStreet)
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as Bernie Madoff, the worst financial criminal

in history. So perhaps all Jewish transactions,

extra scrutiny. My Catholic wife seems okay,

but we all know about the horrors of priests and pedophilia.

need to undergo some psychological testing. Now my Italian relatives,

we know that they must be tied into the mafia, we've all seen The Godfather and The

so we really need to be keeping an eye on them.

is used to isolate, to marginalize, to insult.

This word has been responsible for the suffering and death

I'm an entrepreneur, passionate photographer,

and have spent much of the last 12 years traveling in conflict regions,

getting people to communicate who otherwise would do anything to avoid

with hundreds of top business and government leaders

this four-letter word, I've learned that THEMification,

a new word now, THEMification, is often the root of the problems we deal with,

both personally and geopolitically. We all know examples of the horrors

that arise from THEMification. Just a few of them - the Nazi Holocaust,

Rwanda, Darfur, Cambodia and the Killing Fields, the Balkans,

do to THEM, distant and far away. In America

as our Manifest Destiny, interned Japanese-Americans,

and profile Arabs and Muslims. Now we all agree security is

absolutely essential, no question about that.

But unfortunately it's also sometimes used to rationalize some of these behaviors.

look at someone who seems different and instantly label as THEM.

So why do we do this? Why do we see others through this lens of THEM?

helped to differentiate families, tribes for protection, bonding, to secure scarce resources.

Today though, we continue to use THEM to identify with

But why? An important reason is that the world is overwhelming,

full of confusing, complicated information. To simplify this complexity

and to reduce and protect us from ambiguity, which is a very uncomfortable

to feel, and to empathize. We also, at that point,

see, and hear what we want and expect to find, and what psychologists call

confirmation bias. And it doesn't help that the media,

is just a magnifying glass and mirror for our own biases,

How often do we hear the words Islamist, Muslim, terrorist, Arab, suicide bomber,

filter through which we are taught to see the world.

is often false expectations appearing real.

We're hard-wired - when the amygdala in our brain senses danger,

it's designed to protect us. It immediately hijacks

our prefrontal cortex, or our intellect, and  our limbic thinking,

our emotional brain. We go into fight or flight, survival mode.

see others, our liberties. We sacrifice our humanity

every time we allow this automatic THEMification filter

It's time to eliminate the use and mindset

conscious effort to get past THEM, and it takes courage.

We all want to believe we're good and admitting,

even to ourselves, that we stereotype and exclude others

is painful. But it is possible. One of the most powerful ways,

which I've seen work hundreds of times, is through individual stories.

When we really learn someone's story, THEY become more than a stereotype,

An exercise I've led many times over the past decade,

In The Other's Shoes, has each side retelling

in the first person the story they've just heard from the other;

a real-life role play stepping into their shoes.

'I come out of a cafe in Tel Aviv and hear a loud explosion.

I see my brother-in-law's blood and body parts all

over the street, another Palestinian attack.'

And then the Israeli mirrors back what he's heard

from the Palestinian. 'In the middle of the night

the soldiers storm in to occupy our home. They're screaming at us,

humiliating me in front my family. We're terrified, locked in a small room,