Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems: 5 Forces Impacting Our Lives
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- In 1964 most people thought that the reason people ended up poor was a matter of biology and had little to do with the environment they grew up in. Urie Bronfenbrenner, a young psychologist, helped us understand that a child’s environment also matters. When he was invented to explain his Ecological System Theory to the US congress, he made history. #sprouts #socialsciences #sproutslearning
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CLASSROOM EXERCISE
Give each child a sheet of paper with Bronfenbrenner's 5 systems and let them draw the people and forces that affect their lives in each of the circles. Once they are done, let them explain the interrelationships between the different forces and how they affect their lives to a peer. Later you can ask your students what they know about poverty? Is it happening in your country and if so, how would a poor child’s 5 systems look different from theirs? You may even want to let your students simulate a congress and make an action plan to solve poverty in your country. Who knows, they might just make it come true one day ;).
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It’s the government design to keep the poor, poor, while portraying the illusion of the “American Dream”. You have to have bottom feeders to keep this pyramid, society structure in place.
No wonder why families keep smiling in public places you never truly know what goes on behind closed doors 🚪 yeah , we all can tell now ‼️
To the *worthwhile person* seeing this, your dream is not dead. Don’t allow the past and current pains and hurts stop and define you. You’re more than a conqueror. Rise up and put yourself together. Keep pushing your future depends on it. I wish you all the best in life ❤️.
@@new_world_order_ Sure, that of God is within each one of us....didn't you receive your Great American Hero suit in the mail? Just put it on...and LEAP!
@@new_world_order_ hahahahhhahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha
You might be interested in reading Alfred Adler's Theories.
True story!
I've been battling lately. Thank you for the reminder!
The part where they said every child needs an adult that’s irrationally crazy about them made me see why I would attach myself to any adult- mostly teachers- because my own family never loved me unconditionally. I was touch starved
Thanks for sharing your story
I'm sorry to hear that. I wish you will find someone who loves very deep.
@@comfortable_east You're over thinking it
We're terrible creatures to each other. Even business transactions don't guarantee proper interactions.
Oh...and I agree with you...
A big hug for you❤️
When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the envirnment in which it grows, not the flower. -Alexander Den Heijer
Gold
Imagine being the main responsible for the existence of a program that's helped more than 35 million children (so far)!
Talk about a rewarding life. ❤️
Wow!! Yes!
Well I disagree, and recently Stephen Curry felt the same way I do. When asked about the success of his foundation that had provided over 50 million meals for hungry people in Auckland, he said: "It would be a success story if nobody needed it"
Same here, if poverty exists, there is something really wrong in society, and whatever one does that doesn't end that poverty but only tackles its symptoms is welcome but not enough to make on feel great.
Great work people.
The unfortunate is that many people still think that some people are born to be lower in the society, and on earth.
It’s sad!
And those who see themselves as superior seem to enjoy making an insane obstacle course for everyone else---just to see them fail. But if a few succeed, they'll resent having to compete with them.
Yes, I know. I've just asked Sprouts, in a different posting here, to please do a video explaining and debunking the Human Eugenics Movement, one of the pseudo-scientific movements that pretended that "science" somehow supported the view that humans are UNequal to one another. Unless we identify and expose the roots of such false and wrong beliefs, as a human species we cannot hope to overcome those harmful ideas. We must address them openly and teach others how wrong the acts and beliefs of the Human Eugenics Movement really were. If we merely forget them and refrain from speaking of them, they will fester and return, like the germs in an infected abscess, eventually spreading again to sicken the entire body of humanity. Knowledge and open discussion are like antibiotics are to the body, helping to heal humanity of such terrible, false ideas.
The unfortunate is that far too many people still think that some are meant to Rule - humanity better grow up - time is running the eff out.
There isn't a more euphemistic word than "unfortunate" for this problem.
This is good for all ages to know. Children end up blaming themselves for everything. This will set many free of that.
You can succeed in whatever you do. No matter your vocation, if you feel good you will do well, that is success!
Thank you Sprouts, for making such valuable and important videos. These are pretty helpful. I hope it reaches a larger audience.
Glad to hear that - help us ;)
My Mother favored my middle brother. She also made it clear that I wasn't her favorite person or even someone she liked, always slamming and criticizing me every opportunity she found. She disciplined me irrationally as in a spanking with a Monopoly Game Board and hiding from me so I became terrified that she had left me. I spent my life trying to find someone who loved me only to disbelieve everyone who professed to love me. Being loved, appropriately disciplined, and valued as a child can never be stressed enough.
I identify very closely with your story. I too had an adoptive other that exhibited preference toward her daughter, and exercised emotional meltdowns and attacks in her abusive toolbox in order to coerce me into compliant behavior. It was the continued gaslighting, which I’m sure that likely experienced yourself, when she would tell me that she loved me and only wanted what was best for me, and then act in ways which were completely the opposite that I found so troubling. To this day, she has never apologized, and I had to sever my relationship with my parents in order to allow my own healing and growth to take place.
I hope you understand that your mother was mentally ill and a responsible adult should've intervened on your behalf. You did nothing to deserve being treated that way, and it makes me sad that you suffered so needlessly. I hope the rest of your life gets better.
I am very Sorry You had to go through that. I have a Very similar experience myself. Every Child DESERVES Parents and Not every Parent Deserves a Child and Sadly Our Parents are one of them! I hope you find a Way to get away From them. Let the people tell anything they want by calling you ungrateful since they brought you up and all that. But Only You KNOW what You went through!! Which is really terrible. I Know how you feel that you can't really rely on anyone and it's very hard to Trust , Beleive anyone. Please don't lose Hope. I am sure there is soo much Good On Your way . I am not a religious person But I do believe there is Superior person who sees all this and wants the best for us!! So Wish You Well!
Having suffered from the same problem as a child, I have only fully overcame it, when I realized my mother didn't have a great childhood herself and that she had mental problems. So yes, it was unbearable for me, but I eventually left that house, she had to continue living with herself forever. I forgave her and moved on. Today I fight for a much less unequal society with less poverty one with social goals so to prevent kids turning sour then into sick adults that than psycologically harm their own children. Capitalism stands strong on my way.
This is majorly impressive... i understood it, i am a testament to it, i came to this theory while i was 16 and thought in order to better myself i should try severing family ties as well as certain socio & economical ties then find persons who can understand me & help me... i am a way better person now!
I love how with each system change, the music went up an octave. Love the details. Enjoyed this one!
Genetics sets your limits. You and your environment set how close you will get to that limit.
I love your videos so much!!! You're helping my raise my daughter, literally. Thank you for your efforts.
I have not figured out so far how to suggest something, so I'll put the suggestion here. I think two psychological subjects that would be good to include are 1. Cognitive dissonance and 2. Learned helplessness. Both also relate to education and development.
And both are coming soon as videos here. Thanks William !
@@sprouts I look forward to it
Much waited video from you guys
We assess and rank our students starting in kindergarten and going to 12th grade. What we've learned is children of poverty don't do very well. What we haven't figured out is how to make their scores better and allow them the opportunity to live outside of poverty as adults. The variables outside the school walls seem greater than what we do inside those walls
Yes! Roles models and attitudes from home matter a lot!
This is brilliant. Thank you for this video.
This is very informative, and one of the many reasons why I strive every day to be a great husband to my wife and a better father to my two sons. My desire is to give them a stable home, that will shape them to become the great men I know they can become.
Thank you for a well done & informative video👍
I love how you explain everything in a simple way, it makes it so much easier to understand. May I ask if you're planning to translate it in Spanish?
We already got a Spanish channel
@@sprouts oh no, i know that! I mean, are you planning to translate this exact video?
Such a good video. I loved.
Thank you Sprouts. 💖👏🏻
That's why I love psychology
yep buddy me too
This video was a completely great explanation and help me learn more about childhood development
Amazing, as a aspiring teacher your vedios are really helpful for me.
Thank you!
You're very welcome!
This is great, thank you!
Well presented
It's really gonna shape once career and the diversion is huge as hell as in case of me.
Succeeding in those case would be really a .......
Let's see I raised and brought up worse affected under environment and biology
Where it leads to
Tomorrow is my english paper, so I manipulate this lesson in a different way.
What I see here is that note making is kinda easier. Describe something in a curious way and add a few closing lines then the results are awesome.😌😌🤗
If any thing related to it can you present later here if possible
@@mohammedriyazansari4462 you mean about my english exam?
@@keshavyadav7605 about how did this video helped in exam ? Can you throw any light regarding it
@@mohammedriyazansari4462 ya sure, actually in the grammar section there is a lesson for note making.
The book have examples (too many) but here I see the perfect way to write a note.
Keep the content simple and describe sub headings a little with a optimistic approach at the end. 😌
Ive been hyper aware of Exo-systems since i was a kid. I would have an interaction with someone and i would think for hours about what caused that person to think that way and i would think about their life and what influences taught them to behave that way or think that way and i would be overwhelmed by how much information was there and how crazy different peoples lives can be. So yeah, now im studying psychology haha
Great work! TY!
Brilliant this helped me
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
-- Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Wow.
Damn, that's powerful. Thanks for the quote.
Can u explain the quote to me?
@@ikhny537 Apply the information in the video and you will arrive at an explanation.
That was wonderfully explained,thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
thank you i have to do this for my childcare this really helped
Wowaah!! Thank you for the informative video
Welcome! Become a sprouts!
Great work Thank youu
Great video, but it would be interesting to also show children in a negative environment, too, as a contrast. I have a friend who is involved with a support program connected with juvenile courts (CASA). Recently, three of their charges/clients were shot and one was charged with murder. Most environmental factors seemed to be negative.
A biology teacher at a community college tries to get students into nursing programs, but a percentage of the students have trouble memorizing facts, which the teacher attributes to poor nutrition during childhood, which negatively affected brain development.
thank you
Some pretty good stuff right there keep it up
Thanks, will do!
spectacular drawing skill
Thank you
Nice presentation
4:18 is the key and so easy: Unconditional Love! All you need... It is so reachable and easy to give. No cost ( :
Makes good sense. G'day from Australia mate and CHEERS. :)
Wow , amazing 😍
Amazing 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
My mother gave my middle brother the edge. She also made it apparent that I wasn't her favorite or even someone she loved by constantly criticizing and trashing me at any chance she could. She spanked me irrationally with a Monopoly game board and hid from me, which made me fear that she had abandoned me. I searched my entire life for someone to love me, but I never trusted anyone who claimed to. One cannot overstate how important it is for children to feel respected, loved, and get adequate discipline.
Imagine being the major force behind a program that has (so far) benefited more than 35 million kids!
Talk about a fulfilling existence.
i grew up in a very hostile and dysfunctional family. Due to child neglect i have lived isolated for more than a decade. I am 32 now. I have finished my masters degree and now i am going to start a normal life
That’s a big accomplishment, what was your major?
@@johnseena4026 electrical engineering - embedded systems
Thanks for english+psychology
“Extensive research has conclusively demonstrated that children’s social class is one of the most significant predictors-if not the single most significant predictor-of their educational success. Moreover, it is increasingly apparent that performance gaps by social class take root in the earliest years of children’s lives and fail to narrow in the years that follow. That is, children who start behind stay behind-they are rarely able to make up the lost ground.”
-- Emma García and Elaine Weiss, EPI Report: Education inequalities at the school starting gate - Gaps, trends, and strategies to address them
Thanks Daniel for this insightful comment
💯 true!
Wow it starts @ home 🏡 !!
Thank you so much
Welcome
An off-point comment: the drawings are actually really good in this video :)
But I definitely agree with the importance of having at least 1 adult who really loves you (4:26) as this really instils the child with good self-worth and better self-esteem. Otherwise, you will spend your life chasing goals and ambitions to try and instil a sense of self-worth within yourself by linking your self-worth with achievements which will always lead to feelings of inadequacy. This is my greatest struggle, I hope that one day I can realise that I am good not because of what I achieved but because I am good intrinsically regardless of my achievements, and not feel so much pressure to achieve things to prove to myself that I am worthy and capable.
editing software?? animations??
Key phrase I think is time. You cannot change the past, but if this system is correct you can as an adult at least change the microcosm by choosing a correct partner and friends. And hopefully have some influence over the Macrocosm by (if you are lucky) choosing job and living location. Although the problem is of course that starting out new gets harder the older you get.
What's the music in the background? It's beautiful!
Thank you very much! Your method is fantastic!
Can you elaborate the thought of Lorna Smith Benjamin and her sasb and reconstructive interpersonal therapy? I'd be really grateful because she's fantastic, creative and interesting woman
from where u get such osom doodles plz share
I've heard how the norms that surround our lives revolve around the 6 people we spend the most time with.
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ty
It's time for a new beginning
add “every person deserves to get paid for their work” to that list 🥰🥰🥰
In XIX, Emile Zola applied similar ideas to his characters in his novels. He thought that every adult is in a way because the environment he grew up.
Please make a video on Creativity 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
We have one ;)
Another one?
@@sprouts no dear. The one I watched was effective👍🏻…but yes, can you make a video on GUTHRIE’S Theory🙏🏻❤️🌸
There must be other forces at work. As a teacher I have seen to many children born into everything who are monsters and those born into nothing who are gracious, thankful, kind, humble, considerate. Who operate out of selfless self interest (does not harm) versus selfish self interest (Harms with indifference). If a child has access to answers and guidance that works as a protective salve against dangerous, unhealthy or non existent family life they may actually enter adulthood better equipped from the adverse childhood experiences than one who never experiences adversity. A Bronfenbrenner world may be better but it may also be worse.
I do not think anything you stated is at odds with what was discussed in the video. They made clear that nothing was definitive and that multiple factors were at work. Further, they most certainly never mentioned the effects of coming from either a rich or poor family. The family is of core importance, there are other societal factors influencing the upbringing of a child. I feel that both the video and your statement are in sync with each other.
There is still a biological element, not everyone is born with the same capacity or capability or emotional stability, i could go on. Both the nature and nurture of an individual are equally important. Both increase or decrease the probability of success. Probability has more impact on your life than either nurture or nature. Once an object starts in motion it remains in motion in the direction it is headed until an equal or opposite force is applied to it, it is true in physics and it is true in life, those forces arise due to probability, the circumstances you find yourself in: probability, the genetic make-up you are comprised of, probability. This idea that if everyone was provided with the same opportunity that we would all somehow succeed is ludicrous. I am glad he adapted his model to include biology.
traducir el video en castellaño para entender mejor
Could this theory be applied to teenagers and adults as well ??
My sincere thanks to all of you people who made this.{I made note of all points shared in the video, thnx!}
I wonder why no one cares about those unfortunate children
In the end: Every child needs at least an adult(having good senses of pyschology or at least common sense) who's irrationally crazy about him/her.
Welcome Darshan!
that's was really specific. dying at the accuracy
The microsystem is more of an issue as to how impacts every other system beyond it. No matter how positive the other systems attempt to be the microsystem holds the most power.
Its all about motivation and the lack of support can burry a living dream and effort in seconds
Interesting how religion is in the macrosystem, but not economic systems. Seeing ads and social media telling us we are inadequate without constant consumption might have more impact than church or temple once a week.
If we are all products of circumstances, there exists no reason for either law or morality.
Hey can you explain what`s going with TH-cam.
How he did that 😦😦🤔???
Cliff version
Life happens
The Head Start program was implemented in 1995 not 65! Unless it's in reference to something else?). That's a big 30-year difference with enormous economic and historical implications.
Wikipedia: Launched in 1965[2] by its creator and first director Jule Sugarman, Head Start was originally conceived as a catch-up summer school program that would teach low-income children in a few weeks what they needed to know to start elementary school. The Head Start Act of 1981[3] expanded the program.[4] The program was revised and reauthorized in December 2007. As of late 2005, more than 22 million children had participated. The current director of Head Start is Dr. Bernadine Futrell.[5]
I guess this is why Scandinavian countries do so much better when it comes to educating their young and the overall social harmony that they tend to have in their respected societies. Those two things seem to go hand in hand and are interconnected for the purpose of producing such an outcome.
But they also aren’t as inclusive, avoid immigration ect (Sweden aside)
@@sprouts Good point. I was not aware of this until you bought it to my attention. I guess they're not as perfect as they once seemed.
I love all your videos and truly amazed by the animations. How do you make them? Can you share?👋
While this video does a good job of explaining the forces involved, it doesn't explain the level of importance or impact the forces have on children. The family structure for instance is the biggest influence and can negate negative impacts from the other 4 forces. This is why single parent children do poorly in most metrics and have a much higher chance of being involved in crime. Anytime someone mentions destroying the nuclear family structure I cringe as they're trying to replace it with a community structure that will have less impact on the child and allow negative impacts from the other forces to increase their effectiveness on the child.
Okay, I watched the video. I've read a whole bunch of the comments. And...did I miss something?
I mean this chap "Bronfenbrenner" gets credit for giving this country the "Head Start" program...in 1965? And THAT...was a good thing?
So that followed all those other--my turn now--"feel good" things from oh, just the year before, you know, 1964, LBJ was president, and along came his "Great Society" which proceeded to do...what was it, exactly? Oh, yes, that's right, along with his "Civil Rights Act," promised lots of free stuff and free money to...who was it exactly he promised all that free stuff...oh yes, those "poor" people. Ah, that's nice. And he promised 'em that the more kids they had, well, the more free money they would get. So he created a generation that grew up, living for free, getting free money from the government, and....
And I am simply at a loss to understand how any of "this" does one damned thing to help...what...make a person, especially--and as always has to be the focus of these little discussions--a "child" feel better...about himself.
So simply remove all those "circles" and you have life, here in 2022. A child is born. Yeah, some dude knocked up some chick. Big deal. They have true responsibility or accountability because the government--at every level, from daycare to school, all the way up--becomes the only "parent" that kid will actually need or ever have.
Ah, but that becomes the punch line, doesn't it?
Here, after over 50 years of this "Big Brother" being the "parent" for those "precious children," people are...what...finally realizing that maybe, just maybe, what a kid needs is someone who will...love them? But that can't be right because "love" demands responsibility and accountability for personal choices and actions and....
So yeah. IF there is a point to all of "this"...I missed it completely.
Then again, all I did was live through all of the history so it isn't the stuff an "academic" study to me.
Helping the community is pleasing the Lord. What is schools if you are not learning how to make the people lives better.
One of the big factors was left out. There is only so much room to grow in, Job's = how much money to gain and there is not enough jobs that pays well for everyone. Inventions people need also = how much money you can gain and there is not enough inventions to be had to everyone either.
So all in all some potion of society will always be poor no matter if everyone was Elon musk in thinking.
Exactly, the system is not only imperfect, it's limiting
Scarily true, more and more adults don’t love their children unconditionally. Divorce rates are high and it’s becoming a domino affect where everyone is being starved of unconditional love.
It seems we don't just walk into abusive relationships with people, but also with our environment. We should all do better.
Contrary to popular belief throwing money at a problem DOES SOLVE IT.
in short taking small considerable step toward your healthy desireable life when you have a rather unpleasant childhood and let time heal the wound that only you can do it, got it
💜
That was depressing.
It is basically saying that people are born in to what they will be and have no choice about it, it is all external and nothing can change it.
I don't think that is true, and if it is then every class system in the world is right.
You have to become enlightened
Knowledge about the controlling nature of the world is the way out of this maya.
Be open and not let the situations happen to you change you unknowingly.
The reason why poor people remain poor is their lack of "social capital". In modern society we value "economic capital" even thought "social capital" is much more important. Therefore giving people money does not solve the social inequalities of society. Social capital is not about how much money you have while growing up, but how you are raised.
Well said !
Government can't solve "social capital" no matter how much money we pour into trying. It starts with the parents or guardians. I believe that by the time a child is 6 years old their personality and life attitudes are established and very rarely cab they change,
Knowing that social capital is the issue help to make a more fucused effort. According to Jordan Peterson children should be sociable at age 2 to gain the full benefits of social interaction.
It's hard to think the rich didn't know and don't know that their money/power/freedom is able to take away others' "freedom."
Part I of II
As a viewer with a very positive experience watching your company's youtube videos, I wish respectfully to make a suggestion for the topic of a future video. Although most Americans, old and young alike, have heard of the Nazi's and the atrocities during WWII they committed against the Jews and others during their regime until they were defeated, very few Americans have heard of the movement that was taking place on both sides of the Atlantic, that gave Hitler some of his most vicious ideas about race and human genetics, namely the Human Eugenics Movement. They even had a breeding program, in which they thought it was a good thing for humanity for married women to carry and raise "genius babies" conceived via sperm donation. (In order to popularize the idea of each ambitions middle class family raising a "genius" baby for the good of society, the Eugenicists piggybacked this idea onto older European traditions about second babies that were secret except in the youth training groups which many protestant and Jewish young people participated in prior to marriage. The purpose of the older traditions was to protect the lives of young mothers when they gave birth, since it turns out to be a biological fact that when marriage is exclusive, the second baby in a row with the same father tends to be at least a kilogram heavier than the first, leading to maternal death from the baby getting stuck during delivery for many young wives. In short, the traditions about the second baby being "bad luck" to have with the husband were based upon a biological reality that really did take the lives of young wives giving birth to their second babies, and the "secret" traditions designed to "fool the evil spirits" and protect the mother from dying due to the second baby really did work. i was a birth-weight epidemiologist before becoming a doctor.
Now I am a physician specializing in the care of children with developmental handicaps, such as autism, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and any number of genetic syndromes that can affect and slow a child's cognitive development. Since my role in the past has included the training of doctors and medical students, as a teacher as well as a doctor, I made it my business to look into the history of how the mentally handicapped were treated in past decades and centuries in America and Europe. And the findings are rather horrific, particularly the beliefs and actions of the Human Eugenics Movement that was active from around the end of the Civil War to when Hitler's atrocities and defeat at the end of WWII finally publicly discredited this movement, permanently, one hopes. This is the movement that believed that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" and that some races and ethnicities were inherently inferior to others, placing European White Males at the apex of a pyramid of human worth. Though the program has not been spoken of explicitly in my lifetime, that I have been able to find, hints and my own family history have given me some information..... the behavior of many of my colleagues in the Upper Midwest at UMN has given me more information on that outdated movement's continuing persistence in our cultural values, ....and a book called "War Against The Weak" by an author named Edwin Black, documents much of the activity of this movement in kidnapping adults in the US, forced sterilizations, and forced interment in mental hospitals of any citizen the Eugenicists didn't approve of. I read Edwin Black's book just as I was coming to the end of a two year 'Northern Exposure" type of stint in a rural town in North Dakota, a four hour drive from the nearest tertiary hospital. Nevertheless, in this environment, there were families with hereditary epilepsy in whom there remained a memory of the days of Eugenics, when relatives feared kidnapping and sterilization, should "the authorities" ever find out about the seizure disorders that ran in the family.
As a doctor providing care to many of the intellectually disabled children in the state of North Dakota and neighboring areas during that two year period, I found it concerning that these events were so real and so recent in American history, as to be real memories of disappeared relatives among the parents of many of my patients. Worse yet, is the fact that many of the medical authorities and other authorities in these communities to this day believe in the scientifically false premises of the Human Eugenics Program. Now, if these folks want to believe in Q anon and take Ivermectin Horse Pills for their Covid, they're only hurting themselves. But the beliefs of the Human Eugenics Program taught that races and ethnicities other than the whitest of Northern Europeans were inferior, should be discouraged from reproducing as they represented a threat to the economy, the nation, and the human species... (Imagine, if you will, what the believers in this point of view would do to a doctor, lilly white herself, who repeatedly saves the lives and the futures of handicapped minority children by providing them with state of the art, twenty first century medical care that saves their lives and enhances their IQ's, while refusing to let such children die untreated should they contract, say, pneumonia or a similar physical ailment.....) Although even the writer, humorist, and radio show host Garrison Keillor, in his weekly radio program called A Prairie Home Companion, never dared openly to refer to the Eugenics Breeding Program that shapes and is shaped by the prevailing Catholic and Lutheran subgroups who settled that region, Keillor did make an oblique reference to the beliefs and the effects of the Human Eugenic Breeding Program on the culture and the lives of the residents of Small Town Minnesota: Lake Wobegon was known as the town where, "....all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
LIke the film director Stephen Speilberg, like the Holocaust survivors and writers, I would like to say of the Eugenics Program that bred women like horses and sterilized and killed the handicapped, "Never Again".
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But nobody will listen or even think it is relevant if nobody even recalls that aspect of American History, namely the era lasting about seventy years of The Human Eugenic Breeding Program.
My own grandfather had been a sperm donor for this program....so that I have uncles, aunts, and cousins in every country in the world....and I didn't even find that out until one morning in June, 2014, when I asked a colleague, "So, who were the sperm donors for the eugenics program in the American Midwest?" And instead of speaking, he showed me a snapshot from Google Images of the half dozen psychiatrist geniuses and sperm donors all assembled at Clark University in 1909. My jaw dropped, and at that moment, I realized that not only had my grandfather been a sperm donor...ALL four of my great grandfathers had been genius sperm donors, and two of my great grandmothers had been mothers of more than one sperm donating son. (The other two were, indeed, ambitions middle class housewives ready to have their Second Child and eager to carry, bear, and raise a baby genius for America.) In other words, most of what I had been taught about my own family's history was false....and I am consanguinous first or second cousins with literally millions of people around the globe.
I would like to devote a portion of my future research time to writing scholarly articles that show why the ideas of the Human Eugenicists regarding intelligence and human evolution were not only false....they were actually disastrous, in that they CREATED a generation with INCREASED rates of mental retardation by guaranteeing that first cousins would inevitably marry....and many of the underlying genetic traits that are harmless or even beneficial to childhood IQ in single copy....actually cause mental retardation in double copy, since they are Autosomal Recessive Genes.
But my articles...my style, my vocabulary, are not likely to appeal to and educate the masses. YOU are the ones gifted at that task.
So would you please research and produce a youtube video on Eugenics, to familiarize and educate the public about the beliefs of the Human Eugenic Breeding Movement and the terrible harm to humanity that their Bad Science and Bad Ethics caused to humanity and to the world?
It's not irrelevant. Up there on the Northern Prairie, in Madison, Minneapolis, and points northward and westward, many people still, to this day, believe in the tenets of the Eugencists...even believing in White Nationalism and the notion that caucasians represent some kind of Master Race. It's not just yahoos who believe this. Hospital administrators, university professors, the CEO's of major, multi-state healthcare networks, and leadership people in general in that portion of the country believe this stuff... The effect trickles into every aspect of life and is toxic to us all. Having attempted to live and practice good, ethical pediatric medicine in that environment for some four and a half years (before fleeing for my life...though I never once, not ever, mentioned any of my political or scientific beliefs, and though even my church friends assumed I must be a Republican due to my occasional comment, made to a fellow church member during the coffee fellowship hour, praising the concept of "personal responsibility", nevertheless, I was targeted for Daring to save Black Lives and other minority lives, particularly Native American ones, in my practice there)....having lived in that environment, I was not at all surprised by the news story about the murder of George Floyd.
Please do your bit to bring the beliefs of the Eugenicists into the sunlight and debunk them. Because if we let those ideas fester in our small towns and hospitals and universities,, they will grow, like the figurative embodiment of the monsters in the dark crevices of a Tolkien novel, eventually returning to threaten us all.....
Thank you again for your interesting, informative, and entertaining educational youtube segments. Please keep up the good work...and extend it!
Thank you dr lindley. We added your thought provoking topic to your list of subjects we plan to cover. As a German, I’ve learned a bit about Hitlers horrifying eugenics programs in school. That it also happened in modern America is new to me. I’ll look into that. Feel free to join us on patreon to keep in touch.
2:53 "Oh goddessdammit, Ganondorf! Get the *HYAA* out of here!"
How about TikTok and TH-cam? Where they in that concept?
Pay your voiceover actors!
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This video explains the theory perfectly, however, some the language and examples given are extremely problematic.
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Each point increase in IQ test scores is associated with $202 to $616 more income per year.
Do all the people with the increased IQ have better systems?