ANTH 1003W Lecture 3: 2:5 Lecture 3
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Speaks from the point of view of a marginalized creature. Doesn"t represent non-human animal or a group of people/animals. In the hierarchy of the present world, people who are marginalized together, are gentiles. People become more radical when they think abstractly . Normal people are too cerebral because they use their brain and hard core facts to define everything, whereas abstract thinkers think about overall things with theory. Message: pay attention to the world that we share with other creatures; we breathe the same air, share gravity, etc. Normal human beings are abstractified in their sensory perceptions as well as their thoughts. Grandin compares the difference between animals and people to , autistic people and non-autistic people. Invisible and silent violence"s have an effect on our lives. Normal human beings are abstractified in their sensory perceptions as well as their thought. Animals and autistic people don"t see their ideas of things; they see the actual things themselves they see details.
