Psychology, racism, and cultures

After years not visiting Finndistan’s blog at all, I found myself sitting for a few hours catching up. One of his older posts hit the trigger. In my previous post, I talked about the dangers and downfalls of political correctness, and this topic by Finndistan is not far off it: Are there repercusseons on importing untreatable mentally ill immigrants?

His post hit the nerve on several levels. First: Are psychologists really capable of understanding the human mind at all, since they are forced, by the “science” itself to ignore their natural instinct and trust verifiable data alone? Second: Wouldn’t it be a beneficial to us all to consider the individual immigrants cultural ideals as a screening point to entering a country rather than their race? Third: What do they mean FINNS cannot treat some of the mental problems of these people? Isn’t that a bit… racist?

I took some Uni classes in psychology a year or two ago. It didn’t take me long to realize that the people writing the text books were clueless about human psychology. This is a field of study that is based on a false idea of what makes it work, and it is just one of those things that we accept without a question: A psychologist will know human psyche better than a layman can. I say that’s bull crap. Granted, this should be a topic of it’s own, and I’ll be sure to get to that later, but for now I’ll just put this shortly: What I generally see in psychologists and psychiatrists is a bunch of people who do not have an instinctive understanding of people go into this field thinking that by studying people they will suddenly gain insight that they otherwise lack. Life coaching was born out of this very stupidity of this field of study, and now they are working hard on making the same mistakes with life coaching as they did with psychology: Eliminating natural talent from the field. Enough said.

Governments are currently hamstrung by the demand of humane and equal treatment of all nationalities when dealing with asylum seekers. Finland is hardly alone in this, here in Australia situation has been flaring up dramatically in the past few years, the demand of faster and more efficient handling of the cases of “boat people” pressing hard on politicians, who struggle to make the balance between illegal migrants and those who patiently wait for their turn. I hardly envy their position, if someone is willing to risk their own lives along with the lives of their loved ones to get into safety, you know they are in a pretty hard place in their own countries. Who deserves help more; those who have the possibility to wait to be processed in their own country, or those who have to jump the queue? Both have a claim to a spot. But I digress.

Race is, as we all know, not a predictor of a person’s values. Their culture is. The stuff that they have been raised to believe, their ideas and ideals, all of that creates a risk to the receiving culture, not the person’s race. What is more, a person can be taught new values, their ideals can be dismantled and repaired. Any life coach knows this. When ideas are hurting their person more than helping them, they will adapt new ways of seeing things and all it takes is will and courage to do so. Look into the eyes of an immigrant and ask if they want to be MIGRATED into the new culture or do they want to live alongside in a separate culture? A professional in this field would be well equipped to pin point values in their own culture and religion that we can accept and promote, such as this passage in Quran:

“Do not follow blindly any information of which you have no direct knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception) you must verify it for yourself. In the Court of your Lord, you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning [17/36].”

This is quite possibly one of the most brilliant pieces of religious writing ever. I wish the Bible would have anything even remotely as insightful in it than that!

Rethinking things with the lead of people who understand the immigrants own culture and religion should not be an impossible task to achieve. If they do not want to change their views, they should also not change their country.

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