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- Sep 25, 2018
So fun fact, if you're ever learning about "cultural sensitivity" in any medical or psychological context they have specific sheets for specific races and cultures.Where I live, one of the top political issues is black women's infant mortality rate, and how black women generally have less positive outcomes than all other ethnic groups of women (Hispanic women have the best and healthiest infant mortality rates, so it's not a money issue or a discrimination issue).
If you listen to podcasts like The Daily from The New York Times, who has done deep dives into this, they came to an expected conclusion: black women have the highest infant mortality rates because doctors are so deeply seething with racism that it actually kind of makes them retarded. To be exact, they don't think black women can actually feel pain, so they don't take their complaints seriously. This all goes back to the time of slavery and...
No, no, it couldn't be they're filling their baby's bodies with deodorant, ground pieces of glass, sand, detergent, chicken bleach and other chemicals, and we're all racist for thinking that could be it.
Whites are typified by often downplaying pain and being stoic about it. Jews are very vocal about their pain, but don't tend to exaggerate in terms of the actual descriptions. Blacks on the other hand, are extremely performative. Both vocal and exaggeratory, in a medical context they are extremely likely to overplay how much pain they are in.
So naturally, the medical board of Dr. Jewstein, Dr. Angloman, and Dr. Han all come to the rational conclusion after repeated experiences that their black patients are more likely to be making a fuss where there isn't really a need for one. This bites Tyrone/Sapphyre in the ass when they're actually in trouble, but of course it's everyone else's fault for not constantly treating blacks like infallible children.
As many others have noted in this thread, they will often do things just for the appearance of doing something or being something. At no point will most ask "is there substance behind this action of mine?", it's the very definition of what Heidegger called the inauthentic. Which goes down a whole different rabbit hole about psycho-biological differences in their theory of mind towards themselves and others.