It's a collective act in which we collectively understand something about being a community together.
Buddhist practitioners are familiar with this problem, yet we also dwell together within a much bigger bubble that largely determines how we collectively understand the world and ourselves.
The sooner we all stand up and say, "this is exactly who I am -- and what?" the sooner we change the way we collectively understand what it means to be -- and who might be -- queer, the sooner we begin to vanquish the bigotry leveled against queer people, especially if that bigotry is inspired by one's own (however clandestine or unrealized) sexuality.
Political correctness has merely made xenophobia a taboo before we've collectively understood the place of race in the social hierarchy.
And this sort of objectivity is the real argument for diversity in newsrooms -- the need to ensure that we have people in place who can tell a greater range of stories, so that we collectively see and understand the breadth of the American experience.
We seem to collectively understand that we have a weight problem, but we do not know what to do about it.
The Science, Knowledge, and Technology workshop (SKAT) gathers social scientists interested in how knowledge is created, distributed, drawn upon, and collectively understood.
"Its abbreviation 'YB' was collectively understood by the group, as were the other code words, expressions and inflections: 'rig' (penis); 'tonto' (mad); 'sock' (house); 'Taxiiiiiiiiiiiii!' (desperate to get out of a situation); 'unlucky' (said with a yobbish dip); 'hot in the cot' (good in bed)," writes Kavanagh.
It was a moment at which Europe collectively understood that people fleeing persecution should have a right to seek refuge in order to access fundamental human rights.
It was a moment at which Europe collectively understood that people fleeing persecution should have a right to seek refuge in order to access fundamental human rights. .
For Palestinians, however, this development takes what has been collectively understood for decades – that Israel and the US are happy to collude in denying Palestinian self-determination – and moves it into the headlines of the mainstream press.
