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Bezig met laden... Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enoughdoor Dina Nayeri
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri is a moving and also very enlightening book about what goes into the biases we all have. Touching on the personal and the broader societal aspects the reader is asked to look at themselves as much as at others. This is one of those books that, while introducing plenty of new information for most readers is less about that new information and more about making us look at what we likely already know on some level. From that new perspective we can work on our own weaknesses in this area as well as work on making the bureaucracies that surround us more equitable. The stories used to highlight and illustrate just how much we have a skewed sense of who is believable are powerful and relatable even if from a less extreme place. By that, I mean that while most of us haven't been tortured repeatedly just because we aren't being believed, we have all experienced that feeling of helplessness when we know we are telling the truth but can't convince someone else. Or how most of us have not believed someone, even someone we love, only to find out later they were telling us the truth. Or how facts can be used to tell untruths. I came to this book looking for help with trying to make a better society. I found that help but was brought to the realization that even while working on societal issues I can also improve society by improving myself, by understanding my biases and, when I find myself not being the person I should, making adjustments to my way of thinking. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Why are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars? Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question, turning to shocking and illuminating case studies in this book, which grows into a reckoning with our culture's views on believability. From persuading a doctor that she'd prefer a C-section to learning to "bullshit gracefully" at McKinsey to struggling, in her personal life, to believe her troubled brother-in-law, Nayeri explores an aspect of our society that is rarely held up to the light. For fans of David Grann, Malcolm Gladwell, and Atul Gawande, Who Gets Believed? is a book as deeply personal as it is profound in its reflections on morals, language, human psychology, and the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The premise of the book seems a good one, but the flow is disjointed and at times the point confusing.
Interestingly her own personal and family attitudes seem to cloud, if not contradict, her refuge attitudes. I didn't understand that to be intentional, and therefore a source of some of the confusion.
Additionally I felt the author used extreme cases to prove wrongs in cases that were called shams but offered no solutions to solve the problem of an overabundance of people trying to achieve asylum status, while in fact admitting to some of her own "shams" to get what she wanted. ( )