One reason you should do empathy

In this course, English new media 11, we have discussed various topics about media and human connections. The topic which impresses me the most is the fish picture. The picture shows two young fish swimming in the same way, there is another old fish upon asked them how’s the water. But then the young fish just reply “what the heck is water”. After looking at the picture. Well, that really catches me. And I have done a bit of reflection based on it. In my opinion, I think the two young fish symbolizes teens and kids nowadays, they rely on technology so much. They just follow the trends on the internet the social norms. The technology already became their daily needs just like air. They are
focusing on social media and believing the truth saw on the internet instead of reality and the surroundings which are water. Technology and media can act as a tool which makes people’s relationship becoming indifferent, unconcern. While The old wise fish is representing the older generations and critical thinkers who are being aware of the surroundings and reality.

When an individual is in a group, the original severity of the crowd members is strengthened, and a viewpoint or attitude is strengthened from the original average level of the crowd to a dominant local phenomenon, which means they won’t
consider whether the thing is right or wrong before making a solution. Hitler is a very good example. The famous historic person from German who just took all the power and making people believing and supporting his idea, if not people will be sent jail or put to death As a result, it leads to Polarization and apathy among the crowd. most people just believe him blindly and take things that don’t exist as facts and have bad social effects.

Changes in the media environment of politics may also have had an important role in polarization, when a culture is polarized, the society will corrupt, many negative problems and outcomes such as the cold war or inequality will happen within the community. The relationships and connections between humans will be getting worse.

So in order to prevent Polarization, everyone should develop empathy, being a critical thinker, be able
to think from the other side’s position, experience other people’s emotions and thoughts in the process of interpersonal communication, understand the positions and feelings of others, and think and deal
with problems from the perspective of others. Its main manifestations include emotional self-control, listening ability, and expression of respect and other aspects related to emotional intelligence.

In fact, people can control their own thoughts. We can choose to look at the situation in different ways! The most important point is “empathy.” We can think, how do we think? and where should our thinking focus? You can choose to look at things in an empathetic way. Always remember! Try feeling instead of just seeing. If everyone takes a step forward to do so, we can definitely make the world more peaceful and beautiful!