3728 - WIDENING INEQUALITIES - INNER AND OUTSIDE A PERSON IN COMPARISON THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY

Session: 3722 - PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF WIDENING INEQUALITIES AND ITS IMPACT ON WELLBEING
AUTHORS:
Han Buxin (State Key Lab of Cognitive Science and Mental Health Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Department of Psychology, the University of CAS ~ Beijing ~ China)
Abstract text:
20th Century continue the rational revolution, initiated since the Renaissance (separation of cognition and emotion), sustained by the Reformation (reversing the position of human being - created and the super being - Creator), the revolution of science and technology (refusal of the transcendence of human being), the Colonization (Robbing resources around the globe), and the Liberation (so called anti-colonial movements). All these movements in the past six hundred years emphasize the materialistic and outside evaluations step by step, as indicated by the Olympic movement logo 'Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together'. In the meantime, however, inner peace has been ignored, nihilated, stigmatized, and even bullied, especially in the past hundred years. Such Western dominated globalization made non-Western world severe cognitive dissonance - shown in four aspects. At level of egocentric self, language (both oral and written) was 'modernized' according to the western alphabetic gramma therefore not authentic and even thinking style; at level of sociocentric self, traditional ethnicity (e.g., family center in China) was impact and / or even challenged by the western value system (egocentric self dominated); at level of egocentric self, traditional art and medicine was smashed by the capitalized Western arts and medicine; at level of Cosmo centric self, authentic religious belief (e.g., Tao in China and/or Sanskrit in India) were replaced by ideologic science but not GOD, never mentioned the Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, etc. Widening inequalities has been increasing in comparison between inner and outside a person, Western and non-western world, the 20th and 21st Century.