Examples Of Dehumanization In The Blending Time

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Is it true that there is dehumanization present in the world today? Could it be that a large corporation and or government have too much power over its people? Has conformity in society taken over? Three seventeen year old’s chose to be a SUN blender. There jobs were to leave there over controlling sector so they can save Africa. That is what they thought their job were to do. But what they didn’t know was that, they were sent there to conform the people of africa so the GlobalTran can take it over and eventually try to rule the entire world. Michael Kinch warns society about an organization that has total control in the dystopian novel The Blending Time. Based on Wesley J. Smith's article “The Dehumanization of Robert Wendland”, and of Nicolas …show more content…
For example, the main characters Jaym’s mom works at “the grunge assembly-line that required her to wear that annoying yellow outfit. They even made her dye her hair that humiliating mustard yellow to match her assembly uniform- yellow shorts and tee shirt. Even her scuffed shoes were yellow”(Kinch 3). This shows how the government uses extreme conformity for government jobs. If the organization makes people dye their hair to match their uniform that is a little to extreme.The writer Nicolas Claidiere of the article “Frequency of Behavior Witnessed and Conformity in an Everyday Social Context” has said, “Conformity is thought to be an important force in human evolution because it has the potential to stabilize cultural homogeneity within groups and cultural diversity between groups. However, the effects of such conformity on cultural and biological evolution will depend much on the particular way in which individuals are influenced by the frequency of alternative behavioral options they witness”(Claidiere 1). There are lots of conformity going on in the world including the United States. Lots of private high schools make their students wear uniforms. Michael Kinch and Wesley J. Smith both warns society of an organization with total

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