Relating, Understanding, and Creating Solutions -
For the Human-Elephant Crisis Humans are pattern-seeking and idea-relating beings. They use patterns to identify with others, then relate the ideas of others with their own in order to make sense of situations. To relate to something, is to find a pattern of similarity between two things and to use it to understand something about the other. Humans best understand what they can personally relate to, and if they do not relate to something, they struggle to understand it. The idea of “relation before understanding” works as both a human’s greatest strength and weakness. For example, if a human can relate to something, they understand it and act upon it, but if a human cannot relate to something, they struggle or fail to understand it, and act from a strictly individualistic standpoint. In …show more content…
For example, Charles Siebert uses his short story “An Elephant Crackup?” to relate elephants to humans, in order to spark emotion through common characteristics, which is meant to convince humans for better treatment towards elephants. Although, in order to relate to someone, that person must first have an idea of how they view themself, only then they can relate to something else. Overall, human’s can view themselves as generally social beings, in need of proper nurture during our youth, and that demand an …show more content…
To reiterate, the human view of themselves allows humans to view others as similar beings, and once a similarity is established, understanding of the relationship follows, and after understanding, human’s have the ability to create effective solutions to mend any form of human relationship with
For the Human-Elephant Crisis Humans are pattern-seeking and idea-relating beings. They use patterns to identify with others, then relate the ideas of others with their own in order to make sense of situations. To relate to something, is to find a pattern of similarity between two things and to use it to understand something about the other. Humans best understand what they can personally relate to, and if they do not relate to something, they struggle to understand it. The idea of “relation before understanding” works as both a human’s greatest strength and weakness. For example, if a human can relate to something, they understand it and act upon it, but if a human cannot relate to something, they struggle or fail to understand it, and act from a strictly individualistic standpoint. In …show more content…
For example, Charles Siebert uses his short story “An Elephant Crackup?” to relate elephants to humans, in order to spark emotion through common characteristics, which is meant to convince humans for better treatment towards elephants. Although, in order to relate to someone, that person must first have an idea of how they view themself, only then they can relate to something else. Overall, human’s can view themselves as generally social beings, in need of proper nurture during our youth, and that demand an …show more content…
To reiterate, the human view of themselves allows humans to view others as similar beings, and once a similarity is established, understanding of the relationship follows, and after understanding, human’s have the ability to create effective solutions to mend any form of human relationship with