Discussing racial attacks with students and help finding information on the 'piataia grafa'

[Kim Braithwaite]

For a notorious example of bystanders doing nothing to stop an atrocity, go 
google the Kitty Genovese case in Queens, NY, in October 1964. She was 
brutally murdered, a crime that took a whole hell of a long time, while at 
least 38 witnesses watched and listened to her screams. Among other things, 
it goes to show that any "culture" is not necessarily homogeneous in terms 
of "individual responsibility" or any other trait.

"Good is better than evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al Capp)

Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator - kbtrans at cox.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roebuck-Johnson, Aimee M. (JSC-AH)" 
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Discussing racial attacks with students and help 
finding information on the 'piataia grafa'


Sounds like a great topic for a dissertation...

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Renee Stillings|Alinga
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Discussing racial attacks with students and help
finding information on the 'piataia grafa'

Would not the general attitude towards individual responsibility (its
the state's problem ...) that is so notorious in Russia also lead to
more "standing by and watching" than would be in cultures where there
has been historically more individual responsibility?


>I must point out that the phenomenon of "standing by and watching" is a

>well documented sociological phenomenon and has very little to do with
>Russia or Russianness.  It is the effect of the diffusion of individual

>responsibility in the presence of others.  Let's not associate it with
>anything particularly Russian for just as "attacks happen all over the
>world" so does the phenomenon of "standing by and watching."
>
> Marina Antic
> University of Wisconsin - Madison

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