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The announcement by Russia that it will approve a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing prompted alarm among global health experts, who said that with no full trial data, the vaccine is hard to trust.

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Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood

If socialization processes can instill in individuals a victimhood mindset, then surely the very same processes can instill in people a personal growth mindset. What if we all learned at a young age that our traumas don’t have to define us?

That it’s possible to have experienced a trauma and for victimhood to not form the core of our identity?

That it’s even possible to grow from trauma, to become a better person, to use the experiences we’ve had in our lives toward working to instill hope and possibility to others who were in a similar situation?

What if we all learned that it’s possible to have healthy pride for an in-group without having out-group hate?

That if you expect kindness from others, it pays to be kind yourself?

That no one is ennoscriptd to anything, but we all are worthy of being treated as human?


This would be quite the paradigm shift, but it would be in line with the latest social science that makes clear that a perpetual victimhood mindset leads us to see the world with rose-tinted glasses. With a clear lens, we’d be able to see that not everyone in our out-group is evil, and not everyone in our in-group is a saint. We’re all human with the same underlying needs to belong, to be seen, to be heard and to matter.


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