How Might Ritual Be Necessary For Maintaining A Dominant Perspective

How Might Ritual Be Necessary For Maintaining A Dominant Perspective And How Might It Help To Change People’s Minds?

Why do parents have difficulty accepting their children’s horizontal identities?
How does having a child with a stigmatized identity help people to become activists?
How can understanding one stigmatized or horizontal identity help people to see the struggles that come with other such identities?
How does having a horizontal identity require a person to learn rituals their parents cannot teach them?
Why might a person’s horizontal identity make them reject the rituals and beliefs they were raised with?
Questions to help with the other possible texts

Giridharadas

Why does making members of MarketWorld think about their own family help to make them care about an issue?
How are the solutions thought leaders peddle designed to keep MarketWorlders from making connections between lots of different groups?
Why is it easier for a MarketWorlder to pretend they are helping by making things better for one person than to admit there is a systemic problem? How might having a child with a horizontal identity affect that?
D’Ignazio and Klein

How does the way we present data reinforce vertical identities?
How might data visceralization allow parents to see the perspectives of their children with horizontal identities?
How do stereotypes limit the way that people see those they deem to be different?