{"id":3119795,"date":"2014-12-31T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/punto-de-vista-nuestro-miedo-nos-esta-matando\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T06:00:29","slug":"punto-de-vista-nuestro-miedo-nos-esta-matando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/punto-de-vista-nuestro-miedo-nos-esta-matando\/","title":{"rendered":"Punto de vista: nuestro miedo nos est\u00e1 matando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">N<\/span><!--\/.dropcap-->uestro miedo nos est\u00e1 matando. La noche en que comenzaron los enfrentamientos en Ferguson, Misuri, nuestra hija adoptiva afroamericana nos llam\u00f3 muy alterada por la forma militarizada en que estaban siendo tratados los manifestantes. Mi esposa y yo la calmamos y la acostamos. Pero ahora yo \u2014un profesor universitario blanco jubilado\u2014 soy el que est\u00e1 paralizado por el miedo por mis nietos afroamericanos. No s\u00e9 qu\u00e9 hacer al respecto. En varias ocasiones durante este \u00faltimo a\u00f1o, adolescentes y j\u00f3venes negros han sido tiroteados y asesinados por blancos que les ten\u00edan un miedo irracional. Mis nietos negros son j\u00f3venes excepcionalmente buenos: nunca han tenido problemas, son de voz suave y siempre han sido extraordinariamente serviciales con los dem\u00e1s. Sin embargo, los incidentes de este a\u00f1o en Florida y Ohio demuestran que esto no es ninguna protecci\u00f3n. Los blancos interpretaron el comportamiento inocente de los negros como amenazante y, como resultado, los afroamericanos fueron asesinados. El miedo nos est\u00e1 matando.         <\/p>\n<p>El miedo de los blancos a la violencia de los negros es irracional. En este pa\u00eds, los autores de homicidios contra blancos tienen seis veces m\u00e1s probabilidades de ser tambi\u00e9n blancos. Por supuesto, hay m\u00e1s blancos que negros aqu\u00ed, por lo que esto podr\u00eda ser de esperar. No obstante, incluso cuando ajustamos la menor proporci\u00f3n de afroamericanos en nuestra poblaci\u00f3n, sigue siendo cierto que un blanco en los EE. UU. que se encuentra con un blanco tiene una probabilidad ligeramente mayor de ser asesinado por \u00e9l (o ella) que cuando se trata de un negro. A lo largo de un a\u00f1o, un blanco en este pa\u00eds tiene una probabilidad de 1,05 entre 100.000 de ser asesinado por el blanco promedio. La cifra comparable para el homicidio de negros contra blancos es de 1,03.     <\/p>\n<p>Nuestros miedos al otro podr\u00edan ser solo nuestro problema personal, si no fuera por el hecho de que la cultura estadounidense actual tambi\u00e9n nos est\u00e1 animando a responder a nuestros miedos con agresi\u00f3n en lugar de con ingenio desarmador. La ley de defensa propia es una receta para precisamente el desastre que estamos observando. Multiplica el miedo irracional con respuestas irracionales.  <\/p>\n<p>En un enfrentamiento, la mejor estrategia para todos nosotros \u2014incluida la polic\u00eda\u2014 es calmar a la otra persona, no dominarla. Esto es lo que se les ense\u00f1aba a hacer a los famosos y eficaces polic\u00edas brit\u00e1nicos. Y explica el sorprendente resultado de incorporar mujeres al cuerpo de polic\u00eda de Berkeley, California. Dado que se hab\u00eda asumido que los delincuentes se someten m\u00e1s f\u00e1cilmente a un tama\u00f1o y una fuerza superiores, los agentes masculinos se hab\u00edan preocupado por c\u00f3mo lo har\u00edan las mujeres (m\u00e1s peque\u00f1as). Pero result\u00f3 que las agentes femeninas ten\u00edan menos problemas en los enfrentamientos, no m\u00e1s, porque hab\u00edan aprendido desde peque\u00f1as a calmar y bromear con los hombres m\u00e1s fuertes.    <\/p>\n<p>Cuando nos sentimos amenazados, tenemos que respirar hondo, evaluar la situaci\u00f3n con calma y buscar soluciones no conflictivas. Este es el enfoque estadounidense tradicional de la vida real, en lugar de la respuesta dram\u00e1tica, alimentada por la adrenalina (pero destructiva) de las pel\u00edculas de acci\u00f3n. Y es el enfoque cu\u00e1quero, que deber\u00edamos promover en nuestras comunidades. De lo contrario, nuestros miedos y nuestra agresi\u00f3n seguir\u00e1n mat\u00e1ndonos.   <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>17\/1\/2015: Este art\u00edculo se ha actualizado para restaurar una secci\u00f3n del segundo p\u00e1rrafo del autor que se elimin\u00f3 por error. Lamentamos el error.  -Eds.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punto de vista<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10339],"tags":[],"fpb_issue_category":[10592],"class_list":["post-3119795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punto-de-vista","fpb_issue_category-enero-de-2015-cambio-climatico"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punto de vista: nuestro miedo nos est\u00e1 matando - Friends Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/punto-de-vista-nuestro-miedo-nos-esta-matando\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punto de vista: nuestro miedo nos est\u00e1 matando - 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