This is a few words and expressions which are either unusual or tend to be misunderstood. The later mostly applies to people overestimating their own normality. If they were as normal as they claim, I don’t think society would work. But of cause, they have their own misconceptions about how society works.
automagically
When something is thought to just happen without anyone trying to explain how.
compromise
Having two or more sides getting something but not all.
Christian
Someone who self-identifies as adhering to Christianity. This has nothing to do with being a good person or exactly what the person believes in.
Hate speech
Talking about groups of people as if all members were evil.
honesty
Telling what the speaker or writher him- or herself thinks is the truth.
Human nature
The statistical pattern of inborn human mental characteristics.
More will be added when I feel the need for it.
This page was last changed on the 1st of November 2024.
egotistic
Believing oneself to have a special position in society. This despite having an ordinary job which is not even particularly well-paid.
criticism
Complaints about someone or some people doing something specifically wrong.
Thinking for oneself
To follow one’s own thought patterns instead of copying the standpoints of others. This inevitably leads to people drawing different conclusions due to different thought patterns.
evolution
Changes in the commonness of certain genes over many generations.
tolerance
To habitually leave others alone.
Statistical outlier
Someone who is outside what is statistically normal for the group.
Double standards
Allowing one’ own group things which one forbids another group.
ethics
Conscious reflection on what should be considered morally correct.
exotication
Depicting something as different without trying to explain it.
ethnocentrism
Believing one’s own ethnic group to be better than every else. All other ethnic groups are treated as irrelevant.