ENTRY 3_Nguyen The tuyen

ENTRY 3: IDENTIFYING BIAS

ITEM 1:

Right now U.S. unemployment is at 7%. Moreover, that is using Regan math, it is actually around 18%.
The main reason illegal immigrants come here is not freedom, or a love of America, but money (why they still wave their own flags when they protest instead of ours.)
And the reason they can make more money here, is we allow corporations to get away with employing illegal immigrants. Businesses prefer exploiting them, as they are paid less for the same work.
For many illegal immigrants that's still a good deal, but it's a terrible deal for me, you, and the U.S. in general.
If you want to solve the immigration problem, the key is not going around kicking them out.
The key is actually holding companies responsible for employing them. This is hard, because companies fund politicians campaigns for the most part, so they end up paying popular lip-service, twisting the cause effect so everyone thinks it’s the immigrants' fault and not the companies, and meanwhile nothing is done to solve the problem.
If we want to solve the problem of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, maybe even millions, who do burden our society both through paying less taxes (though they still pay sales tax) and enabling companies tendency to exploit the worker bees of the world, we need to implement meaningful fines. And we also need to start treating blue collar criminals the same as thugs on the street. That means hard time in prison for breaking the law, even if you happen to be rich.
The guy who brings a truck with 5 illegal immigrants into the U.S. goes to jail. Why not the CEO employing 100 of them?

-Prejudice:
The author has negative opinion of the illegal immigrants and the companies employing them because he believes that they take away jobs from the Americans. Therefore, they are blamed for the high unemployment rate in the United States.


ITEM 2: Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'

In a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you.
An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine.
'Eeyore days'
The University of New South Wales researcher says a grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way the brain "promotes information processing strategies".
He asked volunteers to watch different films and dwell on positive or negative events in their life, designed to put them in either a good or bad mood.
Next he asked them to take part in a series of tasks, including judging the truth of urban myths and providing eyewitness accounts of events.
Those in a bad mood outperformed those who were jolly - they made fewer mistakes and were better communicators.
Professor Forgas said: "Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world."
The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style".
His earlier work shows the weather has a similar impact on us - wet, dreary days sharpened memory, while bright sunny spells make people forgetful.

-Assumption: the conclusion that “feeling grumpy is good for you” is a wrong assumption because of the following reason:
The author omitted the relevant facts about how many samples there are, their geographic area, age, gender…. in Professor Forgas’s research (in particular, in his experiments). Furthermore, these benefits that “negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world." are not enough to draw the conclusion that “feeling grumpy is good for you” (because there are several negative impacts of bad mood on people)

ITEM 3:

-Stereotypes: A typical Frenchman image has his appearance like the cartoon: wears a beret, striped shirt, eats baguette, smokes cigar, and dinks wine... These are all fixed images that many people have about Frenchmen but in reality it is not true.

REFERENCES:
http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/Should_we_kick_illegal_immigrants_out_of_the_USA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8339647.stm

http://www.made-in-england.org/stereotypes-part-1-the-french/