CHAPTER 8: VIEWPOINTS: WHAT'S THE FILTER?
Critical thinking means learning to recognize viewpoints and how they shape the content of any message. Viewpoints like assumptions, opinions, and evaluations can either be consciously or unconsciously assumed. We Can communicate better when we are aware of our own viewpoint and can understand and respect the viewpoints of others also. Unconscious viewpoints include the egocentric, ethnocentric, religiocentric, androcentric, and athropocentric. In alternative periodicals and on the internet a far wide ranger of viewpoints is available than on television and mainstream.
Critical thinking means learning to recognize viewpoints and how they shape the content of any message. Viewpoints like assumptions, opinions, and evaluations can either be consciously or unconsciously assumed. We Can communicate better when we are aware of our own viewpoint and can understand and respect the viewpoints of others also. Unconscious viewpoints include the egocentric, ethnocentric, religiocentric, androcentric, and athropocentric. In alternative periodicals and on the internet a far wide ranger of viewpoints is available than on television and mainstream.
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