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May 2022
The Community News Flash
Editor’s Corner
Jerry W. Porter CEO/Publisher
PO Box 1292, Corinth, MS 38835-1292 Cell: 662-643-6842 Email: read.newsflash@gmail.com
If you think one person cannot bring about meaningful change in this world, think again. In order to make a change, observation is key. Each month, I get the opportunity to observe the city landscape while delivering newspapers and boy, there are noticeable differences from city to city. Growing up in South Corinth I can recall the sense of joy, pride, and the family and communal attitude that radiated throughout the community. I remember an elderly gentleman named Mr. Primrose having his garden tilled by a team of mules to ready it for spring planting; there was Mrs. Ruby Hunter next door pampering her roses for picking, and Mr. Bill raising his chickens for plucking. Boy, those were the days where pride was king. As I look back over my monthly delivery trek, I can vividly see the common thread of broken windows in many
You Can Make a Difference communities. So, my curiosity traits are modeled by our peers ing sweet potatoes in the sea had as to why prompted me to do a and our surroundings and for spread throughout the troops of little research when I stumbled years researchers tried, in vain, macaques. This habit of sweet upon social scientists, James Q. to observe the lifestyle of an elu- potato washing had become established as a new cultural eleWilson and George L. Kelling’s sive troop of free-ranging monment in the troops of macaques. Broken Window Theory. They keys. It was hard for the researchers believe that the sign of broken They finally enticed the monto believe their findings so they windows is a predictor for varikeys of the forest by leaving tried another ous environmenConsequences of Negligence experiment to tal conditions Anything if it happens slowly enough, keep the troop and behaviors. if tolerated long enough, can lead to our ruin. in the open area Intrigued by The severity of such an erosion is often not realized until death has a little longer. their theory, I come knocking on the door...and by then it may very well be too late This time they decided to dig a to do anything. -- Author Unknown little further. tossed unhusked While researchrice onto the sandy beaches. The diet of unhusked ing, I began to think about some- sweet potatoes and other treats as bait on the open beach, where rice caused the monkeys to take thing that a pastor mentioned in a little longer to sift sand out of one of his sermons a few months observation and study could be made more easily. Careful obser- the rice before eating it: the ago. He said, “It doesn’t matter vation revealed that different researchers had not reckoned where you go in America people subgroups behaved differently. with Imo’s inventiveness. act the same". Still curious as When the researchers put out the to why I was seeing this comgoods the older monkeys resisted mon thread, I stumbled across Dr. Albert Bandura’s Social sampling as the younger ones Learning Theory about people advantageously ate the samples, learn from watching others. In after which the older monkeys other words, "monkey see, monfollowed. key do". One day Imo, a female The age-old saying monkey macaque, did something no see, monkey do caused me to other monkey had done- she revert back to my college psybegan washing the sand off of chology class and the story of her sweet potatoes by tossing Imo, the macaque from the them in the salty sea water. Island of Koshima. As you may When the researchers returned Privately owned know, many of our behavioral ten years later, the habit of wash-
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Imo scooped up a hand full of rice and threw the whole lot into the water. The sand sank to the bottom, the rice floated to the top and she skimmed off the rice. Again, Imo’s eating habit was copied by the other troops and a new eating habit soon took root. Like Imo, the macaque from the Island of Koshima, you too can change your culture by modeling new behavior. The lyrics to the song says, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, but one monkey can change its culture. Remember, monkey see, monkey do - Be careful of your actions because people will mimic you! Whoo! Whoo! Unit Next Time! All Aboard!
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