Tag: Culture

  • How Football Shapes Identity and Community Worldwide

    How Football Shapes Identity and Community Worldwide

    Football Culture Growing up as a child in Trabzon, a city of football, the likelihood of staying away from football was low. And indeed, I couldn’t. My childhood passed by talking about football, playing football games on the computer, sometimes playing football in the street, and later going to indoor football (halı saha) matches. That’s…

  • Psychological Manipulation-4: How to Defend Our Point of View

    Psychological Manipulation-4: How to Defend Our Point of View

    Certainly, not by shouting, screaming, or throwing ourselves at each other like we see on TV. After all, we are civilized people. The people on television, as primitive as their behavior may be, actually have one goal — to look strong. The non-primitive version of this is having a correct logical flow, an appropriate tone…

  • Psychological Manipulation-3: Techniques and Common Types

    Psychological Manipulation-3: Techniques and Common Types

    Today’s post will be a long one. I didn’t want to split it into parts, but for easier navigation, I’ve added a table of contents. You can read the whole thing, or just the parts that interest you. We’ve already talked about examples of manipulation before. Now, we’ll dive into the techniques themselves — not…