The Life of a Twenty-Something...growing up.
This blog will take you through my post-collegiate life, as I embark upon a new career, and face different and often difficult challenges of becoming a young, independent, Pakistani woman in the United States.
It will chronicle my (hopefully short time) moving back home, how I am going to adjust to it after living away for four years....
this should be interesting.
Have you heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The Stanford Prison Experiment occured in 1971 at Stanford University, and it was to see how average college students reacted and behaved under these unique circumstances. The men were chosen from a group of 70 applicants. The 24 men were randomly separated into groups, either prisoner or guards.
This is one of the things they did to the prisoners to make them feel less like an individual and to break down their psychological well being.
“The use of ID numbers was a way to make prisoner feel anonymous. Each prisoner had to be called only by his ID number and could only refer to himself and the other prisoners by number.
The stocking cap on his head was a substitute for having the prisoner’s hair shaved off. The process of having one’s head shaved, which takes place in most prisons as well as in the military, is designed in part to minimize each person’s individuality, since some people express their individuality through hair style or length. It is also a way of getting people to begin complying with the arbitrary, coercive rules of the institution. The dramatic change in appearance of having one’s head shaved can be seen on this page.”
Crazy crazy!! I really recommend you reading about this controversial experiment here at: http://www.prisonexp.org
