Tag: Myth

Having spent the best part of ten years in affiliate marketing, I’ve realized that specific strategies are golden while others fall flat on their face… Believe me when I say I’ve tested the waters in every direction. From Facebook ads to YouTube, diving into Facebook Groups,...

Religion is a system of beliefs, including belief in the existence of at least one of the following: a human soul or spirit, a deity or higher being, or self after the death of one’s body. Myths are traditional stories accepted as history; served to explain the world view of a people. Rituals ...

The “balance in nature” myth is one of the more persistent examples of environmental wishful thinking. In 2009, biologist John C. Kricher was rightly compelled to pen an entire book debunking it. The myth reflects our understandable desire for a stable world with a climate and the habita...

In the long and painful struggle for racial justice, there’s a narrative that’s been persistently sold to us: the idea that true equality can only be achieved when the oppressed and oppressors join hands and work together. It’s a comforting thought, the idea of unity and collective...

We truly live in a global world. Constant advances in transportation allow us to physically move people and objects great distances in increasingly small amounts of time, while communications technology such the internet and cell phones allow us to convey ideas and information with even quicker spee...

The myth of meritocracy claims that Americans live in a fair, equal society, where hard work and resilience are the factors most responsible for shaping our lives. Under this theory, nothing stops anyone from succeeding other than, perhaps, themselves. This worldview may seem like a harmless attempt...

Growing up as a child of Asian immigrants, I was raised to believe that if you work hard in America, you can succeed. That this country is all about “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” and “keeping your nose to the grindstone” because anything is possible. Our parents ca...

Today we are dealing with the question “Is there racism against white people?” Have you heard the word “reverse racism” before, which aims to define racism against white people? If yes, remove it from your vocabulary. The existence of “reverse racism” is a myth...

But it’s not just Ted Cruz. Perhaps the un-Cruziest Republican in the Senate, Mitt Romney, announced his support of allowing President Trump to name a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the grounds that the Court has been liberal for too long. “My liberal friends have over ...