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Troubled Teens Lesson 3
Caricatures

IGCSE Global Perspectives

Learning objectives

I can explain characterising versus

caricaturing perspectives
I can discuss the extent to which we need to
respect others’ perspectives
I can explain why our personal experience
tends to dominate our own perspectives
I can explain how established political
perspectives may affect a person’s stance
on an issue
Caricaturing perspectives
Characterising the kind of person A caricature of a person is a
who holds a perspective can help representation which exaggerates
us to understand it some of their features

A* challenge: Is it wrong to use caricatures?

Caricaturing perspectives
Sure – camp discipline was tough, but
it was character building. It made
me into the man I am today. Millennial
butterflies need to man up and stop
feeling sorry for themselves.

Nobody should have to go

through abuse like that. It
ruined my mental health.
Those boneheads scarred
me for life.
Why do perspectives differ?

Why do you think the two

men have developed such
different opinions when
they both went through
the same boot camp?
Why do perspectives differ?
Why do perspectives differ?

“WYSIATI – What You See Is All There Is”1

Both men are basing their opinions

primarily on their personal experience
because it is the most “available” data for
them. Most likely, the man on the left had
positive experience overall, but the man on
the right is suffering long-term harm.

Over reliance on personal experience helps

to explain a lot of disagreement in the
world!
Ignorant perspectives
Perhaps you think someone’s
perspective is based in ignorance.

Watch the moment Paris Hilton’s

mother realises her opinion is based
on an incomplete picture of what her
daughter went through at the
disciplinarian boarding school Provo
Canyon. What didn’t she know?

Do we have to respect everybody’s

perspective?
Mapping perspectives
AUTHORITARIAN
Some perspectives are well established.

An __________ thinks leaders should lead

and followers should follow, whereas a RIGHT
LEFT
__________ thinks everybody should be
their own leader.

People on the political __________ have

more traditional opinions, and support
low taxes, private ownership of property
and industry, and less help for the poor.
People on the __________ believe in
sharing wealth and power with everyone.
LIBERTARIAN
How would these perspectives
lead people to think about
“tough love” for teens?
 Homework

Where do you stand on these two political

spectrums?

AUTHORITARIAN ⇔ LIBERTARIAN

LEFT WING ⇔ RIGHT WING

Take this test to find out.

Show off your certificate next lesson.

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