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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 who A caricature of a person is a
holds a perspective can help us to representation which exaggerates
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
AUTHORITAR
IAN
Some perspectives are well established.

An __________ thinks leaders should lead

and followers should follow, whereas a LEF RIGH
__________ thinks everybody should be their T T
own leader.

People on the political __________ have

more traditional opinions, and support low LIBERTARI
AN
taxes, private ownership of property and
industry, and less help for the poor. People on
the __________ believe in sharing wealth How would these perspectives lead
and power with everyone. 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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