What are mirror image perceptions?
What are mirror image perceptions?
It's worth noting that conflict frequently leads to what is called mirror image thinking. Mirror-Image perceptions are reciprocal views of one another often held by parties in conflict. Each may view itself as moral and peace loving and the other as evil and aggressive.
A good example of the is the way people talk about terrorists, and the way people in the Middle East sometimes talk about the West. I am good and faithful, and I support virtue and light. You are evil and crazy and wicked. There is nothing good about you at all. Do you see how easy it is to demonize the opposition? Politicians do this too -- the government is corrupt, the bureaucrats are incompetent, until of course my party is in power.
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