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Toy Machine - Brainwash
2010 · Film · documentary · 23 min
Directed by Kevin Barnett
Brainwash is Toy Machine Skateboard Company’s latest attempt at world-domination. What started as a simple promo video exploded into a full-blown face melting, yet concise, skate video. All of Toy Machine’s newest Team Riders, Leo Romero, Collin Provost, Daniel Lutheran, and Jordan Taylor are making jaw-dropping Toy video debuts. Loyal Pawns of the Machine worry not, the entire rest of the team checks in with over a minute of footage each. Johnny Layton, Billy Marks, Diego Bucchieri, Josh Harmony, Austin Stephens, Ed Templeton and Matt Bennett will give you a programming injection that will achieve consumer submission to the Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company.
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What explains the gap? Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the tests for the O.E.C.D., says different countries offer different incentives for learning science and math. In the United States, he said, boys are more likely than girls to “see science as something that affects their life.” Then there is the “stereotype threat.”
This may be true, but not for the typical given reasons, ie., because of pressure on girls to avoid science.
There is an interesting 2010 Norwegian documentary, Brainwash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask) which explores nature vs. nurture in terms of gender preferences in Norway (and includes some of the research of Simon Baron-Cohen) that can be found on YouTube.
In that series, IIRC, and roughly paraphrasing, it was said that when people are in a culture that is on the higher end of Maslow's Pyramid, it frees up people of all genders to make their careers be reflections of what truly interests them.
In the NY Times article, it is said,
boys are more likely than girls to “see science as something that affects their life.
and
For girls in some Arab countries, education is the only way to move up the social structure,” Mr. Schleicher said. “It is one way to earn social mobility.
In Norway, the documentary tries to examine why when there is so much cultural encouragement for gender neutral behavior and gender neutral training why there is still, regardless, such an imbalance of women that go into nursing compared to men that go into nursing.
Is that because society says, "only women can be nurses?" Apparently in Norway, the answer would be no. And the researchers would claim that Norwegian culture is at such a high level in terms of satisfying people's needs, that this gender preferences reflects real innate biological preferences and not culturally learned preferences.
In the United States, my belief is that kids of all ages are discouraged from entering STEM fields.