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inferiority and feeling
The feeling of individual inferiority, defeat, or humilation growing out of various social situations or individual deficiencies or failures is compensated for by communion in worship or prayer with a friendly, but all-victorious Father-God, as well as by sympathetic fellowship with others who share this faith, and by opportunities in religious acts for giving vent to emotions and energies.
The song " Head in a Cloud " from Lost at Sea was written in part about the feeling of inferiority when watching Lagwagon perform live.
Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the Brown v. Board opinion, " To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone ".
Discrimination against Catholics, attempts by a subjugating power to create an impression of inferiority and subdue or eliminate cultural identity, and a feeling that Ireland was economically disadvantaged and subservient within the United Kingdom were among the specific factors leading to such opposition.
An inferiority complex, often used to mean low self-esteem, is a feeling of intense insecurity, inferiority or of not measuring up.
A primary inferiority feeling is said to be rooted in the young child's original experience of weakness, helplessness and dependency.
A secondary inferiority feeling relates to an adult's experience of being unable to reach a subconscious, fictional final goal of subjective security and success to compensate for the inferiority feelings.
The perceived distance from that goal would lead to a negative / depressed feeling that could then prompt the recall of the original inferiority feeling ; this composite of inferiority feelings could be experienced as overwhelming.
The goal invented to relieve the original, primary feeling of inferiority which actually causes the secondary feeling of inferiority is the " catch-22 " of this dilemma.
An inferiority complex is when " the feeling of inferiority is highly intensified to the degree that the child believes that he will never be able to compensate for his weakness ".
The primary feeling of inferiority is the original and normal feeling in the infant and child of smallness, weakness, and dependency: appreciation of this fact was a fundamental element in Adler's thinking, and an important part of his break with Sigmund Freud.
However, a child may develop an exaggerated feeling of inferiority as a result of physiological difficulties or handicaps, inappropriate parenting ( including abuse, neglect, over-pampering ), or cultural and / or economic obstacles.
The secondary inferiority feeling is the adult's feeling of insufficiency that results from having adopted an unrealistically high or impossible compensatory goal, often one of perfection.

inferiority and usually
* Technological inferiority usually is cancelled by more vulnerable infrastructure which can be targeted with devastating results.
The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law ; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group.
The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group.
People with AvPD can improve social awareness and skills, but with deep-seated feelings of inferiority and significant social fear, these patterns usually do not change dramatically.
" I Quit " matches are commonly used to settle kayfabe grudges and embarrass rivals, since saying " I Quit " is usually a sign of admitted inferiority.
The contemporary centre right, unlike the far-right, usually claims that this is not innate and that people can end their behavioural inferiority through changing their habits and choices of behaviour.
Alfred Adler provided another perspective, linking the " will to power over others " as a central neurotic trait, usually emerging as aggressive over-compensation for felt and dreaded feelings of inferiority and insignificance.

inferiority and acts
Powell defended his speech on 4 May through an interview for the Birmingham Post: " What I would take ' racialist ' to mean is a person who believes in the inherent inferiority of one race of mankind to another, and who acts and speaks in that belief.
) Cherry hypothesises in this essay that Lawrence undertook extraordinary acts out of a sense of inferiority and cowardice and a need to prove himself.
Erika IV read extensively, such as Emily Dickenson or Charles Dickens, leading her to question her husband's plans due to her inability to reconcile the ' inferiority ' of the Old Race with their ability to create such incredible works of art or commit such noble acts as sacrificing themselves for those they love.

inferiority and for
Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.
On the alleged genetic inferiority of Blacks on IQ tests, he lays out the argument and evidence for such a belief, and then contests each point.
Raeder further added that now was the best time for Japan to enter the war because with " the whole English fleet contained, the unpreparedness of the USA for war with Japan and the inferiority of the U. S. fleet compared to the Japanese ".
In March these were indeed started at Breda, in the southern Generality Lands, as negotiations in the provinces themselves would by the conventions of the day be considered a sign of inferiority for the Dutch.
The pronounced inferiority of the Dutch fleet, and its state of " unreadiness " was a frequently reiterated excuse for the Dutch naval commanders, especially vice-admiral Andries Hartsinck, who commanded the Texel squadron, to keep the fleet at anchor, thereby ceding dominance of the North Sea to the blockading British fleet.
Kinescopes have since lost their stigma of inferiority, and are commonly consulted today for archival purposes.
Ehrenreich further explains how " positive thinking " was spread to a mainstream audience by Norman Vincent Peale's extremely popular The Power of Positive Thinking with its simple self-help rules for overcoming self-defeating inferiority complexes and negativity.
After the defeat at Cape Matapan, the Italian Admiral Iachino wrote that the battle had " the consequence of limiting for some time our operational activities, not for the serious moral effect of the losses, as the British believed, but because the operation revealed our inferiority in effective aero-naval cooperation and the backwardness of our night battle technology.
There is only one way and that is to recognise her complete equality of status with her fellows and to do so frankly, freely and unreservedly ... While one understands and sympathises with French fears, one cannot, but feel for Germany in the prison of inferiority in which she still remains sixteen years after the conclusion of the war.
* She has a long-running hatred and inferiority complex for former schoolmate and candy-bar heiress Sue Ellen Mischke.
Various reasons for the inferiority of the education given to Mexican American students have been listed by James A. Ferg-Cadima including: inadequate resources, poor equipment, unfit building construction, shortened school year ( see below ), failure to prevent drop out, limited access to high school, a watered down curriculum, poor instruction, disproportionate suspension, expulsion, harassment and non-enforced attendance rules.
Still others claimed that the supposed mental inferiority of African Americans made them unfit for the duties of citizenship and incapable of real improvement.
" Charlie surveyed the classroom but it was really his mother congratulating himself for snatching the higher test grade, the smug smirk on his face growing brighter and brighter as he confirmed the inferiority of his peers.
Their fighting against Chōshū units demonstrated the inferiority of traditional Japanese troops against a Western army, and convinced the leaders of the domain of the absolute necessity for a thorough military reform.
" The Victorian belief in the inherent inferiority of the ' darker races ', made them the object of a civilising impulse in the European Scramble for Africa.
Having examined many accounts of lynching based on alleged " rape of white women ," she concluded that Southerners concocted rape as an excuse to hide their real reason for lynchings: black economic progress, which threatened not only white Southerners ' pocketbooks, but also their ideas about black inferiority.
The document condemns any impression of assent to inferiority and submissiveness and indicated an absolute refusal to apologize for complaining loudly and insistently stating that " Persistent manly agitation is the way to liberty ".
He warned, for example, that if war came, soldiers would " be subject to the unfair handicap and the certainty of increased loss of life which inferiority in armament and shortage of ammunition must inevitability entail ".

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