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Obedience. Why are we taught it and why do we obey?

Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of social influence in which a person yields

to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure.

Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which is behavior influenced

by peers, and from conformity, which is behavior intended to match that of the

majority. Obedience can be seen as immoral, amoral and moral. For example, in a

situation when one orders a person to kill another innocent person and he or she does

so willingly, it is generally considered to be immoral. However, when one orders a

person to kill an enemy who will end many innocent lives and he or she does so

willingly, it can be deemed moral.

In Taiwan, we are taught to be obey and do not allow to doubt what the parents told

us to do, Taiwanese children were taught to be like that, our parents always think

they’re right, and give us the best always want us to be what they think. Nowadays,

the children were asked to learn a lot of talents, such as English, music( piano, violin,

drum, flute,),sports(basketball ,baseball, roller-coaster, swim),mental arithmetic.

There are so many talents they have to learn in their childhood no matter they like it

or not, they don’t have a choice, just the parents ask them to do and didn’t ask their

children want it or not. For my idea, I’m thinking that are the children really happy in

their childhood? They should have happy moment for playing with friends, playing

the toys. And don’t have any stress in their childhood. When we get to the junior high

school, our parents usually want us to have a great score in order to get in the great

senior high school, so they ask us to the cram school. But not everyone are good at

studying, maybe they are interest in art or music. We have no choice because of their

tradition idea.(Studying hard, get in the best university and get a great job).

Gradually, we become a robot just like the teacher Andy you told me. I’m just like a

robot(ha ha). We don’t think what the teacher said is true or not? We don’t suspect.

Just accept it. When the teacher ask questions to us, our reaction is starring at the

teacher and not going to answer the teacher’s question. Our education let us to

become like this no matter you’re the type to study. You have to follow the parents

thinking to go.This is the environment we live in.I don’t know if their childhood

didn’t achieve this goal so expect their children to achieve it. It’s such a nightmare,

and is for whole life’s nightmare.

And I surf the Internet to find out why we obey? There is a experiment was called

Milgram who was psychologist Stanley Milgram invented it.

Here is the experiment, Three individuals were involved: the one running the

experiment, the subject of the experiment (a volunteer), and a confederate pretending

to be a volunteer. These three people fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter (an

authoritative role), the Teacher (a role intended to obey the orders of the

Experimenter), and the Learner (the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher). The

subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles, but unknown to

the subject, both slips said "teacher". The actor would always claim to have drawn the

slip that read "learner", thus guaranteeing that the subject would always be the

"teacher". At this point, the "teacher" and "learner" were separated into different

rooms where they could communicate but not see each other. In one version of the

experiment, the confederate was sure to mention to the participant that he had a heart

condition.

At some point prior to the actual test, the "teacher" was given a sample electric shock

from the electroshock generator in order to experience firsthand what the shock that

the "learner" would supposedly receive during the experiment would feel like. The

"teacher" was then given a list of word pairs that he was to teach the learner. The

teacher began by reading the list of word pairs to the learner. The teacher would then

read the first word of each pair and read four possible answers. The learner would

press a button to indicate his response. If the answer was incorrect, the teacher would

administer a shock to the learner, with the voltage increasing in 15-volt increments for

each wrong answer. If correct, the teacher would read the next word pair.[1]

The subjects believed that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual

shocks. In reality, there were no shocks. After the confederate was separated from the

subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electroshock

generator, which played prerecorded sounds for each shock level. After a number of

voltage-level increases, the actor started to bang on the wall that separated him from

the subject. After several times banging on the wall and complaining about his heart

condition, all responses by the learner would cease.

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At this point, many people indicated their desire to stop the experiment and check on

the learner. Some test subjects paused at 135 volts and began to question the purpose

of the experiment. Most continued after being assured that they would not be held

responsible. A few subjects began to laugh nervously or exhibit other signs of extreme

stress once they heard the screams of pain coming from the learner.

(The first and last paragraph is from the Internet, Wikipedia ) Because I want teacher

you know there’s a search for the obedience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obedience_(human_behavior)