2024-08-27 13:09:00
“She laughs like crazy,” US presidential candidate Donald Trump said of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. He continued to criticize the US Vice President and the Democratic presidential candidate, accusing him of using his skin color for political purposes and never missing an opportunity to make a bold statement about it. Trump repeatedly and seemingly incorrectly mispronounces his opponent’s name. Not only Trump, but also many experts on the United States on Russian federal television channels put the wrong reference. Correct pronunciation: KAMALA.
Kamala Harris’ humor versus Donald Trump’s shock
Trump supporters are also joining this fight and are spreading fake news and memes about Kamala Harris on the Internet. Your answer is a mirror. And the Internet community is actively involved in this fight. TikTok users are uploading videos that quickly go viral, and online platforms are treating Harris as a pop icon. And Kamala Harris herself smiled.
On the first day of the election campaign, the US Vice President called his opponent, former president Donald Trump, a criminal. “Criminals who harm women. Terrorists, criminals who break the law for their own profit. So believe me: I know people like Donald Trump,” Harris said, listing those who have to do with your work.
In the race for the presidency, Kamala Harris uses her forte honestly – humorPhoto: J. Scott Applewhite/dpa/AP/icture alliance
Today this woman was able to anger Trump: she called him strange and amazing. However, putting aside his shortcomings, he devoted himself to the election campaign with all the seriousness of a lawyer. This strategy of Kamala Harris is everywhere, especially since Tim Walz is in his team, he has been chosen as the new candidate for the US vice president and he has the best sense of humor, the German comedy researcher Eva Ullmann said. “The US presidential election is not only about comedy. The Harris-Walz duo has a clear political line, they can stand up for themselves and in a high position. These are not cabaret actors, they do not pretend to be this role, But in them there is something very warm and funny about humor, something attractive, and it is very powerful,” said the founder of the German Institute of Humor.
Attitudes to humor in society have changed a lot
Eva Ullmann points out the big advantage of the two politicians over Trump: “They don’t show as much indifference as Trump.” According to a German expert, it is precisely this tact that helps the duo to gain the sympathy of society, which is clearly with the culture of the former US president, who is full of humiliation of opponents and their hatred. Eva Ullman, author of the book “Humor is the Business of Bosses,” is confident that humor is changing. “For a long time, humor in leadership positions has been associated with the form of anger practiced by Donald Trump but this is not enough to lead a party,” he emphasized “It is a real turn when humor does not make you a laughingstock , but it puts you in a good light,” he emphasized and that there is a new trend on executive institutions.
The fear of being ridiculed has taken root.
This fear is very deep and has been familiar to people for a long time. Scientists are convinced that laughter is the first stage of communication in human history: our ancestors first taught us to laugh and then talk. Philosopher and laughter, Michael Titze, explains how laughter can turn into danger, he says: “Laughter between a tribe or a group symbolizes a feeling of closeness, affection and comfort when two groups are friendly to share the land a completely different meaning world. that’s why politicians are afraid of him.”
Even in the past, laughter used to talk about politics. The Greek philosopher Plato’s attitude to laughter was negative and strict. But his student Aristotle considered the tendency to laugh as a good, pure force. Your smile also has educational value: laughter teaches people. And laughter is what distinguishes man from animals, Aristotle believed. Perhaps the world would be very different today if we had followed Aristotle’s teaching. But there is Christianity, and with it a religion in which fun and laughter are not very welcome. In the past centuries, the situation has changed a little, but the original fear of losing power due to the appearance of happiness is firmly in people’s heads. Experts call this type of fear gelotophobia, which involves the fear of being ridiculed by other people. Gelotophobia is even more common in some cultures than in Western cultures. A 2009 global study from the University of Zurich, covering 73 countries, found that in some cultures, such as the Middle East and Asia, where honor and saving face are emphasized, smiling can have attention is very different. “A joke or insult can cause surprising reactions and even provoke war,” says researcher Michael Tietze, “Therefore, laughter has two natures.”
In the race for power, Donald Trump has repeatedly resorted to the tact of mocking his rivals Photo: Rick Bowmer/AP/picture association
But back to Kamala Harris. According to a German scientist, he responded with a smile when his opponents made fun of him, he said: “They made fun of him, and he started to laugh heartily, causing his opponent to lose his political .” Harris’s cheerful way is also a way of communication. It seems that he invited you to join him and said: “Look at me, how I do what you want, how we work together.”
When a person like Kamala Harris laughs, her brain releases feel-good hormones. It’s not for nothing that they say laughter is the best medicine. Although presidential candidate Donald Trump is trying to convince voters otherwise, using another word and seeing Harris’ smile as “a reason for stupidity.” A German scientist is convinced that happy people have an attractive power. At the same time, the capacity for humor, according to him, is already in the genes: “Activity cannot be taught, cannot be faked and forced, because then it seems to have its own power . ”
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