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Although Americans have come a long way in terms of acceptance in our diverse society, there is still so much we need to work on. There especially a lot of discrimination in the workforce towards women and people of color. The attached article explains the harsh reality of discrimination female surgeons face.

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More than half of female surgeons in the UK have faced or witnessed discrimination in the workplace, suggest the results of a confidential online poll, published in the online journal BMJ Open.

Orthopaedics was seen as the most sexist of all the surgical specialties, the responses showed.

Despite women making up over half of medical school entrants in the UK, less than a third opt for a career in surgery, which is widely acknowledged to be a male-dominated environment.

But few studies have looked at the way in which women feel their male surgical colleagues perceive them.

To address this, the researchers analysed the responses of 81 female surgeons to an online survey (42% response rate) about their perceptions and experiences of working in the field; what obstacles they had faced in their careers; and what they thought would help to overcome these.

The survey was distributed through the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) women in surgery Facebook page and shared on Twitter for two weeks in October 2017.

The ASGBI Facebook group is mainly made up of women (90%), aged between 25 and 34 (39%) and 35-44 (30%). Most surgeons in the group come from the UK (70%), but it also includes doctors from India, Pakistan, USA, Europe and Africa.

Analysis of the responses identified several perceived barriers to a surgical career for women: poor work-life balance; inflexibility over part-time careers; gender stereotyping; and lack of formal mentorship.

Most respondents (88%) felt that surgery remains male-dominated, with nearly six out of 10 (59%) reporting or witnessing discrimination against women in the workplace.

And around one in five (22%) felt that there was a "tangible glass ceiling," with an overriding feeling that the working culture is geared to men.

Orthopaedics was seen as the most sexist of the surgical specialties (53%), followed by cardiothoracic (16%) and general surgery (13%).

Half of the respondents agreed that motherhood and childcare commitments are the greatest obstacles for women wanting a career in surgery.

There is existing support for mothers working in surgery, but women are "presumed to deskill during maternity leave and are discouraged from working part time," say the researchers.

With fewer women represented at senior level, this could reinforce the idea that surgery is a male-dominated environment, they suggest.

But respondents felt that patients were often just as guilty of assuming women couldn't be surgeons: "Significantly more patients call me nurse or lady doctor than any of my colleagues," commented one.

Nearly a third (30%) of respondents said that sexist language should be challenged. Other suggestions for tackling discrimination included more female role models and mentors; destigmatisation of career breaks for women; flexible training/career options; better work-life balance; and improved understanding of the impact of childcare responsibilities on working life.

The study is based on a small online survey, so might not be representative of the female surgical workforce, the authors point out. But the poll nevertheless "illuminates the lived realities of female surgeons in the UK today," they suggest.

And with around 6 in 10 women reporting experience of discrimination, the responses suggest "an ancient culture pervading our society since the 1800s, at the time of the first female surgeon in the UK, Elizabeth Garrett," they write.

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More than half of female surgeons in the UK have faced or witnessed discrimination in the workplace, suggest the results of a confidential online poll, published in the online journal BMJ Open. Orthopaedics was seen as the most sexist of all the surgical specialties, the responses showed.

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In today's world, Americans from every age group use social media to boast. Whether it's about how great Brenda's son did at a Toddler soccer game, or how fabulous Britney's trip to Paris was. Getting positive feedback from as many people as possible is ideal.

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You scroll through your Facebook feed, skimming post after post, ignoring most, liking a few.

After a couple of swipes on the trackpad, you stop. There's a video that catches your eye and after watching it, you feel compelled to share it with your friends.

Every day citizens of the internet go through this same routine. But what makes us stop and share one piece of content when nearly everything else gets ignored?

Is it the type of content? Is it the source of the content? Or totally unrelated to the content?

The psychology of sharing has been studied by academics and marketers alike. New York Times best-selling author Tucker Max boils the psychology of sharing down to one word, "

"Word of mouth is a status play. If you give people something good, something valuable, they want to talk about it. It benefits them to talk about it...if I share a book with you, it raises my status, it helps me look good to my friends that I know this and now I'm sharing it with you."

Is it that simple? Do we want to share content that makes us look good? Or are there deeper psychological reasons why we share?

The Godfather of Modern Sharing

To really understand the psychology of sharing, we have to go back to 1966. Long before we had the retweet, Austrian psychologist, Ernest Dichter , published the Harvard Business Review article "How Word-of-Mouth Advertising Works."

In his article, Dichter outlined four reasons that motivate people to talks about brands and products.

1. Product Involvement (33%) - The customer's experience is so pleasurable, it has to be shared.

2. Self-Involvement (24%) - You, as the sharer, gain attention, feel special, like you have inside information or are the first to know.

3. Other Involvement (20%) - The sharer wants to help others.

4. Message - Involvement (20%) - The message is so valuable that it has to be shared.

He concluded that " When the consumer feels that the advertiser speaks to him as a friend...the consumer will relax and tend to accept the recommendation. "

Ernest Dichter's research made him a pioneer in marketing.

He took his studies of human motivation and applied them to marketing for big companies like Procter & Gamble, and General Mills. Many of the strategies and tactics we use today for sharing is based on Dichter's research.

Related: 6 Ways to Get All Employees Active in Social Media Marketing

Why We Share and Who Does the Sharing?

Fast forward fifty years from Dichter's breakthrough research and we have a whole new set of tools that help facilitate the spread of communication. The fundamentals of word-of-mouth are the same. But now people are sharing on so many different channels. The content they share on different channels differs. What people share on Instagram is different than Facebook, which is different than Twitter.

The New York Times Customer Insight Group published the study , "The Psychology of Sharing" which divided why we share into five categories and further broke down the personas of people who share into six profiles.

Why We Share

1. To bring valuable and entertaining content to others.

2. To define ourselves to others.

3. To grow and nourish our relationships.

4. Self-fulfillment.

5. To get the word out about causes or brands.

Personas of Sharers (Preferred Channels)

1. Altruists - share content to be helpful. (Facebook, Email)

2. Careerists - share to build a professional reputation. (Linkedin, Email)

3. Hipsters - share cutting edge and creative content that builds their identity. (Facebook, Twitter)

4. Boomerangs - share content to get reaction from audience, seeks validation. (Facebook, Twitter)

5. Connectors - share content to stay connected with others and make plans. (Facebook, Email)

6. Selectives - put more thought into what they share and with whom they share it. (Email)

While looking at the findings, it's remarkably similar to Dichter's original findings and back up Max's assertion that it's all about status. Whether it's to entertain friends or build professional relationships, we want to share for our own self-interests.

But the last reason why we share, spread the word about causes or brands, touches on another major reason why we share: emotion.

Jonah Berger and Emotion

Jonah Berger is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of the New York Times bestseller, "Contagious: Why Things Catch On is a New York Times."

Berger's research focuses on six principles that cause something to be wildly shared and go viral:

Social Currency: We share things that make us look good

Triggers: Easily memorable information means it's top of mind and tip of the tongue.

Emotion: When we care, we share.

Public: Built to show, built to grow.

Practical Value: News people can use.

Stories: People are inherent storytellers, and all great brands also learn to tell stories. Information travels under the guise of idle chatter.

Berger's findings have similarities with Dichter and the New York Times, but he digs deeper into the role emotion plays in our social sharing.

After analyzing seven thousand articles on the New York Times, Berger and his colleague discovered there were two primary factors that lead an article to be one of the newspaper's most emailed articles: how positive the article was and how excited it made the reader.

These studies into the psychology of sharing aren't just theoretical musings of academics. New media and content companies have taken this research and built big businesses around the factors that compel us to share.

How Companies Leverage the Psychology of Sharing

Joe Matsushima is the co-founder of Denizen Company and part of the creative team behind the viral hit, Tiny Hamster Eats Tiny Burritos .

His videos have been viewed by millions of people across the globe. When asked what he thinks causes people to share something online, he answered with a mix of status and emotion.

"Sharing is a fascinating phenomenon because liking-or even loving something doesn't necessarily lead to sharing it with your peers. Typically what leads a person to share something on social media is when it has a connection to them as an individual, be it political, emotional, cute or funny. People want to share with others how they perceive the world and reflect their tastes and how they define themselves."

Joe has made a career of tapping into audience's' emotion through video content. Similarly, Buzzfeed is a highly trafficked website that also uses reader emotion to spread its content.

Buzzfeed has done this particularly well, by creating content that taps into our nostalgia for 90s related content and quizzes about TV shows that have long been off the air. But they also balance this content with timely content that tugs at our heartstrings and makes us feel good. And cats. There are always cats .

Emotion is a two-sided coin and not everything is hugs and kittens.

Negative emotion can ignite social sharing just as much as a positive emotion. Outrage is a feeling that can cause people to share just as much as a funny video.

Stories like this waitress being left a $0 tip set off a firestorm of social sharing. Emotion is a huge part of sharing, the key is to hit one end of the positive or negative spectrum. Anything that falls between gets lost with the rest of the average content.

At the end of the day, the psychology of sharing is much simpler than one might anticipate.

Status and emotion are the two driving forces behind sharing. It doesn't matter which sharing persona you fit, everyone is motivated by these two factors when they share something online.

What This Means for You

Before you create your next piece of content, ask yourself who the content is for and if it really satisfies status or emotion? Will sharing make someone seem smarter to their friends? Does it elicit so much happiness that you have to share?

Remember, liking something isn't enough. You must strike a chord with your audience that triggers such a strong response, they have to share.

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The Psychology of How and Why We Share on Social Media

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I agree that Americans are generally philanthropic people. Americans value charity and giving, as seen in many non profit organizations in our country, as well as larger corporations that give back to less fortunate people. Recently, the mall of America donated food, blankets, and hand warmers.

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When Minnesota stepped into the spotlight of Super Bowl 52 last year, a Mall of America executive suggested shipping the homeless away with "a Happy Meal, a blanket, and some hand warmers," according to internal emails obtained by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.

The email, written by Vice President of Security Operations Doug Reynolds, was sent to a Metro Transit official in January 2018 in response to a scheduling change.

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Days before Super Bowl 52, Mall of America executive suggested sending homeless away with 'a Happy Meal'

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This is definitely a value many Americans hold considering there have been various movements and debates towards reaching equality for minorities. Yet there is an equally as loud opposite side such as Alt-right and other traditional thinkers that still think that white prevails over all. An example of this is the battle in Charlottesville where people were protesting the notion of white privilege and an alt-right supporter drove a car through the crowd.

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One dead, others hurt after car strikes crowd at Charlottesville rally

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White nationalists and counter-protesters were gathered in Charlottesville when a car drove into a crowd. The driver was arrested and charges are pending.

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I do agree that Americans expect material comfort. Americans appreciate material possessions and feel the need to show off all they can afford. There is an irrational fear amongst youth of not being updated with the trends, regardless of cost. The attached article describes the materialistic desires of adolescents in today's society and ways to combat this issue.

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Kids are facing a host of influences that are relatively new in the history of kid-dom-clever advertising and social media are creating pulls toward products and appearances that must be very strong. How to protect kids against these forces isn't such a straightforward task for the parent. A new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago finds that there's a strong inverse connection between gratitude and materialism-and not only this, but by encouraging the one, you can reduce the tug of the other.

"Materialism has been on the rise, increasing over the generations and reaching historically high levels for Millennials, also known as GenMe," the authors write in the Journal of Positive Psychology. "This escalation of youth materialism is concerning because as the desire for material possessions escalates, intrinsic motivation and school grades are decreasing."

And it doesn't just affect school-related stuff: materialism has actually been shown to interfere with overall emotional function and increase the risk of mental health issues: "[T]he vast amount of marketing aimed at young consumers has created the most materialistic generation in history and threatens their healthy development and emotional well-being," they write. "Indeed, materialism among this population has been linked to a variety of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, the use of addictive substances such as alcohol and illegal drugs, and selfish attitudes and behaviors."

So addressing the rise in materialism in kids is likely a very worthwhile endeavor. Although restricting advertising has been shown to reduce materialism, as the authors point out, this tack is a bit futile. Marketing isn't really going anywhere, so looking at ways to help kids become immune to it, rather than avoid it, is more realistic. So they set out to explore a connection that's been studied, mostly in grownups, before: they wanted to see whether encouraging gratitude in teens might be an effective vaccine against materialism.

They first surveyed 870 tweens and teens, asking them questions about their attitudes toward material items-and their gratitude for people and things in their lives. And they found a connection: Teens who were more grateful also tended to be less materialistic.

The next question was whether this was malleable-that is, by fostering a teen's feelings of gratitude, would materialism be affected? The team had half of a group of 60 teens keep a gratitude journal, and write down every day what or whom they were grateful for; the other half kept an activity journal, logging only what they did each day. The participants also answered the same questions about their materialism and gratitude as before, both before and after the two-week journal period. Finally, the researchers gave everyone 10 $1 bills at the end of the two weeks, which they could either keep or donate to charity after the researcher left the room.

The findings were pretty striking: The gratitude levels of the kids who kept gratitude journals rose significantly after the intervention-and their materialism dropped significantly. But what was also different was the generosity in the kids who'd kept gratitude journals. Those participants chose to donate almost $7 on average, whereas the kids in the control group donated just over $4.

"Our findings show that it is possible to reduce materialism among young consumers, as well as one of its most common negative consequences (nongenerosity) using a simple strategy-fostering gratitude for the things and people in their lives," said researcher Lan Nguyen Chaplin.

How to do this in real life might not sound so simple to parents. But Chaplin says parents can create a mutual habit of gratitude journaling, lasting just a few minutes a day.

"Parents can also keep a gratitude journal," she says. "You can take five minutes a day to sit and write in the gratitude journal with your teenager. Or, you can write about one person or thing you are thankful for and would take one to two minutes. The key would be to do it with your teenager. It's quality time. It helps you stay grounded. It helps your teenager stay grounded. It helps you build a special relationship with your teenager because you do it together. You can then discuss what you wrote or keep it private. But you will both have tuned into at least one reason to be grateful."

Aside from reducing materialism, there's a host of other reasons to nurture gratitude both in kids and adults-it's linked to overall well-being, stronger social ties, and reduced risk for depression. So it's probably a very healthy habit to get into, whether you have kids or not.

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Encouraging Gratitude In Kids Reduces Materialism, Study Finds

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With this generation, doing nothing to get the max amount of money is idealized. There is a plethora of Instagram and Youtube stars that are paid to simply to endorse a brand to their followers. This has caused those who are not already famous to improve their image and to get more popular in order for these brands to reach out with cash. For example, Trisha Paytas, simply posts videos of her online either eating food or doing silly challenges with friends. Though funny, that does not explain her net worth of 4 million.

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Trisha Kay Paytas is the American lady who owns the YouTube channel Blndsundoll4mj. She has an estimated net worth of $4 million from YouTube, book sales and music. She is a model, actress, author, singer and songwriter. She also has another channel by the name Trisha Paytas which is her vlog. Her main channel she posts videos of challenges, beauty tutorials, music videos, reactions and other random content.

How Much Money Does Trisha Paytas (Blndsundoll4mj) Earn On YouTube?

The main channel Blndsundoll4mj has over 5 million subscribers as of 2019 and has over 1.7 billion views accumulated on the channel. Trisha uploads at least 5-7 videos a week on the channel and the videos collectively get around 600,000 views per day. This should in turn generate an estimated revenue of around $2,400 per day ($900,000 a year) from advertisements that run on the videos.

The vlogging channel has over 1 million subscribers on the channel. Around 1 video is uploaded everyday, an in a day the channel gets around 200,000 views. The amount of money this channel generates from advertisements should be around $800 per day.

YouTubers get paid between $2 - $5 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views range from 40% - 60% of the total views. All these are influenced by different factors like device played on, location of the viewer, ad inventory, season, topic, how many ads have been played on a video, ad watch time, ad engagement etc. to come up with the figure to be paid out.

Trisha earn a considerable extra income from selling books on Amazon. She has written books such as Curvy and Loving It, The History Of My Insanity, How To Get Internet Famous, Tease and many others. She also sells merchandise on her website. She also has a music career and has released a number of songs which have had a great reception. Her Patreon account has over 3,200 Patreons which should bring in at least $16,000 a month.

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(Last Updated On: January 1, 2019)Trisha Paytas Net Worth - $4 Million Trisha Kay Paytas is the American lady who owns the YouTube channel Blndsundoll4mj. She has an estimated net worth of $4 million from YouTube, book sales and music. She is a model, actress, author, singer and songwriter.

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I believe that currently, Americans do not have a very intuitive mindset in regards to science. There is a plethora of scientific evidence for global warming, yet President Trump and his supporters disregard this evidence.

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Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2019

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Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from  tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!

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Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from  tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!

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Yes I agree that this is still valued considering every popular rap song is about being successful and getting "ice" (diamonds and jewelry). Many song lyrics have to do with getting money and being above the "haters". For example, every other line is this song such as, "Adding up checks, no minus"
"Get your respect in diamonds (ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice)"
"Private life, private jets 'round the globe (private life)"

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Migos - Walk It Talk It ft. Drake (Official Video)