“The Nathanael Effect” by Rev Fr Kingsley Oru, FJS

“The Nathanael Effect” by Rev Fr Kingsley Oru, FJS

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“The Nathanael Effect” is a book written for the general goal of mindset change towards people and places. It I tailored towards correcting the ills and dangers posed by negative tags,  derogatory perspective and dehumanising thinking about people and their place, what they can be or they level they may ever attain due to what we might feel about them, what our experience or knowledge was about someone from same place or what we have heard people say about them. Sadly, these preconceived information are always wrong and incomplete but they form the bulk of the background from which we show biases to people and places.

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The book is also written to reveal to us how these one-sided and myopic presumptions of a people and places is causing great harm to our human relationship, growth and development as well as the utilisation of our innate abilities as humans.

Furthermore, the author used every paragraphs in marshalling out clearly defined and simplified ways of ensuring that those who give this prejudice and biases desist from doing and so, very importantly too, encouraging those who are victims of this ignoble act to step up and not be overwhelmed by it. He posited ways of turning those seemingly “stumbling blocks” into “stepping stones”. This is he did when he said that: “the truth is, each person is more than a particular hindrance standing between them and success: skin, colour, deformity, size, tribe, or marital status”.

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The richness of the content of the book is made even more endearing in the quality of the assertions, the humanistic postulations and the realistic steps on how to stop the acts of treating people as less humans as well as how to overcome the degrading effect on those who are victims. 

The book is made even more engaging in the style of presentation, simple diction, relatable stories, and the simplification of rather ambiguous theories through themes that were discussed in the various chapters.

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In the first chapter of the book, a critical discussion was done in unravelling the nature and action of Nathanael as seen in several stories and recorded histories. The author made us to understand that there has always been times when people or places and their ideas or possibility to come up with an ingenious discoveries were doubted simply because of their present status, academic background, place of origin or tribal and religious affiliation. But the author submitted that regardless of these challenges,those people and places whom are not expected to do anything heroic or great have always proven, through personal experience and history, to be capable of great achievements. 

The author also posited that those people who are often degraded gets such negative tags simply because of either sheer hatred, ignorance of who they are, preconceived information or hasty conclusions of the generality of places and the people from there. This he succinctly said: “for the records, both the Pharasees and Nathanael were worng about Nazareth. And they both represent two ways of of looking at people and places, ways that are either dangerously incomplete or outrightly wrong”.

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In a quick succession, in the second chapter, the author made reference to a related work by a literary giant, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, on the danger of not making a wholesome, objective open and sincere inquiry about people and places, but holding on wrongly and dehumanising postulations made about them, and not even giving anyone any chance or opportunity to express themselves simply because of where they are coming from.

The TED talk entitled: “The Danger of a Single Story” is a beautiful reference by the author as it is a great piece that addressed the issue of prejudice and bias due to incomplete and often racist information we have about people and places. 

The author noticed that these false claims are usually originated from authority figures who spew such hatred as a way of degrading those whom they do not accept. It is then sustained over time and passed on to those who look up to them. He also opined that the tragedy also lies in our inability to ask questions and find out more on what we hear or learn. We go as low as not even giving these people or places a chance to prove themselves.

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The author used the third chapter to reveal how this act is both psychological and biological. The Nathanael Effect (which is the predisposition to degrade and belittle others based on perceived information) is said to be psychological because there’s a significant relationship between what we hear and from whom we hear them. The author went ahead to make reference to the work of Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks entitled: Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why. They scientifically proved that some messages are accepted largely because of the bearers of such messages, and we tend not to ask questions or know why they are said. They said that this act is more often “irrational”. 

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The author went on to reveal how stereotyping and biases comes to us naturally and must be checkmated. This, he said, is biological. He opined that when we get to see or know things for the first time, we just make use of any available shortcuts to get to the conclusions due to laziness and unreadiness to know a reasonable amount of it so as to get a better opinion. The author asked: “why do we encounter people with preconceived notion about them?” This is already a pointer that we can easily fall prey to this natural dispositions of having biases about people or places if we do not consciously  avoid such dangerous and erroneous conclusions about them.

The author went on to discuss another dimension of the danger posed by the Nathanael Effect amongst us. He said that this effect makes us blind because the very moment we feel superior to others in relation to our ethnicity, religion, gender, social status, etc we leave room for no development of the people we see as inferior and likewise us who already believed we’ve got everything that is required. And we already know that blind guides do not lead to growth or anything better, but to destruction and backwardness. 

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The author was ingenious in suggesting ways that will be helpful to all of us in our relationship with people. He recommended that we should always see whatever advantages and opportunities we have as privileges and not rights. All of those things were bestowed upon us and not acquired by dint of our efforts. He also added that we should be conscious of the fact that since things and times change, those who do not have those opportunities and privileges today could have them tomorrow and vice versa;  and this is where the exceeding power of God comes to play. In the words of the author, this consciousness will also help us to have “such attitudes as empathy, compassion, charity and solidarity” towards those who might not be as privileges as we are at a time.

The author, having discussed those who dish out negative tags and the problem associated with such acts, used the next chapter to charge those who are recipients of such bad actions not to be defeated or give up,but to work harder, acquire skills, be positive and reach to the top of the ladder where they are deemed unfit or unworthy. Let such persons develop strategies that will help them scale through and prove people wrong- this he said can only be done with a positive mindset. 

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The author also charged those who are sidelined due to prejudice and bias to always look up to God who has always wrought wonders with those whom are seen as weak, low and without relevance (standards set by us humans from the point of hate and bias).

In suggesting the need for a positive attitude by those who are victimised,the author asserted that: it is worth reiterating that the place of attitude as it concerns moving from where you currently are to where you wish to be just can’t be overemphasized”. Part of the attitudes recommended by the author in ensuring that we are not conquered by negative “social tags” are courage-which will be our ability to conquer fear; open-mindedness-which will enable us to see changes and possibilities and act upon them; individuation-which accorded to the author is knowing that we are endowed by God with unique talents and harnessing them; and growth mindset- which will enable us to always seek to be better through practise and acquiring more skills.

The above recommendations are key in fighting the scourge of prejudice and biases.

In further proving that regardless of “The Nathanael Effect” one must have been subjected to experienced, the challenges those actions have posed, and the seemingly insurmountable threats we’ve faced, the author said that one need to have a great resolve and determination to make it beyond the challenges which when confronted, fades away. The seventh chapter was dedicated to the discuss of people and places that have stood firm against all odds life and people threw at them. The author talked about his own share of the prejudice, difficulties and negative tags which he and his likes had to bear simply because of their place of origin and the preconceived notion of their incivility and poor background, as well as their push for victory and success, regardless.

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He asserted that the truth is that there has never been a great story without its own share of challenges. So, they should be seen as a part of a process, and when passed lies greatness. He brought to our attention the stories of great people who Rose from poor and little beginnings into a great height that ordinarily no one would give them the chance to attain. A revelation on the lives and times of President Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Srinavasa Ramunujan and Professor Ayobami Ojebode were to spur is into positive efforts in getting to great heights. These great men had similar challenges as it relates to poor background and social setbacks but they did not waver, they had clarity of purpose, endured the process and Rose to prominence. The author also talked about places like Rwanda, Uganda, Dubai, Singapore and India. These places were largely underdeveloped, some were devastated by war, difference in tribes/ethnicities, religion and social configuration, and others were seemingly disadvantaged by nature. But they showed great commitment and rose above those setbacks and challenges.

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Conclusively, the author has chronologically and sequentially unravelled the problem of prejudice and bias in human living, the various ways they manifest, as well as the the effects they have on both the recipients and those who give such negative social tags.

This he achieved through telling relatable stories, simplifying ambiguous theories and postulating solutions to be used by those who are ill treated for healing and breakthrough, and to those who give such derogatory actions and words to help them  avoid such.

Indeed, this book is a great contribution to the overall efforts in making our world a better place to live in. This book is even made so remarkable because of its realistic, spiritual, social and scientific background of its contents.

I enjoin all of us to read this and put into action the beautiful submissions contained therein.

This is a book by Rev Fr Kingsley Oru, FJS. He is a Priest of the Catholic Church and has been dedicated to the preaching and teaching of spiritual growth, Social change and a happier world.

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Rev Fr Kingsley Oru, FJS

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Thank you so much!

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