Explained: Why we misunderstand strangers | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: Why we misunderstand strangers | Explained News, The Indian Express
By Express News Service |New Delhi |Published: September 10, 2019 12:32:47 pm

Explained: Why we misunderstand strangers

What made Chamberlain think he could trust Hitler? Or, for that matter, why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? American author Malcolm Gladwell addresses several such situations in his new book.

Malcolm Gladwell suggests that talking to strangers requires “a willingness to look beyond the stranger, and take time and place and context into account”. (Express Illustration)

In 1938, when Adolf Hitler placed German troops along the Czech border, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to meet the German leader to resolve the crisis.