120 episodes

Four Seas One Family focuses exclusively on adjustments to life overseas as an expat, immigrant or migrant. Learn from the insights our host and guests bring that will assist in constructing a clear understanding of how being a global citizen can help people from different backgrounds learn more about themselves and appreciate that we all have something to learn from each other.

Four Seas One Family James Thomas

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 9 Ratings

Four Seas One Family focuses exclusively on adjustments to life overseas as an expat, immigrant or migrant. Learn from the insights our host and guests bring that will assist in constructing a clear understanding of how being a global citizen can help people from different backgrounds learn more about themselves and appreciate that we all have something to learn from each other.

    How Content Creators Amplify Social Media Addiction

    How Content Creators Amplify Social Media Addiction

    • 10 min
    Is Critical Thinking a Forgotten Thought

    Is Critical Thinking a Forgotten Thought

    • 7 min
    Mob Mentality and Social Control

    Mob Mentality and Social Control

    #mob #mobmentaility #socialcontrol 
    The right to freely express opinions in democratic nations may unexpectedly become derailed and end up uniting those with related, and sometimes radical, views. Members of these groups may become evangelized and later begin propagating their beliefs or faith outside their sphere of influence. 
    Being a member or part of a community or group can amplify or exaggerate an individual's optimistic and pessimistic sense of security and pride. Is it possible that the commonalities that hold groups together in democratic societies become influenced or abused remotely by nefarious institutions, foundations, and, unsurprisingly, governments? 
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    • 9 min
    Self-Serving Bias in a Democracy (自利性偏差)

    Self-Serving Bias in a Democracy (自利性偏差)

    #selfservingbias #democracy #biased
    Observations and decisions promoted aggressively through corrupted one-way thinking and decision-making processes, which usually come from biased information networks, feed something called a self-serving bias.
    WHAT IS A SELF-SERVING BIAS?
    Self-Serving Bias: Definition and Examples
    https://www.simplypsychology.org/self-serving-bias.html
    What Is a Self-Serving Bias and What Are Some Examples of It?
    https://www.healthline.com/health/self-serving-bias
    Conspiratorial Beliefs and Cognitive Styles: An Integrated Look on Analytic Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Scientific Reasoning in Relation to (Dis)trust in Conspiracy Theories
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.736838/full
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    • 8 min
    Cognitive Dissonance in a Democracy

    Cognitive Dissonance in a Democracy

    #cognitivedissonance  #democracynow  #beliefsandsciences  
     Unfortunately, it takes some people an extremely long time to acknowledge that some of their beliefs, or ways of thinking, weren't carefully thought out or lacked objective reasoning. It may take a lot of honest self-reflection to rid themselves of beliefs that hold them back from seeing the world as it is instead of how they want it to be
    Cognitive dissonance: What to know
    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326738#definition
    Dissonance and Political Hypocrisy
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/bias-fundamentals/202010/dissonance-and-political-hypocrisy
    Could You Have a Fear of Politics or Politicophobia?
    https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-fear-of-politics-2671895
    ‘No to war!’: Anger over troop conscription rages in Russia
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/26/no-to-war-anger-over-troop-conscription-rages-in-russia
    Democratic Rights Popular Globally but Commitment to Them Not Always Strong
    https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/02/27/democratic-rights-popular-globally-but-commitment-to-them-not-always-strong/
    Million Maga March: Trump supporters protest in Washington
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CseAHBl-Sw
    Colorado Experience: KKK
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5PMbtF1t8
    Inside the New Ku Klux Klan (ABC)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzKRI7JbVk&t=120s
    It was a modern-day lynching: Violent deaths reflect a brutal American legacy
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/history-of-lynching-violent-deaths-reflect-brutal-american-legacy
    Tuskegee Syphilis Study
    https://wamu.org/story/21/02/16/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans/
    The Tuskegee Timeline
    https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
    Sand Creek Massacre
    https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/historyculture/index.htm
    The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horrific-sand-creek-massacre-will-be-forgotten-no-more-180953403/
    Japanese Internment Camps
    https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
    Japanese internment camps
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTioTkHcB0
    Internment of Japanese Americans
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
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    • 10 min
    Religion꞉ Democratic Nations Achilles Heel

    Religion꞉ Democratic Nations Achilles Heel

    From Protestant Supremacy to Christian Slavery
    https://www.aaihs.org/from-protestant...
    9 Devastating Actions White Enslavers Took to Convert Black People to Christianity
    https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/04/...
    https://earlyamericanists.com/2019/04...
    Underground Railroad
    https://www.history.com/topics/black-...
    Slave Bible
    Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands.
    https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/674995...
    Does the Bible Condone Slavery?
    https://preparedtoanswer.org/topics/f...
    The Bible that DID SUPPORT SLAVERY!
      
     • The Bible that DID SUPPORT SLAVERY!  
    Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion.
    https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/674995...
    The Revealer 
    (An opposing view of the Slave Bible)
    https://therevealer.org/the-slave-bib...
    Colonial enslavement of Native Americans included those who surrendered, too
    https://www.brown.edu/news/2017-02-15...
    Slavery and Religion
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery...
    Native American Enslavement in Colonial America
    https://www.worldhistory.org/article/...
    The Attraction of Idolatry
    https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/bl...
    Enslaved Africans weren’t the only ones who worshipped idols.
    “By the eve of the Civil War, Christianity had pervaded the slave community. Not all enslaved people were Christian, nor were all those who accepted Christianity members of a church, but the doctrines, symbols, and vision of life preached by Christianity were familiar to most.”
    https://www.christianitytoday.com/his...
    “Black Americans, once freed from slavery, were very active in forming their churches, most of them Baptist or Methodist, and giving their ministers moral and political leadership roles. In the process of self-segregation, practically all black Americans left white churches so that few racially integrated congregations remained (apart from some Catholic churches in Louisiana).”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...

    Bible Passages Removed
    https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970685...

    https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2019/...
    “Is this a case of government oppression or the Chinese church coming into its own? How to understand “sinicization.”
    https://www.christianitytoday.com/new...
    “Catholics want the church hierarchy in China to speak up and seek an apology for an offensive school textbook.”
    https://www.ucanews.com/news/chinese-...
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    • 12 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
9 Ratings

9 Ratings

KateSharetheLove ,

Great podcast with amazing inspirational stories from all around the world

I love James and his calm voice! He invites us to different parts of the world and has a great way of getting the best out of his amazing guests! Love it!

Karileed ,

Great stories!

This podcast is awesome. I love James’s personality - very fun and entertaining. He asks great questions and I love his guests and their stories. They offer a ton of useful and interesting information. Can’t wait for more!

JenniferZL1968 ,

Amazing stories!

I may be a bit biased, but I love to hear the first-hand accounts of other expats! James is a wonderful interviewer, and he creates a welcoming environment for the guests to tell their stories. Thanks James, and keep up the great work!

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