Group Process

I think a big concept from the reading is the one about having different ideas than what you put out in public. In chapter 50, many of the people were white supremacists, though they do not come right out and say it. It is not socially acceptable anymore to be a white supremacist, so many people keep it just in their family or community. I think that sometimes it is hard to speak up about your opinion, especially if the majority is against what you think. Sometimes if you change your mind mid way through they process, and people are starting to get into it, it is even harder to speak up.

I also think that chapter 18 talks about pre-conceptions. People like to think that their group's idea is the one that will be picked out of the others, and unintentionally we have our ideas about what the outcome should be. People tend to be dissapointed when the outcome isn't what they were expecting. It can be misconstrued sometimes that people aren't listening or taking in what is being said, just because there outcomes isn't what is expected.

Over all I think that process of deciding needs to be more strict and have a more rigid outline. Making the process more of a discuss than an argument and trying to prove whose idea is better.