Week 9 - Yufei Liu

When I was reading Connected Indigenous by Eric Ritskes, I immediately thought of the term reverse social engineering from ASA 002 I took last quarter. According to scholars, a reverse social engineering attack is “a person-to-person attack in which an attacker convinces the target that he or she has a problem or might have a certain problem in the future and that he, the attacker, is ready to help solve the problem.” It is basically how modern-day society suppresses people for their differences and denies their perspectives. To defeat this reverse social engineering, for example, Hmong women don’t believe in therapy because of their fortitude to preserve traditions, culture, and knowledge. People today are made to believe that they have all kinds of illnesses, including physical and mental. However, these illnesses sometimes can be a sign for spiritual awakening.

N/A. (2015, August 28). The Bear's Den-Raising the Spirit of Children in Care

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