mudra wrote:The following comes from an article called " The Mandela effect: how minorities are changing the worlds " and is referring to Nelson Mandela himself.
The article is in french and I translated only bits of it here.
Quite interesting
The Mandela effect: how minorities are changing the world
Defend an idea, one against all, persevere in gradually gaining adherents, before winning: we can all be of Nelson Mandela on our scale, provided to understand the rules of social psychology that govern the relationship between the groups.
How a man alone against an established power, can it impose a political ideal that will change the situation in his country? This issue is all minorities seeking to move society in a different direction. A growing phenomenon, if we judge by some major historical changes that have been launched by groups or individuals initially being at a disadvantage.
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First rule: to believe in one's ideas
Minorities have a big disadvantage. They face widespread human tendency: to think in the direction of the mainstream. Placed face to a majority of people expressing the same view, we succumb willingly to mental shortcut "If most people think, it must be true. "If we happen to think differently, we carefully avoid to say. We often prefer to minimize divergences desire to belong to the group or for fear of being ridiculed or excluded.
In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch has dubbed this trend "means of compliance." In his experiments, one participant was placed in front of a screen that appeared vertical bars of different lengths. In it to assess whether each of the bars was presented shorter or longer than a reference bar. What he did not know was that the other participants sitting around him, and who were also asked these same questions were accomplices of the experimenter. Now these false participants expressed in some cases judgments in flagrant contradiction with the visual evidence. Placed in conflict with the majority opinion, the unfortunate then systematically thought it best to say the same thing the group, even if his eyes clearly told him otherwise ... 
http://www.cerveauetpsycho.fr/ewb_pages/a/article-l-effet-mandela-comment-les-minorites-changent-le-monde-36619.phpNow consider applying the above to " The mandela effect " that is being discussed here and which was started by one person Fiona Broome in 2010 as explained below. It's interesting to see the parallel although the purpose here is completely different.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-mandela-effectThe Mandela Effect was first described online in 2010, by a blogger named Fiona Broome. Broome described an experience at a convention called Dragon Con, where she discovered that others had a false memory similar to hers, which was that Nelson Mandela had died during his imprisonment in the 1980s.[1]
See, I thought Nelson Mandela died in prison. I thought I remembered it clearly, complete with news clips of his funeral, the mourning in South Africa, some rioting in cities, and the heartfelt speech by his widow.
Then, I found out he was still alive.
Fiona recounted discovering many widely held alternative memories, including those of Star Trek episodes that had never actually existed, and the death of the Reverend Billy Graham.
In 2012, another blogger named Reece, who wrote on the Blogger site Woodbetweenworlds, expressed a similar idea, but this time about the spelling of a popular children’s book series, The Berenstain Bears. [2]
And then I saw the book covers. The ones in the squiggly bubble letters from the childhood. The ones I saw a hundred times a month from the formative ages of 5 to 9. The ones that every 20-something in the world will tell you read “Berenstein Bears”.
Except they don’t read “Berenstein”. They read “Berenstain”.
Reece is a physicist, and he went on to describe a theory of the universe that would account for the Mandela Effect, based on a 4-dimensional universe.
I propose that the universe is a 4-dimensional complex manifold. If you don’t se habla math jargon, that means I propose the 3 space dimensions and the 1 time dimensions are actually in themselves complex, meaning they take values of the form a+ib, part “real” and part “imaginary”. Within this 4D manifold, there are sixteen hexadectants (like quadrants, but 16 of them), corresponding to whether we consider only the real or imaginary part of each of the four dimensions. In our particular hexadectant, the three space dimensions are real, and the time dimension is imaginary.
SpreadBoth the original post by Fiona Broome and by Reece have received hundreds of comments, and the Mandela Effect has received a significant amount of media attention, first by Buzzfeed in 2014 and then by many other media outlets in 2015, including Vice, The Onion A.V. Club, Seventeen Magazine, and WGN-TV. The reddit community /r/mandelaeffect was created in December of 2013, and has since grown to 5,163 readers; this area and the comments section of the Mandela Effect blog are where many users go to share their alternate group memories and seek out new ones.
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mudra
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Yes... the 'Mandela Effect'. It's just like a virus -- a group-think virus. That's one train I do not care to jump on board.
It's takes practice really but a very good and necessary exercise .
