A very interesting article. I wonder if this affects Whistleblowers? After all, blowing the whistle or reporting wrong in many ways is a very individual action that often affects many others. Sometimes it can be an action that is not fully thought out; it can be impulsive, driven by a personal sense of right vs. wrong, rather than by how it will affect society writ large.
That’s a great question. I don’t know, but I find it difficult to believe that collectivist cultures have whistleblowers, at least not in the Western sense. Worthy of some investigation.
i am very interested in these obviously very different traits in many Americans that divides them from other cultures. i find these observations to be correct also in places like Australia and to some extend the UK. I do wonder about the demographic set-up and their development alongside historic development of their geographic and political sites. Are there any ideas or studies? Are there any socio-historic studies on what kind of demographic left their countries of origin for these places and is there a psycho-sociologic synchronicity, that can be traced. I often think of a kind of "breeding" situation in relatively closed environments, where social subgroups with certain neurodiverse personalities concentrated. this might sound dangerously close to racial thinking, but it is not meant this way. i really just mean that maybe this particular angle of view could be taken, within a nuanced approach. like there can be a certain correlation between autistic traits in people who work in information science and computing. a very specific skill set in a majority of people in this profession.
Why is American culture so focused on the individual and is it healthy? Clearly it is not healthy .... there may, in fact, be an epidemic of narcissism here. Possible causes: not enough teaching or cultural emphasis on "self & others" dynamic. Also, an over-emphasis on car culture puts each individual in a capsule "doing battle" with others on American roads. Try taking a train.
I agree individualism is not healthy as it is expressed in the U.S. and yes, it is extremely isolating. These are reinforcing mechanisms that have spiraled the American culture into its current individualism problem.
A very interesting article. I wonder if this affects Whistleblowers? After all, blowing the whistle or reporting wrong in many ways is a very individual action that often affects many others. Sometimes it can be an action that is not fully thought out; it can be impulsive, driven by a personal sense of right vs. wrong, rather than by how it will affect society writ large.
That’s a great question. I don’t know, but I find it difficult to believe that collectivist cultures have whistleblowers, at least not in the Western sense. Worthy of some investigation.
i am very interested in these obviously very different traits in many Americans that divides them from other cultures. i find these observations to be correct also in places like Australia and to some extend the UK. I do wonder about the demographic set-up and their development alongside historic development of their geographic and political sites. Are there any ideas or studies? Are there any socio-historic studies on what kind of demographic left their countries of origin for these places and is there a psycho-sociologic synchronicity, that can be traced. I often think of a kind of "breeding" situation in relatively closed environments, where social subgroups with certain neurodiverse personalities concentrated. this might sound dangerously close to racial thinking, but it is not meant this way. i really just mean that maybe this particular angle of view could be taken, within a nuanced approach. like there can be a certain correlation between autistic traits in people who work in information science and computing. a very specific skill set in a majority of people in this profession.
Why is American culture so focused on the individual and is it healthy? Clearly it is not healthy .... there may, in fact, be an epidemic of narcissism here. Possible causes: not enough teaching or cultural emphasis on "self & others" dynamic. Also, an over-emphasis on car culture puts each individual in a capsule "doing battle" with others on American roads. Try taking a train.
I agree individualism is not healthy as it is expressed in the U.S. and yes, it is extremely isolating. These are reinforcing mechanisms that have spiraled the American culture into its current individualism problem.