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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Culture 5 – The Whopping Effects of the Nonexistent Culture of Nations
While researching materials for the topic of the Culture of Nations, I discovered a very impressive book, one that I have now readily added to my Top Ten or More List of significant books (in this world there really needs … Continue reading
Posted in 16: Culture, Lessons from History
Tagged Added Value, and/and, behavior, behavioral markers, cultural relativism, culture, culture of nations, dependency theory, ethics, Hofstede, human nature, learning, life experience, negative sum game, parenting, politically correct, positive sum game, practiced behavior, professed behavior, regression to the cultural mean, rule of law, sleeper values, Toynbee, values, wealth, zero sum game
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Culture 5 – Fun with Flags, Parking Tickets, Saunas, and #Hashtags
The previous four posts (beginning here) sought to confirm that Nations do indeed have a Culture (a question somehow not yet resolved by either sociologists or historians) by looking at historical events, behaviors, and cultural sources for two not so … Continue reading
Posted in 16: Culture, Lessons from History
Tagged behavior, behavioral continuity, corruption index, cultural lenses, culture, fundamental principle, fundamental principles, parking tickets, practiced behavior, professed behavior, regression to the cultural mean, risk tolerance, stereotyping
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Road Signs and Blind Spots 