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What exactly do you mean by societal dysfunction? Or is it like pornography: you know it when you see it.
by darkerside 8y ago
What exactly do you mean by societal dysfunction? Or is it like pornography: you know it when you see it.
- buth_lika 8y agoMaybe something like this? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minority-report/201406/asian-shame-and-honor https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minority-report/2014... > in shame-based cultures, public humiliation, scorn, or censure are relied upon more heavily to keep individuals in obedience whereas the western notion of guilt and corrective behaviors comes from an individual’s development of an internal conscience.
- WalterSear 8y agoSure. Or Midwestern culture's mix of religosity, conformist individualism and confirmation bias, and the resultant suicide and opioid addiction epidemic.
- buth_lika 8y agoI'd like to see the studies about "conformist individualism and confirmation bias". Surely that wasn'n just a kneejerk "I know you are, but what am I" reaction.
- WalterSear 8y agoI'm neither from the midwest, or a shame-based culture, though, I have immediate in-law family from both, and relatives I visit, obviously. Check the NIH for studies, though the bulk of the literature is behind the academic paywall.
- WalterSear 8y agoI'm not using the phrase with any formality, I was just trying to find a term that encompassed every situation where people behaved according to publicly acknowledge social scripts, and suffered as a result. So, any situation where dictates of a society creates a suboptimal social interaction could be considered a social dysfunction?