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Maybe something like this? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minority-report/201406/asian-shame-and-honor https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minorit
by buth_lika 8y ago
Maybe 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.