>fat-shaming (or in a non-western culture - you'd probably just call it motivating people you care about to take care of themselves) "Fat-shaming", as it is no

>fat-shaming (or in a non-western culture - you'd probably just call it motivating people you care about to take care of themselves) "Fat-shaming", as it is normally understood, means telling someone they are a pile of lard / look disgusting / etc, which is hardly "motivating people you care to care about themselves. >It's part of the culture to feel shame for letting the group down and to shame others for letting the group down and all of that is taught culturally from the day you're born. This has its downsides. I'm all for a healthy balance between the conflicting sides of individualism/communality. This seems a tad unbalanced to the latter (just as American culture is far too unbalanced to the former). >Western individualism motivates people to feel fine being ostracized. Since Western culture has ostracised (or tortured, imprisoned, killed) people for the silliest reasons, that may not be such a bad thing.