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>It's incredible how similar Latin American corruption is across countries, I feel that every time I met another Latin American here in Europe/Sweden there's th
by iqanq 5y ago
>It's incredible how similar Latin American corruption is across countries, I feel that every time I met another Latin American here in Europe/Sweden there's this instantaneous bond on how fucked up our governments (and everyday corruption) are.
Catholic vs. protestant culture.
- mgh2 5y agoExactly: https://trendguardian.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22 https://trendguardian.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c... “Culture is religion externalized.” - Douglas Phillips
- brnt 5y agoThe main thing to understand about protestant culture is that it can afford a beter PR machine. Think 1984 vs Brave New World.
- cpursley 5y agoYep, same reasons Orthodox Christian countries are way behind. It's an uncomfortable topic, but Protestant dominant cultures are generally more equitable and less corrupt.
- pjscott 5y agoWhy is that? Your assertion looks shockingly true when I eyeball the map of percentage Catholic by country, but I can’t find anything in Catholicism itself that would cause this.
- iqanq 5y agoFor protestants work is the way to heaven. For catholics work is a punishment.
- mgh2 5y agoThere is that and other factors. Ex: "do not steal" is a tenet on both, but it is irrelevant if not obeyed from a personal to an institutional level. Scaled up and in aggregate, you have a country's culture. Not working is a way of "stealing your neighbor's labor" But now we may have an emerging problem in the US, the breakdown of Protestant values: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903457
- unmole 5y agoThat must be why Ireland is so hopelessly corrupt. Oh, wait.