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@thefishcrow
social scientist does social experiement undermining white imperialism, and the older white anthropologists' feelings were hurt :(
'It is not just our Western habits and cultural preferences that are different from the rest of the world, it appears. The very way we think about ourselves and others—and even the way we perceive reality—makes us distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention from the vast majority of our ancestors.'
'Given the data, they concluded that social scientists could not possibly have picked a worse population from which to draw broad generalizations. Researchers had been doing the equivalent of studying penguins while believing that they were learning insights applicable to all birds.'
lol american society needs to burn
burn it down
we are the oddballs because we lack compassion, empathy, or ethos/ethics
'During our dinner, I admitted to Heine, Henrich, and Norenzayan that the idea that I can only perceive reality through a distorted cultural lens was unnerving.'
yea welcome to hell buddy
been here for a bit, get cozy
'The turn that Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan are asking social scientists to make is not an easy one: accounting for the influence of culture on cognition will be a herculean task.'
such a fucking whiner
its not a herculean task fucker
i cant read anymore of this, im too tired
ahhh i think...the uhh./... term i usually throw around is social programming>
folks are programmed
conditioned, also i guess?
@thefishcrow this is much more than just denying white imperialism.
@szbalint glad youre reading the article! ^_^
and yes, yes, yes
@thefishcrow The article doesn't really say that people's feelings were hurt, more that the authors expected more people's feelings to be hurt
@danielhglus Please don’t “well actually” me.
Thanks.
'The growing body of cross-cultural research that the three researchers were compiling suggested that the mind’s capacity to mold itself to cultural and environmental settings was far greater than had been assumed. The most interesting thing about cultures may not be in the observable things they do—the rituals, eating preferences, codes of behavior, and the like—but in the way they mold our most fundamental conscious and unconscious thinking and perception.