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The Ghost of a Flea12/19/2012 1:41:52 pm PST

re: #73 researchok

In the same way anyone who brushes away the widely accepted ideas of shame and guilt cultures as being ‘shallow’?

Is accepting that also advocating ‘one single mindset’?

I don’t believe that is the case.

Widely accepted by who?

That’s anthropology from, like, seventy years ago. It’s been discarded by the field for being too simplistic because most societies using interlashings of guilt and shame, often with internal variance depending on social proximity.

The old school “this is a shame society, this is a guilt society” thing is due a great of criticism since it was strongly bound up in Westerner academics contrasting “more civilized” Europe with “Oriental despotic” Asia.