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2005-12-04 International-UN-NGOs

What Makes a Country Part of the Anglosphere?

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Posted by lotp 2005-12-04 07:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Psychobabble meets geopolitics. This deserves to be on page 5.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2005-12-04 07:28|| 2005-12-04 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Okay, it uses academic language. But it's not psychobabble. The concept of "power distance" for instance is a practical issue if you've ever tried to do business with an Indian from the Brahmin class (as I have). The disdain many Brahmins have for "lesser" people is breathtaking for most Americans, as is their willingness to treat others in a very self-serving and openly contemptuous way if they can get away with it -- as they can in their own culture. Not all Brahmin-caste people are like this, but many are and that's the history of the caste-based society there.

I support our outreach to India as a closer ally, but it's a big mistake to think that because we share a language we also share common values. We do, but only to a point. And that's the point of the series of articles at that site.

Posted by lotp 2005-12-04 07:39|| 2005-12-04 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Lotp, just where do non-Indians fit in the caste system? Read: Do Brahmins pull this sh*t on Americans???

(Self-serving -- well then how the hell is the caste system supposed to function in the long-term when the upper caste is encouraged to act on short-term impulse??? I know I'm off, so please tidy this up.)

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-12-04 10:50|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-12-04 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 An interesting read, but something looks off here:

"...the core Anglosphere nations of America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK have... moderately high masculinity ...China (and presumably other parts of the Sinosphere) has middling masculinity...Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and other nations of the Hispanosphere tend to have middling masculinity (Portugal and Brazil -- the Lusosphere -- are similar).

(Masculinity as defined in the article:..."males dominate a significant portion of the society and power structure, with females being controlled by male domination...")

The Index has a kink, I'd say.

Posted by jules 2 2005-12-04 12:00|| 2005-12-04 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Do Brahmins pull this sh*t on Americans???

A few tried it on me.

Re: the masculinity index, another way to interpret that category has to do with the valuation placed on traditionally 'masculine' roles and values: hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking (reflected in other ways in the Uncertainty category), objectivity (i.e. facts vs. feelings when making decisions and evaluations). Note that a culture or country can treat its women like sh*t and still not be very masculine in this sense. Many Arab countries fall into that latter category IMO.

Hispanic women, and Arab women in many places, wield significant power but it tends to be through indirect and often emotional manipulation rather than openly.

Posted by lotp 2005-12-04 12:13|| 2005-12-04 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually India's place in the Anglosphere is a topic of constant contention at that site. I've not noticed you commenting there, unless you have yet another nom d'guerre?

Posted by Jereque Elmeremp7377 2005-12-04 18:34|| 2005-12-04 18:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Looking for a little feedback here...are not Catholics considered Christian?

Posted by Canuck 2005-12-04 23:40|| 2005-12-04 23:40|| Front Page Top

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