how yes no 2
Junior Member
- Messages
- 863
- Reaction score
- 3
- Points
- 0
non-sense...
individualism / collectivism has nothing to do with genetics...it is entirely due to social environment of people e.g. culture and rulling ideology.....
clear example is difference between communism and capitalism oriented societies.... living in each will shape person to be more collectivist or more individualistic... this has nothing to do with genetics, as we can clearly see the change from collectivism to individualism in people living in countries that did recent transitions from communist to capitalist systems... one of issues that can be observed in this switch from collectivistic communism to individulalistic capitalism is decrease in moral values, and in friendlies to fellow people... on other hand most comunist societies were based on fear, so there is also advance towards being able to freely speak about anything and not being obsessed with reflecting how this or that will be understood by "higher authorities"....
I wouldnot be so rough on collectivism.... essentially, isn't a marriage and family kind of collectivism?
and to be honest, collectivism has some nice side-effects.. as people are much warmer to fellow people whom they see as part of same group....
essential problem with collectivism is when collectivism degenerates from uniting "for" some goal, towards uniting "against" some other group...that kind of collectivism needs enemies to survive... we see extreme of it in racism, nationalism, in religious and ideological fanatics e.g. in suicide terrorist...
claiming superiority of e.g. north Europe people or white people due to e.g. less degree of individualism, is also kind of degenerate type of collectivism as it reflects group oriented thinking with need to assign superiority to own group and draw self-esteem from that imagined superiority....