Comments on: we’re all doomed! http://inculture.com/insight/were-all-doomed/ We forecast, track and map trends which give you a true insight into the culture. Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:02:06 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: MLeconte http://inculture.com/insight/were-all-doomed/comment-page-1/#comment-11 MLeconte Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:07:49 +0000 http://inculture.com/?p=325#comment-11 Genuine? It depends! Reassuring? Yes! Especially in a setting where people would resent to “agree to disagree”. Needed? Yes: especially when the set of people involved is homogenous. The less tolerant an environment, the more normative behaviors will be encountered. You, (the writer), just happened to be outnumbered, this man and this woman were closer in age therefore of a different culture, (generation gap). That might have been precisely why they unconsciously chose to reaffirm their thoughts about the subject, erasing all doubts that their idea was cross cultural. The dynamics would have been very different if they were outnumbered. So was your behavior authentic? In this situation I would say yes. Yes, it is a paradox. Genuine? It depends! Reassuring? Yes! Especially in a setting where people would resent to “agree to disagree”. Needed? Yes: especially when the set of people involved is homogenous. The less tolerant an environment, the more normative behaviors will be encountered.

You, (the writer), just happened to be outnumbered, this man and this woman were closer in age therefore of a different culture, (generation gap). That might have been precisely why they unconsciously chose to reaffirm their thoughts about the subject, erasing all doubts that their idea was cross cultural. The dynamics would have been very different if they were outnumbered. So was your behavior authentic? In this situation I would say yes. Yes, it is a paradox.

]]> By: Rebecka http://inculture.com/insight/were-all-doomed/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Rebecka Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:43:18 +0000 http://inculture.com/?p=325#comment-10 The normative is the true way of making sense of the world around. I can imagine how the man and the woman would have felt unsecure if you started to talk about discourse instead of the crisis... The normative is the true way of making sense of the world around. I can imagine how the man and the woman would have felt unsecure if you started to talk about discourse instead of the crisis…

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