Post by Don on Aug 5, 2017 9:52:13 GMT -5
Hope for the future.
reason.com/blog/2017/08/04/individualism-increasing-across-the-worl
Regarding that last sentence, see also: why some collectivists hate material progress.
OTOH, having just spent a month on the Washington state peninsula, some areas are clearly regressing. I've noticed a number of depressing parallels between this trip and Robert Heinlein's observations in The USSR in 1960.
reason.com/blog/2017/08/04/individualism-increasing-across-the-worl
Individualism is rising across the world, according to a forthcoming study in Psychological Science by a team of Canadian and American psychologists who evaluated 51 years of data on individualistic practices and values across 77 countries.
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Not too surprisingly, socioeconomic development had by far the strongest effect, accounting for between 35 and 58 percent of the change in individualism.
"Thirty-four (out of 41) countries showed a substantial rise in individualist practices," note the authors. "Thirty-seven (out of 52) countries showed a similar rise on a subset of markers assessing individualist values."
The shift toward greater individualism is not confined just to developed countries. Overall, they find a 12 percent global shift on the axis toward increased individualism. The richer people become, the more likely they are to throw off the shackles of collectivism.
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Not too surprisingly, socioeconomic development had by far the strongest effect, accounting for between 35 and 58 percent of the change in individualism.
"Thirty-four (out of 41) countries showed a substantial rise in individualist practices," note the authors. "Thirty-seven (out of 52) countries showed a similar rise on a subset of markers assessing individualist values."
The shift toward greater individualism is not confined just to developed countries. Overall, they find a 12 percent global shift on the axis toward increased individualism. The richer people become, the more likely they are to throw off the shackles of collectivism.
OTOH, having just spent a month on the Washington state peninsula, some areas are clearly regressing. I've noticed a number of depressing parallels between this trip and Robert Heinlein's observations in The USSR in 1960.