Beic culture
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- Avisaru
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Are Pearce's numbers trustworthy? He seems to have strange ideas like western culture getting "older" in the 21st century.
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To know if his numbers are trustworthy, do you know his sources? If we can at least know where the raw numbers come from, we could base an educated interpretation on these.rotting ham wrote:Are Pearce's numbers trustworthy? He seems to have strange ideas like western culture getting "older" in the 21st century.
As for Western Civ getting older, we're not having enough children and we are living longer and longer, so he's right, for the most part.
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He doesn't cite his sources during the short interview. I'll have to borrow his book from the library to find out, so I was wondering if someone could corroborate his views. He's right about the falling fertility rates according to Wikipedia, but we knew that already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... ility_rateYiuel wrote:To know if his numbers are trustworthy, do you know his sources? If we can at least know where the raw numbers come from, we could base an educated interpretation on these.
That's true. Japan is already quite old in that sense, but I got the impression that he thinks western culture will become correspondingly older and wiser along with the aging population. I may be wrong about that. (he was probably joking)Yiuel wrote:As for Western Civ getting older, we're not having enough children and we are living longer and longer, so he's right, for the most part.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain
In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift. - Socrates
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Re: Beic culture
Half the internet has seen this by now, but that won't stop me from dumping it here anyway.zompist wrote:And it's hard to imagine that, even with very different socialization, women would commit as many sexual assaults as are found in traditional male-dominant societies.
Sexuality:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sexsurv.htm
http://www.livescience.com/health/06061 ... mages.html
Aggressiveness:
http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/ ... dp1254.pdf
http://psp.sagepub.com/content/20/1/34.abstract
Domestic violence:
http://www.physorg.com/news72113800.html
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
http://www.thepsychoexwife.com/2008/02/ ... rbowl.html
Links have been leeched from http://www.cracked.com/article_18760_6- ... -true.html and http://www.cracked.com/article_16241_th ... cs_p2.html for your convenience. Do other studies contradict this evidence?
I'd like to point out that even if every western stereotype about sex roles turns out to be a social construct, that in itself wouldn't make Beic culture less realistic. (ie. if zompist is reporting perceptions and not always dictating the objective truth) The Be might be conditioned for some of the same habits encouraged by western society.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain
In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift. - Socrates
In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift. - Socrates