#individualistic culture

[unkstaarwysbr]

Balancing Growth and Respect: NBA's International Expansion Discussed

In a thought-provoking episode of The Straight Dope Show, El Uno and TraB delve into the NBA’s ambition to expand internationally and captivate a larger global fan base. However, they raise poignant questions surrounding the league’s approach, advocating for respect towards the existing international leagues, notably the esteemed Euroleague, renowned for its elevated brand of basketball and…

[uncanny-tranny]

Whenever people who are entrenched in diet culture talk about how terrible chemicals are, I just want to whip out this:

[stuckinapril]

so grateful to be a balanced mix of arab and american culture. the way american culture handles family is so fucking cold

[ink-asunder]

Furthermore, I think Dragon's Dogma's handling of the cult was actually really mature and ahead of its time. Yes, Elysian is a zealous man who wants power and destruction (you need at least one to form a cult). But it's repeated time and time again that most of Salvation's members are just regular people who sought out the cult in times of hardship, even when they didn't really believe in Elysian's teachings. For community, for comfort, for a purpose and a cause to dedicate yourself to because the world is so hard and so dangerous right now because of Grigori's coming.

It reflects the REAL nature of cults in the real world, which I wouldn't really expect from a low budget unfinished game, let alone media in general. Even movies and games today don't get it right 9 times out of 10.

[blanketforcas]

i know this is tumblr but it still surprises me how many people id as acespec. and it makes me wonder what (likely false) standard we use to measure our aceness with (same for arospec)

[jojotichakorn]

(not sure what this even is but @kinntheerapanyakul and @distant-screaming said i should post it, so blame them /j)

first name. last name. patronymic.

first name. last name. father’s name & suffix.

first name. last name. property of father.

you are at your graduation. the head of your faculty is giving a speech on stage. she is thanking your parents for raising you right. she is thanking your grandparents for raising your parents right. she doesn’t say anything about you. your accomplishments don’t exist. it doesn’t matter that your parents ruined you, that you graduated despite them - not because of them. she thanks them. she doesn’t even look at you. you are called on stage to get your diploma. you are called as first name, last name, property of father. never forget this isn’t really your accomplishment. it’s all them.

but how often will you even hear your last name? not a lot. you are in polite conversation. you are addressed as first name, property of father only. this is just how manners work here. you respond the same, you also call them first name, property of father. you size them up for a moment. what is their father like? do they also flinch every time they are addressed? is that also a fake smile?

you are talking about someone older than you. you are lost at impossible crossroads. they won’t hear you - you are talking about them, not with them, after all. but you are still trying to show respect. using their first name would be too familiar. using their last name would be impolite. using their first name and patronymic will feel like feeding someone the poison that you wish everyone else stopped feeding you. you have no other choice. you say it. first name, property of father.

you are at a job interview. “hello”, they say, “are you first name, property of father?” you nod. you are already nervous and you feel like you are being slapped every time they address you. they will say it at least fifteen times during your short conversation. first name, property of father.

you are a teacher. your students are all quite young. they ask for your name. you try to introduce yourself with your first name - you lie that you are trying to be modern, trying to be closer to them. they are uncomfortable. this is impolite. they could never call you that. you sigh. you say it. first name, property of father. they all write it down in their notebooks. they are very careful, writing your father’s name, writing the suffix that makes you his property. you will hear it fifty times a lesson. first name, property of father, what does this word mean in exercise seven? first name, property of father, what is our homework for tomorrow? first name, property of father.

you ask feminists - what do they think about this? surely, they can’t be happy they are walking around as a man’s property. they are glad you asked! before you can let out a sigh of relief, they suggest matronymics. empowering the women. you try it, already knowing what the result will be. first name, property of mother. it’s the same poison. you ask them - well, what about the girls? they don’t understand what you mean. the only problem is being owned by a man, not being owned by your parent. you are the property of your parents, after all. that’s normal. that’s our culture.

you suggest getting rid of them. first name, last name, isn’t that enough? they scoff. they say: you hate our culture, you disrespect our traditions, you are trying to ruin us with dirty western ideas. they say: stop talking, first name, property of father.

first name. last name. property of father.

first name. last name. property of father.

(first name), property of father

sometimes you feel like this is all you'll ever be.

[macbethz]

I’m not trying to encourage anyone not to do this but calling reps and similar action just feels so pointless to me right now. Our government does not listen to us

[cicadangel]

im studying for my ap psych exam and. does anyone have any notion on how ethnocentrism would relate to this scenario at all...

[tagaloak]

thinking about lo'ak at a timeline in which he was born and raised his entire life with the omatikaya clan, in the jungles of eywa'eveng. never traveling to the eastern sea. neteyam would naturally become the next olo’eyktan. it was expected. but where did that leave lo'ak? in order to step out of his family's shadow, lo'ak would have became an exceptionally clever tactician and warrior. learned as much as he could from his father, hoping to "think" like a marine and infiltrate their mindset. a "maverick," in his own right, he had the sense not to get swept up in such propagandized teachings and only felt that it was pragmatic to "fight fire with fire". eywa'ingyentsyìp, the other warriors called him; understood as eywa's trickster. by the time he passed his rites, he was proficient in various firearms, small-unit operations & reconnaissance, knife combat, and close combat. loyal to the omatikaya and his brother's success as the clan's inevitable leader, lo'ak was outwardly humorous and easygoing, always ready with a joke or a playful trick to brighten the mood. embracing his status as the "black sheep". sometimes he could be a "bad" influence on neteyam, enticing him to shed his responsibilities in favor of hunting, racing with pa'li (direhorses) or flying their ikran. a small boon from the life they had been born into. as a warrior with the unavoidable experiences of battles against the RDA, his sense of humor can turn dark. ruthless. for this reason, eywa's trickster is known as a fearsome "blue devil" among the RDA's mercenaries. the last thing enemies heard was his loud, orotund war cries as he set fire to their militarized outposts or raided their ordinance caches. he might even laugh, primarily as a scare tactic, utilizing methods of unconventional warfare.

[capriszn]

i think all my personal problems would vanish if the alternative to every systematic issue wasnt rooted in whiteness

[barnbridges]

networking is literally having tumblr mutuals, it shouldn't be that hard to comprehend.

[swamp-world]

like i think that we really really really need to actually gain the social literacy and compassion to understand that. not tipping your server isn’t praxis, but the fact that it’s expected that the customer pay the wage of the server also doesn’t mean that the customer (often also stiffed and a victim of wage theft) isn’t obligated to do so, and that while this is within our own economic system a great injustice and act of violence that needs to be rectified, it is in fact not the greatest injustice in the world and seeing people comparing getting screamed at for war crimes to not being tipped demonstrates a drastic lack of any sense of proportion. this is me speaking as both a service worker and someone engaged in organizing. let me be absolutely clear that I am not saying that not tipping your server is praxis. if you are able to tip i think that you should. i also think that “it’s the social contract in america to tip your server” needs to be read as “the structure has been built so that resisting it is tantamount to being a class traitor, and there are no winners in this situation”. i make less than 1k a month. tipping at 15% is straight up not viable all of the time if i want to pay rent. that’s not praxis, that’s me trying to keep a roof over my head, same as the service worker who i can’t always tip. so much analysis of this matter on social media tends to boil down to brute utilitarianism that causes further fragementation among the working class, and not for unjust reasons.

but just as not tipping my server isn’t praxis, tipping my server also isn’t praxis. not because it doesn’t help the individual (it does) but because it functionally validates the extant system in which the customer directly pays the wages. especially in the digital age: whereas cash tips are often considered nontaxable income, digital tips are administered as directly taxable income by the employer. when tips are paid out as wages i think it’s a little unfair to consider them to be “gratuities”.

again: not tipping isn’t praxis, but i wonder often about how many people who parrot this point are engaged in labour organizing or support in any way other than tipping. everyone deserves to be paid for their labour. but likewise, putting the onus on the working class customer to do so doesn’t actually help anyone except for the employer.

if you’re getting pissed at other working-class people for not tipping high numbers, especially impoverished and/or marginalized people, i hope that you are also engaged in literally any form at all, no matter how intense or dedicated, to any kind of action or organization that supports increasing minimum wage and shifting this responsibility from the customer to the employer (i.e. working class to owning class).

[wokeuplaughing]

I really hate the culture we're in there's so much happening all at once all the time and there's never a point where you can just stop to absorb it all and understand the true meaning behind it and the way it connects to other things because by the time you've done that it's hardly relevant to what is happening now and that's just on the scale of independent responsibility like you need to be aware of politics! world events! local events! films! shows! books! music! fashion! technology! it is all about consumption and you can only focus on so much on the primarily trivial aspects of society but it's impossible to be a renaissance man of consumption

[gillianthecat]

Does anyone have recommendations for nuanced books/articles about collectivist vs. individualist cultures? I believe there is something to the idea, but a lot of what I’ve seen about it seems reductive, in a way that borders on being racist. So I’m curious to see what sophisticated analysis is out there.

[arihi]

Holding an ambient dread in me today. There’s always the scramble to try and figure out what’s causing it for me, especially because I’ve got no internal monologue and I often have to talk out loud and in depth into every little thing that’s happened just to figure out why my feelings are the way they are.

Admittedly I can think of a few things, but they’re not particularly important in the long run. My tendency is to figure out why as if it’ll solve it, or so I can intellectualize the feelings away, but emotions are so rarely cut-and-clean addressed like that. Having been so preoccupied with my past in the past, or dreading the future, it’s grounding to settle down and have moments of silence in the present. I’m on the couch typing this on my phone, the sunset is shining down on my face, whereas usually I’d hate it I’m just letting myself sit in it. Once I’ve figured out a few potential causes, it’s not that important to dive deeper and think myself into anxiety spirals. It’s okay to have an idea of it, and not rationalize away how you’re feeling. It’s okay to feel off, sometimes.

[pitchlag]

Man I would love seeing more non-western readings of Houseki no Kuni