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Same question in a mirror: why some cultures promote phoniness and avoid true feelings? Actually I wonder why some cultures are prone to inflicting genocide.
by throw-away-8 9y ago
Same question in a mirror: why some cultures promote phoniness and avoid true feelings?
Actually I wonder why some cultures are prone to inflicting genocide.
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoPerhaps you are referring to some dictatorships, e.g. fascism in Italy, where people where expected to be cheerful and optimistic at all times and being gloomy or pessimistic was strongly discouraged by the government.
- throw-away-8 9y agoNice try but not at all: governments come and go while cultures have a much longer lifetime. Witness "grim and gloomy" russians under prescriptive eternally optimistic communist dictatorship. I think those folks that downvoted my comment had a different idea and, perhaps, felt it's too close to home for comfort.