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What do you mean by high/low compliance?

AdamN 5y ago
Meaning it's more acceptable to not comply with cultural standards: i.e. keep standard hours, have a job, not marry/have kids, or whatever else the standards of behavior are. I'm not convinced though that developing countries are actually lower compliance but that's what the OP means.
- watwut 5y ago
  It heavily depends on what exactly are you supposed to be compliant with. As in, developing countries tend to be less organized with all kind of rules being broken routinely. With people used to dysfunction, bad service, disorganization, bad behavior. In a lot of ways, it is more tolerant of faults, because developed word demands perfection. But then, when it turns bad it can be really bad. And it is not tolerant of everything, many freedoms and choices acceptable in developed word are treated with massive hostility.
- kzrdude 5y ago
  Clearly, there's a lot of variation inside a country too. I'm thinking urban vs. rural but you can probably point out more specific ways it differs. Maybe it's even possible to think of this on a class level? Certain upper middle class societies being very strict about how you should organize your life to conform.
  - mr_toad 5y ago
    Small rural communities and the upper echelons of society seem to be closely knit. My guess is that the relative anonymity of the urban masses affords more opportunities to avoid social opprobrium.
    - kzrdude 5y ago
      Well, i was thinking differently. Rural communities can also be a place to make your own life and have less pressure to conform, or have a career
- topspin 5y ago
  > I'm not convinced though that developing countries are actually lower compliance They aren't, and there is far less opportunity to escape compliance. Deviation is an exclusive privilege of the prevailing strong men. Everyone else tows the community line and occupies their time scrutinizing precisely how well others are towing it as well. The romantic fiction that there is some great liberty in such places is a form of noble savage fantasy that emerges among those that have fully inculcated the contempt for their own culture they were trained to have.
jarito 5y ago
Not the OP, but I assume they mean the requirement by society on how well individuals conform to the expectations of that society. In high compliance societies, individuals are ostracized / punished for non-conformance - think atheists in a religious society. In low conformance societies, individuals are able to maintain a high level of privacy or society is more tolerant of divergence.

Meaning it's more acceptable to not comply with cultural standards: i.e. keep standard hours, have a job, not marry/have kids, or whatever else the standards of behavior are. I'm not convinced though that developing countries are actually lower compliance but that's what the OP means.

watwut 5y ago
It heavily depends on what exactly are you supposed to be compliant with. As in, developing countries tend to be less organized with all kind of rules being broken routinely. With people used to dysfunction, bad service, disorganization, bad behavior. In a lot of ways, it is more tolerant of faults, because developed word demands perfection. But then, when it turns bad it can be really bad. And it is not tolerant of everything, many freedoms and choices acceptable in developed word are treated with massive hostility.
kzrdude 5y ago
Clearly, there's a lot of variation inside a country too. I'm thinking urban vs. rural but you can probably point out more specific ways it differs. Maybe it's even possible to think of this on a class level? Certain upper middle class societies being very strict about how you should organize your life to conform.
- mr_toad 5y ago
  Small rural communities and the upper echelons of society seem to be closely knit. My guess is that the relative anonymity of the urban masses affords more opportunities to avoid social opprobrium.
  - kzrdude 5y ago
    Well, i was thinking differently. Rural communities can also be a place to make your own life and have less pressure to conform, or have a career
topspin 5y ago
> I'm not convinced though that developing countries are actually lower compliance They aren't, and there is far less opportunity to escape compliance. Deviation is an exclusive privilege of the prevailing strong men. Everyone else tows the community line and occupies their time scrutinizing precisely how well others are towing it as well. The romantic fiction that there is some great liberty in such places is a form of noble savage fantasy that emerges among those that have fully inculcated the contempt for their own culture they were trained to have.

jarito 5y ago

Not the OP, but I assume they mean the requirement by society on how well individuals conform to the expectations of that society. In high compliance societies, individuals are ostracized / punished for non-conformance - think atheists in a religious society. In low conformance societies, individuals are able to maintain a high level of privacy or society is more tolerant of divergence.