Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

This Chart Explains Every Culture In The World
BI ^ | 7-2-2014 | Christina Sterbenz

Posted on 07/03/2014 5:09:24 AM PDT by blam

Christina Sterbenz
July 3, 2014

Cultures are complicated, and anyone attempting to explain or group them will struggle to avoid giving offense.

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Christian Welzel of Luephana University in Germany put forth their best effort by analyzing data and plotting countries on a "culture map." Their system stems from the World Values Survey (WVS), the largest"non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed," which dates back to 1981 and includes nearly 400,000 respondents from 100 countries.

The latest chart, published several years ago, includes data from surveys conducted from 1995 to 1999, 2000 to 2004, and 2005 to 2009.

Check it out:

Inglehart World Values Map Wikimedia Commons

So what's going on in this chart?

(snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; culture; europe; map
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last
To: canuck_conservative

Maybe, subject to one’s interpretations of the meanings.


21 posted on 07/03/2014 7:05:45 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Oratam

Yet Sweden is the capitol of the world for Muslim rape against Westerners.


22 posted on 07/03/2014 7:06:36 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: nitzy

“Cultural differences” is a term used by liberals to describe their differences with traditionalists. When they speak of problems with traditionalists, they actually mean race-haters, bigots and those opposed to horribly deformed liberaldom.

Sociology is not a science. It is interpretation and conjecture of supposed empirical data that is not tainted. Formulas, algorithms, tenets and beliefs derived therefrom are nothing more than one would find on Facebook or Twitter. Just because some to the tenets are widely expressed there does not make it ‘science’, and trying to put it in a graph that represents actual untainted data is crap.


23 posted on 07/03/2014 7:11:36 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: blam
a)Iraq rates higher than the US or Ireland on the "Secular-Rational" axis?

b) Ethiopia is not Islamic c) It's interesting to me that the US, Poland and Ireland are on similar points of the "Secular Rational" scale.

d) It's also interesting that all the Anglophone countries rate lower on the "Secular-Rational" scale but highest on freedom of expression. Perhaps it should be re-named the "Pseudo-Secular Rational" scale, because the Nordic countries enforce PC bull--- with a religious fervor.

24 posted on 07/03/2014 7:12:14 AM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blam

In my days of college engineering, a graph/envelope that looks like some of the constituent groups contained in this graph would be most closely described as “discontinuous”, “doubly discontinuous” and “triply discontinuous. In an engineering science based vein, this smacks of manipulation and interpretation of data that do no follow normal rules of physics.


25 posted on 07/03/2014 7:19:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cong. dance leader

To most liberal academics Israel doesn’t exist. Of course to most liberal academics God doesn’t exist.

CC


26 posted on 07/03/2014 7:42:41 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: FreedomPoster; knarf

Probably reflects the depths of faith among Poles.


27 posted on 07/03/2014 7:45:31 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: cong. dance leader

I noted that, too.


28 posted on 07/03/2014 7:46:05 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer
Sociology is not a science

It may not be an exact science like math where there is a definitive unchanging answer because people's beliefs and behavior are not definitive and unchanging. It may not be a science that you find useful but it can certainly be a "science" nonetheless. (studying and categorizing societies or cultures in this case). Granted, you can't say that everyone who lives in the countries listed holds the views described by the axes. However, if you go to Ghana and ask a random person questions about their "traditional/secular" beliefs mentioned in the article, how likely do you think they will give an answer that falls in line with the graph?

TAHDAAAAHH...SCIENCE

As our country is inundated with people from other nations and cultures and people from different cultures are migrating into new geographical areas (Europe), I think it is important to understand some of the differences between the cultures. Not so that we can accommodate them but so that we know what we are in for.

It seems that you are either denying that different groups of people have these differences or you are being obtuse as to the impact that these differences have. It sounds like you are saying, "We will never have an exact knowledge of the differences in societies and cultures so there is no point in even trying to understand them at all."

I may believe that different axes might be more useful (views on civic involvement, views on class mobility, views on liberty and property rights, views on the legitimate use of force against others) but I also acknowledge that views on God, family, security and self expression are important too. Liberals use the term "rights" and have contorted it's meaning. Does this mean that conservatives shouldn't care about rights?

29 posted on 07/03/2014 8:16:09 AM PDT by nitzy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: nitzy

Conjecture about actions of ‘proof’ that have not occurred.

All a sane person need do is to look at Poland’s inclusion in a blob subset like a Gerrymandered political district and realize something isn’t right here.


30 posted on 07/03/2014 8:18:18 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: blam
It would be interesting to ask the same questions of different geographic areas within the United States and compare them to the rest of the world.

They always say, "If Texas was a country it would have a higher GDP than...." I would like to see a study that said, If Philadelphia was a country it would have a culture similar to....." or "If southern (Appalachian) Ohio was a country it would have a culture similar to....."

31 posted on 07/03/2014 8:30:11 AM PDT by nitzy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Straight Vermonter; knarf

That’s the vertical axis component, them being further down than many cultural & geographic neighbors. The horizontal axis component, being further to the survival side of the chart, would be driven more by what I identified.


32 posted on 07/03/2014 8:49:45 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer
I think you are misunderstanding what the colored areas mean and how to read the graph. The points where the countries fall on the graph are based on objective empirical data from the answers to the surveys. The colored blobs are just the way that the researchers tried to group countries together for ease of understanding. Also, as someone else mentioned, Ethiopia is not officially a muslim country but is listed with the Islamic countries. "Islamic" was a pretty good way of grouping and describing that section of the graph.

The researchers were pointing out the interesting fact that the Protestant European countries seemed to all answer the questions in the same way and the Catholic European countries were a little bit different and so on. I don't think they even gave a name to the green group in the middle because there was no interesting characteristic that they all shared. They included Poland in the Catholic European blob because it is a Catholic European country and according to the data their cultural views were relatively close to the other Catholic European countries. It would be an interesting follow up study to see if they can find out why this one Catholic European country is "Gerrymandered" so far out from the others. I can't find Portugal on the graph but because I know they are a Catholic European country I can predict what general area of the graph their answers would fall into. That is a hypothesis not conjecture.

So to sum up, I would say that the location of the countries on the graph is scientific. The boundaries of the colored area is a less scientific, general interpretation of the data.

33 posted on 07/03/2014 9:45:19 AM PDT by nitzy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: nitzy

I don’t care what you say and explain, there is nothing scientific or explainable about how Poland fits in that group to which it is assigned. The ONLY similar condition I’ve seen in graphs are those that indicate Gerrymandered Political districts.

This whole thing is just not worth discussing anymore. I don’t have anything vested in it other than a willing suspension of disbelief.


34 posted on 07/03/2014 9:51:47 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer
there is nothing scientific or explainable about how Poland fits in that group to which it is assigned

Per Wikipedia...

"Poland is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south...

....in 2007, 88.4% of the population belonged to the Catholic Church"

Seems like a scientific, explainable reason for including them in the same colored blob as the other Catholic European nations.

35 posted on 07/03/2014 10:00:59 AM PDT by nitzy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: blam
Here's a cool one for problem solving around the world.

Problem Solving Around the World

36 posted on 07/03/2014 11:03:45 AM PDT by Fear The People (When the government fears the people, you have LIBERTY.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Bfl


37 posted on 07/03/2014 4:24:46 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson