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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
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1 posted on 07/03/2014 5:09:24 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Yup, the further you are from islam... the better are your prospects of living.


2 posted on 07/03/2014 5:12:07 AM PDT by SIRTRIS
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To: blam

Poland squeezed in among the Asians ?


3 posted on 07/03/2014 5:14:15 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: blam

What happened to Poland?


4 posted on 07/03/2014 5:15:30 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: blam

I guess Israel didn’t make the cut.


5 posted on 07/03/2014 5:21:07 AM PDT by cong. dance leader
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To: skeeter
Like Hitler, Putin took it.

6 posted on 07/03/2014 5:22:51 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Jihadist/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: blam
Not to be party pooper but...many of the religions, and indeed the countries, on this chart are only in existence today because of the influence the USA and its nuclear umbrella. Without The United States, this chart would be very different and simpler.
7 posted on 07/03/2014 5:24:03 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: cong. dance leader; All
Might be influenced by the German coauthor? ..Jordan is there.
The Jordanian Pali-Arabs are rejoicing.

8 posted on 07/03/2014 5:28:33 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Jihadist/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: blam

bfl


9 posted on 07/03/2014 5:34:16 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: SIRTRIS

We should sent Muslims to another planet so everyone will have a better changpce of living.


10 posted on 07/03/2014 5:35:45 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: skeeter

What happened to Poland?.... its history. Poland has been a dismembered (prior to ww 1) and occupied (after ww 2).This would bias toward the “survival” aspect. Its national identity is very strongly tied to its religion — Traditional Roman Catholic — to bias toward “traditional” aspect.


11 posted on 07/03/2014 5:36:48 AM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: blam

What’s going on with it is that the ordinate axes are solely subjective criteria. In the subjective context, they are subject to the interpretation of the chart’s creator.


12 posted on 07/03/2014 5:45:23 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: blam

The first thing I noticed is that they misspelled “Marocco” and “Danmark.” Not an inducement to credibility ...


13 posted on 07/03/2014 5:46:17 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: knarf; skeeter

Poland has had an interesting history, being a land athwart a natural major invasion route with no natural defensible borders. It does not surprise me they are unlike their neighbors.


14 posted on 07/03/2014 5:49:30 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: IronJack
(ahem) Marocco
15 posted on 07/03/2014 5:59:38 AM PDT by blam
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To: Gaffer
Are you sure about that?

If they asked, "On a scale of 1 to 10, how strongly to you believe in a creator who influences events in the world?" or "On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to base an important decision on what you feel is right in God's eyes?" or "How often do you go to church?"

These would seem like objective measures of Secular-Rational Values and Traditional values. No?

16 posted on 07/03/2014 6:04:21 AM PDT by nitzy
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Well, maybe if you were to believe the personal interpretations of each respondent. In the end, though, the answers are not ‘fact’ but interpretations and feelings.

I guess what bothers me most about the whole graph being subjective is the term “Secular-Rational” values vs. “Traditional” values as if the former were the preferable because it is rational.

To me, it seems more humanistic even though some of the questions were related to belief in God, etc.


17 posted on 07/03/2014 6:11:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: blam

My interpretation: Sweden is the gayest country.


18 posted on 07/03/2014 6:14:14 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Gaffer
If they are attempting to paint a picture of the cultural differences between countries they have to find some way to categorize beliefs and values. While I admit that mind reading and truth serum would probably render more accurate results, that may be difficult to do. Ultimately, surveys of "interpretations and feelings" are going to be the best bet. You may not like the Rational/Secular vs Traditional label but I imagine that is probably an area which is widely different between different cultures and a good thing to measure. I think you are reading too much into it to assume one is preferable over the other.

They could simply say, "Measuring and categorizing culture it too difficult. We give up." I for one am glad they attempted it. I find it very interesting and being that we live in a global society where national political boundaries are having less meaning I think understanding cultural boundaries is going to be very important going forward.

I am accused by my liberal friends and relatives of being a racist and I say I am not. I am a proud "culturalist". I don't believe that any race is superior to any others but I do believe that certain cultures are superior to others.

19 posted on 07/03/2014 7:01:36 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: Gaffer

It’s not perfect, but that’s a really interesting chart, and mostly pretty accurate.


20 posted on 07/03/2014 7:04:06 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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