Ppl in the west advocating collectivism over individualism often complain about everybody being against them. This seems incompatible.
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However, he lived in America & had a real problem with what he saw as its collective values in relation to gender roles & LGBT acceptance.
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Particularly, them being pushed on him by having to see and hear them everywhere & being criticised for his own views.
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He saw no contradiction between his own sense of being pressured into collective values & advocacy of this but in the form of Islam. V odd.
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I get this from very conservative Christians too but they don't usually quote Haidt.
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing your observations and thoughts.
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1/ Lemme suggest in a minor tweetstorm that you see this dynamic in big cities vs smaller cities in the US.
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2/ One of the things that gets you about the Midwest coming from say LA are the jerseys. On weekends everyone wears them.
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3/ What the coasts don't get about football is that it isn't a sport but a community identity. But way deeper than football...
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4/ In the city I live in, nearly the whole town seems to converge every week in the capital square.
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5/ It would be logistically impossible in a larger city.
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6/ Nevertheless these dumb events -- farmer's markets, 5ks, charity runs, whatever -- aren't what NYC thinks of as "culture"
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7/ It's community but not culture. Big cities define culture as what smaller communities don't have (arts, fashion, opera, etc)
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8/ And in big cities you get this individualistic sense of self-expression that replaces small town collectivism.
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