A lot of social advice amounts to “round problems down”. Live and let live, turn the other cheek, don’t take things personally, etc. If you avoid escalation, you avoid destructive feedback loops. The concept of microaggressions as endorsed by the modern left does the opposite.
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draft idea: lower status norms more likely to resemble honor culture, people raised low-status more likely to have belligerent responses to perceived slights as a locally-helpful behavioral adaptation that performs badly out of sample
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yes, I've noted you can hash out conflicts more honestly when poor.
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Positive aspect for sure! Although people raised with a given set of norms will usually be able to navigate those norms to communicate effectively I bet. Would guess problems mostly arrive when people try to work outside their native social languages, in any direction.
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from experience yea, I grew up poor and now navigate middle / middle upper sensibility
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not very well, mind.
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same, & can confirm all of the above
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