Yesterday, I was talking to this part Navajo buddy of mine and an acquaintance of ours (who I like quite a bit) told us “his people” came over on the mayflower and were therefore “indigenous to NH” and I think my own feelings were a good lens to view Khabib v Conor through....
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“Dignity cultures” are great for producing high trust societies and maybe even material wellbeing but also for producing insufferable pricks who don’t even know how close they come to getting their chin buttons pushed on the reg.
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Yes. Except when it isn’t. Come to semi-rural New England to get the experiential distinction down.
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Sounds like you mean "pillars of society" type New England dignity?
When I think honor culture I think Jacksonian America or Yemeni tribals or Japan.
Dignity is a looser concept I think, since a version of it exists as social justice culture too.
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