"people are more complex than cultural caricatures. You can’t just map behaviors onto someone because of where they’re from. Understanding generational differences, personality, and professional context matters just as much, if not more, than making broad cultural assumptions."
But the rest of this article literally does nothing but make broad cultural assumptions
Many cultural assumptions are accurate on average, at the population level. It's nevertheless important to remember that they're mostly uninformative regarding individuals.
This is an article about population level statistics.
What's the alternative? I strongly doubt there are large population level differences in intelligence/whatever you want to call what is needed to succeed, which leaves culture and geography/population distribution. They are talking about south asians outperforming indexed against east asians so that eliminates geography/population distribution mostly. The only thing left is culture.
I hate this line of thinking. The truth is in the middle - you can and should do generalisations because patterns do exist in real life. Indians do behave meaningfully differently than other races. And it is okay to notice those differences.
There's a new trend to oppose any pattern finding in races. The retort is always "we are so diverse that no pattern exists at all". I don't agree at all.
So averages and social dynamics map exactly to individuals?
"Race" is so undefined it's just silly to argue about. We are tremendously more similar than different. We have a visual bias, so a difference in skin color will dominate all other similarities. Then we go and theorize about other differences when we start our division from this arbitrary difference. This is lazy thinking. And a lot of the time is used for hate mongering against some "other".
Of course cultures have different set of values, and this influences the aggregate decisions of the individuals, but taking the next step and forecasting and analyzing a single individual by projecting sociatal bias on them is dehumanizing, and as recent history taught us, is dangerous.
Filligree|6 months ago
This is an article about population level statistics.
snapplebobapple|6 months ago
simianwords|6 months ago
There's a new trend to oppose any pattern finding in races. The retort is always "we are so diverse that no pattern exists at all". I don't agree at all.
mola|6 months ago
"Race" is so undefined it's just silly to argue about. We are tremendously more similar than different. We have a visual bias, so a difference in skin color will dominate all other similarities. Then we go and theorize about other differences when we start our division from this arbitrary difference. This is lazy thinking. And a lot of the time is used for hate mongering against some "other".
Of course cultures have different set of values, and this influences the aggregate decisions of the individuals, but taking the next step and forecasting and analyzing a single individual by projecting sociatal bias on them is dehumanizing, and as recent history taught us, is dangerous.
unknown|6 months ago
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