it’s called FITTING IN. it’s annoying, i know, but conformity is required in a social species.
i often find that minorities are annoyed about things that a lot, or even most, people experience, they’re just not aware of it for whatever reasons.
when i lived in norway, i worked with a bunch of immigrants from south asia/mena, and they opened up to me at one point about…
…how discriminated against they felt ‘cause norwegians never talked to them (you know, no chit chat).
they were surprised when i explained that they don’t talk to ME, either! they don’t talk to each other, either! =P not in a chit-chatty, social sort of way.
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"It was difficult or downright impossible, many Chinese would argue, to remain silent during this campaign. To remain silent was to risk being attacked oneself. At best, people attacked to avoid being attacked." books.google.com/books?id=ShGfc…#StruggleSessions
"Of the true believers, many were convinced not only that struggle and violence were necessary for the achievement of revolutionary goals but also that the sacrifice of a few innocent people was the inevitable price to be paid." #StruggleSessionsbooks.google.com/books?id=ShGfc…
thread of threads/tweets of mine from 2019 i'd like to highlight. (^_^)
remember: evolution can be recent, rapid, local, and is ongoing. the forces of evolution are: mutation, selection, (gene) migration, and genetic drift. also, pop viscosity matters. 1/n
long thread on the communal field systems of medieval nw "core" europe. these pushed strongly for cooperation and conformity among comparatively unrelated, outbred nuclear families. [scroll up and down] 3/n
the fertility decline in modern europe began in france in ca. the 1830s and then spread to other nations *before* things like higher population density and higher urbanization existed and quite separately from the industrial revolution. nber.org/papers/w25957 h/t @Sam_Schulman!
fertility transition in france and cousin marriage in france (in the 20th century).
"Societies work best, and have always worked best, where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively with them for common goals, and thus share a civic culture." mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…
"Asians have a particularistic outlook, not a universalistic one." #Particularism
three features of common-field systems: 1) the open fields 2) practice of common pasture on the stubble and fallow 3) regulation of cropping, grazing, other farm management *by an assembly of cultivators.*
where communal field systems were found [hoffman, pg. 27]:
the communal field systems of nw "core" europe pushed strongly for cooperation and conformity. this among comparatively unrelated, outbred families remember. [hoffman, pg. 31 books.google.com/books?id=0pB9B…]: