It turns out that the dividing line, at least within the Democratic Party, over people who are more optimistic about change, a little bit more collectivist in orientation, a bigger fan of free trade, and investment orientation of government happens to be college education. The more college educated you are, the more you tend to believe in this philosophy.
So what we are talking about here is not some utopian fantasy. It's not some collectivist dream on some grad school seminar on radical thought. It is a practical reality that we can point to and say this works in the real world, and in many cases it has outperformed offering, competing offerings
That's a great question. societies have to operate in a very tight collectivist fashion.
of the aftermath of the war. Folk art and the world view of the child demand to be seen as collectivist ways of thinking. And I was very interested that you have such an emphasis on play in your reception area, because it seems to me that connects quite--
And I grew up in a culture that said, it's a collectivist society, right? It's very hard. It's very collectivistic. Don't stand out too much.
That depicts it as something that's like a very personal need that you need specifically to be filled. But in the book, you propose a theory of curiosity that's fundamentally collectivist in nature. And I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how that could work.
And I grew up with-- my parents were immigrants and my in-laws were immigrants. And I grew up in a culture that said, it's a collectivist society, right? It's very hard. It's very collectivistic.
And the basic dream, as it has been articulated, is that China will once again become a strong, powerful, and prosperous nation. One of the most cliche things you can say about China is that it is a collectivist culture. This is a pet peeve of mine.
Our cooperation will consist not in sharing material goods but in respecting each other's property rights. And you can imagine tribes that differ in a lot of other ways as opposed to just being more individualist or more collectivist . Tribes are organized by different leaders.
Is it OK to be gay herder or whatever it is? All these tribes can differ in terms of the basic rules that organize their societies-- more collectivist , more individualistic, more intrusive into people's personal lives when it comes to things like sexuality or not.
So pride makes sense. But in cultures where that's not so important, collectivistic culture, more egalitarian societies, they probably don't have pride. And that's not what we found.
factors like how we live in community, are fundamental to seeing how loneliness impacts different cultures in different ways. There hasn't been much research into religion, nor has there been research into the differences between individualistic and collectivist cultures, or in the ways in which isolation plays out differently from loneliness and solitude.
That's a great question. I've only been to one of these countries, that being China, and China is broadly, from what I can tell, a happy collectivist country.
Thank you so much for being vulnerable and open to sharing your story with us. Yeah. The heritage, I think, is coming from societies like that, we've taught to be very collectivistic,
Thank you so much for being vulnerable and open to sharing your story with us. Kavika, .. Really, I think it's just that dynamic, is that in a collectivistic society, sometimes
about quote unquote what their experience was making it and actually working in the United States. Absolutely. If you have a style that is a little bit more quiet, if you're more collectivistic and you look to get buy-in