Wisdom Summit Culture Breakout Room Discussion Summaries by https://padlet.com/wcl6/Bookmarks Share a few details about your breakout room conversation! en-us 2021-10-05 20:04:04 UTC 2025-11-02 02:41:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f989.png [sample post] wcl6 https://padlet.com/wcl6/Bookmarks/wish/1802766480 -agree with X
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- A finding in moral psychology is that individuals vary more in their moral beliefs than cultures do. In other words, cultures are more similar morally than they are different, although differences DO exist in aggregate.        
- Great deal of similarity across traditions, continuity between such as meditative practices, or the role of “wisemen” or religious leaders across cultures
-        The commonalities outweigh the differences
-        Differences draw people’s attention, but we also see more commonalities
-        There is value in looking for differences because you see different perspectives you may not be aware of, it will expand your view
-        Differences are eye-catching, what is common is usually assumed
-        Maybe different values of wisdom are emphasized differently
-        Clark’s the processes of the mind are not similar in each culture ARE a qualitative differences
-        Need for field research and measurable data
-        If there are cultural differences, the only way you’re going to know is if you really know the culture
Melody Manchi Chao, Mengxi (Vicki) Dong, Mark Trumble, Scott Danielson, Emma Buchtel
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 Nations have been questioned as meaningful units for analyzing culture due to their allegedly limited variance-capturing power and large internal heterogeneity. Against this skepticism, we argue that culture is by definition a collective phenomenon and focusing on individual differences contradicts the very concept of culture. Through the “miracle of aggregation,” we can eliminate random noise and arbitrary variation at the individual level in order to distill the central cultural tendencies of nations. Accordingly, we depict national culture as a gravitational field that socializes individuals into the orbit of a nation’s central cultural tendency. Even though individuals are also exposed to other gravitational forces, subcultures in turn gravitate within the limited orbit of their national culture. Using data from the World Values Survey, we show that individual values cluster in concentric circles around their nation’s cultural gravity center. We reveal the miracle of aggregation by demonstrating that nations capture the bulk of the variation in the individuals’ cultural values once they are aggregated into lower-level territorial units such as towns and sub-national regions. We visualize the gravitational force of national cultures by plotting various intra-national groups from five large countries that form distinct national clusters. Contrary to many scholars’ intuitions, alternative social aggregates, such as ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups, as well as diverse socio-demographic categories, add negligible explained variance to that already captured by nations. 

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