Is this for Real? (1 Viewer)

[Farb]

I saw this late yesterday and thought it was fake. This morning I saw a couple of articles about it so maybe this is real although I saw one linked to the Smithsonian so maybe not real? This can't be real, right? If it is real, I don't even know where to begin.

https://news.yahoo.com/african-american-history-museum-publishes-194630602.html

 

[GMRfellowtraveller]

Yes, absolutely they are different in other cultures. I don't know about the label, "white" per se, but our attitudes towards time, completion of projects, defining "hard work" etc. are most definitely from the Calvinist tradition which took hold in the New England colonies well before the U.S. was founded.

Years ago I read a number of works by the cultural anthropologist Edward T. Hall who studied how different cultures view time and space. He coined the terms "proxemics", the study of the human use of space; "mono- and poly-chronic time", and low-context/high-context cultures. In the mid 1930's Hall spent a number of years living and working with the Hopi and Navajo Tribes, where he documented how tribal members would engage in multiple projects simultaneously, sometimes taking years to complete the construction of a house for example) an example of polychromic time). He contrasted that with the monochronic time of other cultures (including the dominant American culture), who thought in more linear terms of completing a project before moving on to the next.

Family units differ around the world. In fact, the nuclear family is only a very recent development. Living in extended families and family groups is not only more common today but was the dominant form historically.

ha. i read an *** ton of Edward T Hall in grad school - haven't thought much about him since (except every now and then an old passage will just pop in my head)
thanks for the memory jog