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102 - Meet the Hosts: Joseph Outa's Journey Into Science Communication

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The Similarity of Humans in Western Cultures

In Kenya, we don't even have Democrats and Republicans. And so it's this is a very sort of American way of thinking about things. So there are little things like that. When any kind of research is done on populations that are not Western, the scope of generalization is restricted to only that population. This is all about how economic decisions are made by the whatever hunter-gatherer tribe. But then if it's studied on a Western population, then it's like, oh, you know, the generalization is made to all humans.

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