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The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469 Replay)

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How Does Confederacy Affect Us?

Heton hosted is a professor of artificial sociality at wahningen university in the netherlands. His late father devised a system to rank countries on several dimensions, including their level of individualism versus collectivism. In an individualistic society, a person is like an atom in a gas it can freely float about. The best thing you can become yourself was i did it my way. This man has proof of our individualism. We may not be the very loosest culture, but we are number one in individualism. Which doesn't mean egoism, but it could go that way.

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