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Individualism-Collectivism
A conceptual discussion of Individualism and Collectivism with particular attention to how these cultural orientations might affect intercultural communication. Photographs from several different countries including India, Chile and Guatemala are used as backdrop..
Length: 211
Rating: 3.70 (18 ratings)
Tags: Individualism Collectivism culture Intercultural Communication concept Sunsilvercat
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-DVD Version: INTRO - Individualism vs Collectivism
The True Debate of Our Time.
***NEW DVD Version***
An animated series exploring the substance behind the political terminology used in contemporary debates.
The research of Mr G Edward Griffin reveals how all viewpoints can be stripped down to 2 basic positions.
Discover how the different approaches of Collectivism and Individualism impact on all aspects of our lives, from human rights, governmental authority and the use of force.
#INTRO
#P1. The Nature and Origin of Human Rights
#P2. Group Supremacy
#P3. Coercion vs Freedom
#P4. Equality and Inequality under the Law
#P5. Proper Role ofGovernment
www.freedomforceinternational.org
Length: 318
Rating: 5.00 (42 ratings)
Tags: Individualism Collectivism animation ron paul libertarian socialism edward griffin government intro stopandlook liberty
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G. Edward Griffin- On Individualism v Collectivism #1
PARTI 1 of 4 Interview of G. Edward Griffin on the meaning of individualsim vs. collectivism in the United States.
Let's re-learn the true nature of a constitutional republic, our culture and our birthright.
Know that any member of the Council of Foreign Relations CFR is prone to supporting COLLECTIVISM not individualism.
Vote for Ron Paul for President 08. Our last remaining hope for a solution to socialism, captivity, slavery and sloth.
Length: 434
Rating: 4.90 (95 ratings)
Tags: Ron Paul ronpaul griffin individualism constitution republic collectivism socialism communism
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Charles Tilly interview: individualism and cognitive science
Part of interview with Charles Tilly by Daniel Little. December 15, 2007 at University of Michigan - Dearborn. Topic: individuals and social action; cognitive science
Length: 310
Rating: 4.70 (7 ratings)
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Jean Piaget Education, Ethnicity and Individualism
There is less psychology damage to students with Piaget methods that allow the individual to create from their own neighborhood and ancestry. As opposed to dictated diversity favoring a few groups that ignores the individual. Since Piaget is based on inquiry and reflecting, the reflecting will be that of the individuals social, economic and cultural background. Real Piaget outcomes are not a reflection of any imposed cultural favoritism existing at the moment.
Length: 321
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Individualism vs group think
Why is it important to think as an individual?
I didn't realize my camera put an advertisement on the end. damn.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul381.html
Government and Racism
by Ron Paul
The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.
The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It's disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism.
It's also disconcerting to hear the subtle or not-so-subtle threats against free speech. Since the FCC regulates airwaves and grants broadcast licenses, we're told it's proper for government to forbid certain kinds of insulting or offensive speech in the name of racial and social tolerance. Never mind the 1st Amendment, which states unequivocally that, "Congress shall make NO law."
Let's be perfectly clear: the federal government has no business regulating speech in any way. Furthermore, government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combating bigotry in our society. Bigotry at its essence is a sin of the heart, and we can't change people's hearts by passing more laws and regulations.
In fact it is the federal government more than anything else that divides us along race, class, religion, and gender lines. Government, through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails in our society. This government "benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility between us.
The political left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism, even as they advocate incredibly divisive collectivist policies.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.
http://ronpaul2008.com
Length: 241
Rating: 4.50 (26 ratings)
Tags: People individual group think religion racism terrorism hate love compassion Ron Paul Freedom bootme21
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Individualism, Gradient , Groups
Individualist societies are rooted in a long-evolved response to tough environments and often isolated population groups. They are typical of Western Eurasian regions with short growing seasons and mountainous topography, cut with major rivers and almost saturated with temperate forests. Small family units and low birth rates as well as ability driven market trade systems developed to meet the demands of these regions in the ancient past.
Fast forward several thousand years and a few empires and you still have an ethic ripe for the industrialism that the material technology and production demands such societies have developed, largely due to their individualist and self dependence cosmology.
Powerful in the world as a result of their ability to harness material forces and often very efficient in their wielding of these forces to bring other regions into their markets, they found themselves distrusted and disliked by societies that, though many having markets of their own, had not developed supply or demand for the scope of the industrialist endeavors of the Europeans. This hostility did nothing to diminish the desire on the part of many of the non industrial regions for the level of material security afforded by industrial societies, or at least the better off elements of those societies.
Governments forged therein had participation as a given mechanism but with restrictions to keep those deemed less productive, often without consideration for individual aptitude and with broad strokes, out of the controlling bodies. Ie, it was not enough to be alive but one had to gain or inherit status and keep it to be politically consequential. Nothing new here for the planet, as neither was the fact that access was far more open to host members than those brought into the market but only as base producers, not as major coordinators.
To be sure, as power can corrupt and also create a fear of loosing, it can also create those who would like to have it lost by the former holder and into their own arms, even with no intention of sustaining it. The more a society becomes open to general participation in democratic process, the more members of groups formally held at bay from such process would seek to rearrange the structure to assure their permanent consequence thenceforth.
To be sure market forces were not often kind to entities deemed worthy of only bottom level contribution and even kept such elements by force of law in those contexts. As in any such circumstance, collective resentment and disputes driven by non market, most often ethnic, factors arise and at some point dont seek participation in the big picture but instead to dismantle the system entirely and without concern for responsibility of existing complexities and with an eye for fragilities.
In this case the *fragility* becomes the very ethic that orchestrated the initial impulse towards the massive and powerful complex system in total. Having gained more participation in the now enormous civic , ie non production, sector, even a small disaffected group can act as a block and wield affective influence over production sectors and civil sectors alike. With an agenda in conflict with the forces of production as well as the individualist ethic of the original host 'group', and coupled with that a residual or even enhanced altruism of the ancestral host group, you have an atmosphere for a perfect storm of system failure.
Without a strong sense of preservation of gradient on the part of the host, the forces of dissipation have easy pickings and are often aided by the host ethic itself.
Having said this it is important to say that many new participants in the society may be tremendously productive and even pivotal elements of production and material sustainability. Yet having dropped (or never having had) the segmentary opposition ethic, they are no longer (or never were) factored as part of an opposing segment, regardless of ancestral context, and are, as Individualists, vulnerable to the same dissipative forces. ALSO, many of the host ethnic group (in this case Europeans) have left their geneological associations and aligned with segments opposed to the host complex system. So it is not true that there is only an ethnic rivalry, though such is certainly at root, but has become complicated by a former host ethnic member relinquishing their own inherited association and joining with would be complex gradient reducers, formally composed only of ethnic groups kept out of participation on the basis of ethnicity. Things have become webbed in strange ways indded.
Length: 475
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: individualism segmentary opposition ethic ethnic group markets family structure
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Failed Conservative Values - Jeremy Koulish - Hyper Individualism
http://ProgressiveSpirit.com What are Progressive Values? The Documentary Project.
We are working on creating a documentary about Progressive Values. Post your comments and responses and help create the documentary. See more videos at: http://ProgressiveSpirit.com
Taped at Netroots Nation 2008 - NN08
Length: 251
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: Progressive Progressives Values Democrat Liberal Political Documentary Failed Conservative
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