• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    germany
    country of rationalism
    trust in institutions

    mfer I will throw hands. This country pretends it’s eternal 1995. Everybody hates every institutions with a caveat for some of them who love the cops.

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    Germany

    rationality

    discipline

    lmao, this person has either never spoken to a single German, or they’re the most annoying person on the planet. This is the country that shut down all their nuclear reactors in a fit of hysteria and replaced them with coal power plants.

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    I really have a hate boner for this self felating bullshit.

    I’d love to know what cultural attitudes they assigned to these countries and what arbitrary methods they used to assign them.

    I notice China is the only country that sits outside any other grouping. Probably because they tried to assign it a love for authoritarianism and world domination. Unlike the rational, peace loving western nations.

    Edit: I did some digging and at least one of the three Chinese data gatherers for the latest survey spends some of their time in China. The other two are professors at US universities, so I’m sceptical of their objectivity.

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSParticipants.jsp

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            Apparently Chinese people aren’t into self expression. That’s the complete opposite to my own experiences in China, but I guess this shitty survey must be more correct

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              It’s easy! Just define self-expression as believing in western liberal individualist ideology and just like that, the orientals Chinese can’t self-express!

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      Westerners never advanced beyond Linnaeus’ division of human “races”, they just give it a new coat of paint every few decades. Of course they can’t say “scheming asiatics” anymore, so they use phrases like “authoritarianism-inclined”. This is just “the researcher’s racist bullshit plotted on a graph”, like about 90% of studies in this field.

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    I love phrenology with extra steps! What an amazing coincidence that the results of the study line up exactly with the preconceived notions of the researchers! It’s so easy!

    Step 1. Define western liberal ideology as inherently good Step 2. Surprise! Western countries are inherently good

    I’ll take $50 million for this rigorous academic work.

    • Step 3. Define the “intelligence” of “Artifical intelligence” through feeding a computer a compendium of data scraped from platforms designed by White American neo-fascists and inhabited by the Anglo-Europeans.

      Step 4. Refine this “intelligence” through manual interventions to suit the cultural expectations of the Anglo-European information industries which your technology was designed to replace.

      Step 5. Surprise! My “intelligent” chatbot designed by White Europeans and tested against a framework designed to segregate White European sensibilities from other societies is culturally White European!

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    That might be why I felt so good in Lebanon - it’s on the opposite side of Germany. Wish those rational, disciplined and oh so trusting people (when is comes to imperialist institutions at least) wouldn’t sell weapons to the ones that are destroying Lebanon right now.

  • American neoliberals love to produce graphs where White Euros are portrayed in a dichotomy to <target of imperialism> and pretend it’s “rational” by fiddling the data until the US is slightly closer to the “bad” side than, like, Norway.

    Their concession of the US being “a little bit icky” is the way the neoliberal feeds you the ideology of Eurocentrism, with the end goal of reproducing US hegemony from first principles.

    Just look at Bernie, the way he built a platform of social democracy through contrasting the American state to the Nordics. That ideology then planted the seeds of imperialist resource wars and racial subjegation.

    It turned a man who grew up, politically speaking, surrounded by communists, to an active enforcer of the very system that had ratfucked him for his whole life.

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    Anti-vax & angel energy healing center of europe is the “country of rationalism”? That “sterotype” fits the netherlands more, as do most german sterotypes tbh.