That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 01:21:50 JST

That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 01:21:50 JST That Would Be Telling
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@jdeseo @lain @earthshine “US society encourages individualism.”
To a degree, especially historically. Until the Irish started coming over in large numbers, we’re from Northwestern European stock and inside the Hajnal line.
It was standard from thousands of years ago for couples to set up their own households, albeit in a context of communities that worked hard especially to store enough food for winter. This pattern was particularly strong in Scandinavia, thus their current extreme decline.
For a very readable academic treatment of all this and how it devolved as (((others))) used our altruism and outgrouping patterns for rule breakers see Kevin MacDonald’s latest, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1089691483/)
Fast forward to the colonization of America above the Rio Grande and note the huge importance of religion and churchgoing, including state churches like in Massachusetts. And how crime was handled in relatively homogeneous groups, although see Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Fischer for the major cultures that initially settled the US.
Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed)
“East Anglia to Massachusetts
“The Exodus of the English Puritans (Pilgrims and Puritans influenced the Northeastern United States’ corporate and educational culture)
“The South of England to Virginia
“The Cavaliers and Indentured Servants (Gentry influenced the Southern United States’ plantation culture)
“North Midlands to the Delaware Valley
“The Friends’ Migration (Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States’ industrial culture)
“Borderlands to the Backcountry
“The Flight from North Britain (Scotch-Irish and border English influenced the Western United States’ ranch culture and the Southern United States’ common agrarian culture)”
Recently renamed Hajal Line article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern
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  Amazon.com: Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future: 9781089691488: MacDonald, Kevin: Books
  
  Amazon.com: Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future: 9781089691488: MacDonald, Kevin: Books
2. Albion's Seed
  
  Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain (Albion) to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the political culture of the modern United States. Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture." Four folkways The four migrations are discussed in the four main chapters of the book: East Anglia to MassachusettsThe Exodus of the English Puritans (Pilgrims and Puritans influenced the Northeastern United States' corporate and educational culture)The South of England to VirginiaThe Cavaliers and Indentured Servants (Gentry influenced the Southern United States' plantation culture)...
3. Western European marriage pattern
  
  The Western European marriage pattern is a family and demographic pattern that is marked by comparatively late marriage (in the middle twenties), especially for women, with a generally small age difference between the spouses, a significant proportion of women who remain unmarried, and the establishment of a neolocal household after the couple has married. In 1965, John Hajnal posited that Europe could be divided into two areas characterized by a different patterns of nuptiality. To the west of the line, which extends approximately between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Trieste, Italy, marriage rates and thus fertility were comparatively low and a significant minority of women married late or remained single and most families were nuclear; to the east of the line and in the Mediterranean and particular regions of Northwestern Europe, early marriage and extended family homes were the norm and high fertility was countered by high mortality.In the 20th century, Hajnal's observations were assumed as valid by a wide variety of sociologists. However, since the early 21st century, his theory has been routinely criticized and rejected by scholars...

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