Posted by the World Values Survey.
The cultural map methodology developed by the WVSA Founder Ronald Inglehart and the WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel asserts that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world: traditional values versus secular-rational values and survival values versus self-expression values. The global cultural map shows how scores of societies are located on these two dimensions.
Cited by David Brooks in The New York Times.
The fact that they chose to put Germany under Protestant Europe makes me question the whole thing's thoroughness.
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DeletePerhaps my old Irish eyes are missing it, but I don't see the Emerald Isle. Ireland has about ten times the population of Luxembourg. Anyway, where to put it? Head scratching.
ReplyDeleteAlso curious where I fall, personally, on these axes. Maybe not in the upper right quadrant, depending on how these values are determined. Bad for a person with an essentially leftist ideology. A minefield.
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