"The WEIRDest People in the World"
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- čas přidán 3. 09. 2020
- Joe Henrich (Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University) presents his book, on 'The WEIRDest People in the World'
Read more about Professor Henrich: henrich.fas.harvard.edu/
And the book: weirdpeople.fas.harvard.edu/
As far as I recall Jared Diamond, he did not say that fruitful crop or crop that could be cultivated and the presence of animals that could be domesticated (all present in the fertile crescent and then in Europe, but NOT for instance in Zambia) MADE LEARNING EASIER, but it made a surplus of food possible which then made specialisation possible - which then led to trade, money, education etc.
Thanks for the lively discussion and cordial disagreements.
Thanks Alice and Joe !
So enjoyable.
Actually , the discussion was just beginning to start just before it ended .
Indeed. The masses should rise up and demand a second interview!
Why is there no description of Alice? What does she do?
She's a nobody with a youtube channel.
@@squatch545 Why so rude? She's not even a jerk.
Someone should look into the cultural variations in certain soft skills like the ability to express oneself, self-control, time management, leadership, sociability, eloquence/articulateness, conscientiousness, creativity, etc. I believe certain cultures castrate and/or hinder the development of certain skills while others nourish and even promote them. (E.g. "the hammer that sticks out is hammered down" in Japan.) And I think this is an important relationship to study from a Darwinian point of view, because ultimately, we're all still living in a jungle, with a façade of civilization. People from different tribes are coming into contact with each other in a global village on a daily basis, and as they do so, they are bringing different competitive advantages and disadvantages onto the table because of their different cultural backgrounds, which can sometimes be attributed to wrong factors like personal agency (or its lack) due to the so-called Fundamental Attribution Bias.
On a bigger picture, one can also be interested in cultural advantages and disadvantages at the nation level. In international relations, we often see countries getting contentious with each other (e.g. the game of chicken between the US and Turkey over ISIS during the Syrian Civil War or Turkey's policy of swinging back and forth between Russia and the US and trying to play them against each other), and which country will prevail over the other may partly be determined by its cultural advantages and disadvantages, as the political leadership in each country does its best to outsmart the other. The manipulative techniques that people tend to resort to at first and feel more confident about bringing it to completion and the "solutions" they come up with seem to differ quite a bit across countries. Veteran diplomats and spies who spend a long time in a particular country become experts on such issues.
I love Joe Henrich and his work. This interview is not one of the best that is out there.
Women in South Asia are very much involved in agriculture, much more than Europe in my opinion. Even today women are very much involved in agriculture in South Asia, most of the times more than men actually. Even in the jobs that require physical strength such as lifting sacks of paddy. On the other hand the lowest involvement of women in agriculture in South Asia is in North western part of South Asia, these areas also grow wheat much much more than paddy, just like Europe.