#culture theory

[skullchicken]

The thought has been swirling around in my brain for a while now and I think societies that focus on the community over the individual are not necessarily better or worse than societies that focus on the individual over the community.

If we assume that the social currency (or replacement of social currency) in individualized societies is money (you pay for dating services, you pay for caregivers, you pay for better access to job offers) then in community-focused societies it's networking (you take care and are taken care of, your family arranges potential partners, you know a person who knows a person who gives you a job).

Which means that in both cases there are people who can be inherently at a disadvantage because they don't have that currency.

In individualized society you could be deprived of money for any number of reasons, like being unlucky, lack of generational wealth, an exploitative system...

While in a community-focused society you might not have what it takes to build connections, you might be a of a lower status and thus not valuable to build connections with, you might be of a category that is assumed to do the care-working with nothing or less in return.

And that doesn't even go into how it's a false dichotomy anyways - money plays a big role in community-focused societies, too and networking is way more important in individualized societies (especially when it comes to getting a job) than most people want to acknowledge.

Anywho, these are my two cents - then again I'm from a pretty individualized country (Germany) and I've never lived anywhere else.

Maybe someone else would like to add to it?

#culture theory #(As a personal note I also think my culture could use to be more community-focused.)

[blxckluxxury]

What do you think ?

Do you believe our hair is our antennas? Do you believe that is were we generate our energy ?

#black twitter #black women #blackexcellence #aesthetic #black aesthetic #black culture #black is beautiful #black tumblr #blacklivesmatter #neo soul #conspiracy theories #black truth #antenna #super powers

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt. #but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.) #seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this. #the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later? #that is not cute. it is Alarming. #no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses... #anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you. #obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

[g0j0s]

orange peel theory this pomegranate peel theory that. but have you thought about badaam peel theory? when they soak the almonds overnight and peel them in the morning for you. now that right there is love at its peak.

#desi tumblr #desiblr #desi tag #desi aesthetic #poetry #poets corner #indian dark academia #desi culture #desi poetry #desi stuff #desi dark academia #indian poetry #light acadamia aesthetic #desi light academia #indian light academia #dark academic aesthetic #love #orange peel theory #desi love #desi things #indian tumblr

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

A Tribe Called Quest released their second album The Low End Theory September 24, 1991

#today in hip hop history #todayinhiphophistory #hiphop #hip-hop #hip hop #hip hop music #hip hop history #music #history #rap #hip hop culture #music history #a tribe called quest #the low end theory #album #emcee #mc #rapper #q tip #q-tip #ali shaheed muhammad #phife dawg #atcq #1991 #music producer #dj #deejay #producer

[walmart-the-official]

What if I did something horrible to my notification box.

I made a poll with some of the newer trends. I vastly miscalculated what the results would be due to how close the Ides were and how few people knew about the rosin thing.

But now, I redeem myself with the classics and I'll probably miss one so feel free to reblog and make fun of me for it so I can get a larger sample size.

Have fun (:

#walmart the official #walmart #color of the sky #color theory #childrens hospital #goncharov #man me a sand #cecil palmer #i like your shoelaces #tumblr shoelaces #tumblr history #tumblr culture #tumblr heritage #spiders georg #tumblr being tumblr #sans undertale #slenderverse #corpo blogs #superwholock #onceler #poll #polls #my polls #poll time #random polls #random poll #tumblr polls #tumblr poll

[fumifooms]

There’s something so viscerally sad about Thistle devoting his whole life body and soul to the family who bought him and put him in a clown costume

#Every time you sit at the dinner table further down from the REAL family you push down the self-doubts. You belong. You belong.You earned it #You are worthy #and like he does! Or does he really… They love him but just how do they see him? #Does he have to play the luth in the corner of the room to be able to spend time with his baby nephew? Entertainer or advisor or brother? #Ehem #dungeon meshi #thistle #spoilers #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #I have a theory though that the jester costume is a false perception of how tallmen thought elves dressed. #So then bc a bunch of courts want an elf it became a ‘dress the elf up in their cultural attire!’ thing tm and jester outfits became a thin #A touch of elven inspiration and just a load of bs and bad tailoring decisions

[leroibobo]

some of the architecture of zinder, niger. zinder rose from a small hausa village into an important center of trans-saharan trade during the 18th century, culmunating in it becoming the capital of the sultanate of damagaram in 1736.

#niger #hausa #architecture #my posts #in case you didn't know: hausa is a part of the afroasiatic language family (same family semitic langs are in) #there's a lot of theories about how exactly afroasiatic speakers spread & there isn't a consistent cultural/migration pattern #like w/ indo-euro languages #but hasua is probably to arabic/hebrew/syriac what english is to bengali or assamese (except even less similar) #i can pick out some hausa words myself ('sama' is 'heaven') but tbh im not sure how many are loadwords from arabic (since they use #'dunya' for 'world' for example). most hausa are muslim so itd make sense if they took some arabic words

[fromtheseventhhell]

Arya learned the Braavosi language and culture well enough to pass as someone "born and bred" there while interacting with actual native Braavosi, but I'm supposed to think she's going to have difficulty navigating Westerosi noble life...as someone who was actually raised as a Westerosi noble? The way you can tell that people don't think before they "theorize" about Arya will always crack me up

#arya stark #asoiaf #people treating Arya like she's some wild animal when she's genuinely one of the most cultured + well-rounded characters is so sdkdskdsk #not to mention that she has added experience in navigating political situations given her experience in Harrenhal as Roose's cupbearer #even if you genuinely thought she was that wild in AGOT (which is debatable) she's grown so much since then #the theories are literally just /Arya doesn't want to be a lady so that means she can't control herself/ it's so lazy 😭

[jasper-pagan-witch]

As much as I love learning about and discussing different magical theories, I think I can firmly say that the best way to do magic is to...actually do magic. Like in Skyrim, where in order to level up a skill, you have to actually use it.

#jasper post #spell work #theory #the elder scrolls #pop culture

[redditantisemitism]

Sigh. I’ve had conflict with this person in the past, and I’ve been avoiding talking about them again, but this is especially egregious and I do want to address it.

How do you think the language and religion spread? People didn’t just decide to switch over en masse, they were conquered. It’s ahistorical to deny that.

The idea that Jews are “white” is complicated, but the idea that Jews possess whiteness is a relatively new concept. Conversations about this have been going on inside the Jewish community for a while. The key there is that it’s inside the community. The idea that this individual feels they, as a non-Jew, are the arbiter of Jewish identity is disgusting.

The idea that Jews aren’t the “real Jews” is not only blatantly antisemitic, it plays into conspiracy theories.

The use of Jewish tags (jumblr, am yisrael chai) are yet another instance of this individual trying to make sure Jews see this post, even when those tags are incorrect. This is clearly harassing, and this user does it frequently.

#antisemitism #tumblr #historical revisionism #conspiracy theories #conditional whiteness #whiteness is a legal status afforded to you by cultural perception not an inherent part of your being fuck

[brightlotusmoon]

Anyway. This is neurodivergent parallel play. Yay!

#ROTTMNT #these good boys #rise of the neurodivergent teenage mutant ninja turtles #the ninja turtles are autistic #parallel play #being neurodivergent #cryptid culture #weird as us #how do you do fellow humans #being autistic and adhd with processing disorders is a neat trick #but everything changed when my mentor coined neurodivergence #the changeling theory of autism #adhd is autism's excitable twin

[twinkdrama]

allow yourself to be unlikable

#tumblr culture #attachment theory #cluster b #mental illness #avpd #social anxiety #mine #100 #500

[pocketramblr]

you know im thinking. im thinking maybe Yoichi wasn't even that into captain hero as an adult, but AfO kept bringing LITERALLY every conversation back to that because he decided to Be The Demon Lord and so Yoichi like, can't get an argument in unless he uses the same material so he's like 'oh my god i haven't even thought about that comic in ten years but even i know the bad guy didn't win. you should not be basing you whole identity, business model, and world destruction plan on your five-second impression of a comic book bad guy who didn't even win! also you shouldn't kill people!'

#AfO has a very flat picture of Yoichi in his head #His Possession. Weak and small. and taught him language reading and socialization with Captain Hero #he's THORS POPTARTS-ing his own brother in his memories #what sort of art styles did yoichi like? how did he interact with gender? did he like his eyes or did he wish they were different? was he a #morning person or a night person? were there clothing textures he loved or couldn't stand? did he like to collect feathers or leaves? did h #ever pick up any sense of religious knowledge from his assorted readings? cultural identity? did he learn how to cook in theory but never #had the materials to practice? or did he cook once they were older as AfO sort of internalized that as yoichi's subservient role? #or did he make absolute monstrosities when he attempted to bake anything? #We dont know because all we see of Yoichi is: #his brother's memories of him. could be flanderization for all we know #and an imprint of Yoichi in ofa #who by necessity has to be focused on his brother #we'll never get to see the whole picture of the dead holders. they're dead. and we can't change that. can't know their vibrant lives #so yeah lets see. a five+one fic about yoichi's changing relationship with media property captain hero over time in his life and death #compared to afo's static impression of yoichi's relationship / afo's own unchanging relationship with it #hmmmm

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

This is "atheism is a religion." Or "atheists are angry at god/worship the devil/worship themselves." They won't let you just not be part of the thing. Saying you're not part of the thing becomes a way of being part of the thing.

No, I don't accept the underlying premise of your belief, that incorporeal sexed thetans have been incompetently sorted by Xenu's intern into mismatched meat prisons.

I don't know who told you that every mundane thing about your personality deserves its own flag and special day, but you've been wildly misinformed.

#Colin Wright #agender #gender ideology #queer theory #nonbinary #gender identity #gender thetans #genderfluid #genderflux #bigender #imaginary genders #personality #pronoun culture #gender pseudoscience #religion is a mental illness

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

2pac’s fifth album Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory was released November 5, 1996

#today in hip hop history #todayinhiphophistory #hiphop #hip-hop #hip hop #hip hop music #hip hop history #music #history #hip hop culture #music history #2pac #tupac #tupac shakur #don killuminati: the 7 day theory #don killuminati #album #emcee #mc #rap #rapper #makaveli #1996 #96