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6 Responses to “The Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World”

1. James D. Newman Says:
   June 23rd, 2007 at 6:41 am Quote

   This post makes me think of Ezra Pounds economic arguments (at least the non-anti-semitic ones) He believed that Confucianism was a powerful economic and cultural stimulator, and I can’t help noticing that the data-points in the Confucian bin are all big economic performers.

   Ez, why did you have to be a fascist? Everything else about you was so cool.

   Sigh. :(

2. Russell Says:
   June 23rd, 2007 at 10:49 am Quote

   Confucianism is not “traditional”? That’s dumb. It’s one of the most impressive forms of tradition the world has produced. Apparently when he says “tradition” he means simply “religious” or something.

   James,

   An interesting question is whether the people of those countries produced Confucianism or whether Confucianism produced them. I tend towards the former myself, these days.

3. Michael Says:
   June 23rd, 2007 at 10:59 am Quote

   “East Germany”? Exactly how old is this map? ;-)

4. Hannes Engelbrecht Says:
   June 23rd, 2007 at 5:09 pm Quote

   Lumping South Afica at the same spot as Pakistan and Iran in terms of Traditional Values vs Self-Expression dates this map to *at least* the pre-1990’s.

   The current socio-political layout puts South Afica at around the Belgium position

5. Joseph Hertzlinger Says:
   June 23rd, 2007 at 11:33 pm Quote

   I didn’t realize they put Israel in the middle of Catholic Europe.

6. ASMota Says:
   June 25th, 2007 at 8:52 am Quote

   Someone is not doing their homework right. Portugal is not at Latin America, it’s Europe! Right next to Spain… Checkout at Google Maps

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