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Post by maximus on Mar 28, 2012 0:19:19 GMT 10
You guys finished with this yet?
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 28, 2012 5:46:31 GMT 10
Take your pick.
Most are not even behaviours. Marriage: What marriage? Arranged, civil or de facto? What relationship? Polygamy, polyandry or serial? What part: The consent, the wedding, the cohabitation? What type: Supportive, abusive or disinterested? No specific, universal behaviour under the broad heading of "marriage" is peculiar to the broad institutions encompassed by that term.
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Post by maximus on Mar 28, 2012 7:06:07 GMT 10
Well then, let's just throw out all social norms and run about like wild savages.
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Post by Smithee on Mar 28, 2012 8:38:40 GMT 10
What does your opinion follow on from?
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Post by maximus on Mar 28, 2012 9:47:22 GMT 10
Fatigue.
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Post by Smithee on Mar 28, 2012 11:49:49 GMT 10
Fair enough.
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Post by Smithee on Mar 28, 2012 11:51:44 GMT 10
Marriage: What marriage? Arranged, civil or de facto? What relationship? Polygamy, polyandry or serial? What part: The consent, the wedding, the cohabitation? What type: Supportive, abusive or disinterested? No specific, universal behaviour under the broad heading of "marriage" is peculiar to the broad institutions encompassed by that term. Plus what is considered marriage in one society may not be accepted as such in another. For example the current issue of gay marriage. Any other selection from the list to be considered? Pick the one you think to be the most unquestionably innate universal behaviour.
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Post by Smithee on Mar 28, 2012 12:13:52 GMT 10
We need to avoid being ethnocentric, something which is difficult when we are only familiar with the norms of our own society, a blinkered world view which seems highly prevalent common in the US (I expect Australians would not fair much better). Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien Iris Chang Chinese-American historian and journalist (Born this day 1968)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 29, 2012 5:50:45 GMT 10
Take your pick.
Most are not even behaviours. Husband older than wife on average: Since when can a so-called "universal" be described as being "on average"? In a number of aboriginal tribes in Australia a person's first marriage (men and women) is arranged with an experienced elder. BTW, my wife is more than four years older than I.
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Post by Smithee on Mar 29, 2012 10:29:58 GMT 10
My favourite and one I agree with from this list of 373 so-called cultural universals is number 57. Namely Cutural Variability. It gives the lie to the lot.
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