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Countries vary greatly in the individualism they exhibit. Individualist societies emphasize autonomy, assertiveness, freedom and independence. Societies with a more collectivist bent, in which the ...

As I look back through my 76-year history and form sociological and societal opinions, I have come to feel (particularly in light of recent societal trends) that we are becoming more collectively ...

If we include all human societies through human genus history in our analysis (using anthropological and archeological research showing that we spent at least 90% our human history in small-band, ...

Many a time has Henry Ford used the White House as a national sounding board. The most famed occasion was in December 1929, when he rushed out of a conference with President Hoover to startle other ...

Have you watched professional baseball players interact with each other during games? Often, cultural differences are ...

New Year’s started with a bang: just hours after the ball dropped in New York City, its new mayor lauded the "warmth of collectivism," deriding America’s tradition of "rugged individualism." Many ...

Joe Biden, the Democrats’ hope for president this November, just said in an interview on KDKA in Pittsburgh that one of his first White House acts would be to make the wearing of face masks mandatory ...

BEIJING, CHINA - March 23: People wearing masks as part of precautionary measures against the spread of the COVID-19 on March 23, 2020 in Beijing, China. Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to ...