Hi Maggie, and no, I didn't forget to get back to you. It has simply been a very busy and time-consuming few days, with little hint of abating.
Your second question, like the others is very good. Good values are like beauty, "are in the eye of the beholder." There is largely universal agreement on most values but with perspectives that v…
Hi Maggie, and no, I didn't forget to get back to you. It has simply been a very busy and time-consuming few days, with little hint of abating.
Your second question, like the others is very good. Good values are like beauty, "are in the eye of the beholder." There is largely universal agreement on most values but with perspectives that vary based on a long list of factors. For example, a Jirga Circle within Pashtun culture is a very spartan but faithful version of democracy. Still, the US and our allies spent a generation in the nation attempting to build our version of democracy. This failed for a variety of reasons but mostly because in most cases, we failed to understand the identities contained in the rich human terrain of different ethnicities, cultures, tribes, etc.
A society's claimed values are very rarely considered negative by that particular group. That doesn't mean that there aren't behaviors that have been identified and described within the value system that are negative. To use Pashtuns again as an example, they primarily live via an honor code called, "Pashtunwali." There are prescribed actions to be taken in support of honor that would be considered negative, outside Pashtunwali. Revenge/ Badal is one of these. A dishonorable action against a family or tribal member, must be dealt with according to the code and some of the prescribed reclamations of honor include severe actions, such as a murder for a murder. We know this in the West and Middle East as, "an eye for and eye."
Around the world, understanding a target audience's unique identity or rather, "NI/ narrative identity" is the key to determining their perceptions.
I hope this helps and answers your questions, Maggie. If not, please let me know and I'll give it another try.
Thank you, Paul, for another insightful response. Perhaps identifying those overlapping core foundational values can help us build the internarrative identity bridges we so desperately need, whether to understand Pashtunwali or Trump followers.
Hi Maggie, and no, I didn't forget to get back to you. It has simply been a very busy and time-consuming few days, with little hint of abating.
Your second question, like the others is very good. Good values are like beauty, "are in the eye of the beholder." There is largely universal agreement on most values but with perspectives that vary based on a long list of factors. For example, a Jirga Circle within Pashtun culture is a very spartan but faithful version of democracy. Still, the US and our allies spent a generation in the nation attempting to build our version of democracy. This failed for a variety of reasons but mostly because in most cases, we failed to understand the identities contained in the rich human terrain of different ethnicities, cultures, tribes, etc.
A society's claimed values are very rarely considered negative by that particular group. That doesn't mean that there aren't behaviors that have been identified and described within the value system that are negative. To use Pashtuns again as an example, they primarily live via an honor code called, "Pashtunwali." There are prescribed actions to be taken in support of honor that would be considered negative, outside Pashtunwali. Revenge/ Badal is one of these. A dishonorable action against a family or tribal member, must be dealt with according to the code and some of the prescribed reclamations of honor include severe actions, such as a murder for a murder. We know this in the West and Middle East as, "an eye for and eye."
Around the world, understanding a target audience's unique identity or rather, "NI/ narrative identity" is the key to determining their perceptions.
I hope this helps and answers your questions, Maggie. If not, please let me know and I'll give it another try.
Thank you, Paul, for another insightful response. Perhaps identifying those overlapping core foundational values can help us build the internarrative identity bridges we so desperately need, whether to understand Pashtunwali or Trump followers.