John OLIVER: When was that moment that America became the most American America it could possibly be? BERT: Ernie Ernie, dont eat those cookies while youre in your bed, huh? We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. He came to consider a company "honest" if its payment rate was above 90 percent. According to the Pew Research Center, 80 percent of Americans claim to believe in God, 55 percent pray at least daily, and 36 percent attend a religious service at least once a week. thats always there. Each week, Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didn't) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do) from the economics of sleep to how to become great at just about anything. After all, they were the data set. So I would be very interested in knowing whether theres any data on the ethnic component of homicide and suicide. employees. Wed rather think about solutions temporarily rather than as, this might take some time. It means that we need to attract different types of people to an organization. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million? And if there are crumbs in the sheets, theyll get in your pajamas. One of the areas of cultural study that first hooked her had to do with optical illusions. It has to do with conformity. HOFSTEDE: Yes, of course. The notion of the American Dream has long been that prosperity is just sitting out there, waiting for anyone to grab itas long as youre willing to work hard enough. Hes horrified by my dishwasher-loading behavior. Capital W-E-I-R-D, which stands for: HENRICH: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. On a certain level, this is obvious: These are cultures that have norms and traditions that have endured for centuries. The snob effect occurs when an individual's demand for a specific product increases when the number of units of that product other people purchase increases. Documentary. We can think about extraordinarily loose contexts like Tesla or Uber that probably need a little more structure. In contrast, the Freakonomics blog features the work of Levitt's friends, and SuperFreakonomics relies heavily on anecdotes, gee-whiz technology reporting and work by Levitt's friends and colleagues. Some of the countries with high power distance: Russia, China, and Mexico. GELFAND: Sometimes people actually revert back into their cultural chambers. DUBNER: And what would you say is maybe a political ramification of low power distance? Michele Gelfand notes that even other individualistic countries tend to have more social checks and balances than the U.S. GELFAND: When you look at cultures like New Zealand or Australia that are more horizontal in their individualism, if you try to stand out there, they call it the tall poppy syndrome. HOFSTEDE: He decided to take a job there. And in a collectivistic society, a person is like an atom in a crystal. All that it takes is to get out of their cages of bickering and anxiety. The authors argue that humans usually make decisions based on the incentives for their actions. Words: 777. As always, thanks for listening and again, I do hope you'll also start . HENRICH: You want to be the same self, regardless of who youre talking to or what context youre in. HENRICH: I was doing research in the Peruvian Amazon. People who went out to California, I would say if we gave them the tight-loose mindset quiz, they were probably on the looser mindset. HENRICH: My favorite explanation for this I think this has been put out most clearly by a sociologist named Rodney Stark is that with freedom of religion, you get competition amongst religious organizations. And what does he have to say about American culture? But there must be, I would think, evolution across time, yes? It was freedom from all these debilitating things because the state would be able to provide for you. When something is not easily measured, it often gets talked about in mushy or ideological terms. And you need revolutions in order to change the government. (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better) Theyll say, The Scandinavians have great childcare and family-leave policies. Or theyll say, China has built more high-speed rail in the past few years than the U.S. has even thought about. So, naturally, the next question is: cant the U.S. just borrow these Scandinavian and Chinese and German ideas and slap them on top of the American way of doing things? I have a professorship in Joburg in South Africa, too. 470 Replay) Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio Publicit Annonce - 0 s 00:00 00:00 Suivant | propos Voir la description Freakonomics Radio. I do this for you and you do this for me. Folks who come from a collective standpoint where, I do this for you, but youre doing this for us thats a very, very different way of seeing the world. I asked Hofstede what he would advise if a given country did want to change its culture? So if you base your understanding of a given culture on a body of research that fails to include them, youll likely fail to understand how that culture thinks whether were talking about another country or a group within your own country. Downloads: 18. Whereas people from less individualistic societies tend to be better at making relative-size judgments. So how it is that we acquire ideas, beliefs, and values from other people, and how this has shaped human genetic evolution. There is a strong desire to be more feminine. . As a result, the needs of individuals dictate social behaviors, rather than the needs of larger groups. And it was like, This stuff is really lousy. Lets flip it for a moment. All rights reserved. That would be very beneficial because now you might be going down the path of civil war, really. A tight country like Germany tends to set strict limits on noise, with mandated quiet hours. New York City, meanwhile, has been called not just the city that never sleeps, but the city that never shuts up. Tight countries tend to have very little jaywalking, or littering or, God forbid, dog poop on the sidewalks. DUBNER: What are some of the consequences of being relatively tolerant of uncertainty, as the U.S. is? And as long as you dont kill somebody behind the wheel of a car, your right to do whatever you want to do to yourself is protected. So then he really knew this is not an artifact of this particular company this is real. It turns out that Americans were among the least likely to conform. If someone acts in an inappropriate way, will others strongly disapprove in this country? Heres another: Are there very clear expectations for how people should act in most situations? In 2018, Gelfand published a book of these findings called Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World. HENRICH: And Americans have this probably worse than anybody. To that end, the digital revolution is further shrinking the distance to power. The fifth cultural dimension is one that I think will resonate with everyone whos ever listened to Freakonomics Radio, since it is at the crux of problem-solving. So the picture that emerges from these findings is that Americans are less likely to conform in the name of social harmony; and we also treasure being consistent, expressing our true selves, regardless of the context. And the research subject explained to him that, Oh, I feel so bad for you that you cant afford pants without holes in them that I cant take the money from this poor American kid. And it struck me as a way in which this experiment could be perverted. Because for all the so-called globalization of the past half-century or so, the U.S. still differs from other countries in many ways. HOFSTEDE: And this is before the 60s, before the 70s. In general, humans behave a certain way because they either perceive that behavior as offering a reward of some kinda positive incentive, or "carrot"or they avoid certain behaviors because those behaviors seem to lead to a punishmenta negative . Fundamentally, individualism is a belief that the individual is an end in themself. Freakonomics Radio . In case you missed it, thats Western. Freakonomics Quotes. Because remember, threat is what can drive tightness. In the end, he resorted to making small plywood boxes with a slot cut into . Our theme song is Mr. We look at how these traits affect our daily lives and why we couldnt change them even if we wanted to. Henrich and a couple of colleagues came up with the WEIRD label when he was teaching at the University of British Columbia. Read the excerpt from Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics. Those should be the new words to your national anthem. China, Japan, and Turkey are also tight. DUBNER: But that the research subjects, they gave him a lot back and they thought it was going to him. The downsides of looseness are less coordination, less self-control; more crime and quality-of-life problems. But the big C in my mind is very different than the little c.. Whereas looking away in a very egalitarian society is seen as a sign of deceptiveness. We do this on vacations with my siblings. GELFAND: Exactly. Dubner speaks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, intellectuals and entrepreneurs, and various other underachievers. He wrote a paper about it. SFU will never request our users provide or confirm their Computing ID or password via email or by going to any web site. So that leads to justifying more inequality. We look at how these traits affect our daily lives and why we couldnt change them even if we wanted to. Singapore, for instance. These are stereotypical names. The future could be bright. We developed these linguistic dictionaries to analyze language reflective of tight and loose, in newspapers and books, tight words like restrain, comply, adhere, enforce, as compared to words like allow and leeway, flexibility, empower. But its not only compliance. Each week, Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didn't) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do) from the economics of sleep to how to become great at just about anything. The U.S. assembled a coalition of allies. You had Woodstock, and youre going to have this kind of stuff happening again. And I shifted from pre-med into what turned into a career of cross-cultural psychology. And there are other inconsistencies, especially in a country as large and diverse as the U.S. For instance, where you live. Were realizing that part of that push forward theres a toxicity to that in terms of how you treat other people, how you think about institutions. So he left I.B.M. A dream team of directors e. So how much would you offer? It was: And your culture, your American culture, is very different. At this point, we should probably define terms. Tightness may create compliance; but looseness can drive innovation and creativity. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner.Published on April 12, 2005, by William Morrow, the book has been described as melding pop culture with economics. But Im Dutch, of course. GELFAND: My own sweet Portuguese water dog, Pepper, I mean, that dog is just gigantic. Yes, other phenomena like how things smell to us. He started working as an engineer during turbulent years of rebuilding, and soon became a personnel manager. Insight, for the authors (economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner) is all about explaining behaviour in terms of the incentives and dis-incentives (rewards and penalties) that drive it. They make sure that there is no violation of any ritual. HENRICH: But if you want to talk about humans, then you have a problem. And he said the reason was that he was a young postdoc, and he had holes in his jeans. Once he saw that differences were driven by nationality, Hofstede sensed he was on to something big. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. Steven D Levitt. Because $1 is more than zero, so the second player would still be better off. So were all constraining one another through our collective culture. But it can make life harder for the millions of Americans who arent so entrepreneurial, or rugged, or individualistic. And all those things need to be realigned when you really have a true culture change. I think thats a good litmus test of tight-loose. Fortune, by the Hitchhikers; the rest of the music this week was composed byLuis Guerra. Stripped of our culturally acquired mental skills, he writes, we are not so impressive when we go head-to-head in problem-solving tests against other apes, and we certainly are not impressive enough to account for the vast success of our species. Henrich recently followed that book with another one called The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. You want to know where you stand which is, for instance, what diplomats know very well. So the U.S. produces the sort of Wal-Mart equivalent of religions: big churches giving the people what they want, high pageantry. Thats what we call tight-loose ambidexterity. You might think that these relatively minor differences dont add up to much. Listen to this episode from Freakonomics Radio on Spotify. "Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.". We visit the world's busiest airport to see how it all comes together. Michele Gelfand is one of the premier practitioners of cross-cultural psychology. Why arent all national cultures converging by now? HENRICH: This cashes out in an ability to make better abstract or absolute judgment. Or if it will change at all. Gert Jan HOFSTEDE: None of it is intentional. You have to pronounce it right. Im like, Were going to go to Singapore if you people dont behave.. Someone raised in an Eastern culture might focus more on the image as a whole and less on the central object. Did you know there is an entire academic field called cross-cultural psychology? So $10 in this case. And in a restrained society, theres going to be suicide. Our staff also includesAlison Craiglow,Greg Rippin,Joel Meyer,Tricia Bobeda,Mary Diduch, Zack Lapinski,Emma Tyrrell, Lyric Bowditch, Jasmin Klinger,andJacob Clemente. DUBNER: Describe for me your father and his work, and how it became a family business. individualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual. Offers went up as high as 55 or 60 percent in some places and then down around 25 percent in other places. Theres far less stigmatization of people in terms of their race, their religion. That was our hypothesis, at least. Theyre more permissive. Theres not going to be violent crime. And how does a scholar like Neal think about culture per se? HENRICH: And this can include motivations, heuristics, biases, beliefs. No difference, that is, between tight and loose cultures. NEAL: We realized that the grind is unsustainable. This realization is what led us to todays episode of Freakonomics Radio. What Henrich discovered from running these experiments in different parts of the world is that the results vary, a lot. Even Gert Jan Hofstede suggests that his model shouldnt be seen as overly deterministic. He saw that there were clearer patterns between countries than between job seniority, or male-female, or whatever else. Gert Jan HOFSTEDE: Culture is the ripples on the ocean of human nature. The second player is given a choice between accepting or rejecting. A recent paper by a Harvard postdoc named Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen analyzed Scandinavian emigration from 1850 to 1920, when roughly 25 percent of the Scandinavian population left their countries, a great many coming to the U.S. People of an individualistic mindset were more prone to migrate than their collectivistic neighbors, she writes. GELFAND: They talk about individualistic accomplishments. GELFAND: Its like that story of two fish where theyre swimming along. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, show that increasing socioeconomic development is an especially strong predictor of increasing individualistic practices and values . NEAL: So its always evolving, its always developing, but theres some core principles. We need to change our practices. The fifth dimension in the Hofstede universe came in the early 1980s, in collaboration with a Canadian social psychologist named Michael Bond, who was working in Hong Kong. In restrained societies, people tend to suppress bodily gratification, and birth rates are often lower; theres also less interest in things like foreign films and music. The two players dont know each other. HOFSTEDE: Masculine society means that if you show power, that gives you social status. Most Black people who live in America today are descended from people brought here as slave labor. GELFAND: In cross-cultural psychology, we study how ecological and historical factors cause the evolution of differences. I think those fundamental religious beliefs extend to the American view of what leadership should look like outside of the church in the corporation, in the legislatures, and what have you. The focus of that episode was American culture. Individualism once . And we can see a strong trend that looseness has increased over the last 200 years. HOFSTEDE: Oh, no, thats something for academia. And then he decided to go to academia. 493 Update) Adam Smith famously argued that specialization is the key to prosperity. DUBNER: What does an institution like the Navy see as the upsides of more looseness? DUBNER: I find that people who dont load dishwashers carefully are usually pretty loose with the planning. This suggests that looseness and tightness can co-exist. Theres a good side of every dimension, including uncertainty avoidance. They were those kinds of Chaos Muppets, because they were risk-seeking. So this is quite a while ago. Because when youre living inside a culture well, thats the culture you know; it is what it is. But no. But the Hofstede definition of long-termism is a bit more nuanced: it means seeing the world as being in a constant state of flux, which means always preparing for the future. HOFSTEDE: High individualism is correlated with trying new stuff. I dont like to itch, Bert. Whereas in other contexts, like in the Middle East, when you think about honor, you think about your family, you think about your purity, your dutifulness, and so forth much less so about accomplishments. Neal is a professor of African and African-American studies. We promise no spam. But we tried to address that. The comedians John Oliver, Hannah Gadsby, and Kumail Nanjiani all grew up outside the U.S. Michele Gelfand wasnt interested in that. Everyone knows there are differences between people in different countries, but his approach was a quantifiable approach. Freakonomics is a registered service mark of Renbud Radio, LLC. And I was like, This is every day in America! The book takes the form of six chapters. Equating individualism with selfishness may be a mistake: Some of the world's wealthiest and most individualistic countries are some of the most altruistic, says 13.7 guest commentator Abigail Marsh. If basic things like visual illusions are not universal, what about other phenomena? Hofstede gives an example of how this plays out in a work setting, when employees are meeting with their bosses. And I think, Holy cow, Ukraine is surrounded by threat, including its next-door neighbor, Russia. That relationship has not been a constant, but that makes me a little suspicious. The authors seek to find simple answers to complicated world problems. If youre violating the social order, youre going to be punished.. And then theres the big C, the stuff that we have these big conversations about, that we do these incredible studies about, which is really about the worldview of groups of people coming together, in a community, in a nation, in a family, right? DUBNER: So between not having been historically a terrible recipient of viruses and also by dint of having an ocean on either side of us, etc., and being a really big and really rich country, it sounds like the U.S. must have one of the lowest inherent threat levels. Europe has a strong influence from Germany, also from France. The lawyer and journalist Dahlia Lithwick once argued that every living human can be classified according to one simple metric: Every one of us is either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet. Essentially: loose, or tight. We also realize that were a culture in distress in many, many, many ways. We presume male public voice. HOFSTEDE: And blue-collar. Thats Joe Henrich, a professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard; hes also a scholar of psychology, economics, and anthropology. Culture is about, if you are a part of a society, youre like one drop in the Mississippi River. He was a professor in both the economics and psychology departments, which was weird in its own way lower-case weird since Henrich had never taken a course in either subject. Remember what he said earlier: HENRICH: So how it is that we acquire ideas, beliefs, and values from other people and how this has shaped human genetic evolution. But yes, its all workplace. Henrich is saying that the export of American ideas isnt necessarily easier. In the N.F.L., the long snapper is . In the meantime, a bit more from the comedian Hannah Gadsby. According to Chapter 5 of Freakonomics, there is a black-white test score gap and that gap is larger when you compare black and white students from the same school. In our previous episode, we made what may sound like a bold claim. That is not just the most American thing thats ever happened. Multilevel Research of Human Systems: Flowers, Bouquets and Gardens, The Interaction Between National and Organizational Value Systems, 11 A. M. Sunday Is Our Most Segregated Hour,, The U.S. Is Just Different So Lets Stop Pretending Were Not (Ep. HOFSTEDE: You are on the masculine side not at the very end, but more on the masculine side. But if youre not an economist, if youre a regular human being, you can see why the second player might reject a $1 offer. Its called long-term versus short-term orientation. Why not? Is that the case? Baker was Bushs secretary of state; Aziz was Husseins deputy prime minister. 1, the most individualistic country in the world, 91 out of 100 on the Hofstede scale of individualism. Then he tried a coffee can with a money slot in its plastic lid, which also proved too tempting. In the U.S., it was freedom to do whatever the hell that you wanted to. BUSH: Allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. HENRICH: Theres something called the Asch conformity test, where you have confederates of the experimenter give the same wrong answer to an objective problem. And its another dimension on which the U.S. is a substantial outlier. Q uite soon after the Freakonomics guys, Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt, walk into their office on New York's Upper West Side for our interview, the scene resolves itself into the kind of . Happiness is going to be lower, but crime, too. They are descended from people who came here of their own free will and in order to execute their own free will. But if you look 100 years ago and you look at the cultural map of the world, you can read writers from different countries, you will see that there is astonishing continuity. The answer to that is usually: no, you cant. Season 10, Episode 49. (Ep. If you no longer even pretend to be one people and to be fair to all the citizens of your country, then youre not going down a road that leads to a great future. 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