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Global WEIRDing Threatens Cognitive Diversity and Multiculturalism Erraticus Image by Trevor Cole
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Global WEIRDing Threatens Cognitive Diversity

January 31, 2019June 1, 2020 Kensy Cooperrider 0 Comments Globalization, Language, Multiculturalism, Neuroscience

Human cognitive diversity joins a number of other forms of diversity that are disappearing. Diversity of mammals and plants, of languages and cuisines. But the loss of cognitive diversity raises issues all its own.

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Competition is Bad for Families but Good for Societies Erraticus Image by Zeyn Afuang
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Ideas Society & Culture 

Competition Is Bad for Families but Good for Societies

October 18, 2018June 1, 2020 DB Krupp 0 Comments Community, Family, Globalization, Relationships

Local competition—including that among siblings or neighbors—stymies cooperation and social capital, whereas global competition fosters both.

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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