MD2Assgn
Welling T
T.
"TR" Robert "Shawn" Welling
July 6, 2019
Dr. JESSICA HOLMES
Cross Cultural Psychology
The application of
psychology has divided itself into two primary formats. Those who perform
therapy and are trained to think in treatment format and those who are into
pure research without any application of treatment. This will be an examination
of research with limited emphasis on the statistical concepts of how to
identify variables, which when the statistics are added those variables become
part of equations. However, the math's part is not present, just the
identification of variables. This begins with an understanding of what western
culture is based on, the good and the bad aspects of what western culture has
done historically. No matter where the researcher is located
in the human’s species, what culture they come from, what culture they
are examining, the overwhelming majority of the research is based on the cultural
perspectives of western society. To start the examination after the established
baseline of what western culture is, every person up to and through each
progressively larger and larger group until the entire homo sapiens sapiens species is included. They all create a 3-category
set of rules for what is acceptable and know. Those categories are A, B, and C
which will be discussed. Once those rules and regulation categories have been
established it is then time to apply the three primary health tools used to
identify problems to fix what comes up. Those primary tools are CR, OC, and
Nature versus Nurture. To apply the above to begin the process to bring health
to a suffering culture.
Undiscovered
Culture
Happiness is a
concept that is one of the most difficult in all of psychology to define. Every
individual has different things that make them happy, cultures are the same.
Not all large groups of people belong to the same cultures. Any large culture
is a collection of smaller groups and cultures, some of whom might have vastly
long histories, some have a very short history. How much happiness in each
group/culture depends on both the individuals in the group and the group
itself’ s happiness factor that is also a huge factor.
Overall happiness
is as difficult to define and describe as love. Because of this, discovering a
new culture and being able to recommend any type of happiness improvements for
the culture will require a huge amount of time and effort. Happiness is like
any other x factor concept, the x factor in mathematics is in the very
definition “undefinable”, it is not all that different than trying to balance
both sides of the HUP concept.
You can know where
an object is, you can know how fast an object is traveling. but you cannot know
both of those facts at the same time. Happiness is as definable as HUP, you can
know a few of the details at any one given point, but those details and data
will change subject to enumerable amount of different
situations.
You have to also deal with another aspect of HUP. “An object
under observation will be default be changed by that observation”. In essence how someone or a group feel about being observed
will change the what they consider to be happiness.
three factors of
happiness
What do the
individuals in this culture consider happiness. Sub questions, do they find
individualism to be a type of happiness, do they find collectivism to be a type
of happiness. Example some people are entirely comfortable with whatever the
groups decisions are. They are entirely happy and content to do whatever the
group decides. From the greatest good to the greatest evil, as
long as the group is happy, they are happy. Example Mary Koch was
entirely happy with her position and her husband. Despite being in a location
some of the people around her were in what can only be described as evil
incarnate. She was happy, her fellow friends were also very happy.
What definition
for happiness does each group define as happiness.
Being able to define happiness for the collective, what is happiness for each
group, what is the balance between individual happiness and group happiness.
Cultures Three
Groups
First thing that must
be addressed is the groupings. All peoples and cultures divide themselves into
three categories. Of course, there is some overlap based on peer pressure and
other various Milgram proven intimidation factors, but the majority
of the facts are starting with individuals, all individuals as they grow
in life create three categories of behavior patterns. Group A, B, and C; which are organized as follows.
Group A
Each
individual on the planet builds a set of rules
and regulations that are divided into three sections. What they absolutely positively think are good things, and little to
nothing can dissuade them from thinking Group A category of actions and
thinking are anything other than good.
Group B
Category B are
actions, and behaviors that are in the grey areas. Actions that are sometimes
ok and sometimes absolutely not ok in most situations.
Example in western society post 1950, if a female asks a male “do these jeans,
make me look fat” the grey area is to reply “no, you look great in those”. It
in some cases is technically speaking a lie, but it is a little white lie to
ease the feelings of the person asking. The person knows how they look, but
they need peer reinforcement to convince them solidly their cognitive
dissonance that balances the reality of the situation with the need for emotional
reaction. At times speeding is also within the realm of grey area decisions,
most drivers do not stick perfectly to the posted speed limit, for in many cases
it would be considered reckless driving to exit a freeway moving at 75 mph then
suddenly press the brake very hard to slow down to 25 as quickly as possible.
The chances of causing an accident are very high. This is where the behaviors
and peer pressures of Milgram can take absolutely not
acceptable in any form Group C actions and turn them into either B and or even
A actions and behaviors. This equation format is where to find unhappiness in a
culture. People using the 3 primary tools of psychology to justify their actions.
Group C
Actions which have
been determined in all ways, shapes, and forms minus extreme issues and
situations to be bad actions. To either never do or only do under extreme
duress. Example if a burglar is coming into your home to murder and rob you,
taking lethal action against is an acceptable in almost all ways bad action.
Self-defense is acceptable to use lethal force. However, in most other cases,
the use of lethal force is not only unacceptable, but the culture usually
reacts in a rather negative to the maximum way. Usually the punishment for the
use of lethal force is imprisonment and or the culture uses lethal force
against the individual, sometimes group.
The human species
universally is wired to have the following responses.
Conditioned
Response (CR)
The easiest
example to present what conditioned response is the experiments that proved the
condition species wide. The Russian researcher Pavlov proved that if he rang a
bell before feeding his dogs, his dogs after a while of repeating the bell ring
every time he fed them, the dogs would begin to
salivate.
Consequently, when
exploring a new culture, the first thing to do is find out what the cultures
CR’s are to find out what type of function and structure individuals and the
group itself respond to. What conditions have the individuals and the groups
accepted as group A type motivations for modifying beyond. What type B
motivations are grey area motivations, and what type C are unacceptable
behavior modifications that do achieve the goal, but the actions are considered
either very bad and or acting against most rules of societally acceptable
formats.
Operative
Conditioning (OC)
The story of B. F.
Skinner and his Operative Conditioning. The tools Skinner found in the textbook
Wundt wrote decades before were straight out of the Trojan War. Wundt had been
a serious scholar from a young age specific to the subject of “the Classics” that
are centered on the books of Homer directly related to a multitude of aspects
from the Trojan War named The Iliad. There are between 3 and 10 different
versions of the Iliad specific to which culture are supposed to read them.
The Iliad is a
collection of stories that detail a tale of genocide and a 20-year heroic escapades
of a group of cultures convinced to perform crimes against humanity, all based
on the use of violence, lies, cognitive dissonance, and genocide level hatred
of Jews. The authors have taken the words of the nom de plume “Homer” and
turned what should be considered a holocaust and turned it into a solid story
where the incredibly bad behavior of a central character “Paris” steals the
wife of the brother of one of the Trojans fiercest enemies Agamemnon. However
if you compare the cultures side by side you will see that this fiction and the
fictions (Skinner box tools) employed to force the war and to force western
culture to believe the fictions which Agamemnon and the author Homer have
forced western culture to accept have no basis in reality. The Trojan War in
some aspect did occur, but it was a task designed to find and kill disobedient
Jews. Trapped in a box, to escape the box (Skinners Box) you have
to perform x action, all other actions will result in both pain and
eventually death. However, being able to exit the box also results in some
degree of pain. It is up to the thing trapped in the box to decide between
death, pain then death, or some pain and escape. Most cultures have some degree
of Skinner box applications to live within the rules and regulations of the culture
itself.
This leads to
stress disorders, which leads to a myriad of both individual and group behavior
patterns. Some of which are good and some of which are to varying degrees of
violent.
Reaction
When the above
tools are used, especially Skinners techniques (Skinner Box; examples if you
break a rule of the culture in the wrong way, you have to
go through the “pain” of a culturally created and accepted punishment/pain
process. If you speed at the wrong time and place, you have to go through the
pain of a ticket, if you say steal from a store {and are caught}you have a
harsher more defined form of punishment which could include humiliation,
arrest, being booked, jail, and a criminal record.), etc. All of which amounts
to a suppression of personal will and possibly some form of nature nurture
needs not being fulfilled. When a nature behavior pattern is suppressed, that
behavior pattern tends to come out hard, uncontrollably, and in a lot of cases
violently. The individual usually has little to no conscious idea why they are
doing what they are doing.
Which leads to
unhappiness disorders that for most people they have no idea why they are
unhappy, they just are.
Nature versus
Nurture
Nurture is what a
person or a group are taught are the proper rules and regulations for living ones life. Nature is what most
people do based on a wide variety of internal structures forcing thoughts and
actions within the person and group. Nurture can be unlearned and redirected
towards better and more healthy behavior patterns. Nature behavior patterns can
only be redirected away from unhealthy patterns and towards healthier patterns.
This balance is part of the essence of happiness. Happiness is when a person’s
nurture and nature are in balance and the person can achieve the goals that
make them happy. However, depending on the culture they live in, depends on how
much of their happiness they have to suppress in order
to function in the groups of people they have chosen to be around.
Solution Policies
Solution One
Apply proven crime
wave statistical models for this new culture, bullies and the like usually take
advantage of any and all gaps in a cultural breakdown when chaos occurs. Assist
law enforcement to help keep extra violence during the chaotic translation to a
minimum. Although it is also a key component for the health and safety of a
culture to identify the “bad apples” in law enforcement. identify and remove
the “bad apples” from the group in order to ensure a smoother transition. a
body of good enforcement will not add to the issues and problems but deescalate
problems. De-escalation is the key to a culture’s mental health.
Solution Two
Identify each
separate group in the new cultures A, B, and C groupings. Those groupings will
allow for a smoother and happier transition into a better healthier way of
living for all involved. Example since sexual abuse in some cultures is not
only prevalent but, in some ways, encouraged and socially acceptable; apply the
psychological lessons from the world of kink and /or deviant sexual behavior.
If most of the people involved have been put through mandatory instruction
classes regarding what exactly is their wants, needs, and desires in the
intimacy areas, each person in the culture can and will produce a healthier way
to interact with themselves and others on an intimate level. Everyone will have
a better idea what their intimate wants, needs, desires are. Instead of operating
from mostly ignorance, when people interact with each other they have at least
a base dialog structure from which to compare notes. This by default will produce
a healthier community.
Solution Three
For the general
rules and regulations for living together have each major and minor group
create a written list of what actions versus if each action falls into category
A, B, or C individually. That way each group can then be able to cross compare
the paperwork of what they think individually then compare with other individuals
what they think are actions divided into the 3 categories. This will bring
about a huge amount of health and happiness into a culture, since it will allow
people to truly examine what their priorities are and then examine others priorities. Then add the collections together, which
the CR and OC of each individual and groups peer pressure over time will change
answers. This will bring about a huge amount of happiness to all involved. Even
those who refuse to participate, they will be identified and their refusal to
cooperate will bring others happiness since they know those individuals have
set privacy or secrecy boundaries. When you know what and where a boundary is,
everyone else has a better idea how to interact with said boundary.
Conclusion
From a research
perspective interacting with a new culture is always difficult. Problems will
occur. Those problems will by default arise which will cascade into larger and larger
problems. The key for research is to turn all those actions into variables,
then compare those variables with already established sequences to find out
where this culture might go, and how to head off potential problems before they
become huge culture shacking issues. As the above evidence pointed out, identify
the actions. Once those actions had been identified, the next point comes up how
to create categories, those categories will allow for all the different facets
of both the individuals and groups in the culture to more clearly identify where
they stand. Take those facets of a cultures organizational rules of order and
apply the three primary tools; OC, CR, and Nature
versus Nurture. To come up with solid proven solutions to the problems presented.
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