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"TR" Robert "Shawn" Welling
July 22, 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 (Suh, E. M., & Koo, J. (2009).
Every individual has different things that make them happy, cultures are the
same (Oishi, 2018). Not all large groups of
people belong to the same cultures (Lomas,
T. 2016). 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. To find where the culture has hidden “issues”,
compare those hidden issues with other humans who have done inappropriate
things, and apply solutions based on what other cultures have done.
Overall
happiness is as difficult to define and describe as love (Veenhoven, R. (2010). 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 (Grushko, 2019).
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 number of different situations
(Danilishin, S. L., Khalili, F. Y., & Haixing Miao. (2019).
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 Ilsa Koch was entirely happy with her position and with her
husband (Rodden, 2005). Happiness found in Collectivism (Kitirattarkarn,
G. P., Araujo, T., & Neijens, P. (2019). Despite
being in a location some of the people around her were in what can only be
described as evil incarnate. She was happy both individually and collectivism
wise, her fellow friends were also very happy (Diana M.A. Relke.
(2011). 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. The definition also has to
include individualism and Collectivism. Some people are completely happy inside
a group, and will simply go along with whatever makes the group happy (Discussion
on ‘Interactionism in personality and social psychology: An integrated approach
to understanding the mind and behaviour’ by Reynolds,
Turner, Branscombe, Mavor, Bizumic,
and Subašić. (2010).
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 (Kaposi,
2017).
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 (RUSSELL, N. (2017). 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 (Streb, M., Conway,
M. A., & Michael, T. (2017). 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 (Trajectory Tracking
Control Based on Skinner’s Operant Conditioning. (2015). The tools Skinner
found in the textbook Wundt wrote decades before, were straight out of the Trojan
War (Roisman, H. M. (2008). A collection of stories
designed to OC and CR the reader into believing the Trojans were bad and that
their being Genocided was a good and justified course of actions by the culture
Agamemnon assembled, Psychology is built from an examination of those stories.
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 (Cowan, N., &
Rachev, N. R. (2018). 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, group psychosis,
and genocide level hatred of Jews. Trojans are Jews. The authors have taken the
words of the nom de plume “Homer” and turned what should be considered a holocaust
story of genocide and turned it into a solid story where the incredibly fictional
bad behavior of a central character “Paris” steals the wife of the brother of
one of the Trojans fiercest enemies Agamemnon (Kydros,
D., Notopoulos, P., & Exarchos,
G. (2015). 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 (OC) 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 (Manabe, K. (2017). 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 (Bowling,
D. L. (2017). 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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