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In My Culture — LessWrong

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Sometimes, in the middle of a conversation—especially if things are heated or tense or confusing—they’ll pause, and they’ll say something like: “I’m sorry, but—look. In my culture…” …and then they’ll go on to explain something that one might easily mistake for a rule, or a request, or the enforcement of a social norm, but which is actually (as far as I can tell) just a statement about the version of the world they carry around inside their head. Because none of us quite have the same culture, after all. We all differ in different ways from the Basic Package—even those of us who’ve lived in the same towns, gone to the same schools, worked in the same industries, played the same sports, read the same books, watched the same shows—we’ve all got our own unique little takes, built up out of the odd quirks of our parents, tiny traumas and formative experiences, countless accumulated musings about how Things Could Be So Much Better If Everyone Would Just _________! And so Your Culture, though

x In My Culture — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2019 Conversation (topic) Inferential Distance Social & Cultural Dynamics Frontpage 79 In My Culture by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) 7th Mar 2019 Linkpost for medium.com 28 min read 60 79 This is a linkpost for https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/in-my-culture-29c6464072b2 One of my colleagues has a neat little trick. Sometimes, in the middle of a conversation— especially if things are heated or tense or confusing—they’ll pause, and they’ll say something like: “I’m sorry, but—look. In my culture…” …and then they’ll go on to explain something that one might

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