ESSAY A Tourtist's View of Marriage by Esther Perel
An insightful read on the Third Reality that is constructed and negotiated between partners of cultural difference.
"Another way to conceive of the spectrum is individualism versus collectivism. In low context societies such as Germany, the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, England, Australia, and the United States (often countries rooted in Protestant Calvinism), people compartmentalize personal relationships and work, and focus on short-term relationships. Factual information is stressed, as is explicit verbal expression. The high-context societies are more rural and less industrialized than the low-context societies. In Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean countries, the Arab world, India, China, and Indonesia, extensive information networks exist among family, friends, and colleagues. This shared experience allows for a greater degree of tacit understanding. People are often involved in close and lasting relationships."
In an age of mobility and constant crossing, how will our generation adapt to living out simultaneous realities?
great lens to show how what we think are everyday conflicts might actually be built into a structure that's too deep to reconcile. we've totally discussed "explicit verbal expression" and i still want to go on about it forever
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