469). Download Print. GELFAND: I really had a lot of culture shock. The U.S. is just different from other places in a variety of ways that we often dont stop to think about. GELFAND: So, that has a lot of other effects on debt, on alcoholism, on recreational drug use. 493 Update) Adam Smith famously argued that specialization is the key to prosperity. The U.S. assembled a coalition of allies. But Gelfand saw an even bigger question: How can you understand culture if you dont know exactly what it is? Freakonomics, M.D. Freakonomics Science 4.7 932 Ratings; Each week, physician and economist Dr. Bapu Jena will dig into a fascinating study at the intersection of economics and healthcare. GELFAND: I was watching this negotiation between Tariq Aziz and James Baker. Greeks are very strong on that. Is that the case? When you have teenagers, youre tight, at least for me. And I was interested in this, and I thought maybe it would tell us something about an innate human psychology for reciprocity or something like that. I do this for you and you do this for me. Folks who come from a collective standpoint where, I do this for you, but youre doing this for us thats a very, very different way of seeing the world. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a . You have to behave like a family member if you want to be one. That, again, is the cross-cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand. China is also very collectivistic and so are the Southeast Asian countries, but not Japan. Freakonomics Radiois produced by Stitcher and Renbud Radio. But, lets look at the pandemic from a different angle: which country produced the most effective Covid-19 vaccines? Oh say, can you see, the home run I just hit. HOFSTEDE: So collectivistic cultures are those of the Amerindian empires. HOFSTEDE: Look, guys, we can do it. But even a loose country will tighten up when a threat arises. Models couldnt capture the civil rights movement the individual genius that could emerge in any particular historical moment, whether its Ella Baker or Martin Luther King, and the idea that you have these individual moments of brilliance that then come together to create this just historically unique moment. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.. Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet.With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and . Whereas in countries that are bogged down in cronyism and corruption, it doesnt happen. 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And he said the reason was that he was a young postdoc, and he had holes in his jeans. Not just regular weird. Always check that your browser shows a closed lock icon and . We just need to do it. The average U.S. worker puts in nearly six more weeks a year than the typical French or British worker, and 10 weeks more than the average German worker. How much time have you spent thinking about what makes America, America? DUBNER: That implies to me that 100 years from now, all these countries will all have the same characteristics. GELFAND: We have a lot of work to do, theres no question. Latin countries tend to be more collectivistic, especially Spain and Portugal not so much Italy and France. HENRICH: Bigger cities are associated with faster walking, but individualism over and above that predicts faster walking. It's part of our founding D.N.A. DUBNER: Where is the loosest place in America? It was: And your culture, your American culture, is very different. At this point, we should probably define terms. HOFSTEDE: You could say these six dimensions of culture, they are perimeters to our sociality. Tightness may create compliance; but looseness can drive innovation and creativity. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we're also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on "uncertain. The U.S. is a pretty successful country, maybe the most successful country on many dimensions in the history of the world. Q uite soon after the Freakonomics guys, Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt, walk into their office on New York's Upper West Side for our interview, the scene resolves itself into the kind of . I hate to call out Michele Gelfand, but even in the loosest of cultures, dogs dont have unfettered access to food. Gelfand says the countries that were most aggressive in trying to contain Covid tended to be tighter countries. They made sure to include a variety of ages, occupations, religions, social and economic classes. HENRICH: And Americans have this probably worse than anybody. By the way, Gelfand doesnt really take a position on whether loose or tight is superior. Gelfand would disagree. BROADCASTER: The subject denies the evidence of his own eyes and yields to group influence. GELFAND: I was planning to become a cross-cultural trainer to work at the State Department and train people to understand culture. Historically, politically, and yes culturally. Some of the measurable differences were a bit odd. When most readers think economics, they think advanced math, complicated models, and subjects like unemployment, the stock market, and the trade deficit. The future could be bright. All that it takes is to get out of their cages of bickering and anxiety. The final dimension on the Hofstede model is called indulgence versus restraint. Groups that tend to have threat tend to develop stricter rules to coordinate. Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92YplusThe Best of Freakonomics with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, m. People who went out to California, I would say if we gave them the tight-loose mindset quiz, they were probably on the looser mindset. This episode was produced byBrent Katz. NEAL: You have no real other example of a country that has brought together so many different national and ethnic and racial backgrounds. Very soon, there will be an Institute of Gladwell Studies. Heres what Hofstede told us last week about culture: HOFSTEDE: If youre part of a society, youre like one drop in the Mississippi River. We presume male public voice. And I think thats always going to be an ongoing tension this idea of America thats rooted in individualism, thats rooted in transactional practices. Long Island, New York, is thebirthplace of the American suburb. So the Singapore government says, Look, this is our culture The rest of that sentence didnt have to be said. In Germany, for instance, labor unions often have a representative on company boards, which can radically change the dynamic between companies and employees. The best thing you can become is yourself. GELFAND: In societies that are tighter, people are willing to call out rule violators. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. GELFAND: Exactly. So if you base your understanding of a given culture on a body of research that fails to include them, youll likely fail to understand how that culture thinks whether were talking about another country or a group within your own country. When it was time for college, Gelfand went all the way to upstate New York: Colgate University. Educated. And you speak fast because I dont want to waste a lot of time talking. High religiosity coupled with high individualism reveals another feature of American culture. In the N.F.L., the long snapper is . Consider the prominent Muppets Bert and Ernie. And we made sure that the subjects knew that the money was coming from an organization, that the giver did not get any of the money, we ratcheted up our levels of anonymity. What was in these surveys? GELFAND: Were trained from a very early age not just to be independent, but to be better. DUBNER: When youre inclined to look at the U.S. in a positive light, do you find uncertainty avoidance to be largely a force for the good in terms of creating and building a strong society, or do you think its more ? HOFSTEDE: If I had been born in America, I would have liked it, probably, because I would have been used to it. Why the business school? This realization is what led us to todays episode of Freakonomics Radio. These are stereotypical names. It suggests that as in most things in life balance is desirable. GELFAND: Having more adaptability, more innovation. So were all constraining one another through our collective culture. My uncles like, Hey, I have something to show you. My first day in America, he showed me the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. OLIVER: When was that moment when America became the most American America it could possibly be? So yeah, the U.S. has that assignment ahead of it. HOFSTEDE: And when he took the job in Lausanne, he found that the international group of pupils at his classes, if he asked them the same questions, came up with the same dimensions. GELFAND: And I thought, If these kinds of cultural differences are happening at the highest levels, we better start understanding this stuff.. Everybody gets tickled until they laugh. DUBNER: And Im guessing youre the spontaneous type. It was a collaboration between Hofstede the Elder, his son Gert Jan, whod begun working with him by now, and a Bulgarian linguist named Michael Minkov, who had been analyzing data from the World Values Survey. The authors seek to find simple answers to complicated world problems. He did some work in the factory and it shaped him to a great extent because there, he could see that the world of the organization looks so differently from the floor than it does from above. Here in the U.S., its actually a rule violation to call out people who are violating norms. The fifth dimension in the Hofstede universe came in the early 1980s, in collaboration with a Canadian social psychologist named Michael Bond, who was working in Hong Kong. And when I started to work with Harry Triandis, who was one of the founders of the field, I thought, Wow, this is a super-interesting construct. Thats a crazy, creative solution to try to deal with the pandemic. HOFSTEDE: He decided to take a job there. We may not be the very loosest culture; but we are No. I think those fundamental religious beliefs extend to the American view of what leadership should look like outside of the church in the corporation, in the legislatures, and what have you. So you can see that in an individualistic society, after becoming a world champion in a sport or certainly after winning a major war, people do not fight one another, but they admire one another. And thats going to cultivate certain tonal abilities, which could feed into certain kinds of music, and things like that. Although it is more self-help than traditional economics it shares many of the weaknesses of more serious works in the discipline. Whereas people from less individualistic societies tend to be better at making relative-size judgments. According to the Pew Research Center, 80 percent of Americans claim to believe in God, 55 percent pray at least daily, and 36 percent attend a religious service at least once a week. This is really a conversation that pleases me a lot. Here are some things that tend to thrive in highly individual societies: human rights, a free press, divorce, and a faster pace of life. But its not only compliance. Also, he uses some very bold examples (crime rates versus abortion, drug dealership, cheating teachers, etc) to make some very simple . This interest goes back to those negotiations between Jim Baker and Tariq Aziz. You can even see the evidence in the clocks that appear on city streets. And how does this extraordinarily high level of individualism versus collectivism play out? Its also important to recognize that even though were really connected, still people are largely in their echo chambers, interacting with people who they know. NEAL: I often think about how the U.S. has historically thought about freedom and how, say, the Soviet bloc had talked about freedom. Then you can have something very good happening. Heres how he describes himself these days. He came to consider a company "honest" if its payment rate was above 90 percent. HENRICH: It chafes us when we get ordered around. So if you ask people to judge the absolute lengths of two lines, people in more individualistic societies tend to get that right. HOFSTEDE: In a cultural sense, no, I dont think so. This is the dimension based on data from the World Values Survey. individualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual. Fundamentally, individualism is a belief that the individual is an end in themself. Do you know what you are? It was freedom from all these debilitating things because the state would be able to provide for you. Freakonomics Quotes. A dream team of directors e. And other cultures are more loose. Well go through the other five dimensions, much faster, I promise. Im like, Were going to go to Singapore if you people dont behave.. Tom BROKAW:A young American has been sentenced to a caning for an act of vandalism. The second one measures what's called "power distance." (Don't worry, we'll explain the name . . Dubner speaks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, intellectuals and entrepreneurs, and various other underachievers. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we're also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better). Once you begin looking for evidence, you see an almost infinite array of examples. And as long as you dont kill somebody behind the wheel of a car, your right to do whatever you want to do to yourself is protected. Published: 31 October 2020. HOFSTEDE: He did social psychological work on what it is to be a manager. And there are other inconsistencies, especially in a country as large and diverse as the U.S. For instance, where you live. Ambiguity is good. Season 10, Episode 49. Individualism once . And I could see there, a little bit similarly to the U.S., how the various ethnicities are trying to live together. the Machiguenga were much closer to the predictions of Homo economicus, The Relationship Between Cultural TightnessLooseness and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths: A Global Analysis, States of Emergency: The Most Disaster-Prone States in the US, A Global Analysis of Cultural Tightness in Non-Industrial Societies, Have You Tried to Help Your Pet Lose Weight? The authors argue that humans usually make decisions based on the incentives for their actions. In the latest issue of American Scientist, statisticians Kaiser Fung and Andrew Gelman wrote a strong critique of Levitt and Dubner's work. Comprising four main documentary segments, each made by a different director -- including Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock, Taxi to the Dark Side's Alex Gibney, Why We Fight's Eugene Jarecki, and Jesus Camp's Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady-- the film examines . Employees were asked to rate how much they agreed with statements like Competition among employees usually does more harm than good. And, Having interesting work is just as important to most people as having high earnings., HOFSTEDE: Simple questions about daily things that people understand. We do lab experiments, field experiments, computational modeling. The New Yorker's Malcolm . And not attending enough to contextual factorsopportunities that presented themselves, being in the right place at the right time. Thats right: we are No. DUBNER: So I have to say, Gert Jan, youve made me feel kind of terrible about being American today. Well call it The U.S. Is Very Different from Other Countries So Lets Stop Pretending Its Not. Its the first in a series of episodes where well look at different pieces of that difference. She says these are merely visible indicators of a countrys tightness or looseness and its what you dont necessarily see that shapes a given countrys culture. But there must be, I would think, evolution across time, yes? One of the defining features of Americanism is our so-called rugged individualism. You might even call it wild individualism. We met him earlier, but just briefly; heres a proper introduction. Happiness is going to be lower, but crime, too. But Joe Henrich wanted to see how the Ultimatum experiments worked when it wasnt just a bunch of WEIRD college students. If youre violating the social order, youre going to be punished.. We said that a lot of good ideas and policies that work elsewhere in the world cant work in the U.S. because our culture is just different. Its also the cleaning lady. BERT: Ernie Ernie, dont eat those cookies while youre in your bed, huh? This episode was produced by Brent Katz. HOFSTEDE: High individualism is correlated with trying new stuff. They can freely float about. Most sociologists agree that individualistic cultures value individual choice, personal freedom, and self-actualization (Kemmelmeier 2002). What was I.B.M. Hofstede analyzed these data at what he called the ecological level. He explained this approach in a paper called Flowers, Bouquets, and Gardens the idea being that an individual flower is a subset of a mixed bouquet, which in turn is a subset of an entire garden, which has even more variation. It turns out that Americans were among the least likely to conform. Steven D. Levitt, the self-described "Rogue Economist" of the title, uses this tool to analyze a random assortment of . DUBNER: Im curious for advice on how we should balance weve become an economic powerhouse, and we recognize that there is a lot of benefit to that. Heres the dean of the National University of Singapores school of public health: YIK-YING TEO: We have a tradition of having national campaigns to galvanize people to proceed in a common direction. But theres something else to be said about American culture. Gert Jan HOFSTEDE: Culture is the ripples on the ocean of human nature. HOFSTEDE: So youre asking about cultural convergence. Again, its worth repeating that no culture is a monolith. But its important to acknowledge that no culture is a monolith. Like, you saw in the U.S. trying to locate Covid in sewage. After reading Freakonomics it really opens the reader's eyes to unseen things in everyday life. DUBNER: What problem was he, and later you, trying to solve by doing this work? Based on the bestselling book of the same name, FREAKONOMICS attempts to break down dense economic theories and data into digestible bits. We bring in neuroscience to understand all things cultural. And the research subject explained to him that, Oh, I feel so bad for you that you cant afford pants without holes in them that I cant take the money from this poor American kid. And it struck me as a way in which this experiment could be perverted. So rules for the sake of having rules are not good. Here in the U.S., its actually a rule violation to call out people who are violating norms. Hannah GADSBY: Have you ever noticed how Americans are not stupid? But if you want to talk about humans, Homo sapiens, then you have a generalization problem. Kumail NANJIANI: I was so excited to be in America I couldnt sleep. Europe has a strong influence from Germany, also from France. This failure leads to confusion at the very least, but quite possibly deeper misunderstandings, perhaps all the way up to hatred and violent conflict. I think thats a good litmus test of tight-loose. The U.S. comes in on the indulgent side, at 68. HENRICH: But if you want to talk about humans, then you have a problem. Thats John Oliver. Now, keep in mind this was London, English-speaking London not Uzbekistan or Botswana, even Mexico. The converse, which is what Anglo societies are high on, means you dont care about ambiguity. If you just look at Americans, its 70 percent American. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we're also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if . Culture is not genetics or biology or individual characteristics. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Read the excerpt from Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics. Each and every person has individual reasons for pursuing a career, or goal. How much should we attribute that success to these very same factors that create chaos on other dimensions? Whether this means something brings you financial, emotional, or even community benefit. To that end, the digital revolution is further shrinking the distance to power. So this is quite a while ago. And that happens a lot. Now, lets pull back and make an important point: labeling a given country tight or loose is an overall, aggregate measurement. So the picture that emerges from these findings is that Americans are less likely to conform in the name of social harmony; and we also treasure being consistent, expressing our true selves, regardless of the context. Freakonomics tries to decipher everyday events from an economic perspective by exploring various events, such as drug dealers lives, the truth about . It was there, and later on in travels in the Middle East, and working on a kibbutz, and elsewhere, that I started recognizing this really powerful force of culture that was incredibly important but really invisible. You're stuck in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers (and strange smells), defying gravity and racing through the sky. FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.. As for the U.S., Gelfand says the U.S. is not only loose but getting progressively looser. GELFAND: My own sweet Portuguese water dog, Pepper, I mean, that dog is just gigantic. But Im Dutch, of course. GELFAND: If youre in contexts where theres a lot of rules, you develop from a very early age that impulse control. (This is part of theFreakonomics RadioAmerican Culture series). So how it is that we acquire ideas, beliefs, and values from other people, and how this has shaped human genetic evolution. Download. Theyre what we call tight cultures. In a multitude of ways, large and small. HOFSTEDE: I like this question a lot. Sinopsis. The snob effect occurs when an individual's demand for a specific product increases when the number of units of that product other people purchase increases. Wed rather think about solutions temporarily rather than as, this might take some time. It means that we need to attract different types of people to an organization. 702 Episodes. For the last few months, the city-state has seen just a handful of Covid-19 cases. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism av Freakonomics Radio direkt i din mobil, surfplatta eller webblsare - utan app. Now that weve taken a top-down view of how the U.S. is fundamentally different from other countries, were going to spend some time over the coming weeks looking at particular economic and social differences, having to do with policing, child poverty, infrastructure, and the economy itself. In indulgent societies, more people play sports, while in restrained societies, sports are more something you watch. So after we ran that first project, we redid the entire project, and we took concerns like the one Francisco had. The individual agents/brokers only take a $150 hit after their costs/fees. Its the tiny differences in sociality. Why have rules if you dont use them? As of today, it covers six dimensions or, as the Hofstedes put it, six basic issues that society needs to organize itself. Its called the 6-D, or 6-Dimension, Model of National Culture, and it is one of the most intriguing explanations Ive ever seen for why American society is such an outlier in the world for better and worse. The spirit of competition of what Michele Gelfand calls vertical individualism seems to permeate every corner of American society. HOFSTEDE: They will look at them if they admire them, but they will look away if theyre afraid. The Hofstede scale puts the U.S. at 62 out of 100 on masculinity relatively high but substantially less masculine than China, Mexico, and much of Eastern Europe. Once he saw that differences were driven by nationality, Hofstede sensed he was on to something big. The concept of incentives is a way of explaining why human beings do things. Still, Gelfands horizons were suddenly expanded; and her curiosity was triggered. She argues that both styles have their upsides and their downsides. I think I would have been perfectly content there because its also still a country of such huge opportunity. The first is that a model of anything even nearly as complex as a national culture is bound to miss a lot of nuance. Stay up-to-date on all our shows. And its by no means easy. DUBNER: So does all the data come from workplace interviews essentially of white-collar and pink-collar workers, or does it go broader than that? 534. In 1990, when Gelfand was a graduate student, she followed the news as Iraq invaded Kuwait. I was on the phone with my dad, and I said, You know, its really crazy, all the differences between the U.K. and the U.S.. Weve interviewed dozens of academic researchers about lowering healthcare costs or improving access to childcare or building smarter infrastructure or creating a more equitable economy. So, culture is about values, beliefs, absorbed ideas and behaviors. On many Freakonomics Radio episodes, well hear about some idea or policy that works well elsewhere in the world but hasnt taken root in the U.S. Innovation requires coming up with a lot of ideas. I dont like to itch, Bert. In other places they dont think its a smart idea to be consistent. GELFAND: We have a whole new map of the U.S. where we can actually rank-order the U.S. 50 states in terms of how much threat they have. The examples include: school teachers and sumo wrestlers cheating, the Ku Klux . GELFAND: In Germany and in Japan, the clocks are really synchronized. Think Belarus, Myanmar, Russia, China. And thats different than in Scandinavia and in New Zealand and Australia, which has much more horizontal individualism. Caning as in a spanking, basically, on the bare buttocks, with a half-inch-thick rattan cane. 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