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Ruth Benedict

American anthropologist known for her contributions to cultural anthropology and social anthropology. Benedict focused on the differences between cultures and how these differences affect human behavior and social structures. more

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“Systemic study of national differences requires a certain generosity as well as tough-mindedness. The study of comparative religions has flourished only when men are secure enough in their own convictions to be unusually generous. They might be Jesuits or Arabic savants or unbelievers, but they could not be zealots. The study of comparative cultures too cannot flourish when men are so defensive about their own way of life that it appears to them to be by definition the sole solution in the world. Such men will never know the added love of their own culture which comes from a knowledge of other ways of life. They cut themselves off from a pleasant and enriching experience.”

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Book:The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture
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“1. The WORLD problem is that we see eachother as separate from ourselves, but despite our vast differences in perception, we are all someone else's child, parent, etc, we are all loved and cared for by someone, and we are all HUMAN. 2. Stop preaching about your pro-life faith while you're supporting another human's death, whether it be a human difference of gender or gender identity, race, culture, politics, or nation. It's hypocritical. 3.There is a time to live and a time to die for everyone, and no matter how much we think we control that dialog, no matter what means creates our living and dying, it is as it is meant to be; or, do we not see life and death happening despite our perspectives?”

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Author:Deanna L. Lawlis
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