How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”

Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by linuxftw on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:26AM (#22066024)

Enforcing culture is highly discriminatory. You have to talk, dress, and act a certain way within cultural boundaries, otherwise you're discriminated against.

Imagine you're in a job interview. You describe the position to a candidate, and the candidate says "Wow, that sounds cool."

You describe the position to a different candidate. That person says "Shxt, that's tight dog."

Does one sound more professional to you? Why? Are you going to make any inferences about that persons capability to be a good employee based on how they speak? Of course you are. Is that right? Probably not.

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by Digory on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:33PM (#22068563)

All norms reflect a certain kinds of power.

We seem to be in a period where norms are assumed to be malicious or harmful, where the majority has a moral obligation to minimize the advantages of following norms.

At bottom, though, that's just an attack on all norms.

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