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Originally posted by Undertoad
The thing is, in the shame culture, what other people believe is more important than what actually happened.... the instinct is to deny at all costs, because the truth is not really so important...
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Could have sworn I posted this link before the last time "shame culture" came up, but I can't find it searching so I'll post it.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/20...ngewiesche.htm
<i><b>The Crash of EgyptAir 990</b>
Two years afterward the U.S. and Egyptian governments are still quarreling over the cause—a clash that grows out of cultural division, not factual uncertainty. A look at the flight data from a pilot's perspective, with the help of simulations of the accident, points to what the Egyptians already know: the crash was caused not by any mechanical failure but by a pilot's intentional act</i>
07-08-2002, 02:47 PM
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