Is our mentality country based ?

[Eichhörnchen]

Moira mentioned an interesting post earlier (on a friend's FaceBook antiquities group) detailing the many outside intrusions into our islands and the subsequent inbreeding - which has made us all who we are. I have Samoan ancestry, believe it or not, yet my father was a Welshman and my mother a Kentish lass. Wtf? But if this is who we are then our American brothers can only despair of finding out where they came from!

[Skybird]

What has happened to you squirrely genes?

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Moira mentioned an interesting post earlier (on a friend's FaceBook antiquities group) detailing the many outside intrusions into our islands and the subsequent inbreeding - which has made us all who we are. I have Samoan ancestry, believe it or not, yet my father was a Welshman and my mother a Kentish lass. Wtf? But if this is who we are then our American brothers can only despair of finding out where they came from!

IMO this is where all the world’s problems come from.

25% Finland
25% Norway
25% Germanic Europe
11% Scotland
4% Eastern Europe and Russia
4% France
3% Baltics
3% Indigenous North American Indians

[mapuc]

Another thing when it comes to mentality and psychology is that you can put a dedicated vote and a fanatic football fan into the same box.

And it hasn't anything to do with where they were born-Fanatic football fan and dedicated voters are thinking mentally alike.

It's something I have observed throughout the decades.

Markus

[Skybird]

Loyalist party affiliation and football hooliganism and tribalism have indeed plenty in common.

No, I'm not joking.

[Sean C]

I think our mentality is indeed affected by where we live. In the video below (at 7m27s), the presenter explains that some cultures count and think logarithmically. If you show them a number line from 1 to 9 and ask which number is in the middle, they will answer "3". The reason is because 3 is three times larger than 1, and 9 is three times larger than 3.

The thing is, you'll get the same answer from a young child. Because that's the way our brains naturally work. We must learn to count in a linear way.

This is just one example of many which illustrate how our thought processes are affected by our environment. Another, which springs to mind just now, is the saying that "Americans think 100 years is a long time. Europeans think 100 miles is a long way."

[Rockstar]

It’s one of the laws of the universe called the Law of Causation.

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Another thing when it comes to mentality and psychology is that you can put a dedicated vote and a fanatic football fan into the same box.

And it hasn't anything to do with where they were born-Fanatic football fan and dedicated voters are thinking mentally alike.

It's something I have observed throughout the decades.

Markus

Originally Posted by Skybird

Loyalist party affiliation and football hooliganism and tribalism have indeed plenty in common.

No, I'm not joking.

I don't agree at all. Party affiliation may be handed down in families. In my own family though, we thought and voted how we felt. Considering how contentious some issues could be, we simply chose not to discuss politics at family gatherings.

With sports like football and especially hockey, adrenaline fueled a lot of things. Getting into fights or having issues with opposing players goes hand in hand with Hockey. Fights are the norm. With politics, one should expect a small degree of civility. Most often, that's not the case.