Map of the Day

[Brian Howell]

The Map of the Day is a thought exercise on the map's unspecified design criteria. It is not simply a contest of who can find the answer the quickest. 

[jack saunders]

What is heavily latitudinal, with complete difference by hemispheres?

 

Hint?  Is this cultural or geological?

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The Map of the Day is a thought exercise on the map's unspecified design criteria. It is not simply a contest of who can find the answer the quickest. 

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[Brian Howell]

Cultural.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:18 PM, jack saunders <jack...@pacbell.net> wrote:

What is heavily latitudinal, with complete difference by hemispheres?

 

Hint?  Is this cultural or geological?

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Subject: [Ipse Dixit] Map of the Day

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[David Fetter]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 08:19:51AM -0700, Brian Howell wrote:
> *The Map of the Day is a thought exercise on the map's unspecified design
> criteria**. It is not simply a contest of who can find the answer the
> quickest. *
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8QRpi3UdN4U/V-0vwuLw6YI/AAAAAAAABKs/-V_cdryLk3ckZzZOSqejLBP6UI2utB4JQCLcB/s1600/motd.png>

Feelings?

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[Brian Howell]

What kind of feelings?

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[David Fetter]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:36:48PM -0700, Brian Howell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:39 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 08:19:51AM -0700, Brian Howell wrote:
> > > *The Map of the Day is a thought exercise on the map's unspecified design
> > > criteria**. It is not simply a contest of who can find the answer the
> > > quickest. *
> > >
> > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8QRpi3UdN4U/V-0vwuLw6YI/
> > AAAAAAAABKs/-V_cdryLk3ckZzZOSqejLBP6UI2utB4JQCLcB/s1600/motd.png>
> >
> > Feelings?
>

> What kind of feelings?

Bad ones, like the kind I get when people top-post ;)

[Brian Howell]

David,

I'm going to give it to you. I'm amazed at how quickly you got it. (Are you sure you didn't use Google Image Search?)

Anyway, the map displays an assessment of countries' emotionalism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/11/28/a-color-coded-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-emotional-countries/.

Sorry, about the top-post, all. 

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[Scott Hotes]

Very interesting.  Although after reading the article, I'm not sure the word

"emotional" is really right here.  Maybe "stoic", or a willingness to show your

emotions, but I consider this very different from actually being emotional, or

have a depth of emotion.

Although certainly not scientific, it seems that great writing, the kind that 

demonstrates a depth of emotion, correlates with societies that have developed

some level of stoicism, possibly due to hardship.  Like the American south,

and 19th century Russia.

Scott

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[jack saunders]

There's an interesting cultural assumption:  we don't have many feelings.  They....rather more.

A good thing, or bad thing?  Who knows?

 

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[jack saunders]

This takes me back to the frenzied days after 9-11, when pious liberals were fretting mightily over some early journalistic descriptions of Middle Easterners as "excitable" people.  As this map suggests, there may be decent data to support that characterization, but it drives the PC crowd up the walls.

 

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[Scott Hotes]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 3:16 PM, jack saunders <jack...@pacbell.net> wrote:

This takes me back to the frenzied days after 9-11, when pious liberals were fretting mightily over some early journalistic descriptions of Middle Easterners as "excitable" people.  As this map suggests, there may be decent data to support that characterization, but it drives the PC crowd up the walls.

It may be pious or PC to say it, but calling Middle Easterners "excitable" sounds like a racial (or at best cultural) slur to me.  It's certainly hard to see how this isn't pejorative.  It's a word that would be hard to define in context, and allows a lot of people who are looking for, and looking to capitalize on, differences in people just another avenue to do so.

[jack saunders]

It may be pious or PC to say it, but calling Middle Easterners "excitable" sounds like a racial (or at best cultural) slur to me.  It's certainly hard to see how this isn't pejorative.  It's a word that would be hard to define in context, and allows a lot of people who are looking for, and looking to capitalize on, differences in people just another avenue to do so.

Scott -- that's the journalistically tricky part -- when it's pejorative to us, but a point of pride to them.....whoever "them" is.

Newsweek used it first, in talking about possible "lowback" in the "Arab street" for any retaliatory action.  It was a cautionary point used to urge restraint on the Bush administration.  As things turned out, it was a point well taken (or, more accurately, recklessly ignored.)