Don't expect rationality from Americans - UPDATED | 113 comments (113 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Don't expect rationality from Americans (none / 0)

Case in point: the attitude of Lenin and Trotsky towards the value of religion in society. The cause and effect is rather clear there.

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by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Apr 21st, 2009 at 01:52:30 AM EST
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Strictly speaking you don't know what the effect is since the WVS wasn't being conducted 90 years ago.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 21st, 2009 at 03:42:31 AM EST
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Re: Don't expect rationality from Americans (4.00 / 2)

I somehow have difficulty imagining that a poll on the attitude of Soviet citizens towards the Russian Orthodox Church or religion in general would have shown ANY positive attitudes in the 1930s. Just having a pollster pose the question would have been an effective immediate substitute for a laxative for those with any sympathy for religion during those times.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Apr 22nd, 2009 at 10:36:57 AM EST
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Or we can look at the cognitive shifts regarding economy in China, Russia and Eastern Europe the last 20 years.

by das monde on Tue Apr 21st, 2009 at 07:56:31 AM EST
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If we look at those regions, the effect of the economic situation on the (less talked about in this diary) right-left dimension of the diagram should also be clear.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Apr 21st, 2009 at 10:20:57 AM EST
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Re: Don't expect rationality from Americans (4.00 / 3)

Actually, one of the first maps presented in the book is broken down not by "Protestant Europe", "Catholic Europe", etc, but by income, low/middle/high, with the economic zones taken from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, 2002. I didn't see this map on the website. Frankly I paid more attention to the book which goes into greater detail on the methodology and theoretical spadework the authors rely on.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Tue Apr 21st, 2009 at 11:54:41 AM EST
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Don't expect rationality from Americans - UPDATED | 113 comments (113 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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