Joined: 13 Nov 2017 Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 207 Location: New Zealand
15 Nov 2017, 8:41 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
Back in the 80's or 90's Sixty Minutes did this tongue-in-cheek segment about Finland. And its gloomy culture. But there is hope. They were importing a big dose of ...tango! But even the Finnish version of tango is not quite the same as the familiar hot blooded Latin American kind of tango.
Joined: 29 Oct 2011 Gender: Female Posts: 11,364 Location: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔
16 Nov 2017, 8:12 am
If the world is Autistic, then Filipinos are NTs. To the point that Western Psychology somehow describes the Filipino Personality like a cynical Aspie describing an NT complete with monotonous and technical descriptions and the like. Seriously... Even informal or heck, cynical natives that may or may not have a pseudointellectual streak, just minus monotones.
I dunno... I don't base the Autistic culture with traits and desires alone. What would happen to autistics who aren't reserved, shy, or quiet? Who aren't into STEM subjects and the like? It mattered a little if the cultural traits stems from the NT theory of mind. I'd say, I base the Autistic culture with the Autistic theory of mind -- and I'd sought an NT culture that developed something a bit similar or at least accustomed to said theory of mind -- where they expect that a native could be different from another. And no, it's not multiculturalism.
Ironically, I may or may not have been with such NT culture with all my life. Since I'm a pessimistic about it, I'd bet the latter.