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Locaha comments on [Link] Changelings, Infanticide and Nortwest European Guilt Culture - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Locaha 03 January 2014 07:25:15PM -2 points [-]

In guilt cultures, social control is regulated more by guilt than by shame, as is the case in shame cultures that exist in most parts of the world. A crucial difference between these types of cultures is that while shame cultures require other people to shame the wrongdoer, guilt cultures do not.

I see a sentence like this, EXTREME OVERSIMPLIFICATION WARNING goes off in my head and I don't read further.