Cultural explanation
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Racial curve fitting analysis
Indosaurus questions the popular claim that Arab culture explains Arab military defeats, noting that the same traits appear in Japanese corporate life and that Houthis and Hezbollah have outperformed. He…
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Why Pakistan is Middle Eastern
Using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, with Egypt as a control for rural, low-income societies, the author argues Pakistan scores like Egypt and unlike India on individualism, uncertainty avoidance and indulgence, and…
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Culture can be more powerful than biology
Sharing an interview with the author of a memoir on honour in Pakistan, the geneticist author argues honour killing shows that culture and kinship incentives can override biology, since fathers…
