Really cool map

[panoramicgreen]

 
In the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, every country in the world is put on a simple grid, with two values as /x/ and /y/ axes.  The two values relate to how traditional (religious) or secular the people of a nation are, and which value the nation regards (or needs to regard) more: survival or self-expression.  
They are called formally

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[sachem_head]

That is a very interesting map. I find myself staring at it, trying to find out what it might mean. How did they arrive at these numbers? Why is it called a map? How does it communicate geography? Or is it suggesting some sort of cultural geography?

I'm particularly interested in the grouping of dots for Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland, for example. Why, of the four kingdoms of the United Kingdom, does Northern Ireland get its own dot? Is it further astray from the Great Britain statistical mean than Scotland, England or Wales? Is the difference between the vertical axis location of the three (the traditiona/secular axis) merely the percentage of Catholics?

Hmmm...

because they _look_ like us (white/European-looking)

[redbaydreamer]

I think this is an interesting thought. We tend to try to find people who "look like us" when we are looking to make friends. I have to admit that I often am taken aback when someone looks like me (dresses in a similar way, drives a similar car, lives in similar housing, goes to a similar church) and they are not like me at all. I find myself wondering if I am the one who is different (wrong). I remember that on a state wide committe that I was on two of the people that I identified with the most as "being like me" were both black. It was especially interesting because one was a PHD university professor and the other was a life long activist. But, when we talked about issues and core values theirs were a lot like mine. So, what we are looking for is people who "look like us" deep in their souls and how do you figure that out. It is not easy and it takes "kissing a lot of frogs" so to speak to find them. The trick is to keep looking and not give up. I know in recent years we have given up and relied on ourselves for deep

[dads_skrink]

Usually a "map" illustrating an idea makes sense, but I will have to study this some more before I make any sense of the map.