In your meta point, you portray other cultures as antagonistic and employing different axes. This opinion would belong to the 2,4 quadrant (worse, different), right? Or is it just me sitting in 1,3 relative to you?
I meant that the positions 1,2,3,4 are typical for large and complex societies (not only Western ones),and 5,6 for small and primitive societies. The main difference is that in a primitive society, your tribe interacts with the strangers often. In a large society, unless you live on the border, the vast majority of your interactions is with your neighbors. Your opinions about strangers are mostly for signalling for your neighbors, because you interact with strangers very rarely.
My assumption is that people are usually antagonistic to their competitors. This is why in a small society I expect more overt hostility to strangers.
A large society usually has some rules to supress hostility, but more importantly, most of the remaining hostility is targeted towards your neighbors belonging to the opposing faction. Thus less hostility towards strangers. Actually, your faction can use friendly attitudes towards strangers as their attire. It does not actually have to be sincere. (For example, as an anti-racist you are not required to have friends among people of other races. And having friends among people of other races does not make you an anti-racist; it will usually not be even accepted as an evidence. The only requirement of an anti-racist is that they must hate racists and support other anti-racists. And symetrically, the only requirement of a racist is to hate anti-racists and support other racists. The actual hate towards people of other races in a private life is not required. It’s about belonging to a faction in the internal conflict; the actual strangers are mostly irrelevant. A person worshiping noble savages is not expected to adopt their lifestyle. Only to worship them, and thus show superiority over the less enlightened neighbors who don’t worship the same noble savages.) So the complex society can split along “anti-stranger” and “pro-stranger”, or “strangers are the same” and “strangers are different” axes. Unless is has other, more important internal divisions, for example religious ones.
My position is that people are biologically very similar (1), but living in some culture often makes them accept the cultural norms, which can seem completely crazy to us (4 - with the exception that we should morally care about what they do to their own people; we just shouldn’t naively expect that they will share our concerns). I do consider complex cultures mostly better than primitive ones (2), with one significant exception that a life in a primitive society, although shorter and more painful, is probably less frustrating (3 - in one specific aspect, which is rather low on my personal priority list).
I think that in Western societies, political correctness plays the role religion has in other societies. So I would expect other societies to be less concerned about strangers, and more concerned about whatever is the burning religious topic for them. So instead of using strangers as arguments for their political positions, they would use something else. But they may be mindkilled about strangers because of what their religion says about them.
In your meta point, you portray other cultures as antagonistic and employing different axes. This opinion would belong to the 2,4 quadrant (worse, different), right? Or is it just me sitting in 1,3 relative to you?
I meant that the positions 1,2,3,4 are typical for large and complex societies (not only Western ones),and 5,6 for small and primitive societies. The main difference is that in a primitive society, your tribe interacts with the strangers often. In a large society, unless you live on the border, the vast majority of your interactions is with your neighbors. Your opinions about strangers are mostly for signalling for your neighbors, because you interact with strangers very rarely.
My assumption is that people are usually antagonistic to their competitors. This is why in a small society I expect more overt hostility to strangers.
A large society usually has some rules to supress hostility, but more importantly, most of the remaining hostility is targeted towards your neighbors belonging to the opposing faction. Thus less hostility towards strangers. Actually, your faction can use friendly attitudes towards strangers as their attire. It does not actually have to be sincere. (For example, as an anti-racist you are not required to have friends among people of other races. And having friends among people of other races does not make you an anti-racist; it will usually not be even accepted as an evidence. The only requirement of an anti-racist is that they must hate racists and support other anti-racists. And symetrically, the only requirement of a racist is to hate anti-racists and support other racists. The actual hate towards people of other races in a private life is not required. It’s about belonging to a faction in the internal conflict; the actual strangers are mostly irrelevant. A person worshiping noble savages is not expected to adopt their lifestyle. Only to worship them, and thus show superiority over the less enlightened neighbors who don’t worship the same noble savages.) So the complex society can split along “anti-stranger” and “pro-stranger”, or “strangers are the same” and “strangers are different” axes. Unless is has other, more important internal divisions, for example religious ones.
My position is that people are biologically very similar (1), but living in some culture often makes them accept the cultural norms, which can seem completely crazy to us (4 - with the exception that we should morally care about what they do to their own people; we just shouldn’t naively expect that they will share our concerns). I do consider complex cultures mostly better than primitive ones (2), with one significant exception that a life in a primitive society, although shorter and more painful, is probably less frustrating (3 - in one specific aspect, which is rather low on my personal priority list).
I think that in Western societies, political correctness plays the role religion has in other societies. So I would expect other societies to be less concerned about strangers, and more concerned about whatever is the burning religious topic for them. So instead of using strangers as arguments for their political positions, they would use something else. But they may be mindkilled about strangers because of what their religion says about them.
I don’t see what you mean by political correctness playing the role of religion.