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Zero · Post by **Zero** » 2005-09-10 12:46pm

Yes, I suppose with intelligence being as ill-defined as it is, it would be quite impossible to correlate any social trends to it. Although I don't know where you pull the bit about nations having emotions like people from... I've never seen or heard of that.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-09-10 01:13pm

Zero132132 wrote:Yes, I suppose with intelligence being as ill-defined as it is, it would be quite impossible to correlate any social trends to it. Although I don't know where you pull the bit about nations having emotions like people from... I've never seen or heard of that.

It's from political science. People tend to personify states and assign human behavior and motives to them, unconsciously if nothing else, while in fact states do no such thing.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-09-10 01:29pm

RedImperator wrote:
Zero132132 wrote:Yes, I suppose with intelligence being as ill-defined as it is, it would be quite impossible to correlate any social trends to it. Although I don't know where you pull the bit about nations having emotions like people from... I've never seen or heard of that.
It's from political science. People tend to personify states and assign human behavior and motives to them, unconsciously if nothing else, while in fact states do no such thing.

Isn't that basically another way of saying people assign stereotypes to nations? At least that's how it sounds anyways.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-09-10 04:02pm

General Zod wrote:
RedImperator wrote:
Zero132132 wrote:Yes, I suppose with intelligence being as ill-defined as it is, it would be quite impossible to correlate any social trends to it. Although I don't know where you pull the bit about nations having emotions like people from... I've never seen or heard of that.
It's from political science. People tend to personify states and assign human behavior and motives to them, unconsciously if nothing else, while in fact states do no such thing.
Isn't that basically another way of saying people assign stereotypes to nations? At least that's how it sounds anyways.

No, that's not the same thing at all. People assign states human motivations and emotions ("The United States is angry" "Zimbabwe is grateful"), and then get blindsided when states don't act in accordance with those assigned emotions, because states are NOT people and will act in their percieved self-interest in situations where a human would act differently (if you must personify nations, personify them as rational sociopaths who will never take any action if they do not percieve it to be in their self interest).