Is the ability to survive culture shock, indicative?

Question

indicative that the only reason humans keep waring and killing them selves is that some are not able to learn peaceful culture. what does this mean if capcity to learn culture is a defineing point of modern humans?

Answer 1

I don't see much of a connection between war and culture shock.  War is a means of extending power, controlling resources, spreading beliefs, etc. not a failure to learn "peaceful culture" and certainly not a result of culture shock.  Culture is anything we as humans learn in a social setting ("that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Tylor, 1871).  Warfare is a part of this "complex whole" and not a result of the failure to adapt to it.  Warfare is not even a human trait as it exists among several other species (the best example and the least surprising is troops of Chimps attacking and killing other Chimps; the even ambush which you would have to call guerilla/gorilla warfare).

Answer 2

i have traveled so many times that culture shock has nothing to do with me.  some people "lets say the country boy america" would probally kill themselves.

Answer 3

Waging war is not only the rejection of other cultures.Nationalism,idiology, economics, greed, tribal affiliations, clan and family; all these and more will ensure we will always have wars.  Adaption is nothing more than a compromise, and compromising on the same subject a few times will negate  the subject to insignifigance.  Thats why nation and countries dislike compromising

Answer 4

As a species, we humans have shown ourselves to be quite adaptable.  That does not mean that all individual humans are equally adaptable.  You also need to bear in mind that gradual adaptation, while relatively peaceful, is slow.  Quick adaptations usually occur because only a lucky few  survive the change:  those who happen to have whatever trait best suits the changing condition, or those who have access to whatever resource is needed to ameliorate the changing condition.  

A couple of thoughts to mull over:

1.  Almost all genetically inherited behavioral traits are helpful under some cirumstances and dangerous in others.  

2.  One of the functions of any culture is to instill in its members ways to channel the expression of these traits that the culture finds acceptable.  "Culturally acceptable" is a highly plastic concept.

3.  Cultural conditioning usually goes unnoticed until something outside the pale happens, and that is usually a shock, probably an unpleasant one, perhaps even deadly.

4.  Cultural conditioning can be difficult for individuals to overcome, but it is done every day, both unconsciously and purposefully.

Answer 5

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I believe that the potential for violence exists in humans, but war comes from the fact that people with power exploit that in people in order to benefit from the war.  Was there ever a war where someone didn't gain from it while the little people died in it?

Our fears and prejudices are fed by specific interests of the powerful few.

Think about the economic conditions in Europe when the crusades were undertaken; think about Iraq and oil; think about the confederacy that took us into the civil war.

Answer 6

our culture evolves far slower than our technology