I don’t get it
Somehow, a predisposition to behavior that protects your livelihood is “belligerent”? I’m Scots-Irish and Southern, I should be really violent.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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November 8th, 2013 at 9:32 am
It appears that there is a rash of Australian intellectual investigation of the American South just lately. It’s enough to make you wonder where all the “Scots-Irish” who didn’t come here ended up. Class? Anyone? Hell if Capt Cook had never sailed, they’d all be Georgians by conviction.
Pretty nasty anti-herding mentality. Didn’t hunting bands compete violently for prey and territory, being already armed? Did men not contend for the more fertile fields, or the produce thereof? What about water, rivers and springs? I have a theory of how the Evolutionary Psychologist evolved, but, see, if I publish it, I become one.
I’m tempted to go with “That doesn’t mean Americans are more violent than other people. We’re just better shots,” and leave it at that. You may add “More who need killing” if you think that will make them go home.
November 8th, 2013 at 10:24 am
Wasn’t Australia populated in large part by transportees of identical heritage to the indentured servitude immigrants populating the American South?
Maybe this article and the others is an effort by those Aussies with English transportee ancestors to maintain a bit of cultural hegemony over their fellow countrymen of Irish and Scotch extraction.
November 8th, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Heh, scots-Irish on my mom’s side & Russian-Mongolian on dad’s side, born in NC.
I should be REALLY violent. 🙂
SteveA
November 8th, 2013 at 7:23 pm
Criminee people, “belligerent” has a meaning, basically being -overly- aggressive, looking for offense where none is intended, not allowing for deescalation lest you appear weak, that sort of thing. Simply assertively defending ones rights is by definition -not- belligerent because you aren’t going looking for trouble.
And the study is not claiming genetics is determinative; it just notes that honor societies have certain traits, certain immigrant groups to the US were honor societies and tended to settle in certain areas and developed their own cultural mores that had elements of those traditional honor societies.
In a way, how you respond to this article is sort of a test of belligerence. There’s nothing in it that is -objectively- insulting or offensive, to take it that way requires looking to be offended, on a certain level.