Individualism

Where's Tom Joad Anyway?

Craig Werner | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Robert Putnam, The Ghost of Tom Joad, John Steinbeck, Social Capital, The Grapes of Wrath, Individualism, Bruce Springsteen, College News
Craig Werner

This idea that the American Dream involves making as much cash as possible for yourself is well out of date, and the time has come for a change.

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The Training Wheels Have Got to Come Off

Aaron Anson | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Acceptance, Religious Understanding, Self Esteem, Peace, Love and Relationships, Self-Awareness, Individualism, Politics News
Aaron Anson

The bottom line is that no matter what our beliefs are, they are often based largely on interpretations handed to us by others.

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The Doublespeak of "Freedom"

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Collective Society, Politics, Individualism, Freedom, Mitt Romney, Neoliberalism, Social Inequality, Individualistic Society, Wealth Inequality, National Rifle Association, Immigration, Latino Studies Arizona, Nra, Gun Laws, Latino Studies, Education Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Warren J. Blumenfeld

I am, quite frankly, concerned by Romney and other advocates of neoliberalist principles because they are based on individualistic, self-centered "freedoms," while opposing general responsibility for others and for a collective cooperative society.

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Jews In The Diaspora Are Not Partial Jews: A Response To A.B. Yehoshua

Carlo Strenger | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Jewish Identity, Jews, Diaspora Jews, Judaism, Individualism, Danny Cohn Bendit, A.b. Yehoshua, Classical Liberalism, Israel, Diaspora, Religion News
Carlo Strenger

I personally do not know what it means to be a complete or a partial Jew; moreover, I reject any demand that I need to live a full rather than a partial Jewish existence.

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American-Style Individualism in China? Looks Deceive

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Chinese Individualism, Andy Lau, Edison Chen, Aaron Kwok, Jay Chou, Liu Xiaobo, Hutong Fist, Chinese Conformity, Chen Danqing, Individuality, China Music Scene, Individualism, Chinese Music, China Comformity, World News
Tom Doctoroff

Surely the forces of change are reshaping the Chinese psyche. Surely people, once suppressed by colorless conformity, are embracing individualism. Sorry, but no.

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Blaze Your Own Trail!

Irene Tanner | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Katherine Hepurn, Herman Melville, Tolkien, Seuss, Selfreliance, Friedrich Nietzche, Michael Chrichton, Buddha, Quentin Crisp, Individualism, The Lost World, Famous Quotes, Emerson, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Romans 12:2, Culture News
Irene Tanner

Picture this: I am 16 years old attending my first English 101 class at Women's College, University of North Carolina. Our professor is Elizabeth Bowe...

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Super Committee Occupies My Miami Winter

Daniella Levine | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Occupy Miami, Community, Super Committee, Rev. Jim Wallis, Individualism, Occupy Wall Street, Miami Politics, Miami News
Daniella Levine

The Super Committee "fails." Occupiers are evicted. Cool weather comes to Miami. How do these relate if at all?

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A Chinese Century? Not Quite

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, Die Welt, American Values, 21st Century Superpower, What Chinese Want, Angelina Jolie, American Military, Chinese Values, Self-Actuallization, Military Power, Coca-Cola, Nike, Chinese Culture, Individualism, Chinese Assimilation, Soft Power, Johnny Depp, Chinese Diplomacy, Lady GaGa, World News
Tom Doctoroff

China will not easily capture hearts and minds. They will be an economic superpower only. The Chinese are ethnocentric and in large ways and small, an instinct to narrowly defend interests can be off putting.

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Business Must Understand U.S. Individualism and Conflicting Visions

Brad Reid | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Compromise, Business, New Deal, Competing Visions, Adam Smith, International Confidence, Individualism, Business News
Brad Reid

The debt ceiling debate is a small part a much larger clash of opposed visions about the relative roles of the public and private spheres of influence.

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China's Ambivalent Tiger Moms: When in Rome...

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Single Child Policy, Tang, Chinese Fathers, Ego, Little Emperors, EQ and IQ, Chinese Education, Chinese Mothers, Sugar Coated Pills, Wyeth, Chinese Hierarchy, Gao Kao, Confucian Child Rearing Practices, Pizza Hut, Individualism, Chinese Ambition, McDonald's, Chinese Universities, Amy Chua, Chinese College Entrance Exam, Western Child Rearing Practices, Kfc, Infant Nutrition, Tiger Moms, Danone, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Smarties, Dumex, World News
Tom Doctoroff

In the People's Republic, contemporary mothers, flooded with information that promote a more liberal model of modern parenting, are conflicted.

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No Looting in Japan

Amy Chavez | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Community, Natural Disasters, Politeness, Japan Earthquake, Japan, Looting, Japan Tsunami, Individualism, World News
Amy Chavez

People around the world have marveled at the lack of mass-looting in Japan. Is it the presence of "wa" that prevents people from looting, or the power of the individual that allows them to loot?

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The Uncomfortable Individualism Of Lent

David A. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christians, Christian Calendar, Temptation, Jesus, Individualism, Christianity, Wilderness, Lent, God, Religion News
David A. Davis

Lent and the temptation of Jesus. It's not about our morality, our piety, or our doing battle with the devil. It is about claiming our identity as God's people and soaking in Christ's wisdom.

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Even Our Parenting Is Shifting Right

Sally Kohn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Teamwork, Progressive, Individualism, James Dobson, Amy Chua, Conservative, Psychology, Worldview, Parenting, Right Wing, Self-Help, Ideology, Tiger Mom, Mama Grizzlies, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Healthy Living News
Sally Kohn

Hanging ornaments on her grandparents' Christmas tree, my two-year-old beamed with pride for having hooked a snowman on a branch all by herself. A ...

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A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Newspapers, Contrarian, Andrew Butler, Secession, Secede, Media, Democracy in America, Civil Rights, Republican, Partisan Press, History, Alexis De Tocqueville, World War I, American History, Yellow Journalism, Mob, Espionage Act, Mccarthyism, Slavery, Bleeding Kansas, Abraham Lincoln, Julian Assange, House Divided, Preston Brooks, Caning, Civil War, Tea Party Republicans, Southern Strategy, Heritage, Missouri Compromise, Democrat, Tocqueville, Red-Baiting, Yellow Dog, Anti-War, Vincennes Gazette, Cane, South, Chris Weigant, Individualism, Sesquicentennial, Fox News, Being Mobbed, Lyndon Johnson, 150th Anniversary, News, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

While we are indeed currently politically divided and somewhat polarized, this is actually our normal state as a nation -- and on the polarization scale, we're nowhere near the "most divided" we've ever been. Far from it.

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Outside the Fences

Jon Foreman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth, Switchfoot, Music, Music History, Individualism, Impact News
Jon Foreman

Outside the fences of convention lies an untamed wilderness awaiting the reckless souls who have the nerve to cut their own path. Are you daring enough to defy the dictatorship of the critics?

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Consider the Source

Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Big Uneasy, Harry Shearer, South Park Movie, Individualism, Healthy Living News
Jamie Lee Curtis

As parents we all need to remember that we are our children's most important source, and the greatest gift we can give them is the permission to have their own opinion backed up by good debate, and of course by asking good questions.

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The Culture of Excess

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Review, Obama, Individualism, Books, The Culture of Excess, The Buddha Diaries, Books News
Peter Clothier

In The Culture of Excess, Slosar writes of a "cultural narcissism" that infects American society. This worship of the self and its needs contributes to a growing ethical decay.

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Could Culture Emerge Out of a God Who Evolves?

George Elerick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumerism, Evolution of Culture, Cultural Evolution, Collectivism, Individualism, Evolution of God, Culture, Religion, Religion News
George Elerick

If God evolves, then should we accept the responsibility that our culture might need to evolve as well? Maybe humanity has something to add to the conversation of our perpetual development.

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'Empathic Civilization' Excerpt: Homo-Empathicus, The Big Story That Historians Missed

The Huffington Post | Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collectivism, Child Development, Empathy, Individualism, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, Books, Hegel, Socialization, Homo Empathicus, Empathic Civilization, Books News

The following is an excerpt from the HuffPost book club pick for February, Jeremy Rifkin's "The Empathic Civilization". Historians, by and large, wri...

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Real Food Rehab: Rules For Living Well

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Living Well, Finding Your Own North Star, Individualism, Authenticity, Self-Expression, Rules for Living, Martha Beck, Real Food, Beauty, Quality, Texting, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Dana Joy Altman

I do believe in knowing what you value most and using that as a rudder to guide your life. So here are some rules for living, exactly as I wrote them two years ago.

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Individualism Run Amok

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Self-Criticism, Success, Fame, Free-Market, Individualism, Fortune, Democracy, Self-Loathing, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I was surprised to read the other day that in some cultures if you are asked 'how are you?' the answer never begins with the pronoun 'I' but rather with a 'we' as in 'we are fine or not fine'.

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The Ghost of Free Market Past

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christianity, The Fountainhead, Atheism, Jennifer Burns, Atlas Shrugged, Trailing Jesus, Ayn Rand, Individualism, Objectivism, Books News
James Campion

If Jesus and Ayn Rand had ever spent any time together in a locked room, neither would be able decide which of them was God.

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Do You Live in a Box?

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, Politics, Joan of Arc, God, Group Think, Erica Jong, Sex, Individualism, Thinking Outside the Box, Healthy Living News
Lisa Guest

I have a persecution complex. I'm afraid of speaking my truth. I don't believe in mainstream. I'm not impressed with fluff or fun or fanfare.

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America's Number One Sucker Confronts Health Care Reform

Philip Slater | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Republicans, Anti-Government, Individualism, Politics News
Philip Slater

Republican and Libertarian freeloaders are perfectly happy to drive on government-built roads, or call a policeman or fireman when they need him. They just don't want to pay for all this 'bureaucracy.'

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China vs. Japan: Two Cultures, Two Responses to Crisis

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asian Future, Layoffs, Japanese Culture, Advertising, Economic Crisis, Response to Crisis, Chinese Culture, Individualism, Financial Crisis, New Generation, Asia, China, Japan, World News
Tom Doctoroff

What explains the dramatic difference in how Japanese and Chinese people absorb the financial crisis?

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