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In cultural anthropology, the distinction between a guilt society (or guilt culture), shame society (also shame culture or honor-shame culture), and a fear society (or culture of fear) has been used to categorize different cultures. The differences can apply to how behavior is governed with respect to government laws, business rules, or social etiquette. This classification has been applied especially to so called "apollonian" societies, sorting them according to the emotions they use to control individuals (especially children) and maintaining social order, swaying them into norm obedience and conformity. The terminology was popularized by Ruth Benedict in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, who described American culture as a "guilt culture" and Japanese culture as a "shame culture".

children culture guilt

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  1. Islam is "Abrahamic" but promotes both guilt and loss of "face"
  2. the widespread prevalence of Honor killing proves this
  3. Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles (1998) A Beowulf Handbook p.285 quotation: The introduction of a new state-sanctioned (or ruler-sanctioned) religion does not necessarily effect radical changes in a culture's basic structure of values. Not only Beowulf but the Maxims of the Exeter Book — "Dom bib selast" (Fame is best, 80) — and The Battle of Maldon attest to the vitality of the shame culture and its values in Anglo-Saxon England long after the Conversion. The theme of "worship" (i.e., Anglo-Saxon weordscipe [honor]) running through Malory's stories suggests that the ethos of the shame culture survived both the Conversion and the Conquest. https://books.google.com/books?id=SaFdpGdjvtoC&pg=PA285&lpg=PA285
  4. De Mente, Boye Lafayette (1996) There's a Word for It in Mexico pp.79-80 https://books.google.com/books?id=RL_UsrfTICoC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79
  5. Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (1983) The Justice of Zeus https://books.google.com/books?id=68j3DZ-a04YC&pg=PA26
  6. Satlow, Michael L. (1995) Tasting the dish: rabbinic rhetorics of sexuality p.142 https://books.google.com/books?id=XJjXAAAAMAAJ
  7. Odd Magne Bakke (2001) "Concord and Peace" p.305 https://books.google.com/books?id=cI1btFqWegoC&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305
  8. Ying and Wong. "Cultural Models of Shame and Guilt". Cultural Influences.
  9. Bedford, Olwen (2004). "Source:2014 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2015) The Individual Experience of Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture". Culture & Psychology 10 (1): 29–52. doi:10.1177/1354067X04040929.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F1354067X04040929
  10. Confucius, The Analects
  11. Kent, Pauline (June 1999). "Japanese Perceptions of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword". Dialectical Anthropology 24 (2): 181–192. doi:10.1023/a:1007082930663.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1023%2Fa%3A1007082930663
  12. Delia Grigore, Rromanipen-ul (rromani dharma) şi mistica familiei "Rromanipen (Rromani Dharma) and the Family Mystics" (2001, Salvaţi copiii, Bucharest)
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