Many Italians believe their people are the most beautiful compared to other cultures and other regions of their own country. The Milanese, for example, claim that the men and women in their cities are the most beautiful. But the Venetians, … Continue reading
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Italian Beauty: The 19th Century’s View
The question of research interest is whether the standards of beauty are cross-culturally universal or culturally specific to certain nations. Let us investigate the archival legacy of love scholarship (Finck, 1887/2019). Let us look at how Henry Finck and other … Continue reading
The Cultural Value and Practice of American Equality
Equality is commonly declared as a high cultural value in American society. And it is true in many regards. Many legislative norms and practices demonstrate widespread equality in American daily life. However, American equality is still inconsistent and far from … Continue reading
What Is Altruism? A Cross-Cultural Perspective
To put it briefly, altruism is feeling empathy and caring about others’ well-being despite our own interests, without expecting anything in return. In true love, lovers are altruistic: they passionately strive to do anything good for their beloved, even sacrificing … Continue reading
The Christian Culture of Altruistic Love
Being originated from the ancient Greek philosophy, the word “agape” defining this kind of selfless and all-giving love, elevated in Christian teachings as the universal love of mankind, the love for all and for everyone. The core feature of agape … Continue reading
What Is Agape Love?
Agape love, in its broadest sense, refers to a love that encompasses all people and is directed toward all. Love that is selfless, selfless, and kind is love that is directed toward other people. In other words, it is love … Continue reading
The Measurement Pitfalls of Research Designs in Cultural Studies of Religions
Cross-cultural comparability and generalizability are the problems that come up in religious studies and need to be solved for scientific progress (Karandashev, 2021a; Karandashev et al., 2022; Fischer, 2022). When studying behavioral and social phenomena in various populations and religious … Continue reading
What Is Erotic Love?
What is love? What is sex? What is sexual love? And what is erotic love? For love studies to be truly scientific, there are a lot of scholarly questions that need to be answered. As I noted in another article, … Continue reading
What Are the Main World Cultures?
What are the main cultures in the world? How global are they? And how diverse are they? These are among the key questions that cross-cultural researchers may ask. The West-East dichotomy has been a classification of world cultures well-known by … Continue reading
How Does Cultural Power Distance Affect Societies?
People’s social relationships are hierarchically structured in many regards. Individuals’ power and status, for example, are distributed unequally in many societies. And the degree of this social inequality varies in different cultures. Power distance is a measure of how important … Continue reading