Wondering about Ukraine 🇺🇦

The long-running ‘disagreement’ between Ukraine and Russia can be explained in many ways, not the least being that they were fundamentally the main economic bookends of the former Soviet Union.  Moreover, culturally they are mirrors of one another.  Remember, Russia annexed Crimea back in 2017, well in advance of the conflict of 2022, but with Ukraine under a new, younger president 2022, Ukraine was not going to take more aggression from Russia.  Based on Dr. Geert Hofstede’s Six Dimensions of cultural dimensions theory shows just how mirrored the two countries are on the dimensions – power distance, individualism vs collectivism, […]

Role-taking theory

From Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-taking_theory Role-taking theory (or social perspective taking) is the social-psychological concept that one of the most important factors in facilitating social cognition in children is the growing ability to understand others’ feelings and perspectives, an ability that emerges as a result of general cognitive growth.[1] Part of this process requires that children come to realize that others’ views may differ from their own.[2] Role-taking ability involves understanding the cognitive and affective (i.e. relating to moods, emotions, and attitudes) aspects of another person’s point of view, and differs from perceptual perspective taking, which is the ability to recognize another person’s visual point of view of the environment.[2] Furthermore, albeit some mixed evidence on the […]

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