https://twitter.com/florencegaub/status/1514152917556727813?s=21&t=VSAV8PhJipQ5C94DEJGI6Q Whenever I see a big EU flag and Germany flag in the bio, Brace Belden’s 4th Reich theory just come to my mind. And I stopped reading at “Let me explain”

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I've done a bit of a deep dive into that chart earlier today, i'll just dump this here:

    This is exactly what you get when the shambling animated corpse of Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations fucks the Sinus milieus from German market research. Fucking terrifying.

    Edit: I made the mistake of looking this up and it gets worse and worse the more i read about it. Both the X and Y axis are just idealist bs, and it’s completely arbitrary if a questionaire item ends up on one axis or the other (abortion and divorce are on the tradition vs secular axis, LGBT rights are on the survival vs self expression axis because reasons).

    So this is how they assign these values to countries. That’s not where the fuckery stops, though. Notice how the boundaries of the clusters are worming all over the place? That’s because they had to shoehorn these in retroactively, after placing the countries on the graph, but still wanted to stick with their Clash of Civilizations brainworms. So while the PRC has, according to their bullshit metrics, more in common with Hungary and Ukraine than with Hong Kong and Macau, it is drawn as part of the orange confucian blob bc skull shapes. You just add an outgrowth of the blob and suddenly China is confucian again instead of being on the borderline between Orthodox and Catholic where their braindead questionaire would normally put it.

    And then, South Africa still ends up as Southeast Asia. lol wtf. This is the biggest clownshoes flim flam fuckery i’ve seen in a long, long while. Just absolute, ridiculous con artist nonsense that should forever ruin the authors’ reputation, but somehow they have been pulling this craniometry-tier baloney off for more than 20 years how. the. fuck. is. this. even. possible.

    Another edit: Oh wow i just noticed that according to this, Japan is the most secular country in the world! Could it be that your questionaire is so full of cultural bias that it just breaks down completely when it has to measure the values of people who were not socialized in a Western society? I guess that’s what you get when you make up research that … asigns India to the African-Islamic world.

    But hey, at least it looks as if the USA is giving Catholicism a prostate exam. Hit 'em right in the Belgiums, Yanqui friends!