Message-ID: <35C7ADA4.9E115ED0@idn.org> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:56:04 -0400 From: "Christopher L. Byrne, Director" <mailto:info@IDN.ORG> Subject: Re: Values among villagers To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
I have to chuckle since he (Robbins) surely created a bunch of jobs in Fiji building his mansion:-)...the notion of values in decision making can be linked to may organizational theories, including Maslov. We all make decisions based on our value structure, which is influenced by the culture that surrounds us. People here in the South fly the Confederate Flag rather than recognize how offensive others find it because that is their value system. We transplanted Yankees just scratch our heads because we just do not understand.
mailto:michael_o._patterson@HUD.GOV wrote: >
> Values hierarchies are discussed by Tony Robbins in some of his
> books, notably Awaken the Giant Within [no endorsement implied].
> People make decisions based on their values hierarchies, sot hey
> are important. There are cultural biases; for example, having a
> nice family is more important than having an expensive car, in
> Mexico.
>
> At 12:27 AM 7/29/98 EDT, Nicole Richards wrote:
> >hello all,
> >
> >Where is the list of values for the Europeans and Americans?
>
> The list is omnipresent and widely distributed: we call it "history",
> "development", "the internet" and "art", among many others. The strange
> thing is the assumption that "villagers" could have a universal set of
> values cross-cutting class, gender, sexuality, age and all global
> influences. Likewise Europeans and Americans, in all of their diversity,
> are essentialized at the peril of not understanding "them" at all.
>
> Kristin Ackerson