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Enneagram Movie Board Archive Re: 'different economic systems for different national cultures'Posted by Dafyd on December 07, 1998 at 14:09:01: In Reply to: Jan on world poverty and wealth: 'different economic systems for different national cultures' posted by Jan den Breejen on December 04, 1998 at 01:51:16: : The French put lots of money in educating Africans in technical skills but with very little result. Perhaps our western economic system just is not the right system for every country I doubt that's anything to do with the underlying culture. There's no point in having technical skills if one has no opportunity to use them. : (and not even for all western countries; the number of stressed and over-worked people grows strongly in The Netherlands; E3 is the natural style of only 1/9th of the population...). I don't think any country or type really benefits from our current economic system. But that's because there are more important things than material prosperity. : I feel that the culture of -for example- the Russian people is very close to the E9 archetype; 'community' is the main mental concept in the Russian character. In the Tsarist period the economic system was based on communities and in the Sovjet system again. This economic system suits the specific culture of the country much better Russia's problems have nothing to do with the inappropriateness of the system to the Russian mentality but are caused by the fact that most of Dafyd
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