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and he points out that he went to the North
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he was most astonished by how rude people are.
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And this is because the North--
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the American North is not particularly a culture of honor,
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and so there's less proper behavior towards other people
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because there's no fear of retaliation or response.
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Moreover, the culture of honor virtues like
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honor, loyalty, courage and self-reliance,
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are on the face of it not necessarily bad things.
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In any case, this is an interesting example
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of how there's an evolutionary background
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but culture modifies and shifts it in different ways.