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by blaser-waffle 2308 days ago
These are 1) very specific norms, and 2) usually owned directly by the culture. Your devout Saudi is going to get upset if you breach etiquette around Islam, but he's not going to go to bat over mild slurs about Hispanics.

Only in the West do they lose their mind defending the honor of people who are not in their in-group. I'm not sure if that is honorable, or just idiotic.
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JoeAltmaier 2308 days ago
Some in the West include more people in their in-group. Some are not so tribalistic as imagined. From that point of view, they are defending their own.
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philwelch 2307 days ago
In none of the situations I mentioned are people acting protectively towards an in-group, but rather towards a particular revered individual. Social norms and taboos are much more complicated than that.
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