With some exceptions, you can see the blocks of predominantly Romance, Germanic and Balto-Slavic speaking countries grouping together in the same color.
I think this chart shows how relevant these basically bronze or iron age cultural categories remain in certain spheres of our lives - attitudes towards work, for example.
Plenty of other things play a role. For example, employment of parents It’s very common here in the Netherlands for both parents to work part time. It’s very common in other countries to have one parent working full-time and the other not at all.
The end result is basically the same, but they show up very differently in this chart.
With some exceptions, you can see the blocks of predominantly Romance, Germanic and Balto-Slavic speaking countries grouping together in the same color.
I think this chart shows how relevant these basically bronze or iron age cultural categories remain in certain spheres of our lives - attitudes towards work, for example.
Plenty of other things play a role. For example, employment of parents It’s very common here in the Netherlands for both parents to work part time. It’s very common in other countries to have one parent working full-time and the other not at all.
The end result is basically the same, but they show up very differently in this chart.
There are so many things influencing this that, I doubt bronze age cultural groupings are the most important, if the have any influence at all.
Yeah, for sure a lot of factors go into this. And the pattern definitely doesn’t hold everywhere. But the similarity looks pretty noticeable to me.
Similarity doesn’t equal causality. Most likely it’s mere coincidence.