Posted by sigismund on November 19, 2011, at 19:54:47
In reply to The biscuits or the shame, posted by floatingbridge on November 19, 2011, at 19:03:23
Around the time of Abu Ghraib various commentators suggested that ours was a culture of guilt, whereas Arabs had a culture of shame, hence the nature of the humiliations as policy.
I have never been very clear on the difference.
But a bit of a soft spot for Catholicism, I don't know why, it's not as if it deserves it particularly. Probably Oscar Wilde and Graham Greene.
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