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I do like Krugman more because of his more personal blogging. I'm surprised by the idea that this is an American thing, or do you think it's a Western European/American thing?
Sadly, it could be that Americans really are disadvantaged educationally, and aren't comfortable about keeping it all on the technical level. I don't how it is with scientists lecturing graduate science students, but in other cases, it may be that the technical stuff is over our heads and the personal stuff makes us feel more at home.
It also could be that our focus on individualism makes more of a cult out of the personality. We perhaps tend to understand everything as taking place within personal narratives, and this may make things more authentic for us.
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Date: 2009-06-02 04:28 am (UTC)From:I do like Krugman more because of his more personal blogging. I'm surprised by the idea that this is an American thing, or do you think it's a Western European/American thing?
Sadly, it could be that Americans really are disadvantaged educationally, and aren't comfortable about keeping it all on the technical level. I don't how it is with scientists lecturing graduate science students, but in other cases, it may be that the technical stuff is over our heads and the personal stuff makes us feel more at home.
It also could be that our focus on individualism makes more of a cult out of the personality. We perhaps tend to understand everything as taking place within personal narratives, and this may make things more authentic for us.