{"id":1723,"date":"2006-11-08T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/11\/08\/culture-gap-between-rome-and-america\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T16:30:00","slug":"culture-gap-between-rome-and-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/11\/08\/culture-gap-between-rome-and-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Gap between Rome and America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/568\/1889\/1600\/Allen-John-75x99-C.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/568\/1889\/400\/Allen-John-75x99-C.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Another classic instance [of the culture gap] is differing attitudes towards law. For Anglo-Saxons, law is a lowest common denominator of civil behavior, and hence we assume that laws are meant to be obeyed. If we find that people aren&#8217;t obeying a given law, it&#8217;s a problem, and we either crack down or change the law. In Mediterranean cultures, on the other hand, law is more an expression of an ideal, and there&#8217;s tremendous room for subjectivity in interpretation and application in a concrete set of circumstances. Anyone who&#8217;s ever driven the streets of an Italian city knows what I&#8217;m talking about. The bar tends to be set high, with the implicit understanding that most people, most of the time, will far short to varying degrees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Read more of John Allen&#8217;s balanced and thought-provoking column <a href=\"http:\/\/ncrcafe.org\/node\/599\">here<\/a>.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8220;Another classic instance [of the culture gap] is differing attitudes towards law. For Anglo-Saxons, law is a lowest common denominator of civil behavior, and hence we assume that laws are meant to be obeyed. If we find that people aren&#8217;t obeying a given law, it&#8217;s a problem, and we either crack down or change the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/11\/08\/culture-gap-between-rome-and-america\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}