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Podcast: Crucible of Thought
Episode: A Collective Identity
Description: (Episode 4) With our individualist thought process, Americans seem prone to creating power structures where an individual is - or at least considers themselves to be - an absolute authority over a group. Any sense of accountability is often secondary to that sense of personal authority.Â
This American individualism applies to all walks of life - religious, civil, and family.Â
But much of the world - especially Asia and the Middle East - instead think about the group before thinking about individual rights. And I'm learning that's also true of the cultures into which the Bible wa...