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文化がもたらした歴史の傷跡は、その文化が生き続けていることから
後世まで疼き、血を流し続けるってことがやっぱあるんだね。
・・・how culture, rather than genetics, can shape lasting differences in human values and behavior.
600年前の黒死病の時にユダヤ人を非難し殺戮したドイツの町々は、
1920年代においても1930～40年代のナチス時代においても、ユダヤ人を迫害した。
・・・persistent differences in anti-Semitism among towns in Germany. Communities that reacted to the Black Death
some 600 years ago by blaming and massacring Jews were far more likely to lead pogroms against Jews in the 1920s
and to turn Jews over to the Nazis in the 1930s and ’40s.・・・
信頼の文化についても同じことが言える。
・・・found a similar cultural legacy that shaped trust・・・
現在のアフリカの最貧地域は、18～19世紀に奴隷狩りに苦しめられた地域。
・・・the poorest regions of Africa were the regions most exploited by slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries.
ヨソもんはかどわかしと見られるし、奴隷狩りにカネもらって親戚や村の長老達が協力したんで、
人々の相互信頼性が低い。
These areas suffered decades of raiding in which any stranger might prove a kidnapper, and in which slavers
often gained access to their victims by bribing or blackmailing relatives or village authorities.・・・
The more a population was exposed to slave raiding generations ago, the lower its measures of trust and
economic activity today. The specter of slavery, they concluded, had done long-term damage to the social bonds
necessary for efficient trade. The economies and people continue to suffer accordingly.・・・
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