I once read something by... someone... EM Forster, maybe? About how a key difference between the British and the French is that, in an emergency, the French may handle it capably enough but will be freaking out the whole time—then carry on like it never happened; while the British will be cool as a cucumber and act like a life-and-death emergency is a minor inconvenience as they handle it, but then never shut up about it for the rest of their lives.
[EDIT] I wanna say the example was a mishap on a ride somewhere, and he wrote something to the effect of "by the time they get where they're going, the French will have forgotten all about it, while the English will only have just begun what will become an excited, endless retelling of the tale". Except I'm sure he worded it better. Fairly sure it was Forster. Somewhere in his (extensive) essays and articles, I think.
Cultural factors are given significant weight in air accident investigation and safety. For instance, the Korean Air disaster was put down to a cultural subservience to authority.
the Korean Air disaster was put down to a cultural subservience to authority
Here's my anecdote. My mother was born in Korea. At one point, she literally told me that it doesn't matter if I you are right, your duty to your elders comes first. (EDIT: I think it bears saying: A huge number of family arguments in Korean-American families have something to do with parents ruining their credibility with intelligent children by saying such things.)
Air safety is important enough to be given a woke pass!
Fidelity to objective truth is far too important and fundamental to ever be compromised on. In fact, I would go so far to say, that "compromises" on fidelity to objective truth are a red flag, that some form of power corruption is going on.
Another form of corruption, is a claim to be the ultimate or sole arbiter of truth. No being who is subject to the Laws of Thermodynamics and Landauer's Limit should be able to claim they should be treated as effectively omniscient.
No one is inherently right. The best we can do, is to always strive to be less wrong.
The British culture contains NO MORE stoicism, "manhood", "stiff upper lip" or whatever you would call it than any other culture. Saying such stems from imperialism
That's right, every single culture ever has been exactly the same, with exactly the same traits and emotions distributed in equal proportions across the entire population.
Forster was British and was poking fun at his own national character (if it wasn't him it was... Maugham, I suppose? Definitely British). You'll note how it's not really clear they come of better-seeming, overall, and the "punch line" amounts to a complaint about the British. [EDIT: and, go figure, another common characterization of the British is that their humor is often this sort of thing]
And there's usually something to those stereotypes, even if assuming they're true of everyone is plainly not a great idea.
[EDIT] I wanna say the example was a mishap on a ride somewhere, and he wrote something to the effect of "by the time they get where they're going, the French will have forgotten all about it, while the English will only have just begun what will become an excited, endless retelling of the tale". Except I'm sure he worded it better. Fairly sure it was Forster. Somewhere in his (extensive) essays and articles, I think.