HTST 489 Lecture Notes - Bankrobber, Ethnocentrism, Covert Operation
11 Feb 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Cultural and ideological differences leading to people viewing other"s potential decisions incorrectly. When british intelligence looked at other nations, they would apply national characteristics/stereotypes. The french are excitable, have bad breath, the germans are efficient . As a shorthand, used racism and stereotypes to determine national character. Question is how much faith you pin on such assumptions. Rare to find western decision makers, but more common to find german or japanese decision makers who would say. Moving away from a racially based assessment to one based on culture. Becomes easy to say: culture changes, and so too can national characteristics change. Nazi outlook would have been races exhibit traits genetically , rather than culturally. Look at how your own operates, look for the same traits in the other"s airforce fewer traits in common, judge them to be increasingly terrible. Preceding wwii, the japanese gradually increased their airforce capabilities.
