content: People are reading my daily quotes "Europeans are thus exactly the sort of groups modeled by Fehr and Gachter and Henreich et al: They are groups with high levels of cooperation with strangers rather than with extended family members, and they are prone to market relations and individualism.  On the other hand, Jewish culture derives from the Middle Old World culture area characterized by extended kinship networks and the extended family.  Such cultures are prone to ingroup-outgroup relationships in which cooperation involves repeated interactions with ingroup members and the ingroup is composed of extended family members. This suggests the fascinating possibility that the key for a group intending to turn Europeans against themselves is to trigger their strong tendency toward altruistic punishment by convincing them of the evil of their own people.  Because Europeans are individualists at heart, they readily rise up in moral anger against their own people once they are seen as free riders and therefore morally blameworthy-- a manifestation of their much stronger tendency toward altruistic punishment deriving from their evolutionary past as hunter-gatherers." -- MacDonald 2002: Culture of Critique pg. xxviii (bold not in text) P.S. if you terrible European-derived ingroup-punishers like this I'm going to keep posting a quote a day