Submitted by borek, Mar 20, 2007 06:37

National character

After many years of studies it is for me the absolute truth that every nation has its own character, it is as well absolute truth that it is extremely difficult to name the differences of one nation's character compared to the other nations.

In evolutionary biology it is said that on an island the species developed in a different way. Well, language is a barrier that functions in such a way as if individuals using one language lived on an island and therefore there this is a parallel to evolutionary biology, and therefore this is a reason for the fact that nations do have different characters.

The difficulty to describe the differences might come from the lack of precise terms, and inability to differentiate properly, and inability to track down the basis of such character differences. The reason for this might be the mix of what is typical for all humans and what is typical for a specific group of humans and what we have inherited from our non-human ancestors. Also the forms of how we demonstrate our typical character features might be the same in many groups even if the origin of such demonstration is different. The reason for this might be the lack of possibilities to demonstrate own character. Therefore two different characters might display the same way of demonstration, which, of course, is pretty misleading.

The relatively separated groups DO develop slightly differently, that means that different nations DO have different characters, even though this is extremely difficult to describe.

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