Activity and performance - Human activeness

Relation to other people

What is the individual's human relationship to other citizenry?
American mental attitude measures individuality and understands

satisfaction as attained by personal action. Increasing one's opportunities and capacities becomes a moral duty.

However although Americans pride themselves on their esteem for personal autonomy, many American enterprises (particularly in such orthodox sectors as finance and insurance) are noticeably hierarchic. By comparison, in collectivist Japan, even a chief executive director whose institution bears his name realizes he must match individualal desires against the compatibility of the group.

Anthropomorphic activity

What is the mode of human activeness?
It is postulated that United States of American mental attitude does not give broad means of achieving self-determination other than through activity and performance, and so goal-acquisition becomes a means by which you characterize yourself separate from the grouping. Because other individuals should be competent to recognize this achievement, it has to be perceptible and measurable. Thus financial abundance furnishs one measurement of flourishing activity. Within the social group, employees are actuated by promises of progress and status signals overtly affiliated with social status such as a surpassing company automobile and a richly fitted bureau.

Buddhist societies in South-east Asia which adopt to beliefs in rebirth hold that the individual is born into his/her nowaday status and fortune by moral excellence of meritable acts performed in a past life and that conflict in this life may be superfluous. By deflecting unholy acts and by maintaining the compatibility of present circumstances, you facilitate your probability of being born into a upgraded position in your future reincarnation.

Human activeness

What is the temporal emphasis of anthropomorphic action?
North America is normally held up as a future-determined society which considers that the upcoming can be prearranged and controlled. Furthermore, the future is bound to be better than the existing just as the existing must to be an advance on the past. But this mental attitude may be short-term.