in reply to Re^6: What is "aggressive" argument?
in thread What is "aggressive" argument?
This phenomenon is sometimes called Streitkultur and sorry couldn't find an English WP page explaining it. Maybe the term Dutch uncle is a reference to this phenomenon. See also leo for possible translations.
But it's not uniform, there are many regional differences, misunderstandings in discussion culture are a regular source of animosities.
E.g. between (Alemanic) Swiss and (northern) Germans, even while speaking the same language. (Not even talking about British/German-misunderstandings.)
Can't say much about US discussion culture, still hard to understand for meš... (maybe somewhere in between televangelist and John Wayne ...SCNR ;-)
And there are still differences in the educational background. In my observation MBAs rather prefer to win a debate no matter which tricks they use and where the truth lies..
But BUK, to answer your OP, an important part of "Streitkultur" is fairness, e.g. exaggerating rhetorical tricks or strawmans are considered "aggressive".
Cheers Rolf
UPDATE:
1) interesting read "Those Americans, mein Gott, I'm never completely sure when they really mean what they say."
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Re^8: What is "aggressive" argument? (Streitkultur)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 03, 2010 at 21:36 UTC | |
by Argel (Prior) on Nov 04, 2010 at 23:17 UTC |