From IMDB.com: “An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.”
This is a mediocre movie (too on the nose with its points) but I enjoy the way it contrasts WASP morality (which doesn’t make in-group/out-group distinctions) with tribal morality (the way of most of the world, morality based around kinship and in-group/out-group distinctions).
Three-quarters through the movie, a Turk asks the Australian protagonist, “What part of the Ottoman empire did Australia get?”
Aussie: “It wasn’t about land for us.”
Turk: “It’s always about land.”
Aussie: “For us it was about a principle.”
Turk to another Turk: “We should do business with him.”
People of northern European descent form societies based on morality rather than kinship ties. Being moral is very important. Having a moral reputation is important. That’s why people of northern European origin are so susceptible to pathological altruism.
Another thing that strikes me in this movie is how WASPs prefer to play by the rules. Patriotism is important. Procedures are important. Fairness is important. For tribes, not so much. The reigning morality is what is good for the tribe.
A little later, the Turk, upon learning cricket, says: “The English have so many rules.”
That’s how civilized people roll. As Steve Sailer notes: “Microaggressions are a hallmark of a high civilization — e.g., the dialogue in Jane Austen’s or Evelyn Waugh’s novels — so they are particularly irritating to people worried that they come from a lower civilizational level, inciting them to respond with macroaggressions.”
