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<\/a>What are the main ingredients of a democratic culture?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On August 25th, I’ll be giving a workshop and lecture in Greifswald. At the EUDEC conference in Freiburg, my host and I grabbed two plastic chairs and sat down in a sunny spot for a short interview, some of which is now on\u00a0the fine poster ad you see here; at one point he asked me a question I haven’t heard too often:\u00a0what are the main characteristics of individuals who are part of a “democratic culture”?<\/p>\n A democratic culture, as I understand it, is a kind of culture that develops within a group that makes decisions democratically; democratic culture makes democracy more than just a decision-making process \u2013 instead it becomes a way of life, something you notice in all kinds of interactions between people.<\/p>\n I came up with four main points:<\/p>\n To me, these are the things that people have to have in order to keep a truly democratic culture alive.<\/p>\n Without equal communication, respect, and willingness to listen, the discussions that are the bread and butter of democracy are impossible. Without a willingness to reflect, they’re pointless.<\/p>\n What do you think are the most important ingredients of democratic culture? <\/strong>Leave a short comment below!<\/p>\n I was asked recently what the main ingredients of democratic culture are. The four points I came up with are communication at eye level, respect for others, willingness to listen, and willingness to reflect. What would you add to the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[14,550,39,42,554,43,44,579,448,55,553,96,555,556,557,132,135,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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