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**Jueqelyl** · 07-09-2012, 05:52 PM

According to sociologist Emmanuel Todd:

The zone in Yellow and Blue are zones where families encourage the kids to leave home very early.

The zone in Green are zones where kids tend to stay at home far into adulthood, sometimes with their wives. Multigenerational homes that is.

United States is overwhelmingly of the Yellow color

which is:
Egalitarian nuclear
Total emancipation of children in adulthood to form
independent families made simply of a couple and their
children. Equal division of inheritance among children. This
system encourages the persistence of slightly stronger
relations between parents and children until the inheritance is
completely divided after the parentsâ€™ death (Todd, 1990a: 37-
38). â€œThe dislocation of traditional English and (northern) French societies by a complex process of ubanization, industrialization and the spread of literacy, has been comparatively less painful than in cultures dominated by a family ideal that emphasizes the complementary qualities of parents and children. The rural exodus separates the generations and erodes the core of complex families of the exogamous community and authoritarian models. It has no effect on a system dominated by nuclear households, where the early breakdown of domestic groups is socially acceptable and prepared for by an apprenticeship in individual autonomy from childhood. Urbanization in England started early and was soon complete. By comparison with Germany and Russia which developed later, the process in England seems to have been an easy one. It occurred in a peasant society which was already very flexible.â€
America type of family is an inheritance of the Anglo type of family (absolute nuclear)

American capitalism encourages this type of family, though Todd argues it is the other way round.

07-09-2012, 05:52 PM	#16
Jueqelyl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 502 Senior Member	According to sociologist Emmanuel Todd: The zone in Yellow and Blue are zones where families encourage the kids to leave home very early. The zone in Green are zones where kids tend to stay at home far into adulthood, sometimes with their wives. Multigenerational homes that is. United States is overwhelmingly of the Yellow color which is: Egalitarian nuclear Total emancipation of children in adulthood to form independent families made simply of a couple and their children. Equal division of inheritance among children. This system encourages the persistence of slightly stronger relations between parents and children until the inheritance is completely divided after the parentsâ€™ death (Todd, 1990a: 37- 38). â€œThe dislocation of traditional English and (northern) French societies by a complex process of ubanization, industrialization and the spread of literacy, has been comparatively less painful than in cultures dominated by a family ideal that emphasizes the complementary qualities of parents and children. The rural exodus separates the generations and erodes the core of complex families of the exogamous community and authoritarian models. It has no effect on a system dominated by nuclear households, where the early breakdown of domestic groups is socially acceptable and prepared for by an apprenticeship in individual autonomy from childhood. Urbanization in England started early and was soon complete. By comparison with Germany and Russia which developed later, the process in England seems to have been an easy one. It occurred in a peasant society which was already very flexible.â€ America type of family is an inheritance of the Anglo type of family (absolute nuclear) American capitalism encourages this type of family, though Todd argues it is the other way round.
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