{"id":5583,"date":"2019-12-20T13:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:45:28","slug":"culture-of-honor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/culture-of-honor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Honor: Why Hillbillies Get Into so Many Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is a culture of honor<\/a>? What role does it play in JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A culture of honor is a culture that encourages its members to defend their honor through retribution and violence. It\u2019s characterized by an extreme unwillingness to tolerate personal insults and a high propensity, particularly on the part of males, to defend one\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the culture of violence and how it characterizes life in Appalachian Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Hillbilly Elegy and the Culture of Honor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beyond just being the story of JD Vance\u2019s life, Hillbilly Elegy<\/em><\/strong> is a broader social commentary and a critique of hillbilly culture<\/a>.<\/strong> Vance argues that hillbilly culture, as lived and practiced in post-industrial towns across Appalachia like where he grew up, has come to celebrate self-destructive and antisocial behavior. He contends that this behavior and a certain set of attitudes are severe hindrances that prevent white working class<\/a> people from acknowledging the problems in their families and their communities<\/strong> and make it difficult for people to succeed outside <\/em>of that culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culture of Honor<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Too many in JD\u2019s community, particularly males, lived by an outmoded \u201cculture of honor\u201d that demanded violent retribution be meted out to anyone who offered the slightest insult <\/strong>or sign of disrespect. Growing up, he heard stories about how close relatives had beaten and shot people in the course of disputes. This was celebrated <\/em>as a noble cultural characteristic, and JD became an ardent practitioner. When a boy broke up with his sister, he saw it as his duty to violently attack the young man. When someone insulted his grandmother on the schoolyard, his sense of family loyalty and honor compelled him to start a fight. Looking back, JD now sees this behavior as self-destructive: the rest of the world does not resolve mild disputes or disagreements through violence<\/strong>. Growing up in this world stops young people from knowing how to resolve conflicts in a healthy way and renders them unable to function outside of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culture of Honor and the Toy Store Brawl<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In one illustrative example of the culture of honor, Vance recounts a story that subsequently became family legend. His grandparents were in a department store in Middletown<\/a> with their son when the boy started to play with one of the toys on display. 
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When the clerk asked the boy to put the toy down and leave the store, Papaw and Mamaw<\/a> went berserk: smashing the merchandise and physically threatening the clerk, saying \u201cIf you say another word to my son, I will break your fucking neck.\u201d
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This display of violent anger and utter disregard for social norms<\/a> was shocking to the Ohioans who witnessed the scene, but it was a matter of basic pride for Vance\u2019s family. <\/strong>The parents were merely defending his son against a stranger who had slighted the family\u2019s honor by telling him where he could and couldn\u2019t go. This was just what any <\/em>self-respecting hillbilly would do when an outsider messed with their child.
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Shortform note:<\/strong> This scene of violence and anger in response to a relatively mild slight may have its roots in what historians and sociologists have called the \u201cSouthern culture of honor.\u201d It\u2019s characterized by an extreme unwillingness to tolerate personal insults of any kind and a high propensity, particularly on the part of males, to defend one\u2019s reputation with violence. 
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Cultures of honor are common in places where the rule of law and the control of centralized authorities have been historically weak: like the remote parts of the British Isles from which the hillbillies\u2019 Scots-Irish ancestors came. These values were easily transplanted to the remote, rugged world of Appalachia. In turn, the hillbillies brought these values with them when they migrated to other regions of the United States.
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For more on culture of honor, see our summary of Outliers<\/em> by Malcolm Gladwell.
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Learning to Brawl<\/strong> in a Culture of Honor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This social context<\/a> encouraged\u2014in fact, demanded<\/em>\u2014that a young man like JD enforce and uphold hillbilly justice himself. Loyalty to family, upholding one\u2019s honor, and demonstrating toughness were the core values<\/a> of this \u201cjustice\u201d system.<\/strong>
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Accordingly, casual insults to one\u2019s family (especially its female members) demanded a violent response: when a schoolyard bully directed some slander at JD\u2019s grandmother, JD earned a bloody nose defending his family\u2019s honor on the schoolyard.
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The social expectation was that young men should resort to violence to avenge any <\/em>insult towards the family, whether the insult was intended or not. When his older sister Lindsay<\/a> was dumped by her boyfriend, custom demanded that JD brawl<\/a> with her ex to maintain the family\u2019s dignity. Even though he proceeded to lose the fight (badly), he was rewarded <\/em>for his display of violence by Mamaw, who told him that he had done the correct and honorable thing.
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Later, Mamaw would teach JD fighting tactics designed to inflict maximum damage on his opponents. While she encouraged him to only fight to defend himself, she generally approved of the use of violence to solve disputes, telling JD, \u201cSometimes, honey, you have to fight, even when you\u2019re not defending yourself<\/strong>. Sometimes it\u2019s just the right thing to do.\u201d This is the culture of honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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