Societies endorse collective pride while rejecting collective guilt

Evidence

There is a widely held view that it is only appropriate to feel guilty about things you are personally responsible for. Proponents of this view deride the idea of collective guilt. It is worth noting that there is, of course, no similar injunction against feeling proud about group achievements (indeed nationalism in Australia and other countries rests on assertively promoting pride in national achievements). — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 795

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier chapters on collective guilt being useful/maladaptive, and to broader scholarly debates on why collective pride is normalized while collective guilt is taboo. — connects to: High national identification requires a source of collective pride — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 837
• SEED: Essay angle: ‘proud of our team, never guilty about our state’ — how nations and fandoms institutionalize one collective emotion while delegitimizing its mirror.