Socially miscommunicated, culturally misconceived, politically abused, humility remains an elusive concept. Socially, humility is viewed as self-degrading act; culturally as appeasement for "superior" cultures; and, politically, as repugnant act of unprincipled opportunism. Given how universal humility is across social, cultural and political systems, literature on humility appears to be scarce (Tangney, 2000). Interestingly, bordering constructs such as self-esteem, modesty and narcissism (Tangney) do not initiate serious investigation into humility as not only a psychological construct but a social, cultural and political as well. Accordingly, instead of viewing humility in either / or dichotomies of (un)favorability (Exline and Geyer, Continue reading...