A misnomer or an erroneous description? Which came first, that sort of naive trust in others, or the dependability and accountability upon which trust depends? It seems to me that high-trust societies, if they can be called that, are so because of the social capital accumulated. It originally was not naive trust (though that may be the form it has now, since whites hardly know one another but presume that the other conforms to the standards of white culture), but trust that had been tested and earned.
(So is it the rise of the nuclear family and the replacement of kinship ties with broader ones that is to explain for the creation of high-trust societies?)
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