transformed over the years. First, it was an honor culture where people took it into their own hands to defend their honor, often with violence (duels, fights, etc). Towards the end of the 19th century and into the 20th, that gave way to a dignity culture where people mostly learned how to work through disputes socially, and in the cases where that was not possible they sought for a 3rd party to intervene (judge, police, etc). They didn't necessarily defend their honor, but they defended their dignity.

And now our dignity culture is giving way to a victim culture where people abdicate all problem solving and dispute resolution to a 3rd party, and where people gain social capital by advertising their victim-hood with the biggest victims getting the most capital. They don't defend anything.