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The study is geographic, and about work culture not race. To your point, a better title might refer to "Asian Countries" and "European Countries" instead of in
by paulsutter 11y ago
The study is geographic, and about work culture not race.
To your point, a better title might refer to "Asian Countries" and "European Countries" instead of individuals. Europeans living in Japanese companies work similar days/hours as their coworkers, of course.
- aikah 11y ago> The study is geographic, and about work culture not race It's a social study, not geography. Assuming that Japanese are like that or french people are like that is indeed prejudice, since there is no data to back things up but individual bias, or bias promoted by movies or the pop culture. I agree with your second point.
- paulsutter 11y agoThe study is done by country (geography), not by race. From the article: "According to the study, South Korea and Japan lead the legions of overworked...On the other side of the globe, workers in Finland, France, Germany and Spain are all given 30 days of vacation each year"