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>One unrecognized issue by most of the west but recognized in places like Russia, Japan, SKorea, China, is while they may promote equality and universal values,
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>One unrecognized issue by most of the west but recognized in places like Russia, Japan, SKorea, China, is while they may promote equality and universal values, they are careful not to subvert their own people.
Then how come Russia and China keep their working classes poor, Japan and South Korea rabidly overwork people, and Japan has allowed three Lost Decades?
- mc32 10y agoAmong other reasons, from my experience, they are homogenous enough that failures are attributed to character, rather than someone else taking something from them. If I were to give a homeless person money in Asia, many people would frown at it because they ask, why do you support a good for nothing, they don't deserve it, they are able bodied, they can get a job, if they were so inclined. That's the attitude I've come across.
- mafribe 10y agothey are homogenous enough that failures are attributed to character, rather than ... This is a though-provoking sentence.