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It's like the 3rd biggest economy with a large population, and basically the closest thing Asia has to the West while at the same time being so not Western. In
by james_s_tayler 7y ago
It's like the 3rd biggest economy with a large population, and basically the closest thing Asia has to the West while at the same time being so not Western.
Interest in Japan is higher than average among the software developer crowd. My wife teaches Japanese and her biggest clientele demographic is single, male engineers in their 20s.
- kriro 7y agoI'd argue Korea is as close to the west, potentially closer.
- markdown 7y agoYou mean South Korea. There is no country called Korea.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoPretty much. They both are. They stand in stark comparison to everywhere else in Asia.
- mr_overalls 7y agoA fascinating tool for comparing countries is Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, which looks at power distance, individualism vs. collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity vs. femininity, long-term orientation, and indulgence vs. restraint. https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/japan,south-korea,the-usa/ https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/japan,s... I computed the cosine similarity between Japan, SK, and the USA to get: Japan-SK: 0.933 USA-Jap: 0.8315 USA-SK: 0.670 So it does appear that Japan is more similar to the US than South Korea using this metric.
- bitwize 7y agoWell, the Japanese were once called Yankees of the Orient... I think the least surprising result of all is that Japan and South Korea are both more like each other than they are like the United States.
- aikinai 7y agoI think you replied to the wrong thread.
- lilfatbitch 7y agoWMAF
- strikelaserclaw 7y agoI'd bet a lot of them also like anime.