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I'd argue Korea is as close to the west, potentially closer.

• markdown 7y ago
  You mean South Korea. There is no country called Korea.
  • jdietrich 7y ago
    Strictly speaking, there's no country called South Korea - there's the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, both of which make a territorial claim over the whole peninsula.
  • sdinsn 7y ago
    You mean the 'Republic of Korea'?
• james_s_tayler 7y ago
  Pretty much. They both are. They stand in stark comparison to everywhere else in Asia.
• mr_overalls 7y ago
  A 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 ago
    Well, 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.