Population genetics, as it affects those parts of the nervous system involved in social behavior, together with geography and a long common history, predisposed

Population genetics, as it affects those parts of the nervous system involved in social behavior, together with geography and a long common history, predisposed the Japanese to strong ethnonationalism and social stability in a well-organized and well-supervised hierarchical order. Under premodern conditions this did not preclude intracommunal violence under codes widely understood and enforced; but in the affluent post-WW2 world, with good standards of health and education, and under imposed consensual government following certain highly salutary experiences, these old factors directed the Japanese to an exceptionally high level of nonviolent social cohesion and intense but benign racial-national consciousness. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262162/people-want-know-contd-john-derbyshire http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262162/people-want-know...