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Having spent some time recently in Seoul, the amount of materialism and status oneupsmanship was striking compared to the USA. One hypothesis I have is that it'
by matthewtse 3y ago
Having spent some time recently in Seoul, the amount of materialism and status oneupsmanship was striking compared to the USA. One hypothesis I have is that it's because of the genetic homogeneity of everyone there, meaning the main way to differentiate between others is through your things.
- mycologos 3y agoYou could also just have different personalities. The idea that differentiation must be entirely visual and object-based seems pretty uncreative.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoSouth Koreans are more homogeneous in personality then Americans even more so then the 6x population difference would suggest.