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What is so special about Koreans that your comment couldn't have used "humans" instead?
by Nogwater 12y ago
What is so special about Koreans that your comment couldn't have used "humans" instead?
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- throwaway344 12y agoI hate to disagree with so-called "numbers", but that is simply not very well veiled racism. If you read that Wikipedia page, it mentions prosperous nations that don't fit their "rule", like the wealthy democratic Botswana.
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- notastartup 12y agoI think they would have a hard time adjusting....look at the defectors who cant fit in in south
- WildUtah 12y agoThat's a real potential problem, as is the lifetime impairment of childhood malnutrition. But I expect defectors from any regime to be the kind of entrepreneurial misfits that never quite fit in and demand their environment adapt to them.
- fiatmoney 12y agoIf you look at the post WWII economic performance of South Korea, and North Korea until ~1980 or so when their leadership started to impede them, it is clear the peninsula has what you might call very high levels of latent human capital, seeing as how just about all of their physical capital had been destroyed.
- jpatokal 12y agoA ridiculously strong work ethic, leading to the longest working hours in the OECD if not the world? http://www.vagabondjourney.com/south-korean-work-hours-highest-in-oecd/ http://www.vagabondjourney.com/south-korean-work-hours-highe... Obviously working long hours isn't necessarily optimal for productively, but the average Korean certainly works harder than the average human. (And I'd wager this extends to the North too.)