How are the Japanese so developed even though they live on a relatively small island and have no natural resources in contrast to Russia which has nearly the same population, all the land in the world and an abundance of natural resources?
How are the Japanese so developed even though they live on a relatively small island and have no natural resources in...
Cooper Martinez
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Charles Price
They had a political system that was built around the need to develop.
Institutions, bruh.
Also, they had the US break them and then remake them as burgers, which is typically a beneficial experience for an up and coming nation.
Elijah Rodriguez
Low alcohol tolerance
Kevin Torres
Communism ruined Russia.
Aaron Anderson
Russians = authoritarian socialist collectivist society
Japanese = libertarian free market individualist society
James Lopez
>they live on a relatively small island
Relatively small compared to what? Honshu by itself is larger than Britain. The four home islands combined are larger than today's Germany.
Jayden Walker
They where really shit pre industrialization
Then they became OP after industrialization
Then they git raped by the USA , had their backs broken by the USA, and then got molded into literal asian burgers by the USA
Then that all fell apart because they have autisim
Henry Cox
High IQ
Anthony King
There is nothing individualistic about Japanese society.
Jason Hughes
Japanese have the most active and thriving independent arts/music/media scene in the world.
Jack Cooper
They are just as hive-minded, dogmatic, and collectivist as any other Far Eastern people.
Austin Miller
>Perry expedition
>Meiji restoration
Ayden Stewart
Japanese have the most patents per capita in the world.
James Gomez
not even close you fucking weeb
maybe the most active out of east asia, sure. but there's not much competition there!
Camden Gutierrez
High IQ end of duscussion.
Easton Brooks
>individualist society
It's literally the opposite. Just like most of Asia.
Blame Confucianism. "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down."
You don't have to be an individualistic society to be creative. The Japanese are not a "hive-mind" like says, but in most eastern cultures, the family, the company, the team, etc. supersedes the individual. For instance, before the Meiji Restoration, the smallest legal entity was the family, not individual. This doesn't mean being innovative and creative is necessarily discouraged, in fact bringing prestige to your nation/company/family with your works can be a great motivator. But "making waves" or being an upstart is generally frowned upon. That doesn't mean there doesn't exist a counterculture (for example, Japan's punk and hipster scenes as well as hikikomoris), but that is the overall culture of Japan right now.
Jace Mitchell
>zero interest on historical discussion
Christian Hill
>For instance, before the Meiji Restoration, the smallest legal entity was the family, not individual
That's a nice tall tale for western consumption but not true in the least.
Adam Reyes
>no guns
>no drugs
>protectionist keynesian economy
"""""""libertarian""""""""
Adrian Jones
dude america lmao
Asher Bailey
>Japan
>Individualistic apart from some subcultures
This is your brain on weeabooism.
Asher Hughes
Because the US spent billions on them after WW2 so they could have a vassal in the Pacific.
Jackson Martin
>libertarian
>individualist
Why must Americans ruin any form of discussion? Only this nigga got it right
Owen Price
The US pumped billions into South Vietnam and Iraq too.
It's nice, but it isn't enough.
Oliver Hall
Completely different contexts.
John Turner
IIRC there was a pew study done and they're actually the least collectivist of the far east nations.
Noah Sanders
That's my point.
It's dumb to attribute Japanese success to US aid when the US aided other countries and it didn't do shit.
Japan's success was primarily a result of indigenous institutions.
Michael Parker
You literally compared two countries where US didn't successfully subjugated to the one country where it did
Henry Rodriguez
The US didn't successfully subjugate them because they had terrible native institutions.
In South Korea, Japan, and even Panama, native institutions were effective enough for the United States to withdraw and leave behind a functional state.
In Iraq and Vietnam, poor governance created both economic doldrums and state failure.
Asher Thomas
Or maybe just maybe they were still fighting wars in them while Japan effectively signed a peace treaty with US before the US investments and aid came in? It is massively disingenuous to compare a country's development in its peacetime to other countries mired in local resistance. A far better comparison with Japan would be Philippines, South Korea and any other country in US's policy of containment
Cooper Reyes
Japan is the exact oppposite of everything you described them as
Dylan Scott
Less spread out population/small country-ness in general leads to prosper.
Jose Turner
They are highly evolved mongols they are the only peers to the nordics.
Eli Morris
Because Japan is the best.