Chinese people and the concept of embarrassment? That's face culture.
Vladimir Putin doesn't like being couped? That's Stalinist mentality.
Kenyans and healthcare? That's the witch-doctor-zeitgeist, baby.
Chinese people and the concept of embarrassment? That's face culture.
Vladimir Putin doesn't like being couped? That's Stalinist mentality.
Kenyans and healthcare? That's the witch-doctor-zeitgeist, baby.
Culture is real. Things that seem similar across cultures can be very different, things that seem different can conceal similarities. Don't dismiss culture because it's difficult to pin down and often misrepresented by fools.
Source - Ignore the anthropologists at your peril
I’m just saying that writing a column about how some Chinese guy didn’t want to go into work this morning because he had a stain on his pants and thought it was embarrassing and acting like it’s some inscrutable eastern phenomenon is just orientalism.
“Chinese GenZ avoiding work with viral WeChat trend called staining”
I didn't go to work when I spilled sauce onto my shirt while quickly cleaning up, too. Am I becoming Chinese?
No that’s if you spill it on your pants. If you spill it on your shirt you’re North Korean and it’s part of the Stainless Worker ideology there.
Culture was real but culture is more flattened that it ever has been before, particularly culture in industrialized capitalist countries. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of etiquette that can still be different, particularly around family and sexual mores, but every year the flattening grows greater.
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zero materialism radlibs lol
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