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Getting mad over Japan having Chinese and Korean heritage is like getting mad over America having British heritage.
 
If you want really make cultural supremacists of any kind turn bright red, point out that we've had a global society for over 150 years, and at this point, everyone has stolen/appropriated/adopted something from everyone else and stop whining because that's how civilization works.
 
DrJonesHat said:
If you want really make cultural supremacists of any kind turn bright red, point out that we've had a global society for over 150 years, and at this point, everyone has stolen/appropriated/adopted something from everyone else and stop whining because that's how civilization works.
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If you listen to the "top minds" in most racial/national supremacy movements, globalism was invented like 20 years ago by George Soros to enslave goyim and destroy (insert "master race" here), along with interracial brotherhood and public aid programs. Which has always struck me as funny: most historically successful nationalist movements had a large emphasis on caring for the people through massive social aid programs (the Nazis famously had programs where they would literally pay German women to have children with German men out of wedlock), but a lot of nationalists hate social aid.
 
Senior Lexmechanic said:
If you listen to the "top minds" in most racial/national supremacy movements, globalism was invented like 20 years ago by George Soros to enslave goyim and destroy (insert "master race" here), along with interracial brotherhood and public aid programs. Which has always struck me as funny: most historically successful nationalist movements had a large emphasis on caring for the people through massive social aid programs (the Nazis famously had programs where they would literally pay German women to have children with German men out of wedlock), but a lot of nationalists hate social aid.
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The Nazis wanted a cradle to grave welfare state. Point out that the word "socialist" is in their name, and today's fascists just kinda sputter incoherently.
 
Dink Smallwood said:
I found this on r/iamverysmart too
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:offtopic:To be fair, OCD-level of hygiene was a thing in Japan (but to say the Europeans were always filthy is not entirely accurate) and they did have a flourishing economy, not necessarily better than the West but it flourished. However, he left out one tiny important detail: Japan borrowed a lot of research from the Dutch, one of the few people they tolerated during their years of isolation.
There's a lot of false equivalences too, Japan was only able to go toe to toe with Russia AFTER they were modernized.
Citation: Wikipedia; yeah, I know, not a reliable source but I don't have time to do proper research and at least I'm giving a source.

> When you read a physics equations, do you ask for proof?
Uh, yeah? That kind of comes with mathematics.
 
From the new tab of r/iamverysmart:

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On the invention remark, if it already exists, you didn't invent it.
 
MormonofID said:
From the new tab of r/iamverysmart:

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On the invention remark, if it already exists, you didn't invent it.
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"Alright, let me ask you this. Tell me if you think this is creative. When I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this was before I had even heard of one, or seen one. I just drew a picture of a horse that could fly over rainbows and had a huge spike in it’s head. I was five! Five years old. Couldn’t even talk yet."
-Michael Scott
 
ChurchOfGodBear said:
Fun fact: anthropological evidence strongly suggests that the inhabitants of the Japanese islands share a LOT of DNA with Koreans. This makes everyone uncomfortable for a variety of reasons.
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A lot of things make the Japanese uncomfortable. Having to make a decision without consulting everybody at least once makes them incredibly uncomfortable. The ones with a bit of common sense realize that they share genes with the Chinese and Koreans considering their pictogram based language and how some words use the old Chinese pronunciation.

:offtopic:They however think themselves the pinnacle of humanity and they're literally special unlike anybody else on the planet. Did you know that Japan is the only country with four seasons? It's true, they teach it in schools. Or foreign skis don't work on Japanese snow so only Japanese skis will do. Or even that Japanese brains are different because they can't differentiate the difference between "L" and "R". All this is taught as "Nihonjinron" or "Theories or Discussions about the Japanese".

It's something that started after WWII in an attempt to give the people a sense of unity. Unfortunately nobody informed the Japanese that these things were just examples and not actual truth as today they're still taught in school as being fact.

Beyond that, Japanese students aren't very smart. They are trained and drilled to succeed on tests. They aren't trained or taught to think for themselves. Remember that bit about having to ask everybody? Happened all the time back in Japan. Here you do a good job and the boss says you did a good job. There, it's the team that succeeded because you worked as a team and it doesn't matter if Hayabusa-san was the one that did 80% of the work, it's the team that gets recognition.

Sorry, I'm a little loopy on cold mediation so I think I'm rambling.
 
Phil Ken Sebben said:
Beyond that, Japanese students aren't very smart. They are trained and drilled to succeed on tests. They aren't trained or taught to think for themselves. Remember that bit about having to ask everybody? Happened all the time back in Japan. Here you do a good job and the boss says you did a good job. There, it's the team that succeeded because you worked as a team and it doesn't matter if Hayabusa-san was the one that did 80% of the work, it's the team that gets recognition.
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Japanese students are weird as fuck, they work way harder than most of the rest of the classes I teach, but usually only get a third of the work actually done by the end of the day as the other students because of the way they handle the workload. Half the time I've spent with them has actually been me trying to help them unlearn bad habits that they learnt in middle/high school
 
MechanicalHugbox said:
Japanese students are weird as fuck, they work way harder than most of the rest of the classes I teach, but usually only get a third of the work actually done by the end of the day as the other students because of the way they handle the workload. Half the time I've spent with them has actually been me trying to help them unlearn bad habits that they learnt in middle/high school
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That's a tough gig. The Japanese do stuff and continue to do stuff because that's the way it's always been done.
 
MechanicalHugbox said:
Japanese students are weird as fuck, they work way harder than most of the rest of the classes I teach, but usually only get a third of the work actually done by the end of the day as the other students because of the way they handle the workload. Half the time I've spent with them has actually been me trying to help them unlearn bad habits that they learnt in middle/high school
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Japan business culture has this very interesting "Yes" that actually means no. So there will be an agreement to an answer, then the question re-raises in the next meeting until they get the answer they want. Until you learn to deal with it, it's incredibly frustrating.

Without a "boss figure" in group assignments, I could totally see them getting stuck in an infinite loop.
 
Phil Ken Sebben said:
That's a tough gig. The Japanese do stuff and continue to do stuff because that's the way it's always been done.
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A fact you can check on to see how fucked some Japanese perception is, just ask them about WWII. Unlike Germans and Italians, most of them will tell you that they were on a winning streak for the whole war (when they were losing lots and lots of troops and equipment) until the Americans dropped those pesky atomic bombs. This notion seems to be fading with the new generations, though.
 
Heinrich Himmler said:
A fact you can check on to see how fucked some Japanese perception is, just ask them about WWII. Unlike Germans and Italians, most of them will tell you that they were on a winning streak for the whole war (when they were losing lots and lots of troops and equipment) until the Americans dropped those pesky atomic bombs. This notion seems to be fading with the new generations, though.
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I tend to not ask Japanese people about the war where their country did horrendous experiments and had to surrender after losing significant populations.
It makes dinners with the in laws quite awkward.
 
MechanicalHugbox said:
Japanese students are weird as fuck, they work way harder than most of the rest of the classes I teach, but usually only get a third of the work actually done by the end of the day as the other students because of the way they handle the workload. Half the time I've spent with them has actually been me trying to help them unlearn bad habits that they learnt in middle/high school
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"Work hard, not smart"
 
A Welsh Cake said:
I tend to not ask Japanese people about the war where their country did horrendous experiments and had to surrender after losing significant populations.
It makes dinners with the in laws quite awkward.
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If your in-laws are Japanese (assuming you're not Japanese yourself) they probably hate you

T. Have dated japanese people before
 
Heinrich Himmler said:
A fact you can check on to see how fucked some Japanese perception is, just ask them about WWII. Unlike Germans and Italians, most of them will tell you that they were on a winning streak for the whole war (when they were losing lots and lots of troops and equipment) until the Americans dropped those pesky atomic bombs. This notion seems to be fading with the new generations, though.
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They were convinced of this even at the time. This is why you don't talk to Japanese people about the war. So many of them really are convinced it was just those two nukular bombs that changed everything. Those were a mercy kill. Those cocksuckers would have kept fighting until we completely obliterated every fucking structure on their island, at enormous cost to both of us.

It really took a weapon of such existential terror that its mere existence was a horror to get them to the table, even if both combined were actually much less deadly than just firebombing Tokyo. I can't morally justify what was one of the most horrifying acts ever committed by a country against another, but it was strategically necessary.
 
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