Jared Diamond is correct that geology strongly influences culture. Look at the similarity between manners in Japan and Britain. There's also the Ainu / Irish parallel.
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"You can understand Japs by imagining a 1950s Englishman with high levels of OCD"
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(Same author: "Peterson is ... not at all well-read outside of his clinical psychology specialism." This is basically the right framing. And he needed collaborators to help him with his Big Five work.)
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Most people aren't well-read outside their specialty. Indeed I can only think of...two?
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Correct. Author footnote: "That wouldn’t be a bad thing, except his books are basically philosophy ..."
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Same problem Feynmann frequently ran into.
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The system would have ruthlessly crushed any higher-calibre candidate, though.
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Interesting. (Lmk if you have ready example of Feynman erring.)
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I don't, but I'll keep an eye out and pass it along when I see it next.
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There's also the parallels of the Jōmon, Yayoi and Ainu admixture of Japan and the Norman, Anglo-Saxon and Briton admixture of England.
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It doesn't appear to be a coincidence that Japan modernized so easily.
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They don't use swords anymore, unfortunately.
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