Fascinating refutation of Malcolm Gladwell's cultural explanations for Korean airplane crashes. http://askakorean.blogspot.hk/2013/07/culturalism-gladwell-and-airplane.html …
@KendraSerra Love this. I don't know what it is abt Korea that attracts so much bad cultural analysis. Maybe orientalists are sick of Japan.
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@sarahjeong Yes. Also, was really struck by how much Gladwell twists the story. Not too shocking, given his MO, but depressing nonetheless. -
@KendraSerra like yeah, culture matters, but can we not be borderline racist and factually incorrect when asserting that? -
@sarahjeong So much nodding. It's like the ass-end of the nature vs. nurture debate. "Those crazy fureigners do X, culture is so powerful!" -
@KendraSerra haha yeah. Like the opposite of eugenics is also racist. It's racism all the way down
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