Hypothesis: It takes 3 human generations of economic growth agnostic to a given cultural rift to heal said cultural rift. If there's a power gradient across the rift, you need more generations.
Any flagging of growth reactivates the rift and resets the 3+ generation clock.
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that's a crazy-assed bold theory.
hmmm.
do we have some stories to elucidate?
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Yeah... 1945-2000 is about 3 gens, and about the time it took for anime etc to become big cultural hits in the US and create strong positive relationships
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interesting. do we have a case of failed healing due to lack of growth? also, note that the growth since 1945 hasn't been continuous.

