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I would argue that if you want to talk about a society's orientation towards excellence, you have to consider innovation/creativity as well as operational excellence. 1/2
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The stereotype of Japan is individual excellence organized via strict compliance to inflexible hierarchies & seniority-based social structure. The xenophobic culture suffered a crushing blow to its expansionism, was literally nuked <100 yrs ago. Cultures die for complex reasons
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I would hazard that maybe something about their culture might be suppressing birthrates, and that all developed countries are seeing falling birthrates.
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Oic I get it...maybe.. A friend once explained India in a most mediocre-as-superpowe manner. He implied the concept of Indian existence as a cockroach consciousness - thriving by not painting a Target on oneself yet being able to survive a nuclear blast.
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