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[Mashimaro]

Does the following remind anyone of another country?

"The Japanese, if forced to rely on their own judgement away from their normal group directed environment, will probably be more at a loss than people accustomed to greater individual freedom on action."

"the competitive, adventurous Japanese of the sixteenth century became, by the nineteenth century a docile people depending mainly on their rulers for leadership and following all orders from above with few questions."

"honorific words developed in abundance because everyone had to deal cautiously with superiors and cut his way through a rank conscious jungle."

"the best defensive skill of the inferior was to "hold the tongue". But in order to communicate his will or intention he had to express himself some how, so he spoke in vague words."

taken from 'management and society, lessons from contemporary japan'
mitsuyaki masatsugu

It seems some koreans are at pains to point out how different the japanese are to themselves but reading this book, i felt almost every case applied to korean society.

[ThePoet]

Of course...the people that mostly inhabit the Japan islands are all descended from Korean expansion a bunch of centuries ago. Which is why its so funny that the Japanese and Koreans hate each other so much. There was a common bloodline at one point. So it should be no surprise.

The real indiginous Japanese were descended from Siberians and are almost all gone and living on Japanese equivalents of reservations. They were called the Ainu.

Poet

[shakuhachi]

[ThePoet]

Well, considering the facial, color, and body characteristics of most asian groups...I am sure there was a common bloodline of all asians at one point or another...that doesn't make the information any less valid.

[mithridates]

DNA doesn't matter as much as the length of time spent in cohabitation.

Plus, people from Hokkaido and other places would probably skew the study. If you were to look at people from �餸[ and compare them to Japanese from Kyushu there would be a genetic similarity.

[mithridates]

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[the saint]

No one with any lenghty experience in both countries would suggest the Japanese and Koreans are the same.

I spent 6 years in the former and have been here nearly a year. I am constantly blown away by how different the Koreans and Japanese are. This was further heightened last weekend when two of my Japanese friends spent four days with us and we took them out in Seoul.

They might look similar in a thesis but in reality these two nationalities are poles apart.

I'm not going into which I prefer here. Let's just say that the thought of staying a similar length of time in Korea fills me with... well...

[mithridates]

This page (Japanese) talks about their genetic similarities, and how Japanese really aren't all that genetically homogenous.


http://www.han.org/a/half-moon/hm073.html#No.486