Why are Japan and many other Asian countries so friggin sexist?
• Probably an outgrowth of Confucianism’s downplay of the individual in favor of the group. • Perhaps we perceive this because Western gender egalitarianism is a Western phenomenon. The “women are expensive property that can talk” meme isn’t limited to East Asia. It’s pretty much universal outside the industrialized Western nations. For good or ill, we’re the ones with strange ideas, by historical standards. • Why was Confucianism so successful, then? • I think you just answered your own question – The group might be wrong, but the individual can’t fight them all, unless he’s Mike Haggar – and, even then, he better have Cody’s help. • Because humans are social animals. • Well it’s not like the big events in the history of everything happened everywhere around the world at the exact same time. That would be freaky. Cultures, even if you don’t agree with them, are different because they have differing histories. • …are you saying that countries outside Asia aren’t sexist? Dude, if you
