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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (19 children)

Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the “human touch,” especially when it comes to service, so I can see how companies aren’t jumping on to the hype. We’re also pretty slow to adopt change.

And that's pretty cool, seems like a culture best suited for modern challenges.

I've heard\read there are many racist, paternalist, hierarchical and collectivist traits, but at the same time Japan apparently hasn't hit those honeypots most of the humanity has.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 17 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Weird how you say collectivist like it's a bad thing

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It is. It replaces one's own choices with a collective's common "choice", and that is usually substituted with most loud and ambitious people's choice from inside the collective, or the voices that those from outside prefer to hear from it. Bad all around.

Mutual aid and brotherhood are not collectivism. The philosophy that a group of individuals can be regarded as a subject is, possibly without regard for the comprising individuals.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is incredibly reductionist. Wow.

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