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atemerev on Oct 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japan’s koseki system: dull, uncaring but efficien...

Well, yes. As I argued elsewhere, we Russians are culturally closer to Americans than to Europeans, for some unknown reasons.

oblio on Oct 22, 2016 [–]

Isolationism and exceptionalism. See UK and Japan for other examples. Though after the beating received in WW2, Japan's is subdued.

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