Holistic vs Analytical
Weird thing the antonym of holistic is actually atomistic
Then:
Westerners are atomized individuals
Now this do sounds correct
This is just the liberal fantasy map of balkanizing China with extra steps.
Funny because Chinese history is the opposite. The rice areas were full of pirates and merchants and shit who spread out to Taiwan and SE Asia. The central plain area was that bureaucratic core.
From what I've read, the north was easier to unify/administer because cavalry was easier to use on the planes of the north than the terrain if the south.
I think this is also reflected in the greater linguistic diversity of the south.
But don't take anything I wrote as authoritative, I'm not an expert by any means
Not an expert either, but the central plain is also the homeland of what we call the "Han". That wheat growing area is where the first Chinese state emerged and it later expanded into the southern borderlands/hills. Flat plains are easier to control than wild hills.
Basically no overseas Chinese community spoke Mandarin before Singapore mandated it/people fled the revolution, which pretty much says it all. How does it vibe with a "collectivist, interdependent" culture to be the ones chasing $$$ over the ocean while the "individualists" stay home and try to forbid overseas exploring?
the southern song got rid of the imperial curfew, invented the night on the town in the Big City.
not sure how that vibes with lib nonsense words like collectivist/individualist tho
pretty much all of Chinese history (and prehistory) is the south expanding north
broke: race science
woke: rice science
(I stole this from someone on twitter)
the fact those guys never test any of their assumptions is genuinely funny
I wonder if they meant Science Magazine
But either way, what the actual fuck
Probably " sience " which is a pretty well respected academic journal
Okay but explain the east Asian preference for scallions, which go stale in the coldest part of the fridge within days; to the western use of yellow onions, which stay good for months in room temperature cupboards.
Easy, near the tropics you can grow scallions all year round; far from the tropics, you gotta stick to seasonal production of vegetables of easy storage/long shelf life.
Scallions taste super good and go in almost every dish so if they last more than 3 days in your fridge you must not be eating enough scallions.
Stand them up in a jar with a bit of water in the bottom and they'll stay fresh for at least a month and possibly more idk never made it that far. You can even re-grow them from just the white part a few times if you really want to stretch out a budget
Xinjiang is like 40% Han but not part of China? Inner Mongolia is 80% Han and also not part of China? :brainworms:
Maybe neither wheat nor rice grows there? I don't really care this makes you stupider by just looking at it.
for real? i wonder where that grows, is Dzungaria good farmland? :thonk:
e: looking at the source its actually not that much
Those are autonomous regions, which would explain them getting left out if they hadn't also included the autonomous regions of Guangxi and Ningxia, which is inconsistent.
I can buy wheat and rice farming leading to different social development as to grow wheat you can get away with a level of organisation roughly on the level of a guy who hits people when they don't look busy
no idea how that would make you more analytical though
Analyzing pizza consumption across the nation to find out why New Yorkers always get into fights
You see, mozzarella lipids interfere with the brain receptors localized in the civilized-behavior lobe
It's an adjacent phenomenon to Bazinga Brain, known as 'Bodega Brain'.
The south is collectivist.
i'll take ''what are Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou'' for 500, Alex
i mean i think the conclusion here is wildly overstated and ahistorical, but arguments that cultural differences are caused by differences in material conditions (like, say, the farming methods of one staple crop vs another) are most of marxist historiography
This all ends with The People's Republic of The Olive Garden invading Applebeelandia for its strategic microwave reserve.
Rou jia mo makes people burger-brained, the map says so. :amerikkka-clap:
The wheat enjoyers are logical analytical chads, while the rice fans are superstitious holistic virgins
Holistic vs Analytical
Weird thing the antonym of holistic is actually atomistic
Then:
Westerners are atomized individuals
Now this do sounds correct
Sure but you know this “study” only used holistic because it was a vaguely euphemistic way of saying “can’t think critically or analytically”
Ah, of course. Just extremely annoyed no reviewer shitted on them at least for that semantics.
just cut that corner key and its just a lovely map of wheat & rice cultivation in china
its quite an important detail
