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To: Mason Barge who wrote (6413)7/29/1998 9:16:00 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire  Read Replies (1) of 10921
 
Re << ask citizens of either country whether they would prefer lifetime
employment or massive cyclical layoffs. . . govt has served them well for
thousands of years>>

I'm afraid that isn't quite what I said. I said:
"The Japanese culture is the way it is because it has served the
Japanese people well for thousands of years. "
Message 5322752

I don't want to waste anyone's time with semantic quibbling, but the difference between "government" and "culture" is important here. Governments can change, be thrown out, or be forced to change much more easily than cultures can. The point of my note was that the government will change *within the context of the culture*, not to conform with what outside forces want.

In some ways, the collapse of Communism in the USSR could be viewed as the culture reasserting itself and getting rid of a government that wasn't working.

Katherine
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