What disappoints me is that people make these claims without taking a few seconds to Google…
Academic work I’ve seen suggests it’s basically down to case selection:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468111
But what also fascinates me is that people can so easily come up with strong opinions about a culture based on limited information I.e saying “a society that prides itself on honor can act so dishonorably”…
It’s weird, people talk about Japan like it’s an alien planet. Klingons may have been based upon the Japanese but I assure you Japanese life is not very much like Star Trek.