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What is with this East/West bullshit oversimplification?

Humans have a tendency to divide things into two distinct groups with an imaginary gap between them (this v/s that, us v/s them), this comment is just another example of that.

There is so much more to it, but no, apparently it's just East/West. HN is going down the drain, it is the new reddit now.

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Well of course this is oversimplifying. But culture as a concept is an oversimplification. It is talking about broad traits of behaviors that can be find in a certain population. For instance, the thai people in general has less transophobia than most countries in the world. It’s just a fact.

Now you can’t deny that it exists some places in Japan where people can rent friends hourly and that some people get really attached to robots or sex dolls.

And it is also true that this feels utterly bizarre to the majority of people in europe or the US.

And it is a totally legitimate question to wonder why.

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