From low trust to high in China
asiatimes.com
It’s a matter of trust It’s always a matter of trust – Billy Joel After the Hong Kong protests of 2019, Han Feizi figured time had run out on his
  • The_Walkening [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If readers think this piece will now devolve into another Francis Fukuyama bashing exercise, they are absolute correct. We cannot let “The End of History” steal all the limelight. Francis Fukuyama has produced other stinkers as well and the long-forgotten “Trust” has aged just as poorly.

    michael-laugh

    • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
      18·
      1 year ago

      What is it with Fukuyama assigning these “public trust levels” to different nations though? I find it laughable that he seems to correlate low trust with family enterprises and then associates Japan with high trust, as if its economy weren’t in the hands of a few family-owned conglomerates

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    According to Fukuyama, impersonalistic Germans, Japanese and Americans could operate at ultra-high levels of social trust, allowing large corporations to form organically, while familistic peoples like Chinese and Italians need state intervention to form meaningfully large enterprises. Russians, with neither deep familial bonds nor liberal values, removed into mafia mayhem in the absence of a strong state.

    Leave it to Fukuyama to come up with race science even stupider than phrenology. At least you can take objective measurements of skull shapes.

    Also yeah, I went back to China for the first time in 5 or so years recently and the vibe in Shanghai was very different. My parents who live in China also commented on how good service had gotten recently.

    • familiar [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Also yeah, I went back to China for the first time in 5 or so years recently and the vibe in Shanghai was very different. My parents who live in China also commented on how good service had gotten recently.

      That shit is so wild from a sociological standpoint.

    • shthrow2 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Also yeah, I went back to China for the first time in 5 or so years recently and the vibe in Shanghai was very different.

      Effect of covid maybe? The lockdown was a pretty dire time but I’ve never seen neighbourly solidarity like I did in my xiaoqu over those three months.

  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    1 year ago

    If readers think this piece will now devolve into another Francis Fukuyama bashing exercise, they are absolute correct.

    I require more of this