Is it Orientalist to point out that Japan and South Korea have both modernized rapidly under capitalist economic systems with strong Western influence, and both seem to have really unhappy populations?
Like, the region has some problems. There’s a lot of overlap with other developed nations, but also some unique circumstances and challenges.
Is it Orientalist to point out that Japan and South Korea have both modernized rapidly under capitalist economic systems with strong Western influence, and both seem to have really unhappy populations?
It’s Orientalist to fixate on Japan as a though its “loneliness culture” is some kind of aberration from the western capitalist mean.
The article opens and closes with tags that suggest this isn’t uniquely Japanese, but the headline and much of the body of the article seem to call out Japan as uniquely bad.
