Quote: (08-16-2012 04:22 PM)SVK Wrote:
It is all about hierarchy of needs. When you are dirt poor your primary goals are to secure basic needs like food, shelter, safety, etc. As you get richer and these needs are taken care of to the point of being taken for granted your focus shifts elsewhere. The same for countries. In a poor country the focus is to somewhat feed the populace and provide potable water, basic healthcare, dealt with crazy guerillas... When country gets so rich that basic needs of vast majority of people are taken care of it creates artificial "problems" like gender inequality, political correctness, misogyny in video games...
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However, what about Japan and other advanced East Asian countries? They are rich but feminism doesn't seem to have a strong hold like in the West. Or at least that is my perception, I may be mistaken...
You're right, gender relations in the likes of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore are quite different and significantly less feminized than they are in the west. This is a matter of cultural variation-these societies simply will not accept some of the developments that westerners (particularly those of Anglo-European descent) tolerate and generally promote.
The rise of feminism in its modern western form depends heavily on the acquiescence of men, and some seem men seem more willing to let things go than others.
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