How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes

Re:How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes by sirmarksalot on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:12PM (#24570758)

This is a really interesting tangent to go off on. I wonder if the reason for this is that Japan and Korea never really had a frontier the way the US did. I think the idea of a wide open wilderness, yours if you can tame it, contributes to a desire and expectation of a giant living space, all to yourself.

I don't know about Korea, but in Japan, most of society grew up around castle towns, and with the exception of post-war suburban development, those towns are still the same towns they have today, so population is distributed roughly the same way as in medieval times.

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Re:How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes by charwalker on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:41PM (#24581227)

Consider that in the US you could immigrate west and the government would give you land if you set up a homestead, at least in the mid 1800's.

There's also a literature reference to I think Little House on the Prairie where the father sees another family coming into the valley and decides they need to pack up and leave.

There is a long history of US travel out west to get land and space regardless, or maybe because, of how far away from others you can get.

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