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Re:Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recl... by heterodoxxed on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:43PM (#26855116)
> Something in their upbringing gave them this immense sense of worth

Is there an abundance of this in Japanese culture that I wasn't aware of?

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Re:Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recl... by jmchuster on Sunday April 18, 2021 @03:02PM (#26855299)
Probably just an abundance of this in humans in general?

A lovely John Steinbeck paraphrase/misquote from another thread:

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

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Re:Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recl... by kjrose on Sunday April 18, 2021 @03:21PM (#26855451)
We live in an age of underappreciated princes with no fiefdoms.
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