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Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by 4gotunameagain on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:50AM (#44245856)
Typical cultural superiority bias.

Every way has its pros and cons. Having an age related hierarchy might have benefits like societal coherence or stability. I am not a proponent of it, I just acknowledge my inability to fully grasp the impact and ramifications as to label one as superior and the other as "perverted".

Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by cess11 on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:01AM (#44245912)
If you think hierarchy is natural and good you're a conservative or some other kind of reactionary.

Hierarchies invite revolt and need a lot of force to keep in place.

Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by 4gotunameagain on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:29AM (#44246081)
I did not talk about natural, I did not talk about good.

If you think there are no hierarchies everywhere, then we have a completely different worldview.

Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by mock-possum on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:24AM (#44247373)
It’s sounds like we’re running into the is/ought problem - just because there is hierarchy doesn’t mean that’s the way it ought to be.
Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by skyscraperman on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:50AM (#44246205)
Get out of here with this arrogant, ad hominem crap.

Acknowledging downsides of some culture doesn't automatically mean cultural superiority bias.

Calling out actual negative effects of a culture has nothing to do with claiming some culture is more superior. He's literally just pointing out specific outcomes. Is the birth rate in Korea a figure of my imagination based on my cultural superiority bias or a product of some of the negative effects of their culture?

Just saying "superiority bias" is completely sidestepping an actual discussion to be had about actual problems.

Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by 4gotunameagain on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:33AM (#44246485)
I will point you again to the usage of the word "perverted", which you missed twice.
Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by ZephyrBlu on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:45PM (#44252149)
In the modern day, Korean culture is absolutely cooked. There is a reason their birth rates are so terrible. Talking to Koreans and consuming even just a little bit of media about Korea makes some of the problems pretty obvious.
Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by Ray20 on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @08:32PM (#44253281)
>benefits like societal coherence or stability

The situation looks exactly the opposite if you look at the birth rate in the Korea.

Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born by 4gotunameagain on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:17AM (#44254502)
I obviously did not mean numerical stability.