ARTICLE: "With First Car, a New Life in China: Attracting New Respect and a Good Marriage," by Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 24 April 2008, p. C1.
Pretty standard stuff, by historical terms. Huntington says Western and modern are different, but more and more, Asia proves that surface similarities hide deeper ones. We keep looking for the political similarities, but the similarities in human needs (and what is economics but the meeting of human needs?) are stunning.
People get rich and they want respect for their accomplishment, which they externalize and internalize similarly the world over.
Go back far enough and big muscles and other outward signs of you (the male) being a good provider is what gets you a bride. Deal doesn't change that much when you get money; you just adorn yourself differently.
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Comments (2)
Thank you "Thorstein" Barnett.
Posted by stuart abrams | May 13, 2008 2:08 PM
It's nice to see this insight demonstrated again, but it is sad that it is again seen as an unusual (or unused) insight.
Posted by Louis Heberlein | May 14, 2008 12:57 PM