Kangmin Lee
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She's a Trinidad.
I guess like American, I think this is kind of the distinction between America and the rest of the world.
But I think America is still very individualistic versus Korea is individualistic in certain regards for sure.
But they're still broadly collectivist.
And so there's so many things you can break that down into in different ways.
how that manifests in different ways in society.
But I think that's one way.
Of course, the food we consume and the language we speak.
It's because Confucianism was like the main religion before Japanese annexation.
And then during Japanese colonialism, Christianity like boomed.
And so Christianity became the dominant religion in Korea.
But because of the Confucian roots, like Confucianism is very big on filial piety and respecting your elders and your ancestors and very patriarchal.
So that's why.
But they're trying to do away with a lot of that in Korea.
Big mistake.
Because a lot of the liberals are like, oh, we live in a different era.
Times are different.
Yeah.
Exactly.
We need some of that, dude.