[JumpCrisscross]

I've come to conclude any culture that teaches strong forms of "respect your elders" will have a tough time building an innovation economy.

[nullnilvoid]

"I respect you and will disrupt you."

[Mz]

And then we can have an entire culture of respecting our elders so much that we emulate what disruptive badasses they are.

Everyone wins!

[Jackim]

Japan?

[smhost]

How much of that is a result of being forced to change due to outside pressure? The fact that they did it well is secondary. I took a course at Yale where they taught the Western canon of literature as Satanic text, where Western culture was presented as justified rebellion. What is the Eastern equivalent?