Sean Landy
Because the average “living space” of a Chinese person is 4-6 times larger than that of a Japanese person.
For example, a rural Chinese man built a “100% ugly palace” in his house.
No one will judge him wrong because that house belongs to him and the house next to him belongs to his relatives.
His neighbors, who actually have more or less blood relations with him, would take pictures of that ugly palace and post it on TikTok for fun.
Large landholdings and family systems make sure that people don't really care about other people's opinions.
If this happened in Japan, his neighbors or the whole society would be mad at him. Call him crazy
Another example is that older Chinese prefer to dance in public areas.
It's really crazy with hard rock music and makes others angry.
So why don't they care about others?
Because adults have their "family system" to support them, in his or her mind, "families" own the country, and "government" or "society" is crap.
So I guess the main difference between Chinese and Japanese is about "ownership of space".
In China, family members share spaces, a boy's parents, grandfather's parents, his sons and daughters share a space, also known as step-relatives.
But people in Japan always live by their own will.
All of China was based on that family system, and it had a big effect: after years of history, families became quite large.
Take me for example, my family name is Lu(陆/Land), and there are 6,000 people in my own village, 90% of them have the same Lu family name.
We've lived here for over 2,500 years, and all those Lu men are actually descended from one ancestor.
My Gandapa's 5th brother's son is 2 years younger than me and I have to call him "Little Uncle".
My village and my lake
That means I shared space with 6,000 family members.
Under some conditions we don't even pay taxes to the government, and our reason is very good: we lived here before "government" or "taxes" were invented.
Speaking of the entire country, China has a population of 1.4 billion, but 80% of the Chinese population has less than 240 family names.
However, the Japanese have more than 220,000 different family names.
That situation started China's basic religion: the country was nothing but a big family, we lived together with our stupid relatives.
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