To produce their findings, the authors evaluated the attitudes of 1,162 Han Chinese students in Beijing and Liaoning in the north and in Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan and Sichuan in the south. To control for other factors that distinguish the north and southsuch as climate, dialect and contact with herding culturesthe authors also analyzed differences between various neighboring counties in five central provinces along Chinas rice-wheat border。
According to the authors, the influence of rice cultivation can help explain East Asias strangely persistent interdependence。 For example, they say South Korea and Japan have remained less individualistic than Western countries, even as theyve grown more wealthy。
The authors arent alone in observing the influence various crops have on shaping culture. Malcolm Gladwell in his 2008 book Outliers also drew connections between a hard-working ethic to a historical tradition of rice cultivation in places such as South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, given that the farming of such crops is arguably an equally tedious chore。
But what will happen to such differences after people move away from tending such crops, as is now happening across China? The study cites findings that US regions settled by Scottish and Irish herders show more violence even long after most herders descendants have found other lines of work as evidence that cultural traits stubbornly resist change, even over time.
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