by thinkagainagain
---------------
As a scientist working and living in a western nation, I am always interested in the unification of partial laws in different part of our society, by combination my knowledge from different domains, such as biology and cultural study, I proposed some hypothesis which I will detail in this article.
The main topic is the biological base of culture difference. I would be very interested to see any following survey to either support or disprove that hypothesis.
Its is a very deep topic, to read this, you need to have the courage to break many assumptions you builds on in the everyday life, you need to have open mind and imagination, if you can understand what I mean, then congratulations, you are getting one great step closer to the truths.
As western is in its power, Euro centrism is saturated in Morden science, it is everywhere but people hardly notice it. The reason I said so is because I do not find much study directly associated with the obvious yet very important topic, it maybe simply because that the results would be unfavoured by the group who has most money and power. Researches can hardly get funding, scientist and hardly find journal to publish it. Academic is not immutable to politics. If you read this and find it inspiring, please quota my credit in your work (such as ThinkAgainAgain of Cultural Peace Group suggests…). Although it is published online, but I am as serious as I am writing my other papers.
I respect true science, and I feel I have the responsibility to tell people my finding, that’s why I wrote this. Besides listing my hypothesis, I will also tell you how I came out those ideas along the way.
Many researches suggest, high testosterone level is associate with aggression and crime.
Culture has biological/genetic base (please read Selfish Gene).
Many researches suggest, on average male's body differ from female’s body in following aspects:
higher body height
more body hair
more prominent brow ridge
larger chin
longer legs
smaller head
longer neck
flat cheek
squared jaw
If reverse the features, one can get typical of Asian body feature, squared jaw is not perceived as beautiful in Asian culture (maybe because its not feminine enough compare with average Asian people, a popular plastic surgery in Asia is to reduction of the squared jaw )
Therefore one can predict, on average Asian's should has lower testosterone level than Caucasian. Surveys can be performed to verify this hypothesis.
Based on this hypothesis, one can further analysis the difference between Caucasian and Asian cultures.
Let’s go back to the difference between man and woman, much research suggests, man are more aggressive, opportunity seeking and less compassionate, on average has less consideration of others. On the other hand women are more cooperative and have a stronger sense that she is part of the environment.
Actually, these two poles of gender characters describe the difference between western culture and Asian culture very well, formal is called as individualism, latter, is traditionally called as collectivism, but this term is no longer neutered under the influence of Eurocentrism, and it does not describe the Asian ideology at the fundamental level, I perfer to use another term, Holism, to describe Asian culture.
Yes as the name suggests, western ideology focus on individual people, Asian ideology focus on the whole system, the system can be a family, a country, the environments, and even as large as the whole universe, therefore individual human are not essentially any superior to the the rest of environment, they are asked to have more consideration to others and the environments, in another words, Caucasian culture focus one individual rights, Asian cultural focus on individual responsibility.
Based on those two sets of core features, more ideologies was developed, all of those inherit the core value of Caucasion culuture and Asian culture, for example
------------
Christianity, which put human at the centre of universe, so individual rights is emphasised, the religions is outgoing, it goes out to spread its idea, aims to changing others, it is an aggressive religion in another words.
Capitalism, which encourage the accumulating of personal wealth therefore personal rights
------------
Buddhism, which see human and animals are equally having souls
Taoism, which has a holistic concept of the world
Above two ideologies are both passive, inner going, they focus on changing oneself and do not actively seeking expansion of its ideology.
Communism, which can be seem as another form of religion, encourage the sharing and responsibility to the greatest extend
--------
But if we go back to the beginning, all difference can be explained as Asian culture are more feminine than Caucasian culture, if we take one more step backwards, the gender of culture is due of the difference in testosterone level and gene controls them.
In a word, the fundamental difference of Asian and Caucasian culture is the result of biological difference, this difference are defined by gene, and can be evaluated by testing the average level of testosterone in the population.
Yes Asians are more feminine so do their culture.
------
What is fashion industry?
It is the frontline of propaganda of racial discrimination, which help create better survival environment for Caucasians, because compare with Asia, Caucasians are less feminine physically on average, man's nature instinct of beauty(please read: Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty: Nancy Etcoff:) and mate seeking do not favour this kinds of features, so models with typical Caucasian feature are set up to be the standards of beauty, taller, long leg, squared jaw, those features are known to associate with testosterone. sometime, woman belong of other race but have has Caucasian features are also allowed to walked on the stage to show there respect to diversity, but at the fundamental level, this industry is decimate against other races. Because majority people of over race do not fit into their standards of beauty
Forecast of the fitness of two different cultural systems.
Data has already suggest in developed nations, girls are increasing over-performed then boys in the school, we can expect females to be better off in the future as the society needs more co-operation then confrontations. For the same token Asian culture will be better off in the new world.
Evolutionary speaking, no a single culture is superior to the others, they just different mutations, but their fitness to the environment will differ from time and space. With the increasing of global population, and ever developed communication system, everybody is increase connected with each other, individualism are much more difficult to maintain because of the complex relationships between everything: the economic crisis in one part of the world will effect other parts shortly, the pollution in one country will contribute to global climate crisis, at this point of time, human has come to realized that we have to look at the world as a whole, the world is no longer your place or mine place, it belong to everyone, and everything we do effect others, if we want to survive and develop, we need to work together, and cut unnecessary consumption, we need to sacrificed a little bit more for others so overall we have better living environment, this is just the essence of Asian ideology, which is about holism and responsibility.
And cutting edge modern science such as gene sequence, brain function study, and quantum physics, cosmology are breaking the myth of uniqueness of human in the universe everyday, we are everything, everything are we. We are part of the universe.
----------------
Put another hypothesis again here again, data show autism and couple without children is on the raise, can this be our gene's automatic adaptation to overcrowded environment?
---------------
Biological base of difference in Intelligence
When compare the complexity and intelligence of animals species, brain to body mass ratio is often used as indicator of intelligence. As Asian usually has a larger size of head, one can expect their brain to body mass ratio is also larger than Caucasian.
This hypothesis have been confirmed in many researches, Asians, such as Korean, Japanese and Chinese are found on average has higher IQ than Caucasians, one book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, although the conclusion of the book is very unscientific, data still suggest this difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
Posts
