How much has Buddhism to do with the general lack of empathy in East Asia?
How much has Buddhism to do with the general lack of empathy in East Asia?
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It isn't Buddhism. Populations recently descended from hunters and herders have evolved empathic traits in order to more effectively care from their flocks and anticipate the actions of their prey. Mainland East Asians have been exclusive high-density farmers for longer than any other population, causing them to lose the genes for empathy as well as their spiritual connection to nature. The hunter/herder Mongoloids of Central and Northern Asia are much less cruel and autistic.
>Religion massively concerned with imparting peace on others
Not sure I agree in general.
Do you have a citation on that?
>Do you have a citation on that?
Nope, just my personal theory based on extensive experience with different races. No scientist would dare study these sorts of things.
I'm a south Asian buddhist, I don't think it plays a major role. But Buddhism is completely desensitized from the concept of death for example. There's a famous story where a dead woman's son comes to Siddharth, and asks him to revive her son, so he gives her a challenge to go to every house in her village and ask for a cup of rice if nobody in their home has died, and come back to him with that cup of rice. Obviously no house is like that and she comes empty handed and realizes that "death is a part of life so just embrace it". Now that can be construed as blackpilled on life.
Buddhism would have the opposite effect.
Buddhism has kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity as qualities to develop.
That's a good story, if only our Jesus was more like that
If helping others becomes an obsession, then the suffering doesn't go away, it just changes owners.
>Voidism
I dunno, you tell me user
What role does Christianity have in the general lack of empathy found in the United States lol
>What is “Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.”
The savior had plenty of great quotes that will blow your mind.
Fine words but no method
>How much has Buddhism to do with the general lack of empathy in East Asia?
Absolutely none. Buddhism teaches all are One in the Brahman. If anything, it would make them more empathetic.
I like him but accepting death as part of life seems more redpilled than believing some guy will come along and revive your dead grandma if you wish for it badly enough.
Birth aging sickness death sorrow lamentation pain distress and despair... Common to all beings
What's to get upset about?
>descended from hunters and herders have evolved empathic traits in order to more effectively care from their flocks and anticipate the actions of their prey.
complete bullshit pulled straight out of your ass
you know nothing of history or social science
A lot and it's spreading here. Why do you think it's only unhappy depressed intellectuals that follow Buddhism? Because they are addicted to avoiding emotions, even happiness.
kek, a picture really is worth 1000 words
Tiananmen Square Massacre June 4, 1989
六四事件
>t. soulless gook dogeater
is that phrase supposed to mean anything to me?
it's all stale memes at this point.
huh interesting. are you actually in mainland china or larping through vpn?
Chinese aren't even majority buddhists afaik.
A Buddhist doesn't avoid emotions : just the bad ones that cause harm
yes, theres the western empathy @ colonialism, slavery, genocide of indians, jim crow, ww1, ww2...
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if u dont kno that,
u R literally Ignorant
Coming from a country with a very strong rooted Buddhist society, I don't think there's a connection between lack of empathy and Buddhism.
Even though we are not a rich country, I have never seen even a homeless person starving here because people care so much. Sometimes it gets to the point where it is too much lol. Like your car can break down and hundreds of people will circle it trying to help.
Also China isn't a Buddhist country. The Buddhist countries in East Asia are Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam etc.
this, city people are soulles but countryfolk are much nicer. You can already see the bugman-syndrome happening in white populations today in urban areas
In Thailand the temples are the social welfare system. Poor and homeless people can get food and shelter and poor kids can go to school. All off donations not the taxpayer. Libertarians take note lol
Also NEETS who finally get kicked out of the basement can go be monks and actually do something with their life beyond posting garbage on Jow Forums lol
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for doggos and the nigchinks kill and eat
its comes from the fact that awr rook same and overpopulation so they have to be especially cut throat to stand out/get ahead. if we nuked the fuck out of them (which we should) and imposed western values and white people on them they would miraculously be kind of somewhat fixed.
>for doggos and the fuck the nigchinks that kill and eat them
yikes
not if you take karma and dharma the way a lot of people take it
>imposed western values and white people on them they would miraculously be kind of somewhat fixed
Yeah, nah mate. Not our job. We should just wipe them all out and repopulate Asia with our people.
> East Asia?
define east asian. To me that basically means Korea and japan. Japan as plenty of empathy, Korea has some, bot as much as japan, but I am not a expect on Korean behavior.
When you say east asian, dont you basiclly mean chinese? who haven't been Buddhist in 100s of years
United states is only Christian on paper.
> Steppe peoples like the Jurchen, Mongols, Khitans, who subsisted as hunters and raiders for generations, are exemplars of compassion.
The steppe peoples conquered and killed a lot, but they weren't torturers of men or animals, they had a sense of warrior honor.
>but they weren't torturers of men
Haha you dumb cunt the Mongols killed all of russian nobility by crushing them under a big wooden floor while they feasted on top of it.
All asiatic are sadistic subhumans. Sadism is the state of the world. White man is the freak in this circus.
sidharta is gay
>The Mongols executed Mstislav of Kiev and the Kievan nobles with the traditional Mongol caveat reserved for royalty and nobility: without shedding blood. Mstislav and his nobles were buried and suffocated under the Mongol general's victory platform at the victory feast.
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Doesn't seem that bad t.b.h., it shows a particular sense of warrior honor and respect for nobility, definitely not something the Chinese would do. Keep in mind that Europeans would often burn people at the stake and gut people alive during this period.
Which particular Buddhists? There's half a billion of them all the fuck over the place. Chinks are insect people; no matter what religion they nominally espouse--any or none--they will turn it into insect religion as they are hardwired to do. And that genetic train left the station far longer ago than 2300 years.
no its the same sort of sadistic talmudic shit the inquisition did when they burned people cause of that no blood rule.
The warriors honor in western culture is the exact opposite by giving a warriors death in blood. In ancient times it was the sword down the spine and in medieval times nobles were beheaded.
The simple fact that you argue over these interpretations exposed you as either a gook or any other sort of disconnected foreigner.
10 chink lives for every dog ever tortured
>the Congo free state
>new world slave trade
>the late Indian wars on the plains
>the wars of religion
Yeah naw whites are just enlightened enough to try and pretend we aren’t sadists. Put a little hunger and thirst on us and we would be rosaries coloreds alive for our next meal
and the europeans didn't just gut people they gutted people who realy deserved it. Breaking of limbs and cutting away of flesh pieces was reserved to the sort of type that today would be know as serial killers like Road Robbers with high bodycount and you wouldn't believe what some of these sickos did.
Empathy is unnecessary along with Faith.
This is just a meme lefties are pushing with their new found Holier Than Thou thing.
>the Congo free state
cutting off hands was less cruel then what was going on there before. Check the headlines from congo over the last few months how they fall back into their pre-colonial behavior.
>new world slave trade
everyone had slaves the whites are not the only villain in this story but the only hero.
>the late Indian wars on the plains
the plain indians were savages even to indian standards. They needed to go with all means necessary.
>the wars of religion
thats a bullshit nonsensical term. Take your Noam Chomsky rhetoric and fuck off back to plebbit you vermin.
Probably a bit, but empathy is a meme. Being so easy to manipulate emotionally that you act against your own interests is a bug, not a feature.
All I am trying to say is the hunter/herder descended people are less cruel and sadistic than exclusive farmers, the point still stands.
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If they became monks they'd be learning and being trained so they'd lose their NEET status anyway
This happened to Japan and now their young men are a bunch of hermit asspies who avoid women and jerk off to anime.
What really bothers me is whenever there is a video of Chinamen driving over a child, all the reddit cucks come out and blame it on the chinese insurance laws...
I just think since they know there are 1.2 billion of them running over one little kid isn't really going to make them go extinct
This desu. Farming civilizations absolute wreck the human psyche when practiced for countless millenias. It's really no wonder that the current inhabitants of places where great civilization'' existed are unhuman.
They actually are. It's widely known that Mongols and Asian Siberian people are way more soulful than peasant Chinese. People in Inner Mongolia (China) are definitely the best people within China.
Being conquerors doesn't mean you don't have soul. It's often these 'peaceful' people that don't have soul, they don't care if they are subjugated.
Under the endless blue sky, we ride together, my Finnmongol brother. That said, I will still pour molten gold into the mouth and eyes of some Khwarazmian who looked at me funny.
There might me more of an honor culture among steppe people but don't assume there was no savagery, you can't build the largest contiguous land empire in history without killing a whole bunch of motherfuckers.
Zero. If you're referring to Chinese, they went from soul crushing communism to hyper capitalism within a very short span of time. Their minds and hearts aren't equipped to handle what they have as gracefully as others might. China actually has a habit of crushing any spiritual movement within China with violence and imprisonment so any real Buddhism isn't allowed to be practiced.