Threat from the DPRK (North Korea)

[Warren Dew]

(09-22-2017, 04:16 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

Quote: We were tired and far away, so we left an armistice in place expecting it to resolve in time.  Time, in the eastern sense, is a much longer horizon than it is in the western sense.  So here we are.

Speaking from a philosophical standpoint I would agree.  In general Americans, Brits and Western Europeans have a short time-reference.  In general Westerners think of the next day, next quarter, year.  The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans see the world in large civilizational archs and are willing to take decades of pain for centuries of prosperity.

I'm not so sure that Brits and Europeans are like the US on this.  There's a saying that in Britain, 100 miles is a long distance, while in America, 100 years is a long time.  I think that's where the big split is on time scales - between the US and most of the rest of the world.