For whatever reason, I felt more at home while visiting New Zealand than living in Australia; subtle cultural differences that may parallel this discussion of northern Japan. Of course, some of that could be related to being just a visitor rather than spending an extended amount of time as an immigrant. I might add that my thinking tends to be more wholistic and collective than that of the typical American; however, I also feel a fair amount of hypocrisy and paternalism in Australia's pandering to collectivism.
---the vast majority of psychological subjects had been “western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic”, or ‘Weird’ for short---
How East and West think in profoundly different ways
