Rice Versus Wheat - Psychologists Say That Explains Why Communism Is Popular In China
Sunday, May 11, 2014 - 10:20
in Psychology & Sociology
The anti-wheat movement is a popular health fad in America and critics of that staple now have a new weapon in their culture war - it makes people more cooperative. And they explain Genghis Khan and Mao. Defenders of wheat have their own ammunition - rice leads to despotism and communism. Cultural psychologists writing in Science claim that they can explain psychological differences between the people of northern and southern China mirror and also the differences between community-oriented East Asia and the more individualistic Western world - southern China has grown rice for thousands of years, whereas the north has grown wheat. read more