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• 07.20.07
  C. Douglas Lummis: Ruth Benedict’s Obituary for Japanese Culture
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  I happened across this one via History News Network: C. Douglas Lummis: Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture Back in the 80s our liberal Congressman, Howard Wolpe, wrote a column for the local paper in which he told about a visit to Japanese factories, how the Japanese workers would do calisthenics together, and how could we as Americans compete with a culture in which people were like that. I presume the implication was that our industries needed the intervention of the state like in Japan. It was a common topic at the time. I wrote a letter to ...