Japanese Internet is designed differently, and so is Chinese Internet and South Korean Internet, and many other Asian countries’ Internet. It’s dense, cluttered, and information rich. Why? The answer lies in cultural psychology. It lies in how culture influences our brain’s cognitive processes in perception and attention.
EDIT: Wow, I really did not expect this to blow up, and I wish I was more comprehensive in some of the points I bring after reading through your comments. Thank you for all the thoughts and critiques. This was never meant to be standalone essay, it was always meant to add to the original video as a different perspective, and hopefully invite you to the world of cultural psychology.
This video is a direct reply to the video made by Answer in Progress @answerinprogress:
I hope to add to the conversation and investigation that Answer in Progress spurred about this topic and cover the parts of this theory about Japanese Internet that they missed.
My other video essays:
The Writer’s Strike is Bigger Than Hollywood: https://youtu.be/3A6Xtv0C21A
How Twitch Manipulates Streamers: https://youtu.be/VNJr4v7Br30
⟡ socials ⟡
Insta – https://instagram.com/cynzyy
⟡ video sources ⟡
Joseph Henrich – “The Secret of Our Success”
Richard Nisbett – “Eastern and Western Thinking”
Julien S. Bourrelle – “How Culture Drives Behaviours”
Fernando Lanzer – “The psychology of culture”
Dato Gogichaishvili – “What’s So Different About Cultures Anyway?”
Simone Buijzen – “How cross-cultural understanding can help us”
⟡ paper sources ⟡
East Asian and North American in Processing Information
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167212455828
East Asian vs. Western Art Styles and Aesthetic Preferences
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167208320555
Holistic Versus Analytic Expressions in Artworks
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022022114537704
