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Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by guard-of-terra »

oblio wrote: post #90
prodmerc wrote: post #89

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Well, OK, I just recently learned they're an mostly Islamic country who love their gun culture. An odd combination for any "European" country, yet they're technically in Southern Europe. Nothing against it, really, but they don't fit in with the neighbors, for sure...

Finns and Czechs also love their guns. And Albanians used to be Christians until they were converted under Ottoman rule. If you take any given coordinates available in Europe, you're bound to find oddballs. Oh, and regarding Islam, there's Wahhabism and there's the Ottoman-style Sunni Islam (I don't know the historic name for it). The two have little in common. The Muslims in Europe are 99% results of Ottoman influen…

There's no reason why moderate Muslims won't gravitate towards Wahhabism. For three reasons:

- Wahhabism seems to be sound, certainly more than selective reading of holy books and closing eyes on some scenes. Of course, I'm not Muslim so I can't really judge.

- Saudi Arabia is pouring billions of oil dollars into promoting Wahhabism worldwide: building mosques, educating priests, etc etc.

- There does not seem to be a productive, attractive doctrine for moderate, tolerant Muslim. As far as I see, it's pacified on ad hoc basis.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by michael_fine »

icebraining wrote: post #78
michael_fine wrote: post #46

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But there are plenty of things that we only know anecdotally -- that one restaurant has bad service, or that line cooks smoke more than usual -- that no one gets up in arms about when we generalize in those cases. Formal studies are great when they exist, but in the absence of them it's only practical to extrapolate from incomplete data.

Does being practical preclude it being racist as well? Also, is generalizing about whole continents ever "practical"?

I was more addressing the implication that because it's racist, we shouldn't do it. And as to generalizing about entire continents, if your goal is to avoid getting mugged on a late night, and you know that on average black people commit more muggings than anyone else, is it not practical to walk to the other side of the street if you see a black man (and that's your only information?)

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by andrewbalitsky »

eCa wrote: post #69
andrewbalitsky wrote: post #64

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I would dispute the awesomeness of no work at all. We're not well equipped for total leisure. To paraphrase Tal Ben-Shahar, "we're built for the climb, not the summit" ( check the book "Flow" or google "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi" for a scientific explanation as to exactly why )

But climbs you don't get payed for can be just as (or more) rewarding/challenging.

Of course. So I would hope that the future holds this different sort of work. Not 'no work' at all.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by dang »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #88
dang wrote: post #56

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You've been posting unsubstantive and—worse—uncivil comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

First off that isn't really true. Second, do you ban them or do you threaten people with your tiny amount of sandbox internet power, because that's what this looks like.

Uncivil comments like these break the HN guidelines:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10586136

Yes, we ban people:

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From now on, please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by TeMPOraL »

rodgerd wrote: post #45
jacquesm wrote: post #13

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I wouldn't bet on that.

We could have the Star Trek future. We're probably going to get the Judge Dredd one.

Let's not lose hope before we've even started. Star Trek future needs to be made.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Fiahil wrote: post #15
hooliu wrote: post #11

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Yes, because the alternative is racism.

A genuine question: is making assumptions based on perceived cultural influence incorrect? I mean, I know asian work cultures are "harder" than my european one, but is it incorrect to spell that in a public/social context?

It's not incorrect (it'll just lead you to results as good as your assumptions were), but it today's climate, it's definitely not a good idea to say it out loud.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by cft »

smt88 wrote: post #48
cft wrote: post #27

I know that correlation does not imply causation, but EU GDP growth is the lowest in the world [1], while Asian is the highest. 1. https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/economic-dat...

I'd prefer to live in a country with low GDP growth and have an enjoyable life than kill myself with work.

But your great grandchildren (if any) will prefer that you had different preferences.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by 31reasons »

zo1 wrote: post #51
danharaj wrote: post #33

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> The whole idea of Rich and Poor is based on Scarcity of goods. No, actually, it's based on ownership of the means of production.

No, actually, he was just talking about the concept of "rich and poor", nothing at all to do with Marx's theories about owning the means of production. The concept of rich and poor relies on the fact that the poor can afford less goods than the rich because of scarcity. I.e. in that simplistic scenario, if there was no scarcity, the concept of "poor" wouldn't exist because they'd have access to as much resources at t…

Thank you.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by CyberDildonics »

dang wrote: post #94
CyberDildonics wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First off that isn't really true. Second, do you ban them or do you threaten people with your tiny amount of sandbox internet power, because that's what this looks like.

Uncivil comments like these break the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10586143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10586136 Yes, we ban people: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... From now on, please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

It looks to me like you saw a downvoted comment and decided to pile on to gain a feeling of superiority in the one place you have authority.

Maybe from now on you should just let people vote and keep your smug judgements to yourself.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by rmc »

andrewbalitsky wrote: post #64
csantini wrote: post #10

Not working at all is the inevitable (awesome) future of humanity.

I would dispute the awesomeness of no work at all. We're not well equipped for total leisure. To paraphrase Tal Ben-Shahar, "we're built for the climb, not the summit" ( check the book "Flow" or google "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi" for a scientific explanation as to exactly why )

If work was so great, the rich would keep it for themselves.
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