"Innovation requires iconoclasts" - iconoclasm is a British trait, particularly in the tabloid press.
"Loyalty to an extended family has been a powerful feature of Pacific Asia's rise, enabling governments to invest less than they might otherwise have done in welfare spending" - which makes me wonder whether in the West we can trace a correlation between increases in welfare spending and the decline of family structures.
"A combination of uniformity, deference, attachment to order and the strength of the family, each of which has contributed to success in the past, might stand in the way of Pacific Asia's success in the future" - I think the authors of the report ignore the examples of history as Victorian Britain valued uniformity, deference, attachment to order and the strength of the family and still managed to become a global power (arguably the greatest global power) and British decline is historically mirrored by a decline in uniformity, deference, attachment to order and the strength of the family.
"In Japan the major corporations remain remarkably innovative, producing 20 per cent of the world's patents" - here the authors undermine their own argument.
"Loyalty to an extended family has been a powerful feature of Pacific Asia's rise, enabling governments to invest less than they might otherwise have done in welfare spending" - which makes me wonder whether in the West we can trace a correlation between increases in welfare spending and the decline of family structures.
"A combination of uniformity, deference, attachment to order and the strength of the family, each of which has contributed to success in the past, might stand in the way of Pacific Asia's success in the future" - I think the authors of the report ignore the examples of history as Victorian Britain valued uniformity, deference, attachment to order and the strength of the family and still managed to become a global power (arguably the greatest global power) and British decline is historically mirrored by a decline in uniformity, deference, attachment to order and the strength of the family.
"In Japan the major corporations remain remarkably innovative, producing 20 per cent of the world's patents" - here the authors undermine their own argument.
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