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Do objectivists view Japanese culture as morally wrong?

Japanese culture emphasizes collectivism; a Japanese saying is "The nail that sticks out gets pounded down".

As a life-long Objectivist, I can't think of one instance when this subject was addressed by any Objectivist, let alone by Rand herself. Though on one occasion, speaking of Oriental music, she said that because of the epistemological differences between western and eastern cultures, we could not say--understood to mean "without training"--declare whether Asian music was objective or not, since it did not address western thinking.

She did however say, "A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a “culture” is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions." http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/culture.html

And so again, without knowing how the Japanese got to this collectivism (if indeed it is; I can't say it is or it's not,) then we cannot judge because judgment hails to motive. After all, Dagney shot a soldier in cold blood, which under different circumstances would be a horrible crime; Ragnar sank government ships, which under different circumstances would be a horrible crime; etc.

All things are contextual in philosophy. We don't understand the context of what you describe as "collectivism" and you offer none for us on which to judge it.

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