Also note that although there are some regional effects visible here, almost all of this is just per capita GDP. As countries get richer their values almost always change in very very predictable ways, no matter what region they're a part of.
I've been telling people for many many years that Japanese values are pretty much the same as Western values, but...
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I spent hours today going through the details of every single one of the 25 killings associated with the Floyd protests, and concluded that maybe half of them could be construed as violence between pro-BLM and anti-BLM people.
That half includes all killings of cops (of which there were none, though one retired ex-cop was killed during a robbery), and killings by cops (of which there were four).
What's really weird to me is that there was basically no good pro-Bernie music or art that I ever saw. With all his fired-up youth support I would have expected a lot more utopian music and art.
A utopian movement needs art of some sort to inspire people. The inspirational power of pie charts and line graphs seems inherently limited.