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If Japanese hated asymmetry then why was Yumi - an asymmetrical bow the choice weapon for he world famous Samurais

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi

Generalism may help paint ourselves into nice little circles for easy digestion by our brains but let's at least give it a fight :-)

Everyone in Japan would say quality was equal to perfection, so I'd probably say nobody in Japan is a Samurai anymore who needs a bow.

So you do agree that people keep changing and at any point cannot be generalized

I don't think it's a generalization if someone did the research and everyone in Japan says that perfection = quality.

Then that would be a fact, not a generalization.

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