>>508238126
1. Geography is retarded. Mountainous while divided into a gorrilion shitty islands.
Beef is expensive because there's not enough land for cattle.
2. Right on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Earthquakes and volcanos making large architectural projects unfeasible
3. The people are extremely divided by language, culture, and religion. Everyone being divided by many different islands caused society on each to develop differently.
4. Extreme overpopulation causing severe resource scarcity. Not enough oil, not enough food, not enough water.
5. All this stress causes and competition for resources causes people to become hyper-opportunistic scumbags who value material wealth and social hierarchy above collectively advancing as a society. That hospitality is a facade. They only treat foreigners (who are perceived as wealthier, greencard ticket) like that.
Please fucking conquer us and give us real structure and competent governance, before we 1:1 recreate the behavioral sink mice experiment.