Populism and Asianization: Basic Reason for Populism and How We Could Overcome It

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Author(s): Ryohei Nakatsu (Kyoto University, Japan)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 19
Source title: Analyzing Current and Future Global Trends in Populism
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Adrian David Cheok (Professional University of Information and Management for Innovation, iUniversity, Tokyo, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4679-6.ch001

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter will clarify that the recent spread of populism is based on the fact that logical and emotional thinking/behaving are merging, especially in the West. In the West since the era of Greek philosopher Plato, people have tried to separate logic and emotion and have emphasized the superiority of logic to emotion. However, because of the invention and progress of media technologies, recently people's ways of thinking/behaving are becoming emotional. Therefore, the trend of populism could be understood that the people's ways of thinking/behaving in the West are approaching those in Asia. This phenomenon can be called “Asianization.” This means that populism is not a temporal trend but a long-time lasting trend. Also, this chapter will describe how to overcome populism.

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