from a book I’m reading about Japanese aesthetics 

I think the mapping generally makes sense to me, not all countries have the same level of aesthetics that are interesting externally

This seems wildly broad at best

And pretty racist at worst

"indians are adept at thinking? chinese at acting?"

???

wtf is the context here

Why signal boost smth like this?

I don’t think it’s racist to say cultures have certain strengths and weaknesses? It’s obviously a generalization but I’m French and will happily admit we are a less efficient culture than Germany and less hardworking than China

seems like a wildly broad generalization especially if you start talking about distribution of eg mental labor