By the same graph, Japan is rated as more culturally distant from the US than Singapore, Russia, and Zimbabwe.

For those interested, you can see the World Values Survey Questionnaire here: https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp

(For Wave 7 (2017-2022), which the paper used)

Some of the questions don't really make sense to ask an LLM (being about the survey taker's personal financial situation and such), but the paper doesn't seem to go into detail of what questions were used.

Are you feeling down, or are things looking up for you?

Do you have people to look up to, or do you spend more time looking down on others?

Are you on top of the world, or working your way up from the bottom?

Etc, etc. It's suffused throughout our language, and not just this one language, either.

That link only lists some companies that have built factories (or are trying to), and nothing about how they were built.

Are there US workers who should have been hired to do this factory-bootstrapping instead? Because that’s what the H1B stuff (and most illegal immigrant-worker debate in general) has been about, and otherwise it’s only superficially similar.

AFAIK H1Bs follow the letter of the law and calls are for reform to make visas stricter / reduce the kinds of visas, which is basically the opposite of what I’m seeing here.