Oriental Peoples


Oriental peoples include major groups of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese peoples.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Sociology Peoples Asiatic

Oriental peoples include major groups of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese peoples.

Chinese peoples

For more details, see the nations of China and Taiwan

Japanese people

For more details, see the nation of Japan

Korean peoples

These are currently politically divided into North Korea and South Korea


History The prehistory of Oriental peoples is somewhat obscure. They hve been examined to some extent in antiquity. During classical and medieval times, they developed extensive civilizations. During modern times, they have have interacted extensively with Western Civilization.	Links to other sites:
Other Sociology Other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be applied to Oriental peoples. Institutions Institutions can be applied to the examination of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea. Religion Religion can be applied to the examination of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea. Particular traditions can be applied to the examination of China, Japan, and South Korea. Asiatic religion including Indian, Oriental, and Persian religion is most prevalent. Small amounts of Abrahamic religion including Judaism, and Islam is mixed in. Christianity including Orthodoxy, and Mormonism has not made much progress. It is not certain whether Old Christianity ever reached Oriental peoples. Catholicism reached China along with Western influence. Protestantism also reached China along with Western influence. Pagan religion including Asian pagan, European Pagan, African pagan, American Indian pagan, and neopagan religion can be considered. Secularism is also present. Organization in general tends to be unstructured rather than fragmented or highly organized. Practices and beliefs are not yet well examined. Government Particular governments down to the level of local government are also important. International government including traditional empires, and colonial empires can be considered. Modern compacts including regional associations, special purpose associations, and temporary alliances can be considered. World government including the League of Nations and the United Nations can be discussed. National government can be connected. Government activities including administration, succession, and state relations are important. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government are important. Law including Asiatic law, Western law, tribal law, and international law is important. Economics Economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and consumption will be important. Industries with companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacturing, building and construction, social and medical, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services can be considered. Economic systems including forms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be considered. Education including research, teaching, and cultural institutions will be significant. Particular schools including primary, secondary, and higher education may be useful. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families will be significant. Culture Behavioral culture will be important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social instration customs, and institutional customs can be considered. Occupations including food related, building-related, transportation related, communication related, industrial, and service related occupations will be important. Recreation and entertainment including music, dance, theater, games, and sports can be considered. Cultural events including miscellenous events, gatherings, disasters, and holidays can be considered. Conceptual culture, which includes language, graphic arts, and literature is also significant. Philosophy including logic, metpahysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, special topics, and schools and doctrines is also significant. Applied science including measurement, engineering science, navigation, medical science, information and computing science, accounting, and applied social science can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetics, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Material culture including foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transportation devices, communiction devices, tools and industrial technology, and other artifacts can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups will be applied. This depends most heavily on human geography. Asian geography including East Asia, North Asia Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia is most useful, but Oceanic Geography, North American Geoography and South American, African, and European geography may also be connected. Human ecology including the influence of the environment on people, other life, and the influence of people on the environment will be useful. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be connected. Demography including birth, migration, mortality, population size and structure, and population change can be considered. This includes social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social groups, social group types. Personal studies Biography will be significant. Confucius Shih Huang Ti Ts'ai Lun Studies of the human body including body systems, body function, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance are mostly indirectly useful. Psychology including applications of behavioral fundamentals, mind, behavioral patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology also seems to be mostly indirectly useful. Science There are indirect connections to physics and chemistry. Astronomy including solar system astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, and cosmology is better connected. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, and physical geography can be considered. Geohistory including Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic geology can be considered. Biology can also be used. Molecular biology, cell biology, and organism biology seem less useful. Systematics including microbes, protists, pants, fungi, and animals can be connected. Ecology including behavioral ecology, population ecology, community ecology, systems ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogreography will be useful. Biohistory is less useful for Precambrian, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic life than for Cenozoic life.

History

The prehistory of Oriental peoples is somewhat obscure. They hve been examined to some extent in antiquity. During classical and medieval times, they developed extensive civilizations. During modern times, they have have interacted extensively with Western Civilization.

Links to other sites:

Other Sociology

Other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be applied to Oriental peoples.

Institutions

Institutions can be applied to the examination of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea.

Religion

Religion can be applied to the examination of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea.

Particular traditions can be applied to the examination of China, Japan, and South Korea.

Asiatic religion including Indian, Oriental, and Persian religion is most prevalent. Small amounts of Abrahamic religion including Judaism, and Islam is mixed in. Christianity including Orthodoxy, and Mormonism has not made much progress. It is not certain whether Old Christianity ever reached Oriental peoples. Catholicism reached China along with Western influence. Protestantism also reached China along with Western influence. Pagan religion including Asian pagan, European Pagan, African pagan, American Indian pagan, and neopagan religion can be considered. Secularism is also present. Organization in general tends to be unstructured rather than fragmented or highly organized. Practices and beliefs are not yet well examined.

Government

Particular governments down to the level of local government are also important. International government including traditional empires, and colonial empires can be considered. Modern compacts including regional associations, special purpose associations, and temporary alliances can be considered. World government including the League of Nations and the United Nations can be discussed. National government can be connected.

Government activities including administration, succession, and state relations are important. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government are important. Law including Asiatic law, Western law, tribal law, and international law is important.

Economics

Economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and consumption will be important. Industries with companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacturing, building and construction, social and medical, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services can be considered. Economic systems including forms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be considered.

Education including research, teaching, and cultural institutions will be significant. Particular schools including primary, secondary, and higher education may be useful. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected.

Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families will be significant.

Culture

Behavioral culture will be important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social instration customs, and institutional customs can be considered. Occupations including food related, building-related, transportation related, communication related, industrial, and service related occupations will be important. Recreation and entertainment including music, dance, theater, games, and sports can be considered. Cultural events including miscellenous events, gatherings, disasters, and holidays can be considered.

Conceptual culture, which includes language, graphic arts, and literature is also significant. Philosophy including logic, metpahysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, special topics, and schools and doctrines is also significant. Applied science including measurement, engineering science, navigation, medical science, information and computing science, accounting, and applied social science can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetics, and mathematical foundations can be connected.

Material culture including foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transportation devices, communiction devices, tools and industrial technology, and other artifacts can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups will be applied. This depends most heavily on human geography. Asian geography including East Asia, North Asia Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia is most useful, but Oceanic Geography, North American Geoography and South American, African, and European geography may also be connected. Human ecology including the influence of the environment on people, other life, and the influence of people on the environment will be useful. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be connected. Demography including birth, migration, mortality, population size and structure, and population change can be considered. This includes social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social groups, social group types.

Personal studies

Biography will be significant.

Studies of the human body including body systems, body function, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance are mostly indirectly useful. Psychology including applications of behavioral fundamentals, mind, behavioral patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology also seems to be mostly indirectly useful.

Science

There are indirect connections to physics and chemistry. Astronomy including solar system astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, and cosmology is better connected. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, and physical geography can be considered. Geohistory including Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic geology can be considered.

Biology can also be used. Molecular biology, cell biology, and organism biology seem less useful. Systematics including microbes, protists, pants, fungi, and animals can be connected. Ecology including behavioral ecology, population ecology, community ecology, systems ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogreography will be useful. Biohistory is less useful for Precambrian, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic life than for Cenozoic life.

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