美国学者亨廷顿在其与哈瑞森共同主编的《为什么文化很重要》一书的序言中曾以1960年代亚洲的韩国与非洲的加纳加以比较,指出:“当时加纳与韩国的经济状况非常相似,国民所得差不多,几乎都是以原料出口为主,只是韩国有一些制造业产品。这两个国家都接受相同程度的经济援助。30年后,韩国成为工业大国,是全世界第14 Huntington, the American scholar, in his preface to ”Why Culture Is Important“ co-authored with Harrison, compared South Korea in Asia in the 1960s to Ghana in Africa: ”At a time when Ghana and South Korea were in similar economic conditions , Almost the national income is almost always based on raw materials exports, but there are some manufacturing products in South Korea, both countries have received the same level of financial assistance.30 years later, South Korea became an industrial power, the world’s 14th