This will make the difference: Japan is not Haiti ....or New Orleans for that matter

Japan is not Haiti ....

Here is what to expect in the coming months out of the disaster that has affected Northeast Japan:

How do I know .... I was living just outside of Kobe when the monstrous jishin (earthquake) hit in January 1995 and virtually destroyed the center of a major Japanese City killing 6,600 people covering a 20 mile swath. I was right in the middle.

Down the street from where I lived a 7 story apartment building ended up being 4 stories. My next door neighbor died from a collapsed roof.

When the quake hit, I thought it was a bomb going off.

Here's what didn't happen:

There was no looting or breaking into food stores

There was no time for trying to blame anyone

There was no one cutting in the front of the line to get water

There were no calls to lawyers

Here is what did happen:

The people in the Kobe Area were not waiting around for a US Aircraft Carrier

The Military was deployed immediately to dig and search.

The Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) were the early suppliers of medical supplies and food (They had the connections and the means to get the material to the folks

Within days Temporary housing was being constructed all over the Area

Within days portable showers and toilet facilities were set up all over the Area

Within days, supermarkets were opened and the queues stretched endlessly as they could only let a few people in the stores at a time. There was no anger, yelling, blaming, looting, cutting in front

Within hours ... clean-up began by everyone .. students, teachers, seniors, yakuza, politicians. Everyone seemed to be contributing in some way.

As a foreigner, I was treated like everyone else ....

Result:

By the time I left Japan 4 years later, I would say 90 % of the entire City of Kobe had been rebuilt .... and consider that New York has been unable to erect a couple of building at ground zero now going on 10 years.

So like I said, Japan is not Haiti...nor New Orleans. They don't need us...that is not to say they would not be unappreciative of any assistance. Probably the best thing we can do is provide helicopters, portable medical facilities and staffing if requested and search sniffing dogs.

No - Japan is not Haiti...

Japan is a major player in the (already tottering) interconnected, intertwined, interdependent World Economy - and it’s not going to be participating at its accustomed level for some time to come...

As far as I’ve been able to find out, nobody has ‘gamed out’ what happens to The World Economic Order when one of its players is suddenly taken out of the game - but I’ll bet that it won’t be a good thing....

Inconsequential (in the Grand Scheme of Things) Haiti was a tragedy - but a local one.. Japan may very well be a disaster with Global ramifications....

Wealth. Wealth built on work ethic and commonality of culture.

There will be far fewer “secondary” deaths as a result of this disaster.

Quite the opposite of what the left would have for us here.
“Diversity” and grinding poverty for the majority and extreme wealth for the “ruling class”.

I was in the Kobe quake as well. Just a few things I might add:

There were scattered reports of looting in Nagata-Cho, the poorest and hardest hit area of town. The locals pried broken pipes from the rubble and took to voluntarily patrolling the area until the looters crawled back into the woodwork for good.
There was scattered line cutting in the lines for water, but only by very reluctant elderly people who were moved to the head of the line by the other people waiting in line.
Same thing for the lines in the markets.
Even broken sanitary services were dealt with in a civilized fashion. People crapped on newspapers, carefully rolled them up and stacked them at central collection points where they could either be hauled away or safely burned.

If Katrina had occurred in the 1950’s, the story would be very similar to the one above. The liberals are hell bent on turning us into Haiti or Somalia. The new deal, great society and unions are self inflicted 3rd world catalysts. But to add insult to injury we are allowing the most destitute, uneducated barbaric trash to immigrate here. Keep importing the third world libtards, we are getting closer and closer.

In the meantime, I am heartened to see that there are still places in the world where multiculturalism has not destroyed the fabric of the society. I will have to add Japan as one of my escape destinations when the U.S. becomes the largest 3rd world hell hole in the history of the world.

Exactly as I figured. A technologically advanced country with an incredible work ethic. They’ll rebuild, We just have to supply emergency resources as needed!

As with most major disasters, it isn't the long-term rebuilding that is the problem; it is the immediate needs such as food, water, shelter (it is still winter), basic necessities.

Those basics are what the 'early responders' can help supply, since many areas have been completely cut off from ground support and can only be reached by air. One of the early 'calls' was for more helicopters -- from whomever could supply them.

According to reports yesterday only 10% of the Japanese land-mass was affected negatively, and no factories were damaged.

There was damage to fishing infrastructure, shipping, and, obviously atomic power plants ~ which all seem to be co-located with massive quantities of water (the ocean) and not all that many people.

Electric power has been disrupted.

As disasters go this one isn't all that terrible. What is amazing are the hundreds of thousands of people who weren't killed.

Are you saying that somehow black people are genetically less capable than whites or asians?

The lack of self sufficiency in Haiti and NO has nothing to do with the amount of melanin in one’s skin and everything to do with cultural differences. You can travel to the Czech Republic and find the same dependency on government for everything. It's a mindset that is learned, not a genetic defect linked to melanin.

“The lack of self sufficiency in Haiti and NO has nothing to do with the amount of melanin in one’s skin and everything to do with cultural differences. You can travel to the Czech Republic and find the same dependency on government for everything. It’s a mindset that is learned, not a genetic defect linked to melanin. “

Thanks for posting that.
It’s the culture, not the skin color that causes problems.

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