a lot to be said for a homogeneous country...
Posted on 03/15/2011 1:14:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is easy - Some cultures are inferior to other cultures. Sadly, the “American” culture has been in decline since 1960 or so. Also, with unfettered immigration, we have become a country (as another poster pointed out) without a unified purpose. Everyone has his own ideals
I’ve got a hunch that they would gladly take a day or two of looting in exchange for getting their nuclear reactors under control.
Yes...ironic isnt it? We live in an age where communicating has never been faster and more available, and just as we do - we find we have less of importance to say.
Yet they were ultimately beaten by that same uniformity.
Commanders were constrained by their rigidity and adherence to structure and form that their American counterparts did not have to such a degree.
Certain actions and independence of thought were alien to them.
I think I’ll take Heiniken man wading thru the flood versus thirsty people eschewing water bottles floating nearby.
IMHO
“.. but we have become a bunch of rude ...holes these days and it’s getting worse”.
Have you noticed that in our society, many (not all) possess the philosophy of “me first”? No matter what. Cheat or steal in order to get ahead. Lie as well. I’ve noticed that it is even like that when it comes to trivial things like a parking space. Do what it takes to obtain that space and you are better than the other person. Perhaps, this is only in the area that I live but I wonder if this type of behavior/attitude is epidemic. Just a thought
a lot to be said for a homogeneous country...
As Rush said yesterday, the Japanese will rebuild before the World Trade Center is completed. The Japanese are an industrious people, ie, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Let’s not forget, the Japanese do not have an invasion of third world losers tugging at their economy.
It’s true but politically incorrect to note that looters are generally of a particular group. We had looters after Katrina, but only in very specific areas. I’ll give you three guess as to where those areas were.
I lived in South Florida for 20 years and went through several post hurricane power outages that lasted an average of 10 days.
In the neighborhood, we were helpful and considerate to our neighbors, working together to repair and cleanup the area.
If you ventured outside, like after Wilma, for example, it was a war zone. The 4-way stop rule at a light? Forget it - the fastest was first. You traveled with the knowledge that even if you followed the rules you might be compelled to defend yourself with lethal force against some Boca Raton idiot who felt you wronged him because you didn't personally wipe his tail for him that morning.
Now I live in Arizona, and the people here give me a far different impression, like I've moved back to America again. I'd love to believe it be a better experience.
I hope it's never put to the test.
When I see what happened after Katrina and compare that to whats going on in Japan now, I would say the people have Japan are doing something right when it comes to bringing up there kids.
The truth divides and offends.
And for some reason, offending someone is now worse than refusing to tell the truth.
And indeed, I’ll state it, it is a particular CULTURE (not color) that tend to act like uncivilized savages. If it was inherent in a “race”, then you wouldn’t find counter examples that have adopted another, civilized, culture.
Hell no. If the japs beat the koreans, no mercy or vice versa.
If the big country should win in combat, problem solved, no more japs or koreans.
There is such bigotry and hatred between/among those asian people, that it makes our race problem look tame.
I don't think he's found a single whiner yet, and believe me, he's been searching!!!!
Interesting article, but I think most people would consider social structure as a part of culture. He's trying to make too many distinctions.
“they are a solidified united culture”
-—correct, and can you imagine Radical Islam trying to
gain a foothold in Japan, they way we make it easy for them
to do so here?
Sorta. The article is sort of right.
It’s hard to explain. The Swiss are the westerners most like the Japanese. This is why Japanese love to spend time in switzerland. I lived in Switzerland for a decade and I saw the similarities. Both cultures are extreme with their public and private personas, with very constrained and artificial-seeming, especially to the ultra-casual American, public behavior.
Everything in traditional Swiss and Japanese society is done “just so.” Everyone conforms. The rules for public behavior are intricate and complex. Only in circumscribed special situations can these people “let go.”.
Like I said, it’s hard to describe. But the Swiss would not loot either.
“I was talking to a bartender in Hawaii, about 20 years ago, about the japanese. He said that when a group of japanese travelers walked up to the bar, if the first guy ordered, he could pretty much plan on making the same number of that exact drink as there were people in that group. It is as though the concept of the individual is virtually foreign to them.”
Funny — and the Swiss are similar, as I said in my previous post. I used to call a meeting in my company there, and I’d be in the boardroom at the right time. First, one businessman would casually walk by outside the door, and casually glance in as he walked by. Then another man would do the same thing. They would keep passing by and not coming in, until at least two guys basically collided in the doorway, then they would start to enter. No one dared to be first.
I have read that Japan is one of the most homogeneous countries in the world. If so, they probably don’t have some of the underlying cultural tensions that we have in our country. That is, the “have nots” don’t blame a different cultural group for being “have nots”.
I put “have nots” in quotes because most “have nots” in the US would be wealthy by the standards of most third world countries.
They’re not looting because they don’t have democrats.
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