I am very impressed with their resilience and calm. It’s too bad our media people headed out there. You know they are going to turn it into a circus of misinformation and finger pointing.
Jackson showed the crowd how to make Molotov cocktails, beat up whites and Asians, and urged them to pick out now that new 60" 3-D LCD/LED set they want at Best Buy so that when they start looting, burning and killing they'll know exactly where to go and what to steal!
I am amazed at how organized the Japanese people are, but after looking at all the photos, there is one question that puzzles me.
Do Japanese people ever buy cars that aren’t white?
Because Japan is such a very disciplined society by world standards, they are handling this tremendous tragedy amazingly well. Otherwise, they couldn’t have easily handled something like the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake (which pretty much destroyed most of Tokyo and Yokohama areas) or even the effects of World War II.
THey are disciplined but highly dependent. Watch that help disappear and things will be different. My bet is that these people do not give a crap and would eat each other as canibal cook books have come out of Japan.
Our cities are corrupt. Katrina and Wisconsin riot with cops stealing and cross dressing point to the public unions obsessing hold for power. Yakusa is no different.
I’m very impressed. They have responded much like the unentitled, non-welfare areas of our country do in disasters.
People truly do share a bond.
I feel for them and wish that geography did not prevent my taking in a Japanese family.
No shopping carts filled with beer or looted televisions, just lines of people who had lost everything. Two little kids, one who had saved her cat and another who had her pet rabbit with her..........
It sure wasn't the embarrassing Katrina crowd.......I'd be more than happy to offer my home to any of those familes for as long as it took to get back on their feet.
Don’t see any “Amish” behavior that is evident in our cities during disasters.
Japan is a very homogeneous society, deliberately so. And if you think about the history of Japan, being a closed society until the late nineteenth century (if I’ve got that right), their culture, etc., the keep calm, follow orders attitude makes sense. Of course there’s a downside, esp. if the govt. lies about events. At any rate, comparisons with La. and Hurricane Katrina are interesting. Maybe we’re not supposed to notice. Another interesting point: CNN didn’t mention Zero for hours over the weekend, simply concentrated on events in Japan, and indeed, had reporters from the WSJ and Human Events on....both highly intelligent, articulate, and informing, by the way.) (Anderson Cooper hadn’t arrived in Japan yet.) What was going on? Well. Of course they couldn’t very well admit Zero was partying on and golfing. I should have known.
It’s hard to tell from just TV reports. I don’t watch that much TV, but I’ve hardly seen scenes with people in them, mostly just miles of nothing but wreckage. With that said, here’s what I think:
1) They do a much better job of evacuation. I heard many areas ravaged by the tsunami had a little bit of time to get out before the devestation hit.
2) They were more prepared than average to deal with a mega disaster. This is where I think we seriously fall down here in the US. New Orleans during Katrina is a perfect example of government not being prepared and then trying to deal with it by passing the buck. I am not saying that government is everything in that sort of situation, but it helps when it is not also in freakout mode.
They need more marriages and babies.
* (They did a better job of enduring without creating more crap)
I’ve been extremely impressed! I saw people lined up to buy food yesterday in a line that was blocks long. Can you imagine that happening here? Folks in Detroit riot and loot when their team wins a game...
Japan doesn’t have the race baiters that we have in America. Of course they don’t have the minorities that we have either. The Japanese people are very disciplined and don’t scream and cry like the “entitlement society” we have here. I have the utmost respect and admiration for the Japanese people.
“the people’s resilience ; the community spirit ; the never give up attitude ; the discipline ; etc”
Nationalism
It was heart-wrenching to see these hard working people standing up for them selves and not whining and crapping all over the floor like the animals in the football stadium after Katrina
The also had a government warning system that worked in 15 minutes notice
ALSO unlike the retards during Katrina who saw it coming for days
I was watching CNN a couple of nights ago and what I noticed about the people in Japan is that they are very calm and cool on the surface but very emotional on the inside. They are stoic and patient from all I can see and they are resilient.
They have not really shown the people very often sushiman, only some who were shelters or distraught over a ruined home and life.
Will admit that when the US tv reporters are standing on a couple of acres worth of matchsticks that used to be homes to illustrate the scope, my second thought is “I bet they have that debris cleaned up in less than a month once the clean up begins”.
As a Marine, I went to Japan many times. Their society is so foreign to us, at least to the America of 2011. The individual is downplayed while the community and group is considered far more important. Because of that, my guess is that most Japanese are more concerned with getting their family/community help than themselves. They’re not the type to sit around and whine and cry. Plenty of people still around who had to rebuild Japan after WWII. To them, this is a far easier task than that was. They’ve known hardship and didn’t crumble.