10 Things To Learn From Japan

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[SouthDixie]

Food For Thought...

[Sergio]

bkmk.

[lurk]

We were walking leisurely in a line of tourists, going through the historic king’s palace in Bangkok. A group of Japanese tourists physically pushed their way through the people to the front, listened for a bit, then pushed their way onward to the next thing.

Give me the gentle and considerate Thai people.

[longtermmemmory]

a traving man has no neighbors.

[longtermmemmory]

a traveling man has no neighbors.

[doggieboy]

Sounds a lot like New Orleans.

[He Rides A White Horse]

11) After their defeat in WW2, they realized that Americans were benevolent conquerors, and were wise enough to embrace the best things that Western society could offer.

I'm not saying that things went perfectly, but it certainly was a success.

They got the picture, unlike another group of people who are picking a fight with the whole world.

[SouthDixie]

Sounds a lot like New Orleans

Not the katrina I know...people did not, "put things back on the shelves and leave quietly".

[Ronin]

Number 4 is not totally truthful. There was panic buying and hording, but it quickly subsided once people realized that it was unnecessary. I know because I was guilty of some of that myself, and because I personally saw a lot of it.

[patriot08]

http://www.ww2pacific.com/atrocity.html

[SouthDixie]

but it certainly was a success

I understand your point except war is one thing and a natural disaster is another. Jus' sayin'...

[SouthDixie]

There was panic buying and hording

I was stunned by some of the footage myself...people were driving and walking around as the waves were mere feet from unsuspecting people...evidently a doppler system doesn't exist in the east.

[Travis McGee]

The Japanese have some tremendous qualities.

[SouthDixie]

"There is nothing glorious at all about war."

Proverbs 14:9 - Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.

[SouthDixie]

I agree Travis.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I understand your point except war is one thing and a natural disaster is another. Jus' sayin'.

You're right. My post belongs on another thread.

[Yorlik803]

I know this isnt the place to talk about the japanese war criminals, but the behavior of the Japs in that war was aweful. And while Waffen SS and Whermacht officers and soliders were hanged for war crimes, not many Japanese were hung. And the Japanese were lot more bloodthisrty than German troops.

[patriot08]

I just think we shouldn’t go overboard with holding Japan up as a superior culture- a shinning example, and trashing the American people.
Obama has done enough of that.
There’s something very wrong with a culture that could breed such monsters during WW2:

http://www.ww2pacific.com/atrocity.html

[discostu]

I think a lot of it is media narrative. Western media has an image of how people in various regions behave, and they tend to really like the far east, and they generally show things that reinforce that image. I’m sure there were plenty of people freaking out and doing bad things, but that’ll never get shown because it goes against the narrative. Just like there are plenty of Americans that are helpful and nice during a crisis but that never makes the news because it goes against the greedy Americans narrative.

[Yorlik803]

Not just the Japs. The Krauts were just as nasty. I dont know why the Japs got off a little easier. Maybe because they killed mostly Chinese and they were maybe considered lesser people.
The Japanese are very coldblooded, as are most Orientals.