Posted on 04/06/2011 4:38:55 PM PDT by SouthDixie
10 THINGS TO LEARN FROM JAPAN
1. THE CALM
Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.
2. THE DIGNITY
Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.
3. THE ABILITY
The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn't fall.
4. THE GRACE
People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.
5. THE ORDER
No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.
6. THE SACRIFICE
Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid?
7. THE TENDERNESS
Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.
8. THE TRAINING
The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.
9. THE MEDIA
They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters. Only calm reportage.
10. THE CONSCIENCE
When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly.
bkmk.
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.
a traving man has no neighbors.
a traveling man has no neighbors.
Sounds a lot like New Orleans.
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.
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.
The Japanese have some tremendous qualities.
I agree Travis.
You're right. My post belongs on another thread.
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.
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
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.
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.
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