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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.
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 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.