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Orderly disaster reaction in line with deep cultural roots
cnn ^ | March 12th, 2011

Posted on 03/12/2011 6:10:21 PM PST by BenLurkin

The layer of human turmoil - looting and scuffles for food or services - that often comes in the wake of disaster seems noticeably absent in Japan.

“Looting simply does not take place in Japan. I’m not even sure if there’s a word for it that is as clear in its implications as when we hear ‘looting,’" said Gregory Pflugfelder, director of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University.

Japanese have “a sense of being first and foremost responsible to the community,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Japan
KEYWORDS: japan; katrina; looting; lootingnothappening; someculturesare; superior
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like Japan could use some of the much heralded “multicultural diversity” we are perfecting here in the US.


41 posted on 03/12/2011 7:02:05 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
So, you’re saying that temperate climates produce advanced cultures and tropical climes produce indolence?

I'm saying that is a possibility, yes.

42 posted on 03/12/2011 7:05:11 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: spodefly

I want to say something but I cannot. Diversity, what a concept. FAIL!


43 posted on 03/12/2011 7:05:50 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: SkyPilot
LOL

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44 posted on 03/12/2011 7:06:20 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: BenLurkin
The article has an excellent beginning. Unfortunately, it cites another expert who blames looting in America on 'social alienation' and 'class gaps'.

That said, I applaud CNN for pointing out a glaring difference in behavior of the Japanese vs Americans. IMO, it opens the door to further examination of just who the thugs and looters are in the US.

45 posted on 03/12/2011 7:07:41 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Outlaw Woman

Heck no. I just kept that thread gnat on my home page for fun. Sort of a “I am Spartacus!” thing that I ended up not using.


46 posted on 03/12/2011 7:08:14 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina

I think your history is a wee bit selective. The ancients were semi-tropical and we have millenia of thought and invention laying the base of language, logic and physical science. Greeks to thank for the foundations of our political thought. The dominance of Western culture in these times probably has a lot more to do with the influence of Christianity and its value of the individual than anything climatic.


47 posted on 03/12/2011 7:10:38 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: SkyPilot

Bravo SkyPilot......


48 posted on 03/12/2011 7:12:50 PM PST by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: arasina

lol...ok if you say so humble. (j/k)


49 posted on 03/12/2011 7:15:08 PM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: cripplecreek

Wow. Mind telling me where this was at? I’m in IL, but can
see barge lights on a good night.


50 posted on 03/12/2011 7:18:35 PM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: dfwgator

Yep....trust and cohesion.

Diversity creates mistrust and tension. Always has.

If people do not absorb and embrace the culture they enter, they destroy it. We allow the infiltration because marxists control our country and want the independence and American culture (freedom and independence) destroyed.


51 posted on 03/12/2011 7:19:16 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: WorkingClassFilth

What made the Greeks the type of thinkers they are? Why, throughout history, is there so much evidence that a great many Italians are artists? Why are Kenyans notably fast runners? Why are Asians able to produce things in near-perfect miniature? Why are the Scots frugal and fierce? I was just positing that the environment into which a population is born is a contributory factor of the resulting culture.


52 posted on 03/12/2011 7:25:58 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: CrazyIvan

It was a little bookbinding place in Jackson Michigan. The kid that went to Iowa to help with the sandbagging was from there.


53 posted on 03/12/2011 7:27:32 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: arasina

I’ll agreet that environment certainly can shape culture to some degree, but the effect is marginal. If environment had the force greater than ideas, then those countries would still be turning out great painters, thinker and the like. The bigger cause, IMO, is orientation to truth. Paganism in, barbarism out.


54 posted on 03/12/2011 7:34:55 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: BenLurkin

Americans were that way. Until we became African, Hispanic, Muslim

americans.

Japanese don’t call themselves those things, just Japanese...


55 posted on 03/12/2011 7:36:29 PM PST by Freddd
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To: cripplecreek

But we did give them support with the Marshall plan.


56 posted on 03/12/2011 7:37:38 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok....Joke's over...Bring Back Bush!)
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To: dfwgator

“Something to be said for having a homogenous society.”

And with average to above average IQs.


57 posted on 03/12/2011 7:38:10 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: BenLurkin

Lots of behaviors have deep cultural roots, both commendable and reprehensible behaviors.


58 posted on 03/12/2011 7:47:02 PM PST by Will88
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To: cripplecreek

Where do you live, CC? I’d like to move there. :)


59 posted on 03/12/2011 7:51:06 PM PST by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Wolfstar

Little place called Norvell Michigan.


60 posted on 03/12/2011 7:52:47 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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