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 ...
Sounds like Japan could use some of the much heralded “multicultural diversity” we are perfecting here in the US.
I'm saying that is a possibility, yes.
I want to say something but I cannot. Diversity, what a concept. FAIL!
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.
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.
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.
Bravo SkyPilot......
lol...ok if you say so humble. (j/k)
Wow. Mind telling me where this was at? I’m in IL, but can
see barge lights on a good night.
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.
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.
It was a little bookbinding place in Jackson Michigan. The kid that went to Iowa to help with the sandbagging was from there.
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.
Americans were that way. Until we became African, Hispanic, Muslim
americans.
Japanese don’t call themselves those things, just Japanese...
But we did give them support with the Marshall plan.
“Something to be said for having a homogenous society.”
And with average to above average IQs.
Lots of behaviors have deep cultural roots, both commendable and reprehensible behaviors.
Where do you live, CC? I’d like to move there. :)
Little place called Norvell Michigan.
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