Why is there no looting in Japan?

[CardSharp]

People always talk about the major difference in Western v/s Eastern philosophy is individualism v/s collectivism. Eastern culture tends to value the group's rights, sometimes at the expense of the individual's. I remember some time back there was a thread about how Chinese cities were able to develop so quickly without opposition from individual property disputes. People cooperated with the authorities, either through conscience or peer pressure.

I believe the Japanese culture is extremely group-oriented. When they put their mind to something, it will get achieved.

Let's not perpetuate this racist western manufactured world view please.

 

[Developereo]

Let's not perpetuate this racist western manufactured world view please.

Why is is racist? It is allegedly a cultural difference and a good one in favor of Eastern culture. According to this theory, people in Eastern cultures are trained to be less selfish and more supportive of society's needs over self-gratification.

PS. Now I think about it, it is not a clear cut demarcation. The Scandinavian countries are very much like Japan in that respect. Also, the companies from these regions (Scandinavia, Japan) reflect their culture -- they tend to provide better benefits to their employees and tend to be more civic minded in the community.

 

[CardSharp]

Why is is racist? It is allegedly a cultural difference and a good one in favor of Eastern culture. According to this theory, people in Eastern cultures are less selfish and more supportive of society's needs over self-gratification.

Because it's made up BS and rooted in the conceited "only westerners, esp. Americans are individuals" narrative carried by the media (media being there for lack of a better word).

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

There is no looting because that is not part of Japanese culture - they are a polite cultured people

Only in Japan when you go shop the shop keeper bows his head and with two hands he puts all the money in customer's hand and and then appreciatively bows again with a smile

Japan is different -

No where else in world have I ever seen that much courtesy

Japanese are some of the nicest people you will come across

 

[kamakazi attack]

Honor runs deep in Japanese society. Ingrained for centuries. How many cultures do you know where somebody would commit suicide for the sake of 'honor"?

The vast majority of Japanese from officers to civilians would've fought to the death in ww2 or rather die of a nuclear holocaust than to surrender to the Americans. In hindsight japan did the right thing by surrendering.

major corporation CEOs in japan are embarrassed if word gets out that they are making "too much money"... can you find that humbleness from your average American, Indian, chinese CEO. of course there are the likes of bill gates who does the noble thing of giving billions away.


americans are reflecting on this and sure enough they are comparing the aftermath to what happened in katrina and hatti. and on cue the it becomes a racial thing.

 

[lcloo]

There is one aspect of Japanese lives people don't seen to notice, Japanese are constantly drilled to face natural disater, specifically earth quake, right before their schooling age. They all have emergency rations, manual power hand operated radio, and basic first aids. And they have total trust in their government in regard to emergency rescure. As such looting is gar fom their mind. These are information from TV interviews with local residents in Japan distater area. (China and Hong Kong TVs have allocated few hours of Japan news each day since Friday).

This is the third reason besides (1) their respect for honor, and (2) strong community spirit.

 

[Yeti]

Understand Japanese culture then you will know

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Japan is a model for social awareness and civic sense.

Banzai.

 

[Spring Onion]

Because Japan is not India and Pakistan

 

[Chogy]

I was a pedestrian one day in Japan, and the crowd was looking to cross a street. The street had NO CARS at all, not one, but the light was red. In pretty much any country, people would look, then cross anyhow. Not the Japanese. The whole crowd waited a couple of minutes for the light to turn green, then we all crossed.

It was really weird, but obviously the Japanese follow the rules, the laws, very closely. It is part of their culture. And yes they are extremely polite, but I wouldn't say they are the friendliest people. Polite does not always equal friendly.

 

[cross1993]

I was a pedestrian one day in Japan, and the crowd was looking to cross a street. The street had NO CARS at all, not one, but the light was red. In pretty much any country, people would look, then cross anyhow. Not the Japanese. The whole crowd waited a couple of minutes for the light to turn green, then we all crossed.

It was really weird, but obviously the Japanese follow the rules, the laws, very closely. It is part of their culture. And yes they are extremely polite, but I wouldn't say they are the friendliest people. Polite does not always equal friendly.

Yes. In Eastern cultures, polite does not always equal friendly. But the polite is means that character and cultural tradition.

 

[casual]

I was a pedestrian one day in Japan, and the crowd was looking to cross a street. The street had NO CARS at all, not one, but the light was red. In pretty much any country, people would look, then cross anyhow. Not the Japanese. The whole crowd waited a couple of minutes for the light to turn green, then we all crossed.

It was really weird, but obviously the Japanese follow the rules, the laws, very closely. It is part of their culture. And yes they are extremely polite, but I wouldn't say they are the friendliest people. Polite does not always equal friendly.

they are pretty mean towards chinese people tho.

 

[milvipes]

Historically, Japan (& to a lesser extent, Korea) had very few popular armed uprisings; whereas China had more than its fair share regime changes from the bottom up, perhaps more so than the West. I believe Japanese have taken compliance & defference to authority to a ridiculous level.

 

[below_freezing]

Historically, Japan (& to a lesser extent, Korea) had very few popular armed uprisings; whereas China had more than its fair share regime changes from the bottom up, perhaps more so than the West. I believe Japanese have taken compliance & defference to authority to a ridiculous level.

It's hard to have popular uprisings when you've been enslaved by foreigners for at least 1000 years (Korea). Even today half of them are enslaved by US/Japan and half are enslaved by China/Russia. Their president Park Chung Hee was even a general of the Imperial Japanese Army.

They've been ruled and fooled by Americans and Japanese since South Korea was created in 1950. Kim Il Sung was the real hero that fought against Japan in WW2.

 

[Pakchina]

The Sichuan earthquake in 2008 had claimed the lives of 300,000 innocent civilians including 100,000 children. However Western aid and media coverage were very limited and nothing compared to the massive US and western aid and media coverage of the Japanese earthquake. In Sichuan also there was no looting and death toll is 30 times than that of the Japanese quake. Massive flooding had killed thousand in the aftermath of the Sichuan quake. Help from PLA soldiers had been much impressive and only a few countries had sent aid. However all these had come unnoticed just like the heroic achievements of the Chinese people and PLA soldiers and rapid mobilization of the Chinese Government mainly due to the lack of Western media coverage.