The Absence of Looting

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:12 am

It's nice to see that Japanese Society unlike many others (U.S. & Haiti for example) does not engage in looting and civil disobedience following earthquakes and other natural disasters. It's just not a part of their culture. The're willingness to share and help one another during this difficult time is admirable.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:16 am

Very much so they are to be admired.

Scrat · Post by **Scrat** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:24 pm

I heard something that doesn't quite jive with this. Apparently truck drivers in the south are refusing to go to certain places in the north, places in bad need of their services. While the Japanese are very high on the scale of civilized behavior we can't forget that just underneath lurks the animal.

I do think that Americans would not be so well behaved that's for sure.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:33 pm

[ While the Japanese are very high on the scale of civilized behavior we can't forget that just underneath lurks the animal.

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Don't you think that animal lurks beneath everyone or is it just the Japanese?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:30 pm

Lon;1355697 wrote: It's nice to see that Japanese Society unlike many others (U.S. & Haiti for example) does not engage in looting and civil disobedience following earthquakes and other natural disasters. It's just not a part of their culture. The're willingness to share and help one another during this difficult time is admirable.
Admirable indeed.

Glenn Beck tried to show how Japan's reaction to the earthquake & tsunami somehow parallelled the rally he organized in Washington. It was a little funny & a little sickening to watch his contortions of logic and fact.

Scrat · Post by **Scrat** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:19 pm

Lon, I believe that we give ourselves a lot of credit where it's not deserved in this realm. We're all animals, in some ways worse than animals. The Japanese do seem to be better at living together than some but..............

YouTube - Japan: Supplies not getting through

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:16 am

At least there's been no religious nutters claiming it was a judgement from god on the japanese people for making a pact with the devil or something similar os that it's another sign JC is coming back. Maybe disasters to non christians dont count or soemthing.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:13 am

gmc;1355879 wrote: At least there's been no religious nutters claiming it was a judgement from god on the japanese people for making a pact with the devil or something similar os that it's another sign JC is coming back. Maybe disasters to non christians dont count or soemthing.

Glenn Beck: Japan earthquake ‘message’ from God - Guest Voices - The Washington Post

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:50 am

flopstock;1355892 wrote: Glenn Beck: Japan earthquake ‘message’ from God - Guest Voices - The Washington Post

I suppose there had to be one somewhere. When that plate under california goes I dare say those televangelists will feel really smug, the uS soddam and gomorrah. Europe isn't in an earthquake zone - Does that mean we are particularly blessed.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:28 pm

Civilised??? Maybe they are just in a state of shock still? Of course looters are in every society . And remember that it was only sixty years ago that the emporor gave the go ahead for the Japanese to eat POWS.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:58 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1355942 wrote: Civilised??? Maybe they are just in a state of shock still? Of course looters are in every society . And remember that it was only sixty years ago that the emporor gave the go ahead for the Japanese to eat POWS.I don't recall any mention of that in my undergrad History of Japan class. Got a link or somethin?

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:09 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1355942 wrote: Civilised??? Maybe they are just in a state of shock still? Of course looters are in every society . And remember that it was only sixty years ago that the emporor gave the go ahead for the Japanese to eat POWS.

Some people might say that your comment is racist.