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As an object level fact, Japan has a homogeneous culture centered around honor, which is much different from Detroit.
by natalyarostova 8y ago
As an object level fact, Japan has a homogeneous culture centered around honor, which is much different from Detroit.
- Pica_soO 8y agoWhere the culture is all centered around respect.
- innocentoldguy 8y agoIt's much less so today than it was when I first went to Japan back in the 80s. Still, the culture supports vending machines lining the streets and not a single little shit vandalizing them in sight.
- natalyarostova 8y agoIn Kyoto the free, public bathroom, in the middle of the city, was cleaner than my own bathroom. Whereas in Seattle I won't use one for fear of syringes.
- innocentoldguy 8y agoI agree! I lived in Bellevue for a while back in the 1990s. One day, I was taking my family to Snoqualmie Falls and my three-year-old had to go to the bathroom. We stopped at a gas station in Issaquah and when I opened the door, it looked like people had just pulled down their pants in the doorway and splatter-shot into the room. It was so disgusting. I don't know what it is about American culture that makes that OK. I've never seen anything like that in Japan.
- OpenBSD-reich2 8y agoIt's America's lax immigration policy toward third worlders, and leftover cultural enrichment from the slave trades.