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There was a legitimate reason for that. And calling any group "a curious bunch of people" has weird implications.

• james_s_tayler 7y ago
  I can imply weird things if I want. What if that's what I was going for? They are, after all, a curious bunch of people. edit: Also, I challenge the notion that the reason was legitimate. I know the reason. But I wouldn't make that trade-off.
  • mercurysmessage 7y ago
    They, really are not "a curious bunch of people". I'm calling it a weird implication because it's reductionist and kind of fascistic to try to write off huge groups of people as being inherently different.
    • coldtea 7y ago
      Cultures can be wildly different, and 2 different huge groups of people can have different cultures, and as a consequence be inherently different to one another, so there's that... For all the talk of individualism, for example, it's pretty easy to blindly tell a random American from a random French with great statistical success just for their opinions on things. And those two cultures aren't even as different as each is with Japanese culture...
    • james_s_tayler 7y ago
      Whats weird is you implying I think liberal democracy has had it's day and that the state should be all powerful and led by a strong-man based on a summation of my decade of experience interacting with people from Japan noting the individual differences and aggregate similarities are something I find, and I quote, "curious".