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It isn't all about the traffic. Japan also enjoys famously low crime rates by almost every metric. The most dangerous parts of Japan are safer than the best low
by sandworm101 2y ago
It isn't all about the traffic. Japan also enjoys famously low crime rates by almost every metric. The most dangerous parts of Japan are safer than the best low-crime neighborhoods in the US. This bleads into all aspects of the culture. People who feel safer themselves then don't panic as much about their kids walking out of sight.
- bombcar 2y agoThere's also societal expectations - in Japan if a five year old unaccompanied minor asks an adult a question they'd get an answer; in the USA that same thing likely will result in a call to the cops and CPS will get involved.
- sandworm101 2y ago>> if a five year old unaccompanied minor asks an adult a question they'd get an answer Well, cops would be involved. While walking my dog in the woods (pacific northwest, about 500m from the nearest road) I came across a young kid. She spoke no English and was clearly separated a tour group. Sun was setting. We had maybe a half hour before flashlights would be needed but my dog and I knew every tree. I wasn't sure which path she came from. She wanted help, but if I lead her back to the road I would be the one explaining my actions to the police. So I left her in the woods. (No. After some shouting into the woods, a member of the tour group came running.) My point: In the west, our fear of being accused of something nefarious can actually cause us to hesitate even when child is literally lost in the woods.
- Rinzler89 2y ago>Japan also enjoys famously low crime rates by almost every metric. Japan is also a highly conformist and homogenous society with very little ilegal immigration.
- a_c_s 2y agoWhat does some people not filling out paperwork before moving to another country have to do with how the society treats 5-year-olds?
- Rinzler89 2y agoPlease stop your strawmen. My arguments were to the comment on why Japan has a very low crime rate, not how and why it treats 5 year olds.
- alextingle 2y agoNo. You were clearly insinuating that illegal immigrants are likely to commit crimes.
- philwelch 2y agoBy definition, they already have.
- Rinzler89 2y agoMaybe you didn't read the part about a conformist society and yet focused on the illegal immigration part due to your subjective inner bias because you haven't called anyone a racist online in the last 5 minutes. I never said foreigners commit crimes, as if locals do not, but being very selective with your immigration does help keeping crime lower in every country that does so. As a country you already have the crime rates of the locals, so you want to not import crime rates as well, therefore you want your immigration being a net positive across the board so you'll have to be very strict. Why are people offended by an obvious fact?
- elzbardico 2y agoWell, they aren’t?