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There is a LOT of slack in Japanese society. Using umbrellas while riding bicycles. Not wearing a helmet. Just two examples off the top of my head. Lots of sla
by weikju 2y ago
There is a LOT of slack in Japanese society. Using umbrellas while riding bicycles. Not wearing a helmet. Just two examples off the top of my head.
Lots of slack granted to foreigners who aren’t expected to know the rules. Lots of slack granted to Japanese people who are free to be normal, hikikomori, nerdy, NEET, sporty, etc. Slack to be and do whatever unless you bother someone.
It’s just slack you don’t really notice immediately unlike the menu stuff.
- ranger_danger 2y agoI wouldn't call those slack in the same sense of the word because rules aren't being bent or ignored. Helmets and umbrellas are things that are simply too widespread to have adequate enforcement on, same for seatbelts in most countries... so I don't consider that actively letting it happen or "slacking" the same way. Foreigners might have some slack in some ways but in many ways it's quite the opposite... so there's both good and bad IMO. "Free to be normal etc." I don't consider that slack either, that's just having a generic free society to me.