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Maybe they are so different because you (and others) won't try to learn from different cultures. If not, probably nothing will change.
by mmooss 2y ago
Maybe they are so different because you (and others) won't try to learn from different cultures. If not, probably nothing will change.
- bluGill 2y agoThere is much to learn from them. However there are dark sides of their culture too. They have high suicide rates, and are very xenophobic (much worse than Trump in the US) for starters. We can learn, but be careful as it isn't always clear which factors you want to emulate are tied to things you don't.
- FireBeyond 2y agoAmerica has an obsession with being different and has a thousand answers to why things that work elsewhere would not and could not possibly work here. It's the size, if it's not the size, it's the density, if it's not the density it's ... repeat ad nauseam.
- ryandrake 2y agoYea, when someone claims “this could not possibly work in the USA! It’s too large and the population not dense” or whatever, then ask why it wouldn’t work in just New Jersey which is about as large and dense as some European countries.
- mingus88 2y agoWhat exactly are you suggesting? Japan is a monoculture and strictly traditional, not to mention very xenophobic. Everything works because the social penalties for violating those norms are severe. It’s effectively an ethnostate and not that long ago revered their god-emperor. The U.S. is by contrast a diverse (geographically and demographically), broad culture of immigrant communities based on a concept of rugged individualism where states and townships run things as they see fit. If you want to reshape the U.S. in the model of Japan … well
- xethos 2y ago> What exactly are you suggesting? Not to reshape America into Japan, but attempt to keep the parts that are nice while integrating the best parts of other nations. America loved to claim it was a nation of immigrants; the French even sent you a gift for how much America would take the best of other countries (the brightest minds, the hardest workers), and build with that. Maybe that's not how the country works any more, but it was a nice fantasy.
- watwut 2y agoThat difference has squat zero with kids walking or playing.
- harvey9 2y agoRugged individualism seems to have been lost given the context here.