Learning from Japan
I’m struck as I read about and watch the events in Japan how orderly and polite the people are. You don’t read stories of looting. You read stories of people sharing and helping each other. You see pictures of people staying in orderly lines. You don’t see politicians grandstanding. You don’t see looters.
It also shows how poorly we handled the Katrina disaster, and how brutish and uncivilized people became. It took less than 24 hours for the looters to come out in force in New Orleans. Probably the most memorable image from Katrina was the “Heineken Beer Looter Dude“.
I can’t imagine a worse disaster than the earthquake + tsunami combination Japan has endured. And I can’t imagine a people handling the problem any better than the people of Japan.
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The Beer Looter guy has his own web site? WOW.
Just to play devil’s advocate (this is the first time I’ve ever done that, really, I promise) I wonder how much this is media bias.
Japan is widely known to have a culture which tends to minimize bad events. American media tends to blow details out of proportion. I suspect the reality is somewhere in the middle.
So, what are you saying Robby.
Does the US media perpetuate the bad behavior through its sensationalized coverage?
Or, are the Japanese media covering events to solve problems?
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Blow something out of proportion? The American media? Never in a million years
It’s one of the advantages of being pretty homogenous.
They have to be respectful and orderly when you share such a small space as Japan. Otherwise, it would be chaos.
Here, we are dealing with the multi-cultural issues that come with being a melting pot.
(Although…Canadians never seem to behave badly. Now I am stumped).
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