[Info-vax] [OT] Japan, was: Re: HP short of ideas - hiring dancers for inspiration

[MG]

On 23-apr-2013 19:33, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Actually Fukushima showed us something else. It showed the average Japanese
> person in the street acting with dignity and honour in the face of disaster.
>
> The Japanese victims brought great honour upon themselves and their country
> as a result of the way they conducted themselves during that disaster.
> It's a example some other cultures on this planet could learn from.

Ever heard of Arudou Debito?  He wrote some interesting things about
the aftermath there, about the attitudes (even in the media) with
regard to "disloyal foreigners" there and related subjects.

    <http://www.debito.org>


> BTW, it's perfectly ok to criticise current cultures if you base those
> criticisms on facts still valid today. It's wrong however to take values
> common during a war in the middle of the last century and just state
> without evidence that those values still exist today.

How does that work out for the Germans?  (Especially in the place you
are from.)  Or the Argentinians, for that matter.

  - MG