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Why is there no looting in Japan?

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Why is there no looting in Japan?

  • Most Americans, Europeans, and Middle Easterners are self-serving people. Asians are not.

  • Lack of inequality. There are no poor people in Japan therefore there is no looting.

  • It doesn't make sense to loot with radiation outside. They would loot if there was no radiation.

  • There is nothing to loot. All items(TV’s, PS3’s, etc…) have been washed away by the tsunami.

  • National pride...They're putting their country ahead of themselves.

  • Morals and honor are important attributes to the Japanese, unlike most Americans and Westerners.

  • Because they are Japanese. There is no other valid explanation.

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WelshBloke said:
So why is the poverty gap larger in the US than in the EU?
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I don't know if that's true, but I suspect the data you're looking at doesn't factor in the true wealth of the monarchy caste in various European countries. It's very common for the governments to understate the true wealth accumulation of the royals.
 
classy said:
Yea I know, lol..................
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LOL, you mad because I called that black female THUG/CRIMINAL as chimp/monkey? The same one that committed FELONY assault/battery over and over and over and over on another bus rider? Imagine someone called the Arizona shooter that shot the female US Rep. as scumbag, ohhh the horror...LOL

How about this? Tell your people do NOT committ FELONY crimes anymore (while you are at it, do tell us what is the percentage of black males in prison vs. percentage in college? or vs. the general populaton?) and behave like normal human beings (that is why I said being "good black people" earlier in the thread) and other people won't call them names? Deal? 😀

I said it already but look like you can not read very well because I did not type in elbonics so I will say it again.

Find the threads that I called good black folks with racial names, go ahead, put up or shut the fvck up, biotch.
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The other posts, point out what I said were NOT true? Go ahead, name one town, city, state in the US with large black population and are doing well. I ready named several that are not doing too well. We are waiting.

You = still utterly FAIL and still unable to provide any clips or pictures or solid, good evidences as I requested over and over and over. Pathetic.
 
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CanOWorms said:
I don't know if that's true, but I suspect the data you're looking at doesn't factor in the true wealth of the monarchy caste in various European countries. It's very common for the governments to understate the true wealth accumulation of the royals.
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The ultra rich in the US are wealthier than European Royals.

Hell, the ultra rich in the EU are richer than European royals.
 
WelshBloke said:
So why is the poverty gap larger in the US than in the EU?
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Because each side uses different measurements.
The US measures "absolute" poverty, while the EU measures "relative" poverty.

http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5313/
Read that and pay attention to the difference between "relative" and "absolute".

Comparing poverty rate between the US and EU is as useless as comparing their unemployment rates.

Don't forget the EU now includes Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Romania, Hungary, and all those other poor former Russian colonies that have 30+% of their population living in poverty.
The EU is no longer just UK, Germany, France, and the Scandinavian countries.

Why is unemployment rate much higher in the EU than in the US? :hmm:
 
davmat787 said:
Yes, those are all attributes of having a personal honor code that extends to family, community, and country. Having an honor code is often thought of as antiquated to certain people and as such is laughed upon.
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Of course that cultural tradition can only be kept alive in a country which has a single dominate culture and pervasive and unifying national identity.
 
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Infohawk said:
COW may be P&N laughing stock but I'm sure his opinions are taken very seriously in his circles. (You know, the circles that think Obama should have bombed Big Ben because of the BP oil spill situation.)
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I have no problem with that! Just like how your opinions are taken seriously in white supremacist compounds out in Idaho. (You know, the circles that believe in white-only immigration and that integration is based upon genetics.)
 
We can solve this non looting by the Japanese.

Send Japanese Americans to the tsunami zone. Tell them free auto parts!
 
CanOWorms said:
I have no problem with that! Just like how your opinions are taken seriously in white supremacist compounds out in Idaho. (You know, the circles that believe in white-only immigration and that integration is based upon genetics.)
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Tell us where Winston Churchill's great grandson touched you.
 
CanOWorms said:
I have no problem with that! Just like how your opinions are taken seriously in white supremacist compounds out in Idaho. (You know, the circles that believe in white-only immigration and that integration is based upon genetics.)
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Already lying? You've clearly stated that the UK should be bombed for the BP spill. Are you denying that? I've never said that race is even important.
 
ANyone that has ever taught pre-school, where you have a mix of races, knows well that the Asian kids are respectable of their teachers. They never act up. Never disobey. Always show respect. And so do the parents. We cannot even understand this in our country. We cannot begin to grasp the concept. Period.
 
I've only visited Japan once, aside from several layovers, but lived in Korea for several years (I know Koreans and Japanese hate comparisons to each others' cultures, but there are some similarities). The lack of looting is not surprising to me. I've carelessly lost my cell phone, wallet, and even cash before and people returned it to me. There's just a very strong more against taking physical things that aren't yours.

Not that people are completely honest - there's a lot of backstabbing in business, cheating in business deals, theft of IP, and other issues. But generally people don't resort to simple larceny even if they are poor.
 
MagickMan said:
I asked a friend in Tokyo about this, he's living there and training to be a chef. He said, "Looting? Hell, they're too busy trying to help each other to loot".

That about says it all, right there.
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Bull. There many problems with dealing with this disaster. The lack of honest journalism plus a ridiculously idealized image of the Japanese is what's driving statements like that.

Trapped in the radiation zone, and no help in sight

An awful realisation is setting in for those trapped in the vicinity of the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex: people are afraid to help them.

Residents describe spooky scenes of municipal cars driving down near-empty streets telling people to stay indoors, but they have seen few other signs of outside help.

Aid agencies are reluctant to get too close to the plant. Shelters set up in the greater Fukushima area for "radiation refugees" have little food, in part because nobody wants to deliver to an area that might be contaminated. And with little or no petrol available, not everyone who wants to leave can get out.

Radiation fears are mingling with a sickening sense of abandonment.

"People who don't have family nearby, who are old or sick in bed, or couldn't get petrol, they haven't been able to get away from the radiation," said Emi Shinkawa, who feels doubly vulnerable. Her house was swept away by the tsunami.

Her daughter, Tomoko Monma, knows she is lucky: At 9am on Wednesday, she piled her family into the car, thankful for her husband's foresight in setting aside enough petrol for them to make their escape.

But she is angry that people living outside the 20-kilometre evacuation zone around the nuclear plant were not given help finding public transport or the fuel to drive away in their own cars. Ms Monma, 28, lives 33 kilometres from the plant.

"We've got no help. We've got no information," she said as she cradled her two-year-old daughter on the tatami mats that had been laid out in a sports centre in Yamagata, 160 kilometres inland, which now serves as a shelter for people fleeing Fukushima.

"The government is demanding that we don't go out, but it isn't bringing us anything," Katsunobu Sakurai, the mayor of a city close to the exclusion zone, complained in an interview with the national NHK television network. "Truck drivers don’t want to enter the city. They’re afraid of being exposed to radiation ... If the government says we’re in a dangerous area, it should take more care of us!"

Foreign aid workers in the area have been assessing the radiation risks, but many chose to remain just outside the 20-kilometre zone yesterday morning.
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Japanese 2nd Amendment:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear samurai swords shall not be infringed."
 
Hacp said:
20km. Thats a 3 hour walk. Are people really that lazy? They can't walk 3 fucking hours to saftey?
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You are really special.

It's a 4-5 hour walk, especially if you're carrying a couple days worth of clothes and some bottled water.

And if it was considered safe to be outside and exposed for that length of time, they would probably have left.

There have already been hospital patients potentially harmed by radiation exposure because they happened to be outside waiting for an evacuation bus at the wrong time.
 
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