The honor of the Japanese people can be seen through their noble example. Unlike Americans, the Japanese people don't act like barbarians when a malicious opportunity presents itself. There is one thing Americans don't understand; it's the Asian culture. In Japan, the ultimate honor is to give respect and to get respect. The Japanese people puts country first before themselves. It is called Nationalism. It is something many Americans lack.
Japan's nationalism is taught at a very early age in every city, town, and province. In fact, there is no unions in Japan. The workers respect their employers and the employers respect their workers. It is why the Japanese worker never complain working a 14 hour day. The employers are very demanding, but understanding the employees' need. It is a sense of honor that they are able to produce great products. It is a sense of pride that they are able to contribute and help their fellow man. It is a sense of humility to work hard to understand the meaning of an accomplishment. However, most Americans are out for "number one," complain about long hours, not understanding to live humble, and never satisfied with life.
I am not bashing on Americans, but we lost our exceptional zeal around the world. In reality, we live in an entitled state, and we are stubborn to realize it. The mentality shared by all is "getting more by doing less." Unfortunately, the government is responsible in creating an entitled privileged society. Therefore, it is not unusual for other countries to see us as self-center, selfish, and self-serving. To see what the looters did during Hurricane Katrina or the riots during the NBA final in Los Angeles, it is embarrassing to see Americans acting like idiots as they take things that don't belong to them. We will never learn as a society. It is too late for us. We are part of a complex matrix; impossible to escape. I hope our children have a better chance to break the matrix. In order to make a difference, our children must learn disciple, restraint, honor, love for our country, and to learn respect.
(Glen Beck Show) When crises and national disasters have happened across the world and in the United States, there are usually reports of violence and looting as people scramble to survive or even just take advantage of the situation for personal gain. Remember the images from Katrina when people were stealing TV’s and other electronics? For some reason, Japan has proven to be an exception.
“Let’s talk about something positive,” Glenn said. “The amazing story of the Japanese people. As the darkness grows, so does the light. And the Japanese people, there’s still no looting.”
“ There’s always going to some element of, you know, human nature that takes over for some people and that stuff happens. Not, seemingly not so far in Japan, though,” Stu said.
As the radio guys point out, the stories across the Internet focus on the unusual phenomena of no looting, as if chaos and looting should be the norm in this situation.
“You know one of the reasons why they say? Because it hasn’t been Balkanized yet. It’s still a nation. It hasn’t been turned in against itself yet. It’s still a nation,” Glenn said. “Businesses respect the workers, the workers respect the businesses. They haven’t been turned against each other. And so they are all working with each other.”
As forces in our own country are working to find ways to divide us (look at union leaders in Wisconsin), Glenn said that the people in Japan are all uniting together. “I’m starting to sound like the guy who was just like, can’t we just try peace and love? And it is really the only answer. It is the only answer,” Glenn said.
Glenn said, “One of the most amazing stories I’ve heard is a guy in Japan was going, he had no water. He goes into a store and there’s only ten bottles of water and he grabs all ten. He gets a couple of steps away and stops and he puts the water back. He takes two bottles because he realizes if he takes all ten, nobody else will have any.”
Glenn said that people in America need to wake up and start preparing for this kind of disaster by storing food, as past disasters have shown the peaceful actions of the Japanese are the exception to the rule.
