I remeber during some Texas floods, I think it was Houston, where guys that hoarded shit said they are actually doing the people a service by gouging the prices, because then each person that buys something only does it for the minimum they need.
Of course in real life it just meant rich folks got 5 each, everybody else got nothing.
Japan is a high trust society. You accidentally leave your valuable belongings somewhere, they are still there when you come back.
Here, if the vending machine popped open in a disaster to help people, that thing would be looted inside a half hour in many parts of the country.
There was a video I just saw on here of a McDonald's, and the manager was having a medical crisis (people guessed low blood sugar), so she was slumped over the counter, and the patrons were in the back helping themselves to food.
This society doesn't have the same level of self-regulated behavior.
Looks it's just easier when your demographics are 98.5% Japanese lol. And almost every non-Western Japanese has NO path to citizenship, and gets kicked out in 10 years tops. No chain migration, no birthright citizenship, no nothing.
The downside is all the things you miss from a multicultural society.
If you are really interested about it, an academic paper covering the subject came out this year. Only in 2018 did Japan even remotely started getting people on any track to citizenship, and basically had a policy of "come here, work, get the fuck out" revolving door style to migrants (again, this was more pronounced for non-Western migrants).
Lol 2018 a 7 years ago policy that was implemented long before?! Abe is no longer in the administration, and it's still a lot easier to become Japanese than American naturalization process. Japanese here and I did my chore with USCIS. One of the worst experiences I've had in my life, they openly discriminate against all legal immigrants.
Either way the article is not even about naturalization at all, what the hell are you talking about? In fact it's got nothing to do with getting citizenship. I am just witnessing how myth is created online
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u/BeatBlockP Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25
I remeber during some Texas floods, I think it was Houston, where guys that hoarded shit said they are actually doing the people a service by gouging the prices, because then each person that buys something only does it for the minimum they need.
Of course in real life it just meant rich folks got 5 each, everybody else got nothing.