No Reports of Looting in Japan After Disaster

[idirtify]

Those answers (which I would also give) have no bearing on being an atheist, which is the claim that Fredom101 made.

“No bearing”? Really. Coulda fooled me. So what exactly do you think the surveys say? So what percent of Japanese do you think are atheists? So what belief in what god/religion do you think comprises most of Japan?

Links??

 

[idirtify]

deleted. duplicate.

 

[doodle]

There is no looting because your average japanese person is more civilized than your average black person living in Africa, Haiti, New Orleans or LA.

Tons of stats with wrong analysis can produce misleading conclusions. That's fallacious reasoning to link skin color to economic status/education level and then make a "civilization" inference.
90% of US black population opposed a very violent invasion of a country that did not attack us, I'd say that indicates a lot of civility in itself.

Let's argue after factoring in environmental factors without giving in to temptation of group think, then behavior appears in different light.

 

[nunaem]

I don't buy the cultural explanation... Iraq had a collectivist culture that placed high value on honor and had no 'entitlement mentality' to speak of, yet there was outrageous looting after the 2003 invasion.

 

[crazyfacedjenkins]

Orderly disaster reaction in line with deep cultural roots

CNN
March 12th, 2011

The layer of human turmoil - looting and scuffles for food or services - that often comes in the wake of disaster seems noticeably absent in Japan.

“Looting simply does not take place in Japan. I’m not even sure if there’s a word for it that is as clear in its implications as when we hear ‘looting,’" said Gregory Pflugfelder, director of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University.

Japanese have “a sense of being first and foremost responsible to the community,” he said.

To Merry White, an anthropology professor at Boston University who studies Japanese culture , the real question is why looting and disorder exist in American society. She attributes it largely to social alienation and class gaps.​

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Full Story:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/12/orderly-disaster-reaction-in-line-with-deep-cultural-roots/

And none of them are kooky Christians. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[BlackTerrel]

And none of them are kooky Christians. Coincidence? I think not.

There you have it. Rioting is caused by Christianity.

You solved it.