Observed on CNN-
The reporter in Japan was commenting on how calm and orderly everyone was while waiting in line at stores for water, food and gas. He said that they had several full gas cans on their truck to get them where they were going and they felt comfortable leaving their vehicle unattended while going inside stores to buy food or to interview people.
He then compared it to his experiences during Katrina when their vehicle was completely looted of gas, food, water and even their personal gear and bags right under their noses. He then said that the difference between the human response to the situation was almost night and day, the Japanese were very orderly and calm while the Katrina survivors were totally out of control.
Hmmm….
TrueblueNZ 
20 responses to “CNN Inadvertently Exposes Cold Hard Truth of Cultural Differences- Japan and Katrina”
Yes the differences are stark. Watching Katrina was like watching spoilt kindergarten children waiting for someone to come and wipe their arses. It was pitiful. Our liberal laws, our justice systems, our political correctness and our welfare states have breed useless moaning sacks of shit unable to function when nanny state is AWOL. Listen to some of the stories now coming out of CHCH where some able bodied sit in filth and simply wait for someone to come and save them. While I do not wish to be Japanese at least the people are expected to do what they can and have the discipline to do so. There is a lesson here somewhere.
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Could it be the people affected by Katrina were black, deeply ignorant and almost illiterate?
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@Erikter: and why were they deeply ignorant and almost illiterate? Because they live in the “great society”, the ultimate welfare state, which has spent some 14 trillion dollars to create and cultivate a system to pamper and cuddle those without the gumption to fend for themselves (and in the process will have wasted the majority of that 14 trillion on corruption, fraud and bureaucracy, the holy trinity of socialist welfarism).
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Bez, this comment was made in another discussion forum in relation to the “Angry Taxpayer” post I made a few hours ago. I found it thought provoking. The first paragraph is a quote from another commenter.
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Well the most interesting observation is that this thought provoking responder should look in his own mirror of course.
But that then provokes even more thought, and before we know we have taken our seat on the mental merry-go-round that exposes us on each turn to revolving emotions going from frustration to anger,a desire to do something, to shout, to scream, but then to realize that one man cannot fight this machine, a feeling of impotence, giving way to frustration and the circle starts again. Will you get off to fight, be carried off in your coffin, or give up and join the sheep?
Probably we are all cowards in the end, ready to give our opinion from the armchair, but afraid to leave the comfort of our homes to make a difference. Afraid perhaps also that trying to make a difference will make you one of those you so deeply despise; a cog in that very machine that you hate with all that’s in you. Afraid perhaps that the depth of conviction you feel burning in your gut will not withstand the onslaught of trivia that will be put in your way, the myriad of little hurdles and hoops to conquer and jump through, the sheer part of your soul you will have to sell to even be heard.
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Well said. Its a difficult post to answer. I think the issue is that we are seeking the support of fellows who think like us, and asking for confirmation that we are not the fringe thinkers the left would portray us as. Searching for clarity and purpose, we are gradually laying the foundations of a force that in an unknown time into the future, will be far more powerful than our mere voices are at present.
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I can’t believe some of the most ignorant comments that I have read about the differences between the Katrina and Japan disasters on this site and others. I used to live in Japan as a military brat and yes culturally in many situations, not all, they are more civilized than Americans period, regardless of social status and/or race. However, you all have missed some significant points. In Katrina 1) you had no emergency response with food or water for 3 days. 2) many people were herded into and locked in a stadium with no food, no water, no sanitation. Exactly how should they have acted after being locked in, starved, dehydrated, and living amongst fecal matter and corpses? 3) many shop owners opened their doors and let people take what they needed 4) the majority of products looted were food, water and diapers, and clothing and shoes further down the spectrum but they too are essentials especially if you’ve been soaking wet from a flood and 90 plus degree heat. HELLLLLLOOO! And really what would you expect? People to sell the clothes? Really? When you are soaking wet, starving and dehydrated are you thinking about that? 5) rather than helping those most in need, emergency services were wasted, first offering help to areas (wealthy, and middle income of course) and homeowners many of who repeatedly told them they were not needed.
So before you try to draw parallels and blame ‘welfare’ and black people (many of who were gainfully employed prior to Katrina) for that behavior, at least get your facts straight! Katrina says more about the human response of the American people to its own people more that the human response of the people affected to the disaster. A friend of mine from Europe asked me why the United States has a higher infant mortality rate than Namibia ( a third world country). All I can say is that we just don’t care about each other as much as citizens in other countries. It is ‘every man for himself’ in the United States. Some ‘Super Power’ eh? Your comments reflect that sad inhumane mentality so prevalent in American culture. Even Columbine makes sense to you people.
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“A friend of mine from Europe asked me why the United States has a higher infant mortality rate than Namibia ”
Perhaps your friend from Europe needs to learn how to do some basic research:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rateList_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
(Deaths/1,000 live births)
United States: 6.3
Namibia: 42.3
“All I can say is that we just don’t care about each other as much as citizens in other countries.”
A vague assertion, with nothing whatsoever to back it up. Try living in Somalia, or any number of Arab countries and see just how much people care about each other. (palestinians, by the way have an infant mortality rate around 45/1000)
“In Katrina 1) you had no emergency response with food or water for 3 days. 2) many people were herded into and locked in a stadium with no food, no water, no sanitation. Exactly how should they have acted after being locked in, starved, dehydrated, and living amongst fecal matter and corpses? ”
A gross distortion, which you obviously bought wholesale. You’d do better to examine your sources of information (or propaganda) before mouthing off with the usual anti-America bullshit.
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Okay, just the fact that you rely on Wikepedia for your information speaks volumes. Have you looked at the actual UN report? Do you know how the statistics were obtained? Who were the control groups? However, okay, I am gonna go with you on this one. Lets just say they are correct. Great, that is a welcome change from a few years ago but seriously look at who is ahead of us. Cuba. REALLY? We have a lot of work to do in this country and you are delusional if you don’t thinks so. The fact that health care here is a privilege, rather than a standard is obscene.
As far as my sources about Katrina, regardless of the fact that I had acquaintances affected by it and their accounts, FEMA actually admitted to their failure to respond in days. You will need to review FEMA’s actual reports on this, NOT WIKEPEDIA! And the part about the more upwardly mobile ward residents turning away emergency services came from those residents’ accounts. Some people do not want to believe it and will never have the slightest comprehension of the experiences others who are less fortunate than they are because they choose to isolate themselves. To me, being a true American is admitting to your faults and trying to remedy them instead of trying to justify them.
You and any country, shouldn’t be looking to Saudi Arabia, or Palestine, or Somalia, to justify its own failures. You should use that energy asking yourself what we can do to fix ours but then that would take realizing that you have any at all, and I gather that is very hard for you and for those like you, to do. It is easier to label it “propaganda” and “anti-American bullshit” than to have to face it isn’t it?
No country is devoid of being uncivilized, from the United State’s history of lynching blacks and anybody else they fancied mutilating and then having a picnic under their swinging corpses, slaughtering native americans who saved them from starvation back in the day, the civil war, the civil rights, this conflict that conflict, to Japan’s ‘Comfort Women,’ Pearl Harbor, to Germany’s Hitler, to Arabs in the Sudan, to Chinese radical human rights issues, seriously the list is endless. So there is not a country, race, religion, gender on this earth who can say that they are ‘holier than thou’ so before you trump your horn that we are, perhaps you should do your research and clean your snout of profanity while you are at it!
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“Okay, just the fact that you rely on Wikepedia for your information speaks volumes. Have you looked at the actual UN report? ”
Had you bothered to check the link, you’d have found other sources quoted.
“Who were the control groups? ”
control groups? for infant mortality statistics??
“The fact that health care here is a privilege, rather than a standard is obscene. ”
Try Cuba then, you useful idiot, and see how you like that healthcare.
“You will need to review FEMA’s actual reports on this, NOT WIKEPEDIA! ”
I didn’t quote Wikipedia concerning Katrina. Wrong again, sonny.
As for the rest of your semi-literate leftist hysterical rant, go shove it where it belongs and come back when you are able to present an adult argument.
You were caught out on one lie and you could be easily be nailed on several others, but abusing the mentally ill isn’t my style.
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Since the link provided was munted, here’s the both the fixed link and the sources used:
‘This is a list of countries by infant mortality rate. Figures are from the 2006 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for 2005-2010[2], and the CIA World Factbook, last updated on 2 April 2009.[3]’
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
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The US was absolutely behind Namibia at one point. Look back further and at the actual reports from the UN which I believe are available to the public; not Wikepedia. Never rely on someone’s interpretation of a report. Just look at the actual report.
As for ‘control groups’, I think you know what I mean. Every report study, etc., has a barometer by which it measures it’s results against. What is it and on whom or what is that standard based? Were these live reported births or did they go from village to village surveying women, or did they talley from a hospital? It matters because not all women in Africa give birth in hospitals and in remote villages some births are not reported. Obviously that is going to affect statistics. Still, I am sure Babyland Tennessee will help the US catch up with them.
You hurl insults, call people names like “useful idiot”, deem them mentally ill, and then have the nerve to speak about presenting an “adult argument.” Can you say hypocrite?
And by the way, have you had medical care in Cuba? Probably not. I would be surprised if you even have a passport.
I never said you got your info about Katrina from Wikepedia. That’s exactly what you shouldn’t do. Unless, you were blind and saw absolutely no news coverage of, or a single documentary about, or knew people affected by, the Katrina tragedy, I am not sure where the heck your comments even stem from. If you have some other information that I don’t then go ahead and provide it. Go ahead, tell me what happened in Katrina? What, there were no people in that stadium? Do you also think that the Holocaust never happened?
Being on the left or the right should not be an issue. Even Margaret Thatcher the most hard-lined conservative in the world said health care should not be a privilege, it should be for everyone. Did it occur to you that the health of our people is essential to the health of our nation as a whole? The Japanese understand that.
Telling someone to ‘shove it’ does not help you productively explore any issue or conduct “…an adult argument.” You call the person with who you are having an exchange “semi-literate” and tell them to “…shove it” Exactly how is that even remotely literate? Again, can you say hypocrite?
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Hey buddy, check the posting rules top right of this blog. Really, its not the place to be saying that the US should emulate Cuba, or to be posting such clapped out discredited propaganda as that Cuba’s health system is superior to the US’s.
Here’s what you need to understand. We have been arguing with communists for a long time. We despise them because they are morally bankrupt liars and propagandists. We have now reached the point where we are long past wasting our time trying to debate with people who have such a casual regard for truth, and a dysfunctional inability to absorb information.
We just want you out of our lives. We want you gone. We don’t want to hear from you, we don’t want to converse with you, and we don’t want to see you.
Most people who subscribe to this site are hoping for a societal breakdown and a civil war so we can deal with you people the only way you understand. Think about that, and then maybe you won’t want to post here again anyway, and it will save me the effort of deleting the next piece of garbage you insult us with.
[BTW, my good friend you insult above does have a passport. In his profession, he’s probably killed better men than you in Africa and many other places all over the globe. One thing he does not need to suffer is your patronising ignorance.]
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“The US was absolutely behind Namibia at one point. Look back further and at the actual reports from the UN which I believe are available to the public; not Wikepedia. Never rely on someone’s interpretation of a report. ”
Then you should have no trouble providing a link to that report. “The US was absolutely behind Namibia at one point..” isn’t at all the same thing as “..the United States has a higher infant mortality rate than Namibia ”.
Your original claim is dishonest.
“You hurl insults, call people names like “useful idiot”, deem them mentally ill, and then have the nerve to speak about presenting an “adult argument.” Can you say hypocrite?”
Sure–easy. Hypocrite. There, feel better now?
But that doesn’t alter the fact that your demented ranting reads like the posters at a Code Pink rally.
“And by the way, have you had medical care in Cuba? Probably not. I would be surprised if you even have a passport.”
Have you? You’re the one who made the claim about Cuba being ahead of the U.S. The standard of medical care in Cuba has been very well documented and it’s abysmal–about what one would expect in a socialist paradise. Only a True Believer would persist in thinking otherwise.
“What, there were no people in that stadium? Do you also think that the Holocaust never happened? ”
Have you stopped molesting little boys yet? Answer yes or no…..
“Telling someone to ‘shove it’ does not help you productively explore any issue or conduct ..”
I’m not interested in exploring any issue with a clown who makes wild assertions and insulting remarks:
“some of the most ignorant comments ”
“higher infant mortality rate than Namibia”
“that sad inhumane mentality so prevalent in American culture.”
“Even Columbine makes sense to you people.”
“the United State’s history of lynching blacks and anybody else they fancied mutilating and then having a picnic under their swinging corpses”
So don’t whine when you’re told to shove it, since you already dictated the tone of the argument.
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Dear Bt2020, freedom of speech is of course relative to property rights. While you can have all the freedom of speech you want on your own property, you cannot demand that others make their property available for you to execute your freedom of speech.
Hence, if the owner of this blog wishes to remove your comments, he is more than free to do so. You will always have the possibility of starting your own blog and inviting comments on that. You may find, however, that there are people with opinions that you will want to exclude from your property. Think about it…
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By the way, I am a woman.
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“By the way, I am a woman.”
I had already guessed that. A communist woman. Go away. You’re sickening. I do not like deleting posts. Don’t force me to keep doing it.
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“You asking me if I molest little boys probably says more about you than anything. People just throw anything out there when they realize that they don’t know what they’re talking about but then usually reveal things about themselves when they do. Sad. ”
You missed the point. Again. Asking for a simple answer to a complex question which was no part of the discussion. So I returned the favour. 🙂
“It is scary when you can’t classify someone isn’t it?
Not at all.
“I’m not a “buddy.”
I’m not surprised.
I’m not left, I’m not right,
Congratulations on your excellent impersonation of a leftist.
I’m not gay (I assume that is what you mean with your reference to ‘Code Pink Rally’ right?),
wrong.
I’m not a communist, I’m not a capitalist.
no, you’re your own utterly unique ideology–just like millions of others
Sad, you are only capable of making sense of the world through your classifications and if someone doesn’t fit in one, then you fall apart.
being irritated by a silly little woman who can only spout propaganda is hardly “falling apart”
Try stepping outside of the box.
any more worn kitchen sink wisdom cliches to share?
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“Can’t deal with any other opinions but your own. NO BALLS.”
You didn’t read my post above. We’re just sick of you idiots and your mindless progressive propaganda. Take it somewhere else.
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“Can’t deal with any other opinions but your own. ”
Or, perhaps you’re not used to people recognising you for the loathsome little thing you are and treating you accordingly……
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