Luckily, in Japan, you often can get things back when they are lost, so this shame culture is good for something. Then again, when people stay at home for years because they are 'ill', I worry a bit when they decide to 'emerge'!
Luckily, in Japan, you often can get things back when they are lost, so this shame culture is good for something. Then again, when people stay at home for years because they are 'ill', I worry a bit when they decide to 'emerge'!
That's just it. When two people are arguing from completely different value systems often consensus is impossible.
Also I appreciate that everyone here accepts we are dealing in stereotypes and generalizations of Japanese (and Western) culture.
I don't think I like that way of thinking. If something isn't wrong until you are caught doing it what is to stop someone from killing someone else or raping someone? If they think they will never get caught there is no reason not to do it because in their mind its ok to do it if they don't get caught.
Where in our society we know that doing something like that would be wrong thus most people wouldn't do it.
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