You can’t imagine the Japanese looting. Or spitting.
This entry was posted on March 16 2011 at 7:07 pm and is filed under Japan.
It turns out the first sentence is the cliché of the moment. (It was my own thought.) Correctives:
Comments at The Daily Dish, via Marginal Revolution
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/03/why-no-looting-in-japan-ctd-1.html
Nuances from Christopher Beam at Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2288514
On Japan generally, an overstated post by Tom Noir, via Marginal Revolution
http://www.tomnoir.com/2011/03/end-of-japan.html
Howard Stringer of Sony spoke movingly about the Japanese response to the disaster. (Fareed Zakaria interview, CNN.)
Other things the Japanese don’t do:
Vulgarly display their wealth (through cars etc)
Laugh in an ostentatious, attention-seeking way
Behave prudishly, or generally sententiously
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March 17 2011 at 11:36 pm
It turns out the first sentence is the cliché of the moment. (It was my own thought.) Correctives:
Comments at The Daily Dish, via Marginal Revolution
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/03/why-no-looting-in-japan-ctd-1.html
Nuances from Christopher Beam at Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2288514
On Japan generally, an overstated post by Tom Noir, via Marginal Revolution
http://www.tomnoir.com/2011/03/end-of-japan.html
March 22 2011 at 7:52 pm
Howard Stringer of Sony spoke movingly about the Japanese response to the disaster. (Fareed Zakaria interview, CNN.)
September 22 2011 at 9:05 am
Other things the Japanese don’t do:
Vulgarly display their wealth (through cars etc)
Laugh in an ostentatious, attention-seeking way
Behave prudishly, or generally sententiously