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| Should We Be Turning Japanese?; Why isn't Islamic Terrorism a problem in Japan? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 14 2016, 09:53 AM (3,407 Views) | |
| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 09:53 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/globalization-japan-terror-insularity-213807#ixzz45nSrp1ol%20 Edited by Harambe4Trump, Apr 14 2016, 09:58 AM.
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 12:19 PM Post #2 |
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In Japan, by contrast, modernity has always been restrained by a tradition of social stability that goes back to the centuries of a feudal system headed by shoguns and emperors. Thus the Japanese have always viewed modernity more warily. Japan really is different from the rest of the modern world, and while it is an almost heretical thought, perhaps it is time to consider whether Japan has made better national choices since the 1990s than we have given it credit for. It has succeeded in providing a stable and secure life for its people, despite significant economic challenges and statistical stagnation. It has done so in part by maintaining cohesion at home and certain barriers against the world. By comparison, America and Europe appear increasingly confounded by their failures to ensure sociocultural integration, keep their economies growing equally for all, and provide security in the heart of their great cities. When historians look back on global history from the 1990s into the first decades of the 21st century, how will they judge which nations were successful, and which failed to provide a good life for their people? |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 12:30 PM Post #3 |
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After Brussels, however, one thing seems clear: Ordinary Westerners will live another decade or longer fearing for their physical safety, waiting for the next attack, swinging between panic and numbness, and expending massive amounts of energy and treasure on war, all while they watch their economies gyrate, further dividing their societies. And the Japanese won’t. The story of whose history was better during these decades is far from written. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Dr. B | Apr 14 2016, 12:38 PM Post #4 |
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Japan does a lot of things right. They understand the things that drive a culture and they seek to preserve it. Leftists who bash the Japanese way often point to their economy. But their economic problems are really a result of certain societal ills. I was reading a book about Japan's problems, and a girl was being interviewed about what she expects in men. She said she resents the culture's emphasis on tradition. Women should go to college, have equal pay, work leadership jobs, etc. But then when she was asked about men who cry, she got repulsed and exclaimed, "Ewww." Gender equality only works one way, you see. In Utah, we see how an economy can skyrocket with men working the jobs and women in the home raising children. Japan strayed from that. They also have a 90% society of weak beta males who have relationships with iphone apps instead of actual women. This is what they need to focus on for a better economy. Being on an island is restrictive for the economy. But if they had more guts to build a military, grab international resources like Britain does, and raise a healthy generation of men, they would instantly be on top. |
| #BringWilmyBack | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 12:40 PM Post #5 |
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Japan is far and away superior to Britain, or America. I'll trade their problems form the USA's anyway. Tokyo remains Japanese. Does New York City remain American? |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Two a.m. | Apr 14 2016, 12:47 PM Post #6 |
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No, New York City hasn't been American for a long time. The Delaware and Mohican Indians left years ago when a bunch of disease-bearing illegal immigrants showed up. Edited by Two a.m., Apr 14 2016, 12:48 PM.
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| "The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984 | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 12:50 PM Post #7 |
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That's another way Japan is superior to America and the West. The Japanese do not hate themselves or their history. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Two a.m. | Apr 14 2016, 01:00 PM Post #8 |
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I don't either. I'm merely pointing out that - by your standards - you aren't from here. Of what extraction are you anyway? German? Irish? Italian? All of them were despised and treated as outcast foreigners when they arrived in New York. Thought to be dirty, smelly, prone to criminality and vice. Now they are just considered white Americans. Even if your people arrived on the Mayflower, I guarantee that someone wasn't happy to see you when you got here. We are a nation of immigrants - literally. |
| "The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984 | |
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| Drudge X | Apr 14 2016, 01:04 PM Post #9 |
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In Japan, children are taught respect at a young age. Children there have responsible parents. They don't waste people on time silly protests or physically assaulting someone because of their political views. Japanese also understand what it takes to build a better nation. Most American leftists believed in taking and forcefully sharing the wealth can lead to prosperity. Japanese believe in hard work. Plus Japanese have better issues to talk about besides bathroom debate or this feminist glacier thingy. But overall, respect and hard work are two standout reasons why Japanese are ahead of Americans. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 01:19 PM Post #10 |
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Let's get real. If you didn't hate America or yourself, then you wouldn't be voting for Hillary. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Dr. B | Apr 14 2016, 02:37 PM Post #11 |
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I was quite impressed by how quickly Japan recovered from that big earthquake. Much quicker than America recovered from Obama's depression. We still haven't recovered, it may take 50 years. |
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| Drudge X | Apr 14 2016, 02:40 PM Post #12 |
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Also, did you know that after the tsunami, there were no lootings? The Japanese army did not even carry weapons on them unlike what we witnessed in New Orleans. What a shame. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Apr 14 2016, 02:55 PM Post #13 |
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The Japanese are a bunch of weirdos who buy used panties in vending machines |
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| BuckFan | Apr 14 2016, 03:10 PM Post #14 |
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How quickly we forget the Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995 when trying to play politics with topics we really don't know. The Japanese have had their problems with Aum Shinrikyo and before the that the Red Army. The first time I flew into Narita I was struck by the airport bus being stopped at the entrance to the airport by a couple of armored vehicles blocking the road. Police went through the bus checking ID's and then the bus was allowed to go on its way. |
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| Drudge X | Apr 14 2016, 03:14 PM Post #15 |
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So you think American society, especially the people, is better than the Japanese society? |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 03:17 PM Post #16 |
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Why hasn't there been an incident of Islamic terrorism in Tokyo unlike New York, London, or Paris? What have the Japanese done differently? |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 03:18 PM Post #17 |
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We're not. Anyone who has been to Japan grasps this instantly. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Tsalagi | Apr 14 2016, 03:44 PM Post #18 |
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All depends on what you gauge as "better" I've traveled there, even stationed there for a bit on detached duty. I can't stand anime, they for some reason love kaoroke, which I can't stand, their food is plentiful, but bland, their music...well...sucks..They have a high suicide rate because their society pressures constant success, failure is not rewarded there at all. Their kids go to school 6 days a week an a good many tutor on the 7th, the stress in unreal there. Lest we forget, Japan is also home the what is probably one of the oldest known criminal enterprises...the Yakuza, while the Sicilians were doing their sheep in thatched huts on their rocky island, the Yakuza were the crime lords of Asia. They are viscous and have their hand in virtually all aspects of Japanese business and government. |
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| Dem4life | Apr 14 2016, 03:46 PM Post #19 |
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AI sure does project a lot... |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 14 2016, 03:48 PM Post #20 |
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Feel free to rebut anything in this article. |
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