251. The fragility of cultures[snip]
I'm quoting a delightful story of honesty in Japan. I was particularly impressed that lost mobile phones are taken to the police more frequently than any other lost object. In England, mobile phones -- the stealing thereof -- are responsible for most of the street crime.
The title of your posting, may I presume?, means that you are concerned that the devolution of the Japanese economy threatens such "amenities" as this?
I am collecting signs of change on my website, at:
http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/sq/japalienation.html
I think we can now imagine (at least until we find an account of it in the newspaper...) a Japanese young person finding person's wallet and turning it in to the police and then turning around and smashing some stranger's skull for no good reason.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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