[Crazyanimefan666]

From all photos and news reports I saw in my country, Japanese people didn't lose the slightest bit of bearing. There is no turmoil, no looting, people go around with their own business in an orderly fashion, no cut in the line, no shoplifting, actually people were putting stuff fall off on the ground back to shelves.

It's really a doomsday situation, but people in Japan just lived through like another mundane week.

I hate to do the comparison but another developed country really showed its undesirable side in a relatively minor disaster, you saw swats sitting on APCs with boots dry and clean, a few feet away were Africans keen deep in the flood, you saw "YOU LOOT, WE SHOOT" boards from one place to the other...

The funny thing is, that country is playing the world police, while Japan, with a comparatively smaller military presence, an equivalently sophisticated technology level, a slightly higher education level, is sitting idle.

Japan would be almost perfect had not been these seismic disasters. I guess culture does make a very significant difference.

Your thoughts?