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Originally Posted by termogard
Depressed memory, you said? Why? Time is a best judge ever. They were a typical brainless herd under brainless shepherd while you never were. You decided no to be a part of a herd and finally you won. Even after infamous attack of those idiots you did not join them, right?
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That isn't the point. No matter what the reasons were, and my thoughts about them... Having half my stuff ruined and being kicked as I rolled up in a ball is not something I am going to look back fondly upon.
I certainly wasn't unhappy about not being one of them - I wasn't looking for friendship from them in the first place - but being outright attacked is depressing.
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You wrote that after recent disaster you had enough common sense and responsibility to stay at work while the very same kind of people escaped Japan like a scared herd of rats from sinking ship. Unlike you, they lost their faces for japanese people and all those "demands" from their side merely looks out like a cheap monkey grimacing. You maybe got a lot of work but also you got a true respect from locals.
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I wouldn't go quite so far as to say it that way. I am freelance, so the responsibility of work was not a factor. I was not in an area that could expect to experience anything at all even in the absolute worst scenario (as in actually feasible ones, not scaremongering "All of Japan will be uninhabitable!" ones). I saw absolutely no reason whatsoever to abandon Japan. Really, even if we had been closer, unless there was proof that we were indeed in danger (not speculation by western media) I probably would have considered the whole idea of fleeing a big pain and not worth the trouble.
Even if we had been in immediate danger, we would have probably moved inside Japan. Making my husband quit his job to leave the country makes no sense to me, and leaving him behind and running to a "safer" country - as I was strongly encouraged to do by, well, everyone - was even more appalling.
I wasn't making any effort to stand up to a group, make a statement, etc. This is my home, this is where my family is now. Seriously, even in the case of a war I would side with my home and family in Japan.