RE: Ours is a society that rewards sociopathy
September 10, 2019 at 10:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 10:25 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Japanese culture is one which inculcate total mindfulness of one’s assigned role in society so thoroughly that the language’s sociolinguistic convention requires that pronouns used in daily conversation not only change depending on who one is in relation to who one speaks to, but who one is in relation to who one speaks about, and who the one spoken to is in relation to who is being discussed.
It is probably not an exaggeration to say Japanese culture bought its internal aversion to routine confrontation with the price of an inflexible conformity.
What is more, the measure of character of a society is not only how it treats its in group, but how it treats out groups. In this Japanese culture has had little in its history to brag about even compared to many examples of distastefully xenophobic societies around the world.
It is probably not an exaggeration to say Japanese culture bought its internal aversion to routine confrontation with the price of an inflexible conformity.
What is more, the measure of character of a society is not only how it treats its in group, but how it treats out groups. In this Japanese culture has had little in its history to brag about even compared to many examples of distastefully xenophobic societies around the world.
