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Its weird. My experience with Japanese society is that they are very neat, orderly, good manners, and basically very thinking of others. That is why it is so weird what they did in World War 2 and how they acted so terribly and atrocious.
@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
That is why it is so weird what they did in World War 2 and how they acted so terribly
Derailing here.
Guy that I worked with spent a couple of years in Hawaii while in the Air Force.
This was in the mid 1970s.
He said that the Japanese were among the most racist, arrogant, and xenophobic people he's ever met.
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
That is why it is so weird what they did in World War 2 and how they acted so terribly
Derailing here.
Guy that I worked with spent a couple of years in Hawaii while in the Air Force.
This was in the mid 1970s.
He said that the Japanese were among the most racist, arrogant, and xenophobic people he's ever met.
@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
He said that the Japanese were among the most racist, arrogant, and xenophobic people he's ever met.
Hmm, had to look up the meaning of xenophobic (LOL). Not sure they hate foreigners but definitely are nationalistic. I have not had problems there, and people know right away that I am not Japanese. Maybe they are saying something, but since I do not speak the language, "ignorance is bliss". I have had pretty good experience there.
There is a lot to like about the country. I mentioned previously that you will not find a cleaner city in the world than Tokyo. Even with no public garbage cans, there is no random garbage around. They are pretty good rule followers. I am mainly a rule flowerer, so I have no problems there. I am sure that if I lived there and understood the language, etc better, I would see the bad side. But from the outside, there is a lot to like.
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I work with a number of Japanese companies. I frequently find it quite difficult to figure out what they really mean. There is so much hidden away in the veneer of politeness, that decoding the underlying message they are trying to impart can be difficult. Heaven knows what they think of us - I suspect we come across as extremely rude.
Having said that, I've worked with a Japanese sales engineer for our company for probably about 15 years, and he's just a really likeable guy, very friendly, with a great sense of humour.
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Weird places to visit
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Weird places to visit
Cool list. I have been to the rock in Mahalbalipurim, India. My pic of the place.
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Accounts of the Enron scandal have frequently portrayed him as a mysterious figure
He has a wiki with no picture, that is mysterious.
@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
Accounts of the Enron scandal have frequently portrayed him as a mysterious figure
He has a wiki with no picture, that is mysterious.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Lou+Pai&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
That explains a whole hell of a lot…
I was watching an Anime with Luke, once and commented that I believe that Hiroshima and Nagasaki really fucked up the Japanese on some deep instinctual level.
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The Penrose Triangle, an IMPOSSIBLE figure created by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934 and rediscovered in the 1950s by physicist Roger Penrose, is known as "impossibility in its purest form." Popularized by Penrose and highlighted in the works of M.C. Escher, this triangle appears to be a solid object composed of three straight sections of square sections joined together at straight angles.
