What has happened to Japan and how the citizens there are reacting to it, I find absolutely remarkable.
Here is a country that was hit with a triple whammy of disasters and yet its citizens are now into the third week of coping with death, destruction and what should be chaotic conditions with a quiet stoic resolve.
The disasters wreaked by the earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear meltdowns could not be ignored by the rest of us. Cameras caught the devastation at every corner, including the deaths of over 26,000 people and counting.
Entire cities were wiped off the map, families disappeared, children and seniors died quickly and slowly and people such as I were taking notes and my first note was to remind myself as to how the citizens of Japan were behaving so remarkably to these disasters. Then a friend e-mailed me a note of observation made by others about how fascinating the Japanese response was to these Armageddon-like events.
No rioting, no looting, no unreasonable demands 小蓝视频 made. Two weeks and more of patience, mourning and slow retrieval of anything that was left to retrieve.
People accepted relief food and basic items, taking only the amount they required to survive, leaving the rest for the next person. There was no panic at the relief lines. The assistance was offered and accepted in orderly fashion. Some additional snowstorms in the north didn't deter them.
It has been absolutely amazing as far as I can see.
Certainly there will be a few scoundrels and cheaters who will take advantage of the situation, but compared with the reactions we have seen in other parts of the world when disasters strike, the Japanese, I think are giving us a model of how to react when chaotic conditions strike unannounced. They may have lost their cities and their homes and their loved ones, but they have retained their dignity, resolve and civilized activity, along with our admiration.
Yes, we know Japan was the enemy 70 years ago and the horrors of war bring out the worst in all of us. There will be those who will take these horrors and sense of hatred to their graves and quite frankly, I understand that.
But that was then, this is now and it's a fascinating story of survivors helping survivors and doing what needs to be done without creating more chaos than what is already out there. And I was just wondering if you were paying attention to what has been going on too?
This is a country that is no stranger to disasters and they've learned how to deal with them. We know this was a country that reeling under the cloud of heavy debt following the economic disasters of 2008, and their political fights were ongoing, just like ours are, but where and when it really, really counted, the Japanese have been emerging with fortitude and grace.
We can all learn something here and the lesson is obvious.
