Why do the Japanese have an inferiority complex?

Baldewin   Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:36 pm GMT
It appears to have happened in the state of Connecticut.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lindsay-beyerstein/connecticut-teacher-facin_b_39384.html
I know this is exceptional, but certainly something has gone wrong concerning the law system there (which is never flawless).

The charges appear to have eventually been dropped after a long procedure, but she can never teach again.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6739393&page=1

Still shocking news to me.

Anyway, to conclude with another Kafkaesque example that happened in my country recently:
http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20100304_013

I hope you can read some Dutch or some translating machine can decipher it for you. A news story that fits very well in the spinelessness discussion of you ask me. Unbelievable!
Baldewin   Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:38 pm GMT
Links doesn't work anymore. Here's one from a 'socialist newspaper' I never read normally.

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/989/Binnenland/article/detail/923290/2009/07/09/Fedasil-moet-500-euro-betalen-per-dakloze-asielzoeker.dhtml
Baldewin   Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:40 pm GMT
Here's one in English.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d6_1267711138&c=1
K.   Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:25 pm GMT
What's your point of view regarding the article on the Asylum seekers? It seems like an odd story to me.

About the teacher- it sounds like she should be able to get her job back, but I'm not an attorney. Of course, maybe she needs to get some more computer skills or know to turn off a computer when porn pops up....
uzzer   Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:04 am GMT
Have none of you ever heard of the Japanese cultural system? They have one of the most complex systems of addressing and stylistics based on relative social standings to eachotherr. Japanese is a mush of honorifics, humbleifics, self-debasing address, and so on infinitely. Everyone has a standing in society and must address according to whether he's better or worse than the other person. Obviously this munted hierarchy transcends the langage and culture and makes people think that Japan is rubbish compared to other countries. Or probably their just speaking of Japan "humbly" and of the other country "honorifically", even though that's not what they think. They think that all cultures are like that and don't realise that in the west it's okay (provided you're not a cunt) to say "America is so much better than Japan", or "we kicked your asses in the war" or "The Netherlands is the most spineless PC country in the world".