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A Culture of Respect

Submitted by tokiokobayas on Fri, 03/08/2019 - 01:31

    In Japanese culture, there is a famous saying that (when translate) states, “do your best not to bother the people around you”. This causes a huge culture of respect to emerge from this mindset, where the people do their best to keep anything public as clean as possible. This means public bathrooms are always very clean, the streets are kept clean from garbage, and even at the train stations, the people will line up in order to enter the train, and will always wait until everyone leaves the car before entering. The trains and public transport are also all very quiet. If someone were to talk on the phone in the front of the bus, that person could be whispering the conversation and they would still be loud enough that someone in the back can tell someone is saying something at the front. I feel as though America could do it’s part in trying to adopt this mindset, compared to the cultural mindset that we currently have which is more similar to “do whatever’s best for you”. This means littering occurs a lot more often, public bathrooms are not treated with respect, and there’s constantly people running into each other as people are trying to get off public transit. It’s unfortunate people live in such a “greedy” mindset, but that is what occurs when we all are trying to live in a way that is focused on just ourselves.

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