The images that come from Japan raised many reactions, rational and emotional. The first front of the different budgets: the victims, infrastructure, economic course; on the second, the pain, fear, anxiety about a future that is still in all affected.
also enable you to observe the behavior of an extreme composure: waiting for the train, long awaited, is clean, bowing in front of the person who helps, the pain expressed in a restrained and a collective consciousness of great depth and breadth.
The cultural differences, sometimes radical, and it is difficult - as pointed out by Jan Buruma on the Courier today, March 18 - find strong determinants.
may be the fact always to live a precarious existence that is embodied symbolically in specimens Shinto cults, such as the demolition of some temples are rebuilt every 20 years, may be the roots of established ways of life over the centuries, but are often values \u200b\u200band behaviors we find it hard to understand.
The collective dimension, for example. E 'Suddenly Asia in general, but in Japan maybe even stronger: the good of the group is superior to the interests of the individual. If you need to do something for the collective, the individual ones are sidelined.
It 'important to emphasize that there are statements that underlying value judgments. In any cultural assets one moves up the contradictions that have volori in their country: the freedom of worship AND INDIVIDUALLY; collectivism of the common good. Two values \u200b\u200bthat should, in any social context, finding a balance.
It 'important to know how to observe, however, to read between the lines of contexts, which seems identical symbols, objects, consumed in the marks, yet they are profoundly different interpretations put in place, for choices, for reviews.
Watch helps to understand what those that we take for granted in our culture, we seem unavoidable certainties and right choices in how we act.
observe and understand is how to travel, even while at home, in front of a newspaper or a television screen.
