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AMAZING JAPANESE: CULTURE and SHINTOI


 1. THE CALM
 Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been
elevated.

 2. THE DIGNITY
 Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude
gesture.

 3. THE ABILITY
 The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn’t fall.


 4. THE GRACE
 People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could
 get something.

 5. THE ORDER
 No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just
understanding.

 6. THE SACRIFICE
 Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will
 they ever be repaid?

 7. THE TENDERNESS
 Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared
for the weak.

 8. THE TRAINING
 The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did
just that.

 9. THE MEDIA
 They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters.
Only calm reportage.

 10. THE CONSCIENCE
 When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves
 and left quietly!
 Let us also learn from calamities in our life to be a cause for respect
 and a lesson to bring out our human values!!