In violent times, young Japanese just shrug
Hard work always pays off. Being an Indian, as a child we grew up listening to real and mythical stories of heroes, superheroes or Gods who fought against all sorts of evil with determination and with the will to fight for a just cause. When we are old enough and start working in jobs corporate or otherwise, in times, we often look back and encourage ourselves with remembering one or the other stories.
I remember when i was 10 years old i heard that my mausi ( maternal aunt) was about to get married to some guy in Japan. I went to the wedding with my family, it was held in Kanpur, my mother's home town. We kids were excited, some guy from videsh (foreign country), how cool. We interviewed our mausaji (maternal uncle) about how was it to stay in Japan, how were the people in Japan. He always gave a cold response, never excited too much about the people, their habit and young one, though he always praised their systems their life but not their lifestyle, calling them robots of some kind. We got mixed notions about Japan some of us thought of it as an alien nation while some nice place but none of us praised it. In later years when i got to know him and our conversations got frequent, i got to know the downfall in the culture of Japan which was there 25 years ago and much more.
An article discussing a disturbing case that happened in Japan and its faux pas which i came across is mentioned below:
A recent incident in Japan where a 19 year old kills a 72 year old lady because she had a childhood dream of killing. If you read it at first you will come to say probably a sick child with issues. You are right, of course it is a case of mental instability, but what is causing it. Rational thinking is not something that can be imparted to someone but it comes from within, the way in which we live, the ways we learn and most important the way we picture ourselves in the society. In the article the author mentions about "new fatalism", a feeling that says effort reaps no rewards. I cannot say that all the kids in Japan are like this nor can i defend them. The reasoning here seems to be more towards the culture of manga, the rise of superheroes in manga and evidently in the lives of kids, the change in video games that are played in Japan. Honestly, these cannot be the parameters to judge psyche of a whole generation. The article tries to combine various comments to prove his theory but it all looks a work of fiction to me.
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Good work...getting better with each post.
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