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dahuman said:
well, if you know details about the history of Asian countries in general, then you'd know that the time of poverty>>>>>>>>time of prosperity by a ton, so would it really surprise you that people are more picky about money in general? it sure doesn't me because I've traveled all over and lived all over, Japan is no different, they've especially had a bad history of poverty outside of China's longer history, and most of the time worse. |
Japan is an isolated island with tons of resouces relative to its population. Actually today the problem seems to be more about space than resources, which is rare. How else do you think they industrialized a few decades before almost every other East Asian country? I doubt anybody would say Japan's history of poverty is anywhere near that of China. Tons and Tons of people starved to death, and still starve to day. You rarely hear about that about Japan or anything about that in their history. The most you probably hear or read about is the poverty after the Pacific War, but it seems about right that any country after a war would be impoverished. Now I'm not saying poverty was non-existant, no of course not, every civilization in existance had impoverished people. Also imo, economic history rarely affects anybody today compared to that of what is happening in the economy as of present. With extensive global trade, the economy of a country could change in months, and that means the average person is always changing their spending habits to fit this. This is unlike in earlier times, when economies were the same for hundreds of years, and there were strict classes. If the japanese were as cheap as you say, I doubt the average person would buy a new cell phone every month just cause they want the latest thing. I doubt expensive luxuries like video games would be prevelant. I doubt they would try to go for the latest technologies like they have been. Instead it seems very common to see things that are high tech, but trivial there such as vending machines for just about anything you could have. So like I said, stereotyping is rarely true.
