Donkey Deac Doug
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is your argument that it's all or nothing when it comes to adopting elements of another culture?
because I'mma need you to show your work if so
No, I'm saying that Japan's success (such that it is) isn't due to a thing that you can just unplug from their culture and plug into ours. It's a rope made out of a hundred strands that happens to be damn good at combating an epidemic/pandemic. People saying, "oh, let's just use their rope then" is like saying, "well, why doesn't the Democratic Republic of Congo just use a rocket ship to get to the moon like the United States does?" A lot of shit would have to be fundamentally different for that to happen.
We can totally say, "let's wear a mask more" and maybe someone will say something like, "yeah! In Japan/Asia people wear masks! Let's do that." But that's still a fundamental misunderstanding of the how/why. The sentiment is great, but it's something like, "well, I want to shoot a bow and arrow better, so maybe I should start sitting Indian style!"