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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011, a Queue, Crowd Control, How You Can Help
No Signs of Crowd Craze and Mob Violence
We all know the typical response immediately after a tragedy – chaos, looting, violence, mob mentality, and other look-out-for-yourself behaviors. But, for now anyway, that seems to be absent in Japan. Instead, we’re seeing the spirit of the Japanese people stand strong despite this adversity.
Why?
“Looting simply does not take place in Japan. I’m not even sure if there’s a word for it that is as clear in its implications as when we hear ‘looting,’” said Gregory Pflugfelder, director of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University.Japanese have “a sense of being first and foremost responsible to the community,” he said (source: http://goo.gl/oacpa)
Keep in mind that the normal course of action is to enforce order and enforce crowd control, but since there’s no mob-like behavior that takes key personnel away from truly pressing needs, everyone can focus on the highest priority items – that is, nobody is distracted by unbecoming and mob-like behavior.
Think of it this way: if there’s looting and mob violence, medical and security personnel will be on the scene to assist victims and to enforce order. But, since there isn’t any of that in the Japan earthquake so far, medical and security personnel can continue to focus on finding real victims from the tsunami and the earthquake.
japan disaster,earthquake,tsunami,damage,loss,views
Instead of violence and looting, we see people that continue to behave the way they behaved before the earthquake. This rapid return to normalcy, psychologists say, will help Japan more quickly recover.
Mob Mentality
A cultural anthropologist, interviewed by CNN, commented that the real question is not why Japan is responding so dignified and orderly, but
the real question is why looting and disorder exist in American society [and the West].
Consider this picture of a food line in Haiti after it was hit by an earthquake in 2010:
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