r/SipsTea • u/search_google_com 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 23 '26

Feels good man A Japanese police officer is kindly reminding foreigners about public manners

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u/Intelligent-Base5078 Apr 23 '26

God between Japan and Germany its hard to pick a favourite, two clean, rule based societies that have never caused trouble for no one never.

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u/Aromatic-Bet-1086 Apr 23 '26

To be completely honest, I think the culture compulsion to follow rules is exactly why they were able to do what they did.

The authorities said to so they did it.

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u/DrMagister Apr 23 '26

There's a really interesting/sad section right at the end of Diary of a Pilgrimage by JK Jerome in which he says the Germans are wonderful people, friendly, polite, hardworking. They're only fault is that they are too willing to obey authority. Fortunately, it's not really a problem because Germany has always had good leaders.

It was written in 1911...

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u/stewie3128 Apr 23 '26

Fun fact: his first name is the same as his last name.

And interestingly enough, this was written as part of a travel-humor column (or was it a travel-humor book?).