That's such a load of bull. In Europe and North America, we also typically:
- get taught from a young age to return found goods. *Everyone* knows that; - believe there's a God watching us all the time. And a Santa Claus; - have a large police presence. Often intimidatingly so.
None of that can explain the difference. Culture however might, but not in the way they claim. What we *also* have in western, Christian-dominated cultures is a disgusting amount of hypocrisy: *nobody* acts the way children are taught it's nice to. And people follow behaviors, not words.
Japan and lost property
- get taught from a young age to return found goods. *Everyone* knows that;
- believe there's a God watching us all the time. And a Santa Claus;
- have a large police presence. Often intimidatingly so.
None of that can explain the difference. Culture however might, but not in the way they claim. What we *also* have in western, Christian-dominated cultures is a disgusting amount of hypocrisy: *nobody* acts the way children are taught it's nice to. And people follow behaviors, not words.
Funny bit about umbrellas, though.