Comments by "Commentary Talk" (@commentarytalk1446) on "Why Do Japanese Guys Cheat So Much?" video.

  1. Italy and China all have lower fertility rates than Japan so I don't think that's the explanation for decline in fertility rates in Japan you seem to be concluding based off a few interviews?
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  2. I agree with your questions to discover more. I don't think it's a good model of relationships, personally but it does seem that the cultural idea of relationships, expressiveness and what then is valuable and with whom is different so worth investigating. Taking a Western equivalent, it's notable that the cheating in say Miami is rife as well because people there suggest everyone is superficial and so does not have the "Bearing" to deal with a relationship whereas hook-up "pump & dump" fulfills pleasure and then the person moves on to the next person, again as it's just a case of use and be used and given if everyone is doing that, that becomes more of a drive to do the same, at least in such cities that's the message that comes across. As such it's not so different to this area of Tokyo, Shibuya but it is very different in how it's expressed...
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  3.  @Rid_wrrjrk  I disagree that any one religion provides all solutions to all people, even if Islam provides many solutions to a lot of people. And I even agree more with the cultural idea of committed relationship and monogamy as development of the relationship to a mature understanding (though the Secular West has failed here a lot eg see the stats on broken families) that Islam would promote as a sophistication of a successful family life (again agree). Japan has its own culture and history and the way they do things is first worth understanding before working out what may work best or better eg their concept of relationships and thus their definition of cheating.
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  4.  @Rid_wrrjrk  There's a lot of sound wisdom in what you say, for sure which I personally agree with. I question application and cultural divergence and I think those are important differences between the Japanese and other cultures and religions. This concept they have with relationships appears to have been well established since Edo times and it's sustained in a certain form to the present given the Japanese way of doing things. Whereas in contrast the history of Europe (Christian) is today Secular and as such has a lot to benefit from Islam and is compatible in many ways I don't think the Japanese are and they imho must appropriate a different system to solve their problems eg family life vs work life balance. Where the Japanese would not benefit, the West quite likely would.
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  5. Different however, is worth emphasising and in that there's a combination of blindness and enlightenment.
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  6. I don't think that is true: This attitude has been a part of Japanese culture for a long time, possibly further back than the Edo Period. Whatever qualities of Japanese culture enabled them to cultivate a civilization then reinvent it after World War II, can barely be attributed to a few young 20 somethings in Shibuya and their cultural ideas of relationships with women and sexual license? I would disagree with their concept of cheating but then they probably have a different concept of relationship? Japan has always had a different moral sense than the West. It is interesting to understand those differences first before jumping to conclusions.
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