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As a Japanese, I can explain Japan's weird democracy from “Nemawashi (laying the groundwork)” culture. Nemawashi is to make decisions based on informal communication with all members. When choosing a restaurant to hold a party with colleagues, the organizer must informally and individually consult ALL members in advance. Even if the organizer has official power to decide on a venue, they must not make decisions by their preference. Sure, taking the majority votes is a better way, but sometimes it sounds violent and even dictatorial because there is no consideration for opponents. The organizer must show some consideration to opponents before making decisions. For example, for the next party, you can promise to give priority to the opponent’s preference.
Nemawashi is democratic because you have to take up all member’s opinions, but it is not democratic because there is no open discussion and majority vote. This culture is also too costly. Decision-making in organizations is extremely slow, and companies also have to work long hours. Politicians sometimes engage in corruption to show consideration for opponents. Already many Japanese have recognized that this culture is inefficient and that open discussion and majority voting are becoming more necessary. However, in my personal experience, Nemawashi culture is still very effective for people with low language skills, such as young people and foreigners. They don’t talk in the conference room, but if I invite them for dinner after work, most of them start expressing their opinions, taking a lot of time. So, I am always struggling with this culture.
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4:50 This is something that all post-colonial societies are learning to deal with and in many ways, these two views are held in tension. Should we take pride in being a hybrid of societies, lamenting the past but moving forward together for a brighter future? Or should we see this hybridity has a continual reminder of our subjugation and the lingering effects of our oppressions and instead cast off these "foreign colonial elements", get back in touch with our ancestral ways that were since hybridized, watered down or supplanted and seek justice for our collective? While I prefer the former, this debate is being had in many societies, some going with the former, some with the latter. But we shouldn't shy away from acknowledging the past, but we shouldn't use it as an anchor to keep us down either. We should seek justice and reparation, but we shouldn't let it consume us. We should stake our own identity and tell our story, but we shouldn't be erasing parts of our identity we find unsavory because of its origins. This is something that all of our societies will have to deal with and come to a consensus over, even if it's a bit painful
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A big part of Japanese culture in this time is the idea that any action, so long as it is done with the intention of saving the nation, Emperor, or peoples should be regarded in admiration, as highlighted at 4:35.
This is also a byproduct of the revisionism of the Samurai. During the end of the Meiji Restoration, the Samurai would turn against the government, and as a class would end up being wiped out militarily. However, after this, the Emperor pardoned Samurai and they became the icons of Japanese honor, with the new nationalist Japan making them role models for the Japanese people.
And a big part of this was interpreting their battles against the Government as this phenomenon: Despite the fact they were fighting the government, the Samurai were fighting on behalf of what THEY thought was best for the Emperor and Japan, thus making them national "heroes" in a way
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I was kind of Pro Orbán until February 2022.
Blocking illegal immigration from the Middle East at EU exterior border - very good.
Don't immitate any new left wing trend that comes from the US - also good.
Family friendly tax legislation - why not, the birth rate in Europe is so low that new measures must be taken.
Taking down all the opposition media - I didn't like that so much, thought it was exaggerated and unnessary.
His personal battle agains George Soros - in the beginning I sympathized with that, but soon thought that it was exaggerated. After some years it became even ridiculous.
But now, with his crazy stand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I have completely changed my mind about his policies. His Pro-Putin course is against any traditional form of Hungarian patriotism, which was never Pro-Russian. And now also the corruption of him and his cronies becomes more visible. And his rants against the EU and NATO are just insulting. He is biting the hand that feeds him.
It turned out that also his energy policy was not very clever: Russian gas, Russian petroleum for MOL and Russian nuclear technology and uranium for the country's only nuclear power plant Paks is a bit onesided, isn't it. And he also destroyed the Visegrád group. You cannot expect having Poland on your side, while you are supporting Russian aggression, no matter what government rules Poland - left, right, center.
His economic policy is also not so market friendly and free as the rethoric might suggest. There is a lot of state spending, state dirigism and hustling against private companies. This has strangled Hungarian enterpreneurship. People became passive and wait for government initiatives instead of doing something on their own.
In the end of his political life he looks more and more like a homo sovieticus. After all he was a Komsomolts in his youth. It is like comrade Andropov was reborn in Hungary.
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