Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "TAKASHii" channel.

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  9. This discussion is going in all directions but there are several good trails. By order of descending importance, this is not Japanese specific, it's coded in our genes to only get involved if it's our inner circle of family and at the most our friends or people we know. When something happens to total strangers in a public place, it's the standard for humans to not get involved, most people will feel shock and fear when they see something really bad unfolding in front of their eyes to people they don't know, but they will do nothing and not feel compassion in the moment. Christians are the only group of people specifically lectured spiritually to act compassionately in such situation (good Samaritan parabola). Asians culture does not have compassion and are not handicapped friendly, they feel it's all fortune good or bad decided by heaven, not their role to intervene. There is also a Chinese trope that many Chinese people will tell you that someone will fake such an accident then accuse whoever helps them to be responsible and seek compensation. I've been told by Chinese to never help people in the street in China no matter what happens. If you go to poor countries sometimes you see Japanese benefactor help non profits groups building a free school or doing something to help the locals. But you will never see Chinese groups doing this. Chinese people do not know any compassion, if they ever help someone it's a Chinese against a foreigner (no matter who is at fault) for xenophobic reasons . Japanese have a different dark side, they despise display of real weakness or of victim suffering. It's taboo and not socially acceptable to look weak in public. It's actually considered appropriate to ignore someone's weakness so as not to embarrass them ! And this can go pretty far ignoring accidents happening to others. Because weakness is considered despicable in Japanese culture and ridicule. For that reason Japanese soldier treated defeated enemy very badly because they could not respect their weakness and thought they should commit suicide to regain their right to respect. Also you won't see many handicaped people in Asia, they get rid of them at birth.
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  12. Hahaha i could relate to the Italian woman as a Westerner i've been in similar situation as a man with a Korean Asian woman, when i thought we were officially bf/gf she presented me to someone as "just a friend" Ouch !!! This hurts and when asked she would say "you never asked me to be your gf !" And then if you ask she'll say "hmmm i don't know...". As a westerner this felt like wtf and actually even made me upset because as Westerners we feel we know when we've crossed that emotional commitment threshold and we are more than friends. But it works differently in Korea. Koreans hide their relations in secrecy, it's not uncommon that they announce they're getting married after hiding the relation to everyone for 1 full year even if you saw them regularly together they never showing proximity or signs of affections for each other. So don't even hope to know if an Korean woman has a bf, nobody will know not even her siblings. Then there are "easy" Korean women that will want you to be their plaything because you are a foreigner and that too is shocking. I actually learned my lesson to not fall into their traps of frustration, made sure to put the next Korean i dated on the spot, with the question make it clear and plain, no deception , do you want to be bf/gf and they hate that. It's as if you have to endure that period where she acts like a gf but don't recognize you as her bf and won't do anything with you, while getting your emotions all messed up, like a contest of who is more impervious to the other attractiveness. I hate playing games with attraction, but Korean women love that. Then suddenly after you've lost hope and even wonder why you still hang out with her that is already a lost battle, when you least expect it or even wants it, cold, she gets kinky on you. It's like all the romantic courting part is skipped and replaced by games of frustration and extended "evaluation".
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  50.  @DetPrep  Haha, i enjoyed reading your well written guess scenario of what could gone through that woman's mind. I obviously was just a random hiker doing some workout on the trail in a swampy area. There were few hikers on that trail but none during our encounter. I am only 50/50 convinced that she used indigenous malice to elaborate a defensive mascarade against an non existent threat. i do not believe it well because she was composed, calm, casual, confident and quite polite. There were no evocation of violent stories from Columbia in her mind. Just that they liked Escobar because he was nice to the local community. She was in no hurry, it's she who extended our conversation not me. She seemed curious and interested maybe even flirting. She was not too young more like a soccer mum. I had no interest in her, i only expected a polite talk but heard her accent and it started a conversation. But when she started casually talking of how she saw drugs spreading in Usa around her it sure made me suspicious of her. I told her i don't know about this, and have never encountered such people. It was not even clear from her language if she was condemning it or actually amused how decaying the USa is. Actually i am no fan of the USa and not born in Usa and i just remember we talked about that initially. I now think that lead her to relax and vent her dislike of the Usa. I think it was just a casual talk nothing more. But even so after she had said she saw drugs in the Usa, i didn't want to have anything to do with her and wanted her to end the conversation and go away. She gave me the impression of a decent person with her life under control and stable but her choice of topic was a red flag for me.
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