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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1476971, member: 19065&quot;]Katrina. </p><p><br /></p><p>That was a peek at such a societal breakdown. We instantly saw desperation of the poor and effected, vigilantism of an armed public, a lack of authority to attend to the suffering and manage a disaster, wide-reaching suspicion of authority when it (finally) arrived to help, powerful criminal elements that instantly move in to replace authority, and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tōhoku demonstrated the response of a society that has learned and&nbsp; prepared to deal with living through such disasters as it is a part of life in Japan, even if it is folly to continually risk living&nbsp; in villages and cities hugging coastal low lands. Life is not all rosy in the face of disasters in Japan though. There is organized crime which showed it&#039;s opportunistic teeth. We just don&#039;t hear much about it since the press can&#039;t and doesn&#039;t manage to report extensively about it, in-country nor beyond. Overall, Japan had much better&nbsp; response from it&#039;s people towards one another, but then the public is&nbsp; not as socially and racially divided nor armed to the teeth as are American&nbsp; communities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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