Japanese do really well in these aspects!(Week11)[Assessment]

Hofstede concluded six culture dimensions to described a culture.

a comparison between Japan and China.

At 92 in uncertainty avoidance, people in Japan are intolerant of the unexpected and threatened by ambiguous. Using the cultural relativism view to say, they think take precautions are the right and necessary things. This characteristic of Japanese is attributed to the fact that Japan is constantly threatened by natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis.

  

Japan Practices Disaster Prevention Drills

Here is another example of their well-prepared ability. In Japan, kids travel to school on their own from very young age, earlier than China and some western countries.

They do worry about their Children's safety, so they designed this school bag for primary school students.

randoseru, the large, sturdy backpacks used by Japanese elementary school children

This bag uses the material which can make you float when you fall into the water and can protect your head when earthquake.  Each students also have a phone with GPS, so parents can know children's positions.

While in China, without some emergency measures, parents worry about the children's safety, so they pick up their children from school everyday.

There exits plenty of differences between cultures, one of the aims of anthropology, is to reduce our ethnocentrism when facing different cultures. 

I admire for Japanese ability of planning everything carefully to minimize the uncertainty. They try to figure out what's the problem and then find out how to solve the problems from the roots. 

Under these precautions, Japanese can keep calm no matter what happens, and try to live peacefully with the uncertainty. While with a relative low level in uncertainty avoidance, Chinese do not take precautions as much as Japanese, we just let it happen which lead to panic when uncertainty happens. That's where our culture should learn from.