Danny Parkins

I don't get how that feels okay to people, but somehow that feels okay to people.

And that's the thing.

In Japan, cleaning is a way of life.

They believe you should not leave a space less tidy than when you found it.

They pack like rags in their like backpacks with them that everybody uses to clean the classroom.

And it's crazy.

It's crazy because it's a crazy and a foreign concept.

And it's a foreign concept I would like to get behind as an American.

So the way we acted during the pandemic is the way they act all the time, protecting each other.

Yeah, and that's kind of what it is.

Here's a quote here.

Scott North, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Osaka.

That's a place in Japan.

said he and his neighbors get together twice a year to pull out weeds and rake up cuttings.

He said such groups are organized into leaders and followers and operate in a similar way to Japanese football supporters.

Since everyone comes together, there's an expectation that they'll act as a group.

And when the leaders break out the bags and say, here you go, nobody is going to say no.

We need a little bit more peer pressure in a positive manner such as this.

Sociologist Osawa said such behavior could be explained by what Japanese people refer to as, quote, reading the air.

Can we read the air a little bit more here in the United States of America?