Sarah Paine

And of course, that's not understanding Americans.

I remember I was in seminar the day that 9-11 happened and the TV, there was TV in the seminar rooms and there was a break.

And after the end of the break, the students had the TV on and were watching Tower One had gone down.

And then while we're in seminar, the next one we're watching, it goes down.

And I thought, oh my, there's going to be hell to pay for this one.

Because this is how Americans are, that if you mess with us, boys, it get ugly.

And boy, this is like, don't think, retaliate.

So the Japanese didn't understand that part of us.

And I think a lot of people don't.

They look at Americans, we look like a bunch of hedonists.

But if you mess with us, it's ugly.

They brought it up and they say, well, we can't afford this.

the resources aren't here and the army wasn't interested and they shut up because the last guy had been killed in his house in his pajamas.

So they weren't up for that.

No, it didn't happen too fast, but it's that institutions take a long time to take root.

Look at this country.

It's been an evolving democracy for hundreds of years.

Okay, we no longer have slavery, amen.

But you look at today, really consequential things about our own institutions.

So now we're going to go pick on the Japanese because they managed in one generation to westernize their political, judicial system.