There is a cultural component that seems to have weaved itself through Asian cultures that encourages one to have a flare for the dramatic. You can see it in everything from the exaggerated eyes of Anime characters to the guy in the kung-fu films that gets stabbed in his stomach and although his wound is left untreated, takes about 7 weeks to bleed to death. In Asia, they just love drama. Drama is where ever you look. Beneath that mild mannered, hard working quite demeanor are many in Asia that seem to skip a groove on
the record when things don’t go there way.
Only in Asia would someone have thought to try to put their forehead through a stack of concrete blocks or punch their fist through a tree.
For example, the Japanese are very proud of their relatively low crime rate, as they should be, but when they do have a crime, it’s way off the charts. Some kid will get bullied in school and the next day teachers will come to open the doors only to find some kid’s severed head resting on the top of the jungle gym.
That is classic Asian Drama. Kids get bullied everywhere in the world but only in Asia will the bully get beheaded and his head placed on display on the playground.
A guy in China once poisoned an entire daycare center because he was angry that they were doing better at signing up new kids than he was.
In Korea a bunch of guys chopped their own fingers off with a meat clever in protest of the Japanese ambassador visiting their country.
Not one of them bothered to pick their digit off the ground and put it in a bag of ice to reattach it back on later.
Crime in the West is like a constant dull pain that is always there, never goes away. You can still function, albeit carefully, and if you are lucky sometimes you can forget it’s even there.
Crime in Asia however, is like a sudden sharp pain that comes out of nowhere, leaves you on the verge of unconsciousness, curled up in the fetal position with your eyes rolling to the back of your head, and then just disappears as mysteriously as it came.

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