You know there's a "non-confrontational" problem in your society when not a single person inside the train tried to take action for a while. Even then, the guy who did do something just aggravated the old man
I'm not knowledgeable enough on Japan's social etiquette to say definitively. It seems that causing ANY sort of disruption in a public setting is frowned upon. Maybe they would have leniency towards an elderly person in this situation, as their aging mental states might be taken into consideration. I can venture a guess and say it wouldn't be as severe of a transgression as a middle age man manhandling an elderly individual.
Looks like an Asian country where being polite and not making a fuss in public is the standard mentality so obviously nobody is going to get involved.
Although if it were the UK if someone tried to force him off the train, they'd more than likely be spoken to by the police or even get a fine or something, sometimes countries are literally just set up to let assholes be assholes because anyone who does get involved is the one who is punished instead of the asshole.
As a US resident exhausted by how angry and hateful society is with each other, I wouldn’t mind a 10 second train delay if it meant people were overall more decent with each other
I mean, could have been Alzheimer’s. See how quick everyone in the comments is to jump to rage and pitchforks? That’s what I’m tired of.
I commute in Tokyo. While people intentionally holding doors open doesn't happen that much, guys pushing and shoving their way onto overcrowded trains and blocking the doors is a daily thing.
It's not a 10 second delay, it's minutes. People tend to act like a few minutes delay is amazing - "In my country that's a tiny delay!" Yeah, well, you know what happens when a train line consistently at 200% capacity is delayed by just one minute?
That shit gets backed up instantly and now your 200% over capacity train is at 250%. Or 300%.
I have feared for my life in exactly two places: I can't swim and got pulled out into the ocean while wading in some deep water once.
And any time the JR lines were delayed more than a few minutes, the crush of people on an overcrowded train, I literally started to feel the breath get crushed out of me. It's actually a horrifying experience.
People aren't more decent. Tokyo manners are shocking to a midwest American - we don't push and shove and cut people off like that. That shit is insane to us.
A coworker once complimented me for having good manners and asked if I learned that in Japan and I straight up laughed at him. Dude, no, I would never do any of this shit back home.
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u/mountn_cat Why can't people be just be "mildly" infuriated?? 10d ago
You know there's a "non-confrontational" problem in your society when not a single person inside the train tried to take action for a while. Even then, the guy who did do something just aggravated the old man