Not too many years ago when the Italian government
changed with the seasons, as
collections prêt-à-porter,
foreign observers questioned about the mysterious wonder of our estate
economic and social system, in a beautiful body body with logic.
There is in this more of an analogy with the
wonder that the Western world when faced with the fate
, alternate and quick, the microcosm
Japanese. Nippocentrica
literature of the seventies and eighties, where they celebrated the magnificent and progressive
of the Rising Sun, is now behind us, but it is also
apocalyptic literature and, let us say,
vaguely iettatrice celebrating the tragic agony of
Waning Sol. Over the past fifteen years we have seen
Japan
through a long recession, stagnation,
we saw him struggling with
crisis of the financial system, with the end of
full employment, with the steady decline in the birth rate
and the relative increase of
to crime, we have seen the emergence of a constellation of short
red variables that revealed a world
surprisingly fragile. Then, examine
closer, we realized that in his fifteen years of pain
Japan has maintained macroeconomic fundamentals
all things considered enviable: even the unemployment rate,
which has done so much talking,
never got too far from the frictional rate
of our more developed regions.
today - which is what Japan's Abe or Ozawa
not matter - we are faced with a country that
between the intentions of his convalescence
stirs ambitions of all respect, as the drastic reform the domestic institutional
acquisition of a central role in world affairs.
E 'at the bottom of this mystery Japanese
the ability to cross
small or big injuries without stopping to think big and
achieve great goals.
So it was, for example, when, after two and a half centuries
contemplation of its navel
, an archipelago of farmers, fishermen and
samurai, not blessed by
for nature and confined in a remote corner of the planet
, succeeded in a few decades
to become a modern industrial power, or when a nation devastated by a botched
(
occurs in these days the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
), has risen from the ashes of their
city without the aid of a Marshall Plan and in a context of widespread hostility
(still 65 percent
of the Chinese and South Korean claims to detest
Japan). As Luigi Barzini said
senior in 1906
The key to the enigma is actually a complicated web of
reasons on which the diagnosis
scholars and commentators do not shine for uniqueness. However, there are some constants
that help guide the analysis
and improve the general understanding of the phenomenon. First, the extraordinary
homogeneity of Japanese society.
In the public sphere, but also in the private
, rose
behavior is limited and fairly predictable. The unpredictability
is indeed a sure sign of abnormality
and is regarded with suspicion. The homogeneity
- homogenization, the tendency to assimilate assimilated
-
is found in all areas of civic life and
in many areas of family life and
of the individual. The Western
journalism has often presented in terms of a mass
coercion or, conversely, in
those of a noble ideal. But, subject to certain exceptions
, it is neither a guideline nor an aristocrat forced
spiritual virtues. Instead, it is a constant syntactic identity
Japanese men
and women with experience of the Rising Sun
force their membership of a body
common and that, when appropriate, can be a powerful tool
driving.
"A people that did not move with
maximum energy," wrote Luigi Barzini
senior in 1906, "on his way
can not be that quick, impetuous, irresistible."
The relief is still valid.
Closely related to this issue is
the primacy of the group and its hierarchy,
internal and external element
which the Japanese have even made room in
grammatical structure of their language. The trend configuring each in a hierarchical relationship
can be considered a remnant of the feudal heritage, that stretch
particularly clear in the organization of the production system. The ostentatious
skepticism of the younger generation about the importance of being part (or the drama of not doing
part) of the "clan business"
is a recent phenomenon, perhaps capable of
original developments, but for the time being unrealistic
and identified
public opinion as a matter of sociological significance.
Among the advantages of a hierarchical structure
in groups is to make
diseconomies of system
easily identifiable: the Japanese fail to understand
quickly where the problem lurks,
and at this stage of identification have already laid the groundwork for
metabolized.
final constant, also
centuries of ancestry, is the unshakable faith in
procedure. The Japanese are great planners and
firmly believe that a procedural-technical apparatus
distilled from the ingenuity of people skills and experience of past generations
has a better chance of success of each episode
improvisational flair. When
perceived as improving quality,
eruptions of creativity, of which Japan is prodigal
are raised in accordance with formal and integrated
in the Framework.
combined with a strong tendency to pragmatism,
this third feature allows the Japanese
to develop solutions on a large scale and to tame the evidence of the facts
even at the cost of living with contradictions
logic - or ideological - rather than licenses.
In Japan, moreover, the logic is a knowledge
casual, always subject to data
fact. And the facts meet
mysteriously, or perhaps sincerely reciprocate.
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