[oh8eleven]

Used to accepting things. Used to dependence on the government to take care of them ...
My first reaction was that you're probably 99% wrong so I did a little reading and found this story - Welfare as Japan Knows It.
Although it was printed in 1996, I'm now thinking you're 99.99% wrong.

[Huck]

"To be sure, Japan's welfare system operates in a very different milieu from America's. Only 1 percent of Japanese births are to unwed mothers. That compares with a percentage that keeps climbing in the United States and has now reached 30 percent.

Japan also has a far lower percentage of drug addicts than the United States has, a much lower unemployment rate, a much more egalitarian distribution of wealth, a greater sense of family obligation and an abiding sense of shame that colors almost every aspect of life.

NY Times is so funny. "Japan's welfare system operates in a very different milieu from America's" is the hoity-toity way of saying They don't have as many blacks as the US.

[GraceG]

Amazing, that people would rather do without that to take something form the government.

Something we used to see in this country.

[ltc8k6]

Wrong about what?