Is it possible, beyond purely cultural reasons, suppress the cry in panic, shortages and fears of a radioactive catastrophe?
At the time of this writing, the victims of the earthquake, the tsunami disaster and radioactive in Japan may, according to official figures exceed 15 000. This high number of deaths and the circumstances that have occurred disasters occurred in sensitive and non sensitive spirits much pain.
Crying is an outpouring of tears that is accompanied usually with cries and sobs and is caused by a strong emotional state, as for example pain, joy or impotence. The images that the media have presented these days in Japan have been more poignant than eloquent, and produced an international consternation. To this must be added the fear that the collapse Fukushima nuclear power plant and release clouds of deadly radiation.
pressure and stress that the Japanese-a traditionally disciplined contemplative and-feel is definitely very big and should have brought them emotionally broken. However, the images of television and print media photographs show more well-with some exceptions, to human beings do not despair, living aftershocks with a certain stoicism and in some cases, such as the 180 workers who try to avoid a greater danger in Fukushima, played with astonishing coldness of life for others. It is as if they were educated and trained for their entire lives to the sacrifice.
in similar tragic situations such as earthquakes of Pisco, Haiti, Chile or the tsunami in Thailand, the "normal" is the display of images of death and despair in the faces of the survivors, seasoned by the media sensationalism that corrupts everything. Journalists, however, leave no wonder that this is not repeated now among the Japanese. A major television network International asked a few days ago a group of young Nipponese about what they felt and thought about the tragedy of his country. They said that all he wanted was to get to work. Nothing cries and lamentations.
Why Japanese do not cry? wonder reporters who cover the scene, and those who look from afar and hear what is happening in the Asian country. Miguel A. Christopher Carle, a psychologist consulted by the English newspaper El Mundo, attributed this situation to the Japanese culture. Explain that they hide themselves or contain their negative emotions of respect and not to offend those who surround. For the Japanese culture of emotion and pain may intrude or increase the suffering of others, which would violate the codes of social order based on respect for others and well-functioning social group.
This means that as the British have been trained to control their emotions, positive or negative, the Germans to cultivate the rigidity and perfectionism, the French to show their passion and imagination, the Japanese have been taught for thousands of years to keep skate strong emotions or even to self immolate if the honor is involved. Does this mean they are unable to suffer or mourn? Of course not.
Psychologists say that the Japanese have been in pain and suffer like everyone else. Japan television recently showed three scenes of great impact: the first showed the rescue of a four months old in the midst of general excitement in the second sentence of a dog survivor who refused to abandon a dying partner and the third birth of a child crying in the middle of the parents. These were circumstances in which the tears of the citizens were natural, spontaneous and in some ways, were beyond cultural traditions. After all, humans are the only species who cries because of the emotions.
I am outraged that some media delve by the absence of crying among the Japanese for purely commercial reasons. Expect this to happen to better sell their goods (information) and to tune in better with the illness of the people. This proves the level of stupidity that can reach humans. If the Japanese are going to show their grief more openly, I guess this will be so gradually, for natural reasons, is a free, spontaneous and as aware of the absurd and regrettable that life is sometimes. And not because the media want.
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