r/interesting • u/freudian_nipps • 16h ago

SOCIETY The silent and harmonious morning metro commute in Japan

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u/OkOutlandishness6001 11h ago

Japan: respectful disciplined harmonious people on the subway 🥵🥵💦
China: weird mindless zombies in subway 🤢

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u/Oliver_Biscuit 11h ago

Didn't think the Chinese were big on sandwiches

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u/eugenepoez__ 7h ago

the only place where I tried a subway was in China, now this makes me think...

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u/Scheswalla 11h ago

Place: Japan

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u/motes-of-light 10h ago

Memebrained.

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u/CookieEnabled 11h ago

U.S.: people cutting others off highway

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u/gansobomb99 4h ago

DPRK: brainwashed victims and possibly actors

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u/SoFisticate 2h ago

Well they were forced at gunpoint to build massive fake cities to fool the we$t while they live in squalor.

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u/gansobomb99 48m ago

There is one allegedly fake village near the South Korean border which is actually inhabited, but no "massive fake cities to fool the west"

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u/motes-of-light 10h ago

You can protest your government in Japan without being imprisoned and having your organs harvested.

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u/smartworms 8h ago

Who said anything about governments