Would you prefer America to be more collectivist?

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Than invidualistic? Kind of like Japan? I have always thought it would be better. Here in America you have so many different kinds of people you have to cater to to either worry about not offending or worse, causing a massive riot. You have all these idiots that believe their way is oh so more important than anyone else, think nothing of acting like a Karen and causing a major blow up in a store yelling and screaming etc just because your order is slightly off.

Get pulled over and start yelling and screaming just because you're too stupid to have your license, insurance, registration.

Not to mention FAR less issues for politicians to divide us over.

Were America as homogenous as Japan would

No, I don't believe either of those models is all that good. I believe you can have social individualism while still caring about your countrymen's well-being.

Agrees with the above post by FuneralEmpire ...btw WB. to W P

Trying to make a change is good. It's better than doing nothing.

Collectivism is always sold as a more equitable way to organize. In practice it is always a way to enslave. For example communism is often sold as "Everyone can have everything all the time". This sounds attractive. However, in Cuba getting 2 hours of electricity is a special treat.

Japan as a culture appears perfect and ideal on the surface but underneath they do have problems like anywhere else in the world such as:

* One of the highest suicide rates in the world.

* A highly xenophobic attitude towards foreigners and outsiders.

* Zero tolerance for abusers of narcotics and yet ironically having a culture where alcoholism is a pretty big problem.

* A culture where women are seen and not heard, where things like sexual assault and spousel abuse go largely largely unreported due to the negative stigma and shame regarding these problems.

* Outdated medical practices and views towards the mentally ill that have been condemned by the international medical community (my Mom who's a therapist had to research this before I went with my sister, I had to be extra careful about being stable because if I had a mental breakdown from my bipolar disordee there would be no returning home from one of their mental facilities for me.)


Now don't get me wrong I love Japan as a country and there are a lot of great and beautiful things about their culture, but the reality is that Japan is far from being the the shining Utopia that many Anime/Manga/Video Game fans in the West idolize it to be.

I just don't believe that it would work any better for the states.

I prefer communism with a human face like what Alexander Dubcek tried before the soviets smashed him.

Honestly I don't believe any attempt at installing communism would ever work in the US and would more than likely end in disaster for us and the rest of the world.

Individualism blames the individual for all dilemmas and ignores structural unfairness.