Self-Confidence

Japanese people are very modest. They don't think that they're special.

Other Asian are not like Japanese. They're proud of their abilities and they have their self-confidence. I'm just wondering why Japanese are different from other Asian? Because of our educational system? or our culture?

Actually, Japanese usually said "出る杭は打たれる" in the past. Why do we like "the same"? I don't know what is a reason.

I didn't study a modern Japanese history, so I don't know about Japanese people before WW2. In this era, what did they learn in their school? Did they respect their self-confidence? I don't know.

But I think that Japan experienced a big change after WW2. This big change made us different from before. Japan lost post war and I guess Japanese regretted their educational system and changed it. I found another sarcasm in Mr. Children's song again. "We regretted that we used to invade Korea and China. We suffered a serious defeat. After that, we've fallen into step and we've lost our sense of value. It makes us "the same". It's so sarcastic!"

Now, we have to think about ourselves and differences between other countries. We have to open our eyes and prepare for being globalization. We have to realize everyone is special and admit that differences are important.

Japanese modesty is beautiful. Japanese should be confident of their-selves and modest.