Why no looting in Japan?
From <i>Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!</i>; Feynman and a colleague are staying at a traditional Japanese hotel in Kyoto:<p>The next morning the young woman taking care of our room fixes the bath, which was right in our room. Sometime later she returns with a tray to deliver breakfast. I'm partly dressed. She turns to me and says, politely, "Ohayo, gozai masu," which means, "Good morning."<p>Pais is just coming out of the bath, sopping wet and completely nude. She turns to him and with equal composure says, "Ohayo, gozai masu ," and puts the tray down for us.<p>Pais looks at me and says, "God, are we uncivilized!"<p>We realized that in America if the maid was delivering breakfast and the guy's standing there, stark naked, there would be little screams and a big fuss. But in Japan they were completely used to it, and we felt that they were much more advanced and civilized about those things than we were.