This article just comes across as pretentious, honestly. The part about being beaten as some kind of teaching tool is only remotely accepted because it&#x27;s &#x27;another culture&#x27;.<p>It&#x27;s all bullshit. It&#x27;s fish on rice. Some people make really great fish on rice and the majority of them happen to be Japanese, because that&#x27;s where the love of it comes from. Let&#x27;s stop trying to make it seem like magic, though. This is just sushi hipsterism.