What they call or you may perceive as "patriotism," is downright
xenophobia. Look at the lives of
Hafus in Japan.
Their discipline and respect is quite different from ours. They don't question authority, they do as they are told. Even the Japanese government itself had to step in and try to play the role of a matchmaker because Japanese workers have it embedded that they are obliged to work long shifts with little compensation, which also correlates as to why they don't date as they have no social life. Not too long ago, Japan passed a law that
now forces people to take a vacation so as to put a stop in this indoctrination that employee must bend on the whims of their employer.
Years prior, there was a book released called Tokyo Confidential which talked about some oddities in Japan that are unknown to the rest of the world. One subject in particular was and still is very taboo in that some mothers actually had sex with their sons because the mothers believed their son's sexual urges during their high school years will make them forgo their studies and make them prowl about looking for girls. I'm not saying this is indicative of all mothers in Japan as only a very small fraction did or are still doing this, but it relates to how parents in general feel with regards to their children's studies compared to elsewhere in the world. We take it seriously but they take it to another level.
