Saturday, January 28, 2006

Be Kind

Be Kind

I checked how many hits a search engine will return to the input key “a kind person (s).”

In a Japanese search engine, with a corresponding Japanese expression, the number of hits was more than 900,000.

As it is a Japanese domain of the Internet, the “person” here seems to be almost referred to Japanese.

But, for confirmation, in the same procedure, with the specific input key “kind Japanese” in a Japanese expression, the number is 11,700.

In the same procedure, with the input key “kind Americans” in a Japanese expression, the number is 197.

As for English search engine applied to American domains, you can simply confirm results by following the similar procedure.

If a Japanese says “a kind person” in Japan using the Japanese language, it almost always means “a kind Japanese.” Otherwise, they would say “a kind foreigner” or something like that.

For comparison, in the same Japanese procedure, with the input key “a kind foreigner(s),” the number is 266 in Japan as of January 28, 2006.

So, I may assume there are a million kind Japanese and a few hundred kind foreigners in Japan, so far reported.

It is believed that there are about 120 million Japanese and two million foreigners (including more than 0.6 million residents from South and North Korea) in Japan.

So, roughly speaking, one out of 100 Japanese is kind, while one out of 1000 foreigners is kind, according to this analysis being incomplete and somewhat biased but based on the modern technology

It really supports our impression that outer world is ten times more dangerous than the domestic society.

Nonetheless, truth is often different from an Internet-based survey. It may be actually hard to find a cold guy in some areas in Japan, and you may find only accommodating foreigners in a certain group of people in Japan.

Jesus told to be kind to foreigners. And a Japanese proverb says, “Show your kindness at least once a day.”

And, with the specific input key “an unkind person (s)” in a Japanese expression, the hit number is 771.

Therefore, according to an extrapolation method, the ratio of kind Japanese to unkind Japanese is 1000 to 1.

“WE EAGELY WAIT FOR OUR SAVIORS”