Ranking of Desirable Tourists: Another Truth
The news that has gained topicality in these days in Japan is a result of survey on quality of tourists a British tourism organization conducted and the news agencies PA and Kyodo distributed.
According to the result, the ranking on nationalities in terms of quality of tourists:
1st - Japanese supported by 65% of respondents of the research
2nd - Americans supported by 30%
3rd - Swiss supported by 18%
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3rd from the last - Chinese
2nd from the last - Indians
Last - French
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Now, you know who good neighbors are to the world. However, Japanese are not Christians at all. Not Judaists at all. Not Muslims at all. Yet, Japanese are good neighbors to the others in their traveling all over the world.
I really believe that the God or Allah will take this into account when He judges this age.
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One of terrible things in the international relationships is prejudice.
Once German women toured through Africa, specifically, in a region in the south of the Sahara. They carried a grand piano with them. They intended to play Mozart on the piano in Africa so that they can see if Africans can appreciate and understand beauty of the music. I suppose it is before WWII that these German women made this tour to confirm how senseless Africans were.
A British professor who had worked as an intelligence officer during WWII visited Japan after the War and made a sight seeing in Kyoto and Nara, Japan's old capitals since the eighth century and the fourth century, respectively. He told a Japanese student that he for the first time understood the reason why Japanese troops had been so strong in WWII. In Japan with full of modern industries, the British professor observed old cultural treasures, such as temples and Buddhist images well preserved for more than 1000 years, and realized the depth of Japanese minds and hearts as well as traditions of the unique civilization with a quality of social order and administration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji).
Two decades ago or so, when a Japanese castle built by a samurai clan at the beginning of the 17th century was nominated for a World Heritage, some European academic researchers thought such a large-scale castle in Japan must have undergone various repair work in its most part and thus had no value as a cultural heritage. They did not trust Japanese who put such a castle on the nomination. But, when they came to Japan to check and evaluate the castle, they found the 400-year old castle was well preserved and showed expertise of Japanese traditional architecture. Accordingly, the Himeji Castle was registered as a World Heritage in 1993 (http://www.tabian.com/tiikibetu/kinki/hyogo/himejijyo/).
Indeed, if prejudice did not trigger a war, people could be easily mobilized to a war when they have prejudice. It applies to both Americans and Muslims.
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Yet, ordinary British people, especially in the tourist industry, seem to like Japanese (who respect Newton, appreciate Shakespeare, and love Princess Diana), Americans (their frank and candid relatives), and Swiss (with higher credit), though French may be a little too proud, Indians remind them of past colonial problems, and Chinese are still under communist regime without receiving sound education from a global point of view.
Indeed, God hides certain truth from learnt and proud Europeans and European Americans, but He has presented it to ordinary and faithful Europeans and European Americans.
(The truth may include something that can be only expressed nowadays in the form of a joke as the today's guest of the "Larry King Live (LKL)" launched without a break.
If you want to laugh today, check the recorded broadcast.)
Anyway, conversely, if you respect, appreciate, or love any part of Japan, you will be highly appreciated as a tourist or in any occasion in Japan.
Yes, you shall be surely paid off. My Lord God is rich as He is the owner of the earth on which we are merely tourists of our era.
("Q: Who played the role of Cleopatra?
A: Elizabeth Taylor.
Q: Is the film titled Cleopatra?
A: Elizabeth Taylor.
Q: Ok! Directed by Chaplin?
A: No! Elizabeth Taylor."
I will later discuss the influence of Her Majesty Elizabeth Taylor and her influence on Israelites in Hollywood.
Oh No! For 'Elizabeth Taylor' read 'Cleopatra' and for 'Hollywood' read 'Palestine 2000 years ago.'
I do really love Ms. Elizabeth Taylor-class heroines, as you suspect.)
"...ALTHOUGH SADDENED, WE ARE ALWAYS GLAD; WE SEEM POOR, BUT WE MAKE MANY PEOPLE RICH..."