Five Basic Loyalties

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This book was usually for my liking because I don’t really read about religious things that much. So this was much out of my comfort zone. It starts out with on how Japan is still the highest of currencies. This is after all of the recessions have happened. I was surprised because Japan and China help Americas out by some much. It seems like a lot of the east countries like Asia, Japan, China, etc. are doing very well. Well as in, they are not having money problems, no crime, and everything is really good. To begin with, the book mentions in chapter 4, how the Five Basic loyalties should be followed by everyone. The Five basic Loyalties are parents and children; older and the young; ruler and subject; friend to friend; and men and women. It also expressed on the teachings of the Confucius. The teachings are giving harmony and to treat people …show more content…
Well since Japan is already doing very well with money and having it be safe over there; having a job for them is a since of pride. It is kind of having a loyalty to something. They do this really weird thing that on April 1st, they have a big celebration for the new people that have joined their society. They were big sticklers on how their place was in Japan. Meaning on how clean it was there and how everything ran. They didn’t want any of the dogs to be in public because they wanted to keep society clean. That is really crazy to me because people can pick up after their dogs?! Nowadays in America you could find a dog anywhere! Everyone and anyone has a dog and you see them walking around all the time! That just blows my mind that this happens. Another thing that was really interesting about this book was that over there, everyone knew the rules and what was going on. Is there a reason to that? Because over here in America, people don’t know about 1/3 of the rules. That’s a rough estimate but no one pays attention to every rule. They pay attention to every

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