I read a column in the Sun(Malaysia) this week. And that columnist, while supposing to be writing a satirical column, took the matter to a bizarre level this week.
In his column this week, he wrote about how the Japanese are obsessed with the politeness that bowing is a reflex in their daily life. OK, I got that. But then he went on to say that so escalator rides are dangerous because of that, because accidents happened due to people bowing on moving escalators. Huh? Did we ever read/hear about any news like that? Get real.It is one thing to make fun of journalists from US who think that US is the center of everything and people just live their lives around every little thing that happens in US (he wrote about that in the last US president election year), but to exaggerate the local decorum of a foreign nation into something that is the main cause of accidents, is he a real journalist? Like people actually fell down escalator because of bowing? Did he even did any research? I googled and found no old news story like that, ever. He is working for a real newspaper (by Malaysian standard), certainly he can do a better research on the matter than me. So did he offer any case in point? No. The whole piece reads like he was just making fun of the decorum of a foreign nation that he most likely never visited, or even watched any nation tourism/image promotional tv programmes from that country. What is wrong with that man?
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