Nguyen Hoang Thuy Tien

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Comments/Questions for 2022/11/11 reading
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1. I think the experiment in the second reading is very interesting. It is true that
Japan has a good reputation for its people being "honest", and lost things are more
often than not returned to its owners. However, I did not know that the law
regarding lost-and-found items plays quite an important role in this behavior.
However, in recent years, as the foreigner population in Japan increased, does the
return rate remain the same, given that the law is unchanged? If not, then can the
law be regarded as the main reason for this circumstance?
2. In the second reading, I am very intrigued by Milgram's "lost letter" experiment.
Why did the finders not return letters that were associated with a political party or
an ideology? My guess is that they do not want to seem as though they are related to
these parties. In such cases, do they return the letter, destroy it, or simply ignore it?
3. In the first reading, I found that Jiang's exploration of formal and informal control
in Japan through the lens of university students is very similar too that of Sugimoto's
explanation in Chapter 1, yet it seems that to students, family and peer pressure tend
to be the biggest reason for a person to not commit deviance. This is partly related to
the concept of Confucianism. In this sense, if Confucianism can be one of the reasons
for low crime rate in Japan, why it is not the case in or the countries that are also
influenced by Confucianism, like Korea, China or Vietnam?