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That photograph describes everything that's wrong with the US from a foreigner's perspective.

And yet where I live I get packages left at my door for days, noone is touching them, there are no bullet proof vending machines and people generally are well behaved and courteous.

This just to remind you that the US is huge, consists of 50 states and in most cases the states are very different from each others.

I'm not even an american and I'm offended about the generalization.

The trick is that Japan has managed to have this security broadly across their whole society - from sleepy villages to inner cities to depopulating poverty-stricken towns that lost their industry.

Sure but the entire "society" of Japan is smaller than just California

I'm confused by this comment. Japan has 127 million people. California has 40 million.

And yet California certainly doesn't have its shit together...

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