Every day since I’ve come back from Japan has felt slightly mournful and melancholy. It’s as though I was briefly shown a glimpse of a superior society and then told I must return to my third world hovel (New York).

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There’s a societal trust in Japan, Korea and other places that just doesn’t exist in the US today 

It’s depressing to return to the realities of a low trust society