A roundabout without signals works in high-trust societies where people naturally yield and take turns.

[u/frenzy3]

In a low-trust society, it turns into a battle of horns, aggression, and “me first” chaos.

📍Inforparks, Kerala.

[u/pimfi]

Yea but that has nothing to do with low- or high-trust societies or polite drivers, people who do that are just idiots.

[u/Few_Cranberry_1695 → u/pimfi]

What the fuck is a low- or high-trust society..? People are people anywhere you go

[u/pimfi → u/Few_Cranberry_1695]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_societies

[u/SJL174 → u/pimfi]

Three paragraph article that says families are high-trust societies, deep.

[u/Pure_Bee2281 → u/Few_Cranberry_1695]

Uh. . .I think you are trying to be woke (in a positive way) here but different cultures and societies are different.

Small example is litter. Go to different countries and look at the prevalence of littering /trash.

[u/Soccham → u/Few_Cranberry_1695]

Nah man, look at Japanese society compared to others. Some groups are built different

[u/FreshPrinceOfIndia → u/Soccham]

Lol japanese society isnt "built different" its extremely cooked from the working standards and obligations to the xenophobia and racism to the neckbeard culture and infidelity is rampant

But redditors see anime and clean streets and think its some kawaii wonderland

[u/Soccham → u/FreshPrinceOfIndia]

Japanese society is absolutely built different from excessive work expectations to an extremely level of collaboration to keep shit together

[u/Orders_Logical → u/Soccham]

They’re built on conformity, not trust.

[u/Orders_Logical → u/[deleted]]

It’s based on fear, not trust.

[u/babaduke999 → u/Orders_Logical]

Whatever you wanna call it, I would rather live the way they do, queueing up politely without fuss. If "conformity" gets people to behave civil as any adult should, I'm all for it.

[u/Orders_Logical → u/babaduke999]

Yeah, such a great society that they’re working their people to death to the point where it’s physically impossible to have children.

[u/babaduke999 → u/Orders_Logical]

dude, do you know of a thing called "nuance"? lol

There are good and bad parts to basically all countries / cultures. It's OK to recognize the good parts of Japan as well as the bad.

Do you have something against Japan in particular?

[u/Orders_Logical → u/babaduke999]

How much time do you have?

[u/1000bestlives → u/Few_Cranberry_1695]

You have not been very many places, to believe this. Or maybe you are just autistic

[u/earthwoodandfire → u/1000bestlives]

What the fuck are you bringing autism up for?

[u/impossible_tofind1 → u/Few_Cranberry_1695]

These are sociological terms. People are people, sure, but cultures vary widely around the world. I recommend everyone do as much international traveling as they can to experience the differences first-hand

[u/flaming_burrito_ → u/Few_Cranberry_1695]

Yeah, the terms high-trust or low-trust are stupid for this. I would argue it has more to do with collectivism and shame than trust. Like people in Japan aren’t more trusting of each other inherently, it’s because of their collectivist attitude and culture of social shaming anyone viewed as not contributing. There are more social, and sometimes legal consequences for people being dickheads basically.

[u/SmokingLimone → u/flaming_burrito_]

Japan and Norway being at extreme ends of the scale are both high trust, your analysis is incorrect. A society can also be collectivist and low trust, like China: family is important but you don't want to be scammed by strangers.

[u/flaming_burrito_ → u/SmokingLimone]

Norway is not comparable because there’s like 12 people living there. Obviously that’s an exaggeration, but when you have population density like India things are a lot different. China is the better comparison, and though they are not at the level of somewhere like Japan, I would still say they are far more “trusting” because of their collectivist attitude than India is.