I live in Japan and people here are very easily swayed by emotions. Catch any Japanese TV program and whatever is being shown, you will see a box in the corner of the screen showing the verbal and nonverbal reactions of the celebrities watching along with the viewer. It's a subtle form of mind control, persuading people to feel certain ways about subjects because they see the famous people's reactions. There really isn't much of an anti-mask movement here in Japan and I rarely see any other people maskless. I won't wear one outside of work.
Asia in general has been a mask culture since the Hong Kong flu aka H3N2 virus became a real epidemic in 1968 which hit Asia like train so you're not going to find any based-ness on that front.
They are not as easily manipulated by emotions as our culture is.
I live in Japan and people here are very easily swayed by emotions. Catch any Japanese TV program and whatever is being shown, you will see a box in the corner of the screen showing the verbal and nonverbal reactions of the celebrities watching along with the viewer. It's a subtle form of mind control, persuading people to feel certain ways about subjects because they see the famous people's reactions. There really isn't much of an anti-mask movement here in Japan and I rarely see any other people maskless. I won't wear one outside of work.
Asia in general has been a mask culture since the Hong Kong flu aka H3N2 virus became a real epidemic in 1968 which hit Asia like train so you're not going to find any based-ness on that front.