10/02/05 02:35:00
Naturally a view of animals peculiar to a certain culture and a certain nation is not firm or definite; neither are its origins simple and self-evident.
One of the reasons the English know how to train dogs almost perfectly might be that they have done a good deal of dairy farming for a long time and thus are used to handling domestic animals.
Another reason could be that since the climate caused the need for the cohabitation of pets and people under the same roof in closed living quarters, dogs had to be strictly trained to preserve domestic peace.
By contrast, the Japanese civilization was never significantly dependent on domestic animals.
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