Filial Exemplars and beyond

David and I were struck by the way the filial exemplars mirrored fairy tales and myths. I guess morality tales are a universal throughout time.  The idea that your devotion, responsibility will reap rewards, maybe not now, but in the future. Seems to be ever present.  Cinderella was pointed out.... however I think the exemplars are a little more elegant, maybe? I think I would like to use them in my class .... and see what connections my students would make to other stories they know.  I don’t have a clear plan yet, but. It could be interesting to investigate.  I want to ponder this.    

How does a nation all come up with the same social plan?as was share$ in the Nakahara Case ? How does everyone in an entire community or nation follow the same plan without it being enforced?  It seems kind of odious, but it must have been practiced on a relatively large scale for the entire nation to have no/ minimal growth overtime?  This doesn’t seem to be the type of thing that randomly occurs.