For example : Megadeaths happen with nary an eye batted in Japanese movies, but you rarely see that kind of thing in the American. And the total dominance of the aristocracy over the underclasses is as assumed and invisible as gravity in French movies, but it seems to be taboo elsewhere.
I mean, Japan has had a situation where a breath weapon has wiped out 100s of 1000s of people and I’m not sure you could say they had much to reflect on it collectively as a people before the next one. That kind of thing probably leaves a mark on a society …