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- their favourite topic of conversation is food
you do not like eating?
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- when travelling abroad, they care little about the local culture except food
if there ever was any local culture.
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- when they do not talk about food, they talk about money or sex
or dying and death like some americans
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- The proverbs "money doesn't buy happiness/love" or "don't judge a book by its cover" have no significance in Japan
ya buy "love": if your money is used up the love ends.
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- clothes do make the man in Japan (which explain the success of brand clothes, black suits and even that of cosplay, bunny girls or the importance that Japanese women attach to their wedding dress)
and here clochards are entering the city council and getting jobs by 1:3 lottery.
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- people indeed do not get treated the same way (be it in a shop, by government officials, by the police or whatever) depending on how well they dress and look.
and how polite they ask. even here staff does not give out things just for money
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- they think an opuent and expensive wedding is necessary for appearances' sake (even if that is way above their means)
that's offensive. 39 reasons.
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- some Japanese companies have a tiny head office in Tokyo (esp. Nihombashi) just for appearances' sake, as it is said to give them a higher status.
nice, very nice.
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- they judge people from their appearance and tend to be easily prejudiced (e.g. toward foreigner-looking persons)
and you see the good in people with dirty clothing, sunglasses and big cars.
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- they use gestures and speak strange Japanese to foreigners who address them in fluent Japanese (or before they have a chance to speak), as if they had convinced themselves that somebody who didn't look Japanese could not possibly understand their language
it is a way to express dislike for people who do not look japanese enough.
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- however Japanese language is so deficient in vocabulary and acurate expressions that it has to borrow thousands of new words from other languages every year
like geek, ***** and nerd?
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- the structure of Japanese language is so inflexible and clumsy (no relative sentences, few tenses, few nuances) that Japanese people end up speaking with isolated words (often adjectives, see below) rather than making full sentences.
which are well understood.
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- they can't debate and dislike serious intellectual discussions (probably due to the language issues mentioned above)
do you easily debate lacking any reasons?
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- there are very few intellectual programmes on TV (documentaries, debates, political analysis, social phenomenons, literary discussions...), due to a general lack of interest of the population
literary discussions on tv?
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- people on TV usualy repeat the same few adjectives all the time (oishii, omoshiroi, hidoi, kirei...) , as if they were linguistically challenged.
news in europe are repeating one thing all day: dying and death.
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- people in everyday life actually do speak like mentioned above
they speak all day of earthquakes and they may die of that probably?
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- they ask the same routine dumb questions to foreigners ("can you use chopsticks; can you eat sushi, is there 4 seasons in your country, etc.")
rather can you afford sushi? we have sushi here in europe.
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- they tend of lack sexual morals and don't mind cheating "as long as their partner doesn't know"
and we are holy churchgoers.
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- they have casual sex with several partners without protection and don't worry about STD's
offensive. 38 reasons.
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- they have a computer but don't know much how to use even quite simple functions, due to a lack of interest for technology
- they throw away a dysfunctuning electronic equipment (e.g. computer) or machine, rather than try to repair it
ya western secretary woman all have little repair shops at home.
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- they call an plumber, electrician or carpenter to repair things in their house, because they are not interested in DIY (Japan is a service country par excellence, due to people's lack of knowledge or interest in a wide array of things)
if they have a house.
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- they go to juku after school because they sleep or are too slow to learn at school (slowing down the teacher's rythm) and can't assimilate the necessary knowledge to pass the exams. They still end up learning much less than European children in foreign languages, history, geography and critical thinking.
more supid than the people here?
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- manga, porn and fashion magazines account for over 90% of convenience stores' literature.
if you go to a manga shop it is obviously.
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- shops staff repeat "irasshaimasse", then "domo arigato gozaimashita" like robots to anybody that enters or exit, even if the same person comes in and out three times in 5 minutes
a japanese would not do that on the same day
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- they can't think by themselves, and believe the media, commercials or what people tell them much too easily
ya we all think think and think.
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- they buy on impulse rather than after careful comparison and analysis
so do we
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- there are virtually no magazines that test and rate products such as electronics, books, movies, games, etc. They only introduce these products without critical commentary (because the makers/sellers would sue them for being critical !)
would complain about them for being critical. ya i know our magazines are announcing everthing as BS to increase sales.
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- they are a nation of followers that suffer from the "sheep syndrome" => if every jumps in the river, let's jump in the river too ! (i.e. lack of critical and independent thinking)
here we are individually arguing with police staff
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- as a result, when something becomes fashionable, everybody must have it (e.g. Louis Vuitton handbags), even if that means it looses its uniqueness or originality.
people need nike for better living
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- when a restaurant is "introduced" on TV, one can be sure that it will be full to the brim for the week to come, then people will forget about it as quickly as they had rushed on it (just to show how influenceable the Japanese are).
restaurant introduced on tv? have you hallucinated that?
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- they think that most women are just good to serve tea, smile, be beautiful and make children (I mean, the cultural influence is so strong that many Japanese women also think so, not just men)
now they think.
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- politicians are corrupted and inefficient beyond redemption, because they only care about themselves, and not the nation's welfare.
our politicans are anwering emails, you know, and giving jobs to jobless people immediately, including a sugar-free candy.
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- people accept that politicians are as mentioned above, because they don't expect their own kind to act in a more virtous way
and recruitment agencies serving coffe, take a seat, very firendly, job in five minutes.
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- men don't mind paying huge sums of money just to chat with bar hostesses, because they can't get a girlfriend (sad) or feel that it give them some form of status (shallow)
- about one out of three Japanese men frequents or has already been to one of these hostess bar.
as long as it is only chatting...
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- not being married after the age of 35 or 40 can hurt some people's credibility or status, as people think that there is 'something wrong' with them
often it is indeed
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- they care a lot about marriage, but little about the eventuality of divorce, so that prenuptial agreements are almost unheard of, because people 'don't like to think that bad things could happen' - while Westerners cannot not think about this eventuality and be prepared for it. Similarily, very few Japanese write their testament. Japanese seem to worry a lot, but rarely about things that matter most.
this should really change. people should have a coffin at home, if they need one, it is too late, obvioulsy. +3 bonus reasons
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- many Japanese fathers do not think that they have a role in their children's education. This is so culturally ingrained that in case of divorce, the mother almost always get the exclusive custody of the child(ren), and the father often 'never' see them again - and often doesn't care much anyway.
offensive. 37 reasons.
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- they find pleasure in asking foreigners what kind of Japanese food they can't eat - even if they can't eat it themself (never really understood the purpose of those questions)
do they have clumsy cheese?
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- many Japanese are convinced that their nation is "unique for being unique" (i.e. they think that all the world is a big melting-pot, but Japan is the only country that is 'pure' and homogenous, which makes it unique, and they are the only nation to enjoy such uniqueness.).
people should have something japanese, and not a mind concept, japanese would be american hostages which were forced to learn kanji.
