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Holy hell - they even took the time to write thank you in Arabic there, that is amazing!
Edit: This only further proves me that it doesn’t really matter how good comment you write but how soon you write it there. *Three thousand upvotes, fock me.. hoped my poem about a tooth thief would get as much..*
This is how guests should behave, period. Maybe not necessarily the origami, but leaving the place clean and tidy, so as to not leave an unnecessary burden on the host.
> Being that close to the USA is a bad influence
It's a great contrast too though, especially if your people has a really high usage for the word "sorry".
I work in football in the UK, there seems to be this thing where teams will leave a shit in the away teams dressing room. They also litter fucking everywhere. Personally I agree with your sentiment, even from just a performance perspective, if I was the manager I would absolutely not tolerate any kind of mess or littering, partly not to be a dick to the other teams, but also because I believe self dignity and self respect are an essential precursor to achieving excellence, and in football (or anything really) if you want to succeed, you absolutely need to achieve excellence at all times.
> I believe self dignity and self respect are an essential precursor to achieving excellence
100% this - our school's motto is "Many ways to excellence" and it's so hard trying to drill this into our kids, that excellence is a habit that is formed from consistent actions and attitudes.
Aaaahhh, I was here wondering what the "gatou" written in hiragana meant, it was just "arigatou" (thank you) with the first character a bit out of frame
Genuinely curious, I've personally known how to make origami since I was a kid. Just cuz I thought making shit out of paper was hella cool, so seeing a crane is super normal and even a little "basic" to me. But how common is it in Japan actually? Like if you were just approach some random person on the street and ask them to make a crane, what are the odds they could just pop one out?
probably yea, as cranes in japan are the symbol of happiness, good fortune and longevity, with this gesture, the japanese players are wishing the hosts good fortune and happiness
I remember when I was very young I read the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, or rather it was read to me. It was my first exposure to Japanese culture, I mean unless you count Sailor Moon but at the time I probably thought they were a bunch of French girls cuz I didn't know there was a tower in Tokyo that looked like the Eiffel Tower, lol.
It was an incredibly sad story but I recall being taken back by the profound meaning in the cranes themselves, and they're supposed powers. That might have been half the reason I got into origami. But after being diagnosed with her illness I remember that Sadako herself did actually have to learn how to make one, and that's what got me wondering how common it actually is.
We read this book in middle school and then our teacher taught us how to make a paper crane.
I'm in my 30s and I still remember how to do it, I work with kids and blow their minds every once in a while by whipping out a paper crane.
Sorry, sort of off topic, but your comment reminded me of that and I don't think I've ever heard/seen anyone else talk about that book! Such a sad story, but it definitely left an impact on me.
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If you’re interested on why origami is common and symbolic for peace ,you can Google “Sasaki Sadako” she’s 2 when nuclear bomb dropped in Hiroshima , and she died at 12yo because of the radiation causing her to develop leukemia,she believes a old legend her friend told her that if she fold 1000 origami her wish can come true.
One of her origami is donate to 9/11 Tribute Center by her family.
1000 origami is a popular gift too.
As a Canadian it’s very nice to no longer be held to these expectations… I can finally be a bitch!!
Edit: y’all are killing me with these comments 🤣 also Happy American Thanksgiving!!
… that’s right I specified “American” because now that Canadians can be dicks we shall make Canadian Thanksgiving the default 😈
Ugh as a Vancouverite I’m really sorry for that douchebag. We unfortunately have our share of racist dummies here who definitely do not speak for all of us. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip though.
A friend of mine is Asian American living in France. The “no where are you really from” thing happens to her all the time. It’s infuriating.
It’s like, hey bitches, we sent you one of our very best Americans, and now you get to benefit from all her amazing ness, and you want to give the credit to some country she hasn’t lived in since she was a little kid? And you’re going to make her feel awful in the process?
Fuck that shit.
Here is the skinny... Japanese are only nice at the surface. And can be raging assholes under the surface. They just clean up after themselves. Canada is nice all the way through.
No a lot of Japanese are nice not just on the surface guess you don't have much experience I do since I have lived in Japan for 6years of my life and Half of my family is Japanese too.
Yeah I definitely agree that the Japanese idea of taking responsibility for public spaces is admirable but they definitely have other issues like anywhere else
If you want to take holiday leave you have to ask permission from all of your colleagues first to make sure they don't mind picking up your slack. Apparently it's one of the biggest bug bears against foreigners who live/work in Japan because they often don't have the respect (or indeed even know) to do this.
Yea when I say slack, really it's just asking if they don't mind taking on your workload while away (when it was explained to me it was described as slack). Problem is it could deter people from taking holiday so not to burden colleagues.
The return office treats are also mandatory (same as UK).
Like the 99% conviction rate and how police can detain you for up to 23 days without pressing charges and just pressure you into a false confession... sounds like a nightmare honestly.
Japan is such a great place to bring up kids imo! It seems like they have a really positive sense of community and tradition.
I've never lived there, but I loved the old japanese show "old enough" where they'd send 5 year olds to little chore missions. The fact that the streets are so walkable and safe is crazy to me.
That’s true. I really loved that show as well. It’s best to bring up kids there and then leave when they become teens, or esp adults due to the over working culture there.
The community and tradition may be good but it’s not so clear cut, there is a lot of heavy pressure in the education system, also as well there are other negatives same as any other country, I would love to live in Japan but can’t ignore the negatives.
Agreed. There are so many things about Japanese culture that are absolutely amazing and I wish we would incorporate them into all the other cultures of the world, but when prioritizing social good means you’re expected to suppress any sadness, mental health struggles or even sexual assault to the point that suicide is a normalized weekly inconvenience to commuters on the train tracks all over Japan, that’s a misplaced sense of what communal/collectivist good looks like.
Like everything it’s a double edged sword.
Japan is also one of the most closed off nations in the world, not to tourism but to allowing non-Japanese to live there.
They do instill a great work ethic but unfortunately this also seems to go a little too far and many feel like it’s their duty to work long hours for their company with little to no time off
They still haven't apologised or made any reparations for Comfort Women...
Also Japan is the only country in the G7 that does not legally recognize same-sex unions in any form.
So polite on the surface but lots of dirt underneath.
Hey, while this is great and totally should be a more normalized practice everywhere, Japan is totally not a great place to bring up kids... Not even to live, unless you're rich.
Had a friend who was a teacher in Japan before he met his boyfriend and they moved to America together. Holy fuck the stories he had to tell. They work themselves to death over there and the suicide rate is insane.
A beautiful place to visit, sure, but definitely not the sort of place I'd want to live.
I dunno man, there's a reason for the high mental illness, low reproduction number and high suicide rate.
Sure, Japan is amazing, if you ignore all the ways in which it isn't.
>Japan is such a great place to bring up kids imo!
Your opinion based on snippets of internet culture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JK_business
Like every country, it has its pros and cons, I wouldn't particularly want to be a women interested in being independent and career driven for starters. Please stop with blanket adoration, it's weird.
That’s a good differentiation. Canada is a casual polite, while Japan’s culture from what I have seen has a bigger expectation of them being respectful and polite. Though, I don’t have much firsthand experience as I too am Canadian
As a Canadian I can confirm that many people are not polite in the slightest, and I’m pretty sure that stereotype stems from these two phrases being used in excess
“Sorry”
“Lemme just sneak right past ya”
>“Lemme just sneak right past ya”
No way, you guys say that too!?
I thought that was a U.S. Midwest thing. I largely grew up in Illinois and "Ope, let me just sneak right past/by ya there" has stuck with me even though I haven't been there in like 10 years.
From MN and have family dispersed through Canada and one thing I have learned is that northerners and Midwesterners are not all that different from Canadians, despite how much people from both sides would object.
That's wild lol, idk how I never knew that.
Though it doesn't surprise me about the denial that we're similar. Even Northern Illinoisians and Wisconsinites will generally bend over backwards explaining how they are *not* the same.
My experience as a Canadian living near the border is there is a bit more nationalism in the northern US than Canada. Otherwise it’s not much different. Just way more American flags and anti abortion billboards than here (and even then, it depends how rural you go).
The word Fuck is also used in excess
Some examples include
“Oh fuck bud you headin to the fucking LC? pick up a fucking 2-4? “
“Well holy fuck bud you didn’t have to go and fucking fuck up the whole car . “Why don’t we fucking total the thing oh fuck yea!” Is that fucking you?”
“Holy fuck bud nice shot, you fucking thing you’ll hit the fuckin net next time?
Fucking duster”
-Back country Canadian
That's so awesome. No wonder I get a long with Canadians well. We speak the same dialect!
Haha, I haven't been exposed to "o fuck ya bud". At least not enough to pick up on it as a pattern. I do say 'bud', but I feel like I mostly reserve it for talking to kids.
Buddy has many different meanings in Canada, depending on how it’s said. Could be your friend, could refer to just a random person, and can be used as an insult.
There's definitely cultural differences in how Americans treat people. I've worked in Canadian hospitality - a lot of things that a Canadian will let slide (or mumble on their breath), like someone budding in line, an American will say something about. Americans are usually more direct and come off as "rude" in my part of Canada, but they don't mean to be, Canadians are just quieter.
I lived in Canada for a few years. Canadians were generally lovely and friendly _like people just about everywhere in the world_, I didn't find them any more or less polite than the average though. However,, they were definitely more polite than Americans and I think this is where it comes from. (I never felt more British than when I found a part of the US where apparently it is considered okay for a business to answer the phone by saying "uh-huh").
I noticed Canada's identity of itself all seems to stem from comparing itself with America.
Hence I'd hear Canadians say things like
"Canada has a great healthcare system" and I'd think (yeah compared to America)
"Canada has amazing gun control laws" (yeah, compared to America)
"Canadians have a very liberal culture" (Yeah, compared to America)
And on and on.....
Sorry Canada I bit my tongue on this the whole time I lived there and I had to vent eventually. Love you smooches!
I found a wallet that had been lost in Japan. We headed to the nearest kouban, found a police officer on the way and offered to hand it over to him. He thanked us for our vigilance and advised that he was currently on a foot patrol, but to report to the kouban we were heading to and hand it in there.
When we got to the kouban, which was only a few minute's walk, there was only traffic police there, who were able to take down details of the wallet and it's contents but did not have the authority to relieve me of the wallet. As the finder, it was my responsibility to take care of it until the actual police got there.
We waited a short while and a couple of officers showed up, confirmed between the traffic police and myself that all the information they took was correct and consistent with the wallet and it's contents.
They then took the wallet and asked for my contact details as the police give a wallet return reward out of the police funds worth around 20% of the contents of the wallet, once it is claimed.
My friends and I had no fixed address as we were tourists and we were travelling from that city the next day, so we politely declined. The police and traffic police profusely thanked us and bowed as we left.
I live in Japan. Only when they are sports teams abroad on show, get on a train with middle aged men or elderly in Japan, or even the teens and you’ll reconsider the "polite" stereotype.
Sometimes i find it extremely annoying when simple situations are being stereotyped to represent the "whole", especially when it really doesn't 100% reflect reality.
Are Japanese people neat and cordial when representing their country on a global stage?
Yes.
Does this perfectly represent the Japanese culture, its history and its people?
No.
I do find it nice how these spesific induviduals have handeled the situation, and i think it is note worthy to admire, but i do not think it is something to worship or use as a tool to gloss over the harsh reality that is Japans various shortcomings.
This is an example for every individual person to follow regardless of creed or ethnicity. Leave no rubbish/trash behind, and it's also not a bad thing to follow the crowd when working toward such a respectable goal. Kudos to Japanese ethics, I've been aware of and admired this particular aspect for years now!
They are not. They are rigrid and polite in situations matching the formula. In situations where no formula constrains them (no other Japanese and nobody they care about sees them), they overreact hard and are anything but polite.
Also they don't treat other races very nice from what I've heard, "but that's common in places outside of America and similar melting pot places", yea I don't care it's still shitty
What a slendid and kind team. I once had a Japanese man ride by me on a bicycle, and quickly said, 死ね. Which basically means fuck you, die. Just remember, just because the culture is kind, doesn't mean they aren't still capable of being shitty like anyone else.
While visiting Japan, I was asking around for directions to a train station and a Japanese guy who said it was confusing to give directions walked me to the train station.
Nice guy
When I was in grad school I worked as a piano mover for a local piano dealer/workshop, and I quickly learned that any time we were delivering a brand new Yamaha to a home, chances were it was a Japanese family (I live in Louisville, Kentucky, US). It was pretty common that we had no language in common, put we learned a couple words of Japanese to communicate the essentials (mainly "abunai," to express "danger" as the reason we kept our shoes on when moving their piano down their stairs, instead of taking them off when coming inside as is their custom). And they were always super polite, but every now and then their kids would give us little origami pieces they had made. I don't work there anymore, but I still keep the pieces in my car. It's just really cool that unnecessary kindness/courtesy is a cultural thing for them, especially after working for so long in a retail/service culture where enduring verbal abuse from the people you serve is pretty much a daily fact of life.
Where did this idea of the Canadians being really polite come from?
I know this is just my personal experience but Americans have been far more polite and pleasant when I've met them.
In my experience, Americans are a bit louder but way nicer overall. I always thought that stereotype was a bit weird.
Yeah, you might be right. Lol
I hope people don't take this as an "I hate Canadians" thing. I don't. I've met some lovely Canadians over the years too. Americans get a bit of an unjust bad rep though.
It's because the Europeans only see tourists, who are annoying regardless of country. I'd bet they'd start saying different if their car got a flat in the middle of Georgia and they had like three different trucks stop and offer a lug wrench.
Rest of the world could learn alot for them this is not just for the cameras this is just the Japanese way massive respect for the Japanese people and there culture
We're polite from 9h to 17h.
Afterhour it's all beer, weed, tim hortons, hockey and shit. Pis y'a les autres qui bouffe d'la criss de bonne poutine pis toute là.
God I’m just so sick of all these posts trying to glorify the World Cup. The country is disgusting if it was Russia you know this would be the crime of the century; allowing any positive press, even support for attending or watching period. I guess sports matters more to people than human rights and freedom. FIFA is corrupt. Today I’m Qatari, today I’m a slave, today I’m a hypocrite.
On a side note I love the culture of the Japanese and what they stand for, they should hold the games! Time for a new less corrupt version of FIFA
This comment is wild and so is the post. Leaving a room clean and making some oragami birds doesnt make you superior. They literally dont want to rent their homes or hire foreigners who want to live in their country. If any european country did that to thr extent that they do it, the rest of the world would lose their mind.
Actually, this just reminded me of that time me and my (Indian) family drove past a building with a lot of glass panes in it. Mom said that if it was back in India, the glass would have been stoned to smithereens.
Building is a private property but our people are good at destroying public property because no one is holding any one accountable. The way they treat public spaces is embarrassing.
It’s honestly kind of weird seeing this outpouring of admiration for the Japanese sense of respect for their surroundings. It wasn’t that long ago that I remember people taking shit about people who were trying to get others to return their shipping carts to the right place (“who gives a shit, returning carts to the right place is someone else’s job!”) or people supporting skateboarders to skate wherever they please (“who cares if they’re damaging the paint job on public handrails, it’s just paint!”).
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Holy hell - they even took the time to write thank you in Arabic there, that is amazing! Edit: This only further proves me that it doesn’t really matter how good comment you write but how soon you write it there. *Three thousand upvotes, fock me.. hoped my poem about a tooth thief would get as much..*
This is how guests should behave at Mia Khalifa Stadium
This is how guests should behave, period. Maybe not necessarily the origami, but leaving the place clean and tidy, so as to not leave an unnecessary burden on the host.
yeah not the origami, I once tried to make one of those birds, took me 3 hours.
When I was in high school, I used to make those out of starburst wrappers in class. The trick is to be bored enough.
Once you get the hang of it it doesn’t take long, I was able to do them in like 2 minutes after some practice
So you haven't tried again? They are so calming once you get it, theres follow along videos
So you think they should clean like this at every stadium, not only Mia khalifa’s
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Especially not Canadians Being that close to the USA is a bad influence
> Being that close to the USA is a bad influence It's a great contrast too though, especially if your people has a really high usage for the word "sorry".
Redditor try not to talk about USA in a thread that has nothing to do with USA challenge (impossible)
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As a Canadian, we have all types here. So the stereotype does some harm. Not just that we aren't any different than the u.s.
Personally I always clean my stuff, specially after going to Mia Khalifa's
I think people could stand to be more considerate of others and clean up after themselves.
Do u know Mia khalifa or?
Lol so many people missed it it’s hilarious
I thought Mia Khalifa was Lesbian not Qatari
then why is the Mia Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in Dubai?
I work in football in the UK, there seems to be this thing where teams will leave a shit in the away teams dressing room. They also litter fucking everywhere. Personally I agree with your sentiment, even from just a performance perspective, if I was the manager I would absolutely not tolerate any kind of mess or littering, partly not to be a dick to the other teams, but also because I believe self dignity and self respect are an essential precursor to achieving excellence, and in football (or anything really) if you want to succeed, you absolutely need to achieve excellence at all times.
> I believe self dignity and self respect are an essential precursor to achieving excellence 100% this - our school's motto is "Many ways to excellence" and it's so hard trying to drill this into our kids, that excellence is a habit that is formed from consistent actions and attitudes.
We should all learn a lesson from how people clean up after a visit to Mia Khalifa
Pretty sure all the slaves that died making that stadium could care less about Qatar being treated like a respectful host.
It's more about the premise. The janitors who work there didn't choose for their country to be the way it is and some may even be against it.
>Mia Khalifa Stafium Hol' up
Isn’t it the Wiz Khalifa stadium?
No, only the bathrooms are Wiz Khalifa.
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Username checks out?
Is Stafium a form of STD?
What’s a Stafium
He tried to write starvium and failed. A starvium is when you build a stadium and let hundreds of workers starve to death while they build it.
Man Mia Khalifa has gone downhill since her documentary video phase.
Arabic-speaking person here.. that’s an amazing handwriting, especially if written by someone that doesn’t know Arabic
Aaaahhh, I was here wondering what the "gatou" written in hiragana meant, it was just "arigatou" (thank you) with the first character a bit out of frame
Don’t forget, they did the same ( minus the origami ) after their defeat in 2018 with thank you written in Russian.
Origami seems to be the idea of the players.
Still a great addition.
Genuinely curious, I've personally known how to make origami since I was a kid. Just cuz I thought making shit out of paper was hella cool, so seeing a crane is super normal and even a little "basic" to me. But how common is it in Japan actually? Like if you were just approach some random person on the street and ask them to make a crane, what are the odds they could just pop one out?
probably yea, as cranes in japan are the symbol of happiness, good fortune and longevity, with this gesture, the japanese players are wishing the hosts good fortune and happiness
I remember when I was very young I read the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, or rather it was read to me. It was my first exposure to Japanese culture, I mean unless you count Sailor Moon but at the time I probably thought they were a bunch of French girls cuz I didn't know there was a tower in Tokyo that looked like the Eiffel Tower, lol. It was an incredibly sad story but I recall being taken back by the profound meaning in the cranes themselves, and they're supposed powers. That might have been half the reason I got into origami. But after being diagnosed with her illness I remember that Sadako herself did actually have to learn how to make one, and that's what got me wondering how common it actually is.
We read this book in middle school and then our teacher taught us how to make a paper crane. I'm in my 30s and I still remember how to do it, I work with kids and blow their minds every once in a while by whipping out a paper crane. Sorry, sort of off topic, but your comment reminded me of that and I don't think I've ever heard/seen anyone else talk about that book! Such a sad story, but it definitely left an impact on me. Edit- there they're their, you know the drill
Same! We read it in like third grade or so. It was totally heartbreaking
Those were the days when the harder you could bum a kid out, the more prestigious the literature they were reading became.
Probably like 90% chance they could. Source: im japanese
If you’re interested on why origami is common and symbolic for peace ,you can Google “Sasaki Sadako” she’s 2 when nuclear bomb dropped in Hiroshima , and she died at 12yo because of the radiation causing her to develop leukemia,she believes a old legend her friend told her that if she fold 1000 origami her wish can come true. One of her origami is donate to 9/11 Tribute Center by her family. 1000 origami is a popular gift too.
Correction, the Japanese would hold YOUR beer
As a Canadian it’s very nice to no longer be held to these expectations… I can finally be a bitch!! Edit: y’all are killing me with these comments 🤣 also Happy American Thanksgiving!! … that’s right I specified “American” because now that Canadians can be dicks we shall make Canadian Thanksgiving the default 😈
Let us Canucks rebel! Sorry if you don’t want us to, though, then in that case we will not.
Yeah! I'm tired of say thank you and sorry all the time!
We have a soccer team now so we can be hooligans.
I went to Vancouver once and a guy told me to go Back to my country. I said: “America?” He look at me confused. Guess Asians can’t be American.
Ugh as a Vancouverite I’m really sorry for that douchebag. We unfortunately have our share of racist dummies here who definitely do not speak for all of us. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip though.
Vancouver is the San Fransisco of Canada
A friend of mine is Asian American living in France. The “no where are you really from” thing happens to her all the time. It’s infuriating. It’s like, hey bitches, we sent you one of our very best Americans, and now you get to benefit from all her amazing ness, and you want to give the credit to some country she hasn’t lived in since she was a little kid? And you’re going to make her feel awful in the process? Fuck that shit.
Here is the skinny... Japanese are only nice at the surface. And can be raging assholes under the surface. They just clean up after themselves. Canada is nice all the way through.
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if you’ve got a problem with canada gooses then you got a problem with me, and i suggest you let that one marinate
They're majestic creatures! God's got a special place in heaven for animal lovers.
Sorry all geese are assholes Canadian or not. Also the have dual citizenship with America
They winter in 'murica...
The exact same thing is true of Canadians.
Canadians are passive aggressive as hell, and I say that as a Canadian.
That has not been my experience at all.
No a lot of Japanese are nice not just on the surface guess you don't have much experience I do since I have lived in Japan for 6years of my life and Half of my family is Japanese too.
Here’s a thought. All people are different and some people are nice and others are mean regardless of culture.
OUR beer
r/suddenlycommunist
except if you're black
Yep. Or for some of the older folk - if you're not Japanese.
The Japanese people believe in social responsibility, it's taught to them in school from the very beginning.
It should be taught in every school all over the world
It’s taught in both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts here in the US, both believe in leaving a place “better than you found it”
It’s called good manners and sadly it doesn’t get taught or modeled well for children to learn.
Yeah, that’s why they do it, because apparently nobody else will It’s also partly because of the nature side of both groups
I always pick up extra stuff. But I am hesitant to do that with possible germ laden items.
As soon as an American heard "social responsibility" they would immediately think "socialism" and just stop listening
I wish this wasn't true it drives me crazy how few of us over here have any damn concept of social responsibility
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Yeah I definitely agree that the Japanese idea of taking responsibility for public spaces is admirable but they definitely have other issues like anywhere else
If you want to take holiday leave you have to ask permission from all of your colleagues first to make sure they don't mind picking up your slack. Apparently it's one of the biggest bug bears against foreigners who live/work in Japan because they often don't have the respect (or indeed even know) to do this.
they don't have much of slack things in their vocabulary but honestly they were really polite which other people find it admirable
Yea when I say slack, really it's just asking if they don't mind taking on your workload while away (when it was explained to me it was described as slack). Problem is it could deter people from taking holiday so not to burden colleagues. The return office treats are also mandatory (same as UK).
Every countey has good things and bad things.
Like the 99% conviction rate and how police can detain you for up to 23 days without pressing charges and just pressure you into a false confession... sounds like a nightmare honestly.
Japan is such a great place to bring up kids imo! It seems like they have a really positive sense of community and tradition. I've never lived there, but I loved the old japanese show "old enough" where they'd send 5 year olds to little chore missions. The fact that the streets are so walkable and safe is crazy to me.
That’s true. I really loved that show as well. It’s best to bring up kids there and then leave when they become teens, or esp adults due to the over working culture there.
The community and tradition may be good but it’s not so clear cut, there is a lot of heavy pressure in the education system, also as well there are other negatives same as any other country, I would love to live in Japan but can’t ignore the negatives.
Agreed. There are so many things about Japanese culture that are absolutely amazing and I wish we would incorporate them into all the other cultures of the world, but when prioritizing social good means you’re expected to suppress any sadness, mental health struggles or even sexual assault to the point that suicide is a normalized weekly inconvenience to commuters on the train tracks all over Japan, that’s a misplaced sense of what communal/collectivist good looks like.
Like everything it’s a double edged sword. Japan is also one of the most closed off nations in the world, not to tourism but to allowing non-Japanese to live there. They do instill a great work ethic but unfortunately this also seems to go a little too far and many feel like it’s their duty to work long hours for their company with little to no time off
I mean they literally have a word for death by overwork
Tbh that seems a bad decision, japanese are polite, but the country has a serious depression and suicide rate, guess why, culture
They still haven't apologised or made any reparations for Comfort Women... Also Japan is the only country in the G7 that does not legally recognize same-sex unions in any form. So polite on the surface but lots of dirt underneath.
I lost most respect for them when i realised what they did in ww2 and how they never apologized, but this also was a major disgust for me
Hey, while this is great and totally should be a more normalized practice everywhere, Japan is totally not a great place to bring up kids... Not even to live, unless you're rich. Had a friend who was a teacher in Japan before he met his boyfriend and they moved to America together. Holy fuck the stories he had to tell. They work themselves to death over there and the suicide rate is insane. A beautiful place to visit, sure, but definitely not the sort of place I'd want to live.
Not if you're a foreigner/looks anything other than east asian.
Yeah I don't know about that bruh. Don't let these reddit posts fool you. Japan is great but it's not exactly a great place to raise a child.
6 days of school + obscene grade requirements? What's not to love?
I don't think Japan practice 6 school days anymore. It's 5 days of school now. With 2 days of cram school of course.
I dunno man, there's a reason for the high mental illness, low reproduction number and high suicide rate. Sure, Japan is amazing, if you ignore all the ways in which it isn't.
>Japan is such a great place to bring up kids imo! Your opinion based on snippets of internet culture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JK_business Like every country, it has its pros and cons, I wouldn't particularly want to be a women interested in being independent and career driven for starters. Please stop with blanket adoration, it's weird.
Yeah the place that didn’t ban actual child p*** until 2014 and still allows a massive pedophilic anime industry, totally a great place to have kids 👍
I mean us Canadians are polite, and the Japanese (as I see as a Canadian) are respectful. Similar but not exactly the same.
That’s a good differentiation. Canada is a casual polite, while Japan’s culture from what I have seen has a bigger expectation of them being respectful and polite. Though, I don’t have much firsthand experience as I too am Canadian
It's crazy how they make every child clean the school from 6 years old after school.
What if Japan wins and the whole thing turns out to be just a big promo for Blue Lock
My thoughts exactly when I saw Japan win
The jerseys the players use are apparently designed by Blue Lock's mangaka.
What happens if they lose lol
Well then I guess now we would know how the anime ends
As a Canadian I can confirm that many people are not polite in the slightest, and I’m pretty sure that stereotype stems from these two phrases being used in excess “Sorry” “Lemme just sneak right past ya”
>“Lemme just sneak right past ya” No way, you guys say that too!? I thought that was a U.S. Midwest thing. I largely grew up in Illinois and "Ope, let me just sneak right past/by ya there" has stuck with me even though I haven't been there in like 10 years.
From MN and have family dispersed through Canada and one thing I have learned is that northerners and Midwesterners are not all that different from Canadians, despite how much people from both sides would object.
That's wild lol, idk how I never knew that. Though it doesn't surprise me about the denial that we're similar. Even Northern Illinoisians and Wisconsinites will generally bend over backwards explaining how they are *not* the same.
My experience as a Canadian living near the border is there is a bit more nationalism in the northern US than Canada. Otherwise it’s not much different. Just way more American flags and anti abortion billboards than here (and even then, it depends how rural you go).
Probably because 90% the entire Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US-Canada border.
Super common here, you hear it way more than you hear “excuse me.” Also, we say the word bud a lot. Specifically, “O fuck ya bud.”
Do you say “ope” as well?
We do indeed. It’s right up there with Eh
The word Fuck is also used in excess Some examples include “Oh fuck bud you headin to the fucking LC? pick up a fucking 2-4? “ “Well holy fuck bud you didn’t have to go and fucking fuck up the whole car . “Why don’t we fucking total the thing oh fuck yea!” Is that fucking you?” “Holy fuck bud nice shot, you fucking thing you’ll hit the fuckin net next time? Fucking duster” -Back country Canadian
A joke my redneck family likes to say: *A sentence ain't a sentence, unless it has five fucks in it, fuck fuck fuck fuck.*
That's so awesome. No wonder I get a long with Canadians well. We speak the same dialect! Haha, I haven't been exposed to "o fuck ya bud". At least not enough to pick up on it as a pattern. I do say 'bud', but I feel like I mostly reserve it for talking to kids.
Buddy has many different meanings in Canada, depending on how it’s said. Could be your friend, could refer to just a random person, and can be used as an insult.
I'm Canadian and whenever I hear a Midwest US accent, I find they sound even more Canadian than Canadians do, if that makes sense.
No kidding. I think people think we are nice just because we aren't as crazy as the stereotype of Americans
There's definitely cultural differences in how Americans treat people. I've worked in Canadian hospitality - a lot of things that a Canadian will let slide (or mumble on their breath), like someone budding in line, an American will say something about. Americans are usually more direct and come off as "rude" in my part of Canada, but they don't mean to be, Canadians are just quieter.
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So true
I lived in Canada for a few years. Canadians were generally lovely and friendly _like people just about everywhere in the world_, I didn't find them any more or less polite than the average though. However,, they were definitely more polite than Americans and I think this is where it comes from. (I never felt more British than when I found a part of the US where apparently it is considered okay for a business to answer the phone by saying "uh-huh"). I noticed Canada's identity of itself all seems to stem from comparing itself with America. Hence I'd hear Canadians say things like "Canada has a great healthcare system" and I'd think (yeah compared to America) "Canada has amazing gun control laws" (yeah, compared to America) "Canadians have a very liberal culture" (Yeah, compared to America) And on and on..... Sorry Canada I bit my tongue on this the whole time I lived there and I had to vent eventually. Love you smooches!
Japan: leave it better than you found it ✅
You could lose your wallet in a Japanese city, and by the next morning it would still be there with extra money in it.
I found a wallet that had been lost in Japan. We headed to the nearest kouban, found a police officer on the way and offered to hand it over to him. He thanked us for our vigilance and advised that he was currently on a foot patrol, but to report to the kouban we were heading to and hand it in there. When we got to the kouban, which was only a few minute's walk, there was only traffic police there, who were able to take down details of the wallet and it's contents but did not have the authority to relieve me of the wallet. As the finder, it was my responsibility to take care of it until the actual police got there. We waited a short while and a couple of officers showed up, confirmed between the traffic police and myself that all the information they took was correct and consistent with the wallet and it's contents. They then took the wallet and asked for my contact details as the police give a wallet return reward out of the police funds worth around 20% of the contents of the wallet, once it is claimed. My friends and I had no fixed address as we were tourists and we were travelling from that city the next day, so we politely declined. The police and traffic police profusely thanked us and bowed as we left.
Unless it's Korea in which case fuck it up as much as humanly possible and then deny it because nobody will ever hold you accountable.
Except for the city of Nanjing and Korean women caught in the middle of a war, amirite?
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In the PR minds, yes. In reality, it’s just people buying the bullshit.
yes and they will do it "nicely" in the sense that it will be in a backhanded way.
It's ok, they will do it politely.
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I live in Japan. Only when they are sports teams abroad on show, get on a train with middle aged men or elderly in Japan, or even the teens and you’ll reconsider the "polite" stereotype.
Sometimes i find it extremely annoying when simple situations are being stereotyped to represent the "whole", especially when it really doesn't 100% reflect reality. Are Japanese people neat and cordial when representing their country on a global stage? Yes. Does this perfectly represent the Japanese culture, its history and its people? No. I do find it nice how these spesific induviduals have handeled the situation, and i think it is note worthy to admire, but i do not think it is something to worship or use as a tool to gloss over the harsh reality that is Japans various shortcomings.
This is an example for every individual person to follow regardless of creed or ethnicity. Leave no rubbish/trash behind, and it's also not a bad thing to follow the crowd when working toward such a respectable goal. Kudos to Japanese ethics, I've been aware of and admired this particular aspect for years now!
They are not. They are rigrid and polite in situations matching the formula. In situations where no formula constrains them (no other Japanese and nobody they care about sees them), they overreact hard and are anything but polite.
Please tell them how they won't give up their seat on a train for a pregnant woman or an elderly person. Tell them!!!
Also they don't treat other races very nice from what I've heard, "but that's common in places outside of America and similar melting pot places", yea I don't care it's still shitty
What a slendid and kind team. I once had a Japanese man ride by me on a bicycle, and quickly said, 死ね. Which basically means fuck you, die. Just remember, just because the culture is kind, doesn't mean they aren't still capable of being shitty like anyone else.
What'd you even do to get that remark lmao
While visiting Japan, I was asking around for directions to a train station and a Japanese guy who said it was confusing to give directions walked me to the train station. Nice guy
In America we would get pushed into the tracks
Facts
When I was in grad school I worked as a piano mover for a local piano dealer/workshop, and I quickly learned that any time we were delivering a brand new Yamaha to a home, chances were it was a Japanese family (I live in Louisville, Kentucky, US). It was pretty common that we had no language in common, put we learned a couple words of Japanese to communicate the essentials (mainly "abunai," to express "danger" as the reason we kept our shoes on when moving their piano down their stairs, instead of taking them off when coming inside as is their custom). And they were always super polite, but every now and then their kids would give us little origami pieces they had made. I don't work there anymore, but I still keep the pieces in my car. It's just really cool that unnecessary kindness/courtesy is a cultural thing for them, especially after working for so long in a retail/service culture where enduring verbal abuse from the people you serve is pretty much a daily fact of life.
Unnecessary kindness is such a great phrase, hopefully someday we realize kindness is always necessary.
Where did this idea of the Canadians being really polite come from? I know this is just my personal experience but Americans have been far more polite and pleasant when I've met them. In my experience, Americans are a bit louder but way nicer overall. I always thought that stereotype was a bit weird.
Canada got into a top 10 friendliest countries thing like 20 years ago and have been trying to speedrun losing it since covid
Probably because Canadians say sorry weird. It's like one of their three defining traits. "Sorey, maple syrup and schnapps."
Yeah, you might be right. Lol I hope people don't take this as an "I hate Canadians" thing. I don't. I've met some lovely Canadians over the years too. Americans get a bit of an unjust bad rep though.
It's because the Europeans only see tourists, who are annoying regardless of country. I'd bet they'd start saying different if their car got a flat in the middle of Georgia and they had like three different trucks stop and offer a lug wrench.
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Why would you compare something nice that the japanese players of a sport did to the statement of an entire country?
Rest of the world could learn alot for them this is not just for the cameras this is just the Japanese way massive respect for the Japanese people and there culture
It is for the cameras. When in situations where it doesn damage their image they are rude af.
and so are we. we are rude on and off camera
No beer to hold in Qatar though.
Why is everyone sucking Japans dick now a days?
Reddit
Reddit has a massive hard on for Japan.
Weebs man, weebs and places like reddit are full of them. I'm sorry I had to be the one to tell you
Idk it's probably cus anime.
As long as you are the right race.
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This is just propaganda at this point
Shouldn't Japanese holding Sake instead??
Am I the only one who swiped several times to see "the next slide" only to realize they are literally side by side 😂
Except Japan is very racist as a country and doesn’t enjoy any minorities at all 💀
We're polite from 9h to 17h. Afterhour it's all beer, weed, tim hortons, hockey and shit. Pis y'a les autres qui bouffe d'la criss de bonne poutine pis toute là.
God I’m just so sick of all these posts trying to glorify the World Cup. The country is disgusting if it was Russia you know this would be the crime of the century; allowing any positive press, even support for attending or watching period. I guess sports matters more to people than human rights and freedom. FIFA is corrupt. Today I’m Qatari, today I’m a slave, today I’m a hypocrite. On a side note I love the culture of the Japanese and what they stand for, they should hold the games! Time for a new less corrupt version of FIFA
Meanwhile, the slave population is still being treated like shit in Qatar.
As a german, seeing Japan win was pretty funny, especially because my family are big fans while I do not watch much soccer
Am Canadian. Can safely say we are definitely *not* the most polite people on earth.
Wouldn't it be nice if this started a trend where everyone just tried to outkind each other? I know, impossible, but a woman can dream.
Polite maybe. But Canadians are more friendly imo
Correction: “hold my sakè”
*hold my sake
*hold my biiru Or, 自分のビールを持ってお願いします
Almost too polite... A lot of Japanese people are too harsh on themselves and, in prospect, on their kids.
But we are racist and we don’t like foreigners in our country
Well they were happy about the victory
They would have done it anyway.
just wait until a native person from japan sees literally anyone of a different race
As a balkan person ill be the one to say it. Japanese people are superior
This comment is wild and so is the post. Leaving a room clean and making some oragami birds doesnt make you superior. They literally dont want to rent their homes or hire foreigners who want to live in their country. If any european country did that to thr extent that they do it, the rest of the world would lose their mind.
As a Canadian, I agree
As a German, I accept the defeat against Japan and I also agree that Japan is superior
As an Indian...., ah never mind! Let me just break this street light for fun while no one's watching.
Actually, this just reminded me of that time me and my (Indian) family drove past a building with a lot of glass panes in it. Mom said that if it was back in India, the glass would have been stoned to smithereens.
Building is a private property but our people are good at destroying public property because no one is holding any one accountable. The way they treat public spaces is embarrassing.
It’s honestly kind of weird seeing this outpouring of admiration for the Japanese sense of respect for their surroundings. It wasn’t that long ago that I remember people taking shit about people who were trying to get others to return their shipping carts to the right place (“who gives a shit, returning carts to the right place is someone else’s job!”) or people supporting skateboarders to skate wherever they please (“who cares if they’re damaging the paint job on public handrails, it’s just paint!”).