How Foreigners Make Japanese UNCOMFORTABLE (Unintentionally)

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  @MrsEats · 4 years ago · pinned

  The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: <a href="https://skl.sh/mrseats12211">https://skl.sh/mrseats12211</a><br><br>How many of these things apply to you? Please don&apos;t think Japanese hate foreigners because of it! Japanese people are very easy going and won&apos;t fight you or anything for these things! But they might be surprised by it happening, especailly if they don&apos;t have a lot of experience around non-Japanese people!

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  @Limrasson · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s funny how &quot;rest of the world&quot; usually just means &quot;United States&quot; for the japanese. It&apos;s neat because the rest of us can have a look at two weird wacky places at once.

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  @davidl9781 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m an American. I used to visit Japan ever summer back in the 1990s. Once, I was on my own and got terribly lost on the train. I asked a businessman who was commuting home at the end of his day for directions. He didn&apos;t &quot;give me directions.&quot; Rather, he interrupted his journey home and kindly showed me the way... meaning, he went out of his way to make sure I reached my destination. He actually accompanied me so I wouldn&apos;t get lost. Then, he resumed his trip home in the other direction. That blew me away. What courtesy and kindness. Says a lot about a people. I&apos;ve never forgotten that.

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• PA

  @parkb5320 · 4 years ago (edited)

  It’s funny as a foreigner that has been living in Japan for about a decade, I find that on the trains in Tokyo, many young Japanese people wear strong perfume and cologne. I wear scent less deodorant and as an American, I’m surprised at how strong their scent is lol. Also when I wear my Pokémon tie to work and I go out for lunch, I often get comments from the Japanese cashier or waitress. They’ll say things like “your tie is very cute.” So maybe things are changing in Japan or maybe Japanese people know that they can act differently when interacting with foreigners.

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• CM

  @cm58133 · 1 year ago

  I’ve had great experience in Japan. I got up for an elderly woman on the train in Hiroshima and she was so thankful that she started asking me where I was from and tried making small talk with me. She then gifted me several origamis that she made out of her purse. I’ll never forget that.

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• ZE

  @Ze_Chevalier · 4 years ago

  Crazy, as an American I&apos;m considered quiet, I couldn&apos;t imagine going to Japan and suddenly being considered too friendly.

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  @teddybear3225 · 4 years ago

  I went for the first time to Japan before this coronavirus thing started. I am not a fan of big cities so i went down south of Osaka in the Wakayama-shi prefecture for its architecture and access to the beach. <br>Long story short i got lost trying to find a toy store. I asked a few girls i saw in the bus for directions to head back to the train station and then later on i heard them running behind me towards me. They were worried that i won&apos;t find the way back so they walked with me half way there. I then came to an intersection and got a bit worried if i understood which way was right so i asked the only grandma i saw on the street in front of her house for directions. My japanese is not great but i made sure to learn the most politest forms when addressing people. This grandma smiled at me while i was making train sounds (chu chuuu) in hopes she understands me. She started walking with me with the same smile on her face for about 10 to 15 minutes until we got the train station. I was about to pay for the ticket but the train was already there so the grandma told the ticket booth guy something and both of them smiled at me and politely told me to hurry up and get in the train. I didn&apos;t forget to respectfully bow to both of them and thank them. <br>That memory will forever stay with me and it is my reason to visit Japan at least once every few years. The kindness of people goes along way.

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  @severedproxy · 4 years ago

  If only &quot;perfume harassment&quot; was a thing in my country. I have a few coworkers who smell like they took a bath in perfume.

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  @pabloherrera-hernandez2228 · 7 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHPPL3ThKg&amp;t=13">0:13</a> I actually knew this fact because I once had to go their to visit my daughter and my punk grandson

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• WR

  @WrenBird449 · 4 years ago

  America is interesting regarding smells because there&apos;s definitely STRONG feelings around them, but rather than wanting to not smell at all, Americans want to smell GOOD. Body odors are offensive, so products are made to provide strong, pleasing scents instead. Scents communicate femininity or masculinity, even wealth at times. Interesting cultural differences.

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  @ignasimontserrat · 4 years ago

  “We are not racist! We are merely disgusted by foreigners in a passive-agressive way! Except if they are Chinese. We are pretty open about being disgusted by them.”

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  @firemedicpgh · 3 years ago

  &quot;It&apos;s actually easier to move away from someone that&apos;s making you uncomfortable than it is to tell them directly.&quot; <br>I felt that in my soul.

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