Foreigner Exposes the BIGGEST Culture Shock of Living in Japan 🇯🇵

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• Japan is a great country to visit, but no so to stay.

  • I've lived in Japan for over 10 years and have no complaints.
    Perhaps those who complain about life in Japan would complain in any country they go to

  • @@tsdfghjkl
    Were those "complaining people" creating words like karoshi and karojisatsu or the native inhabitants?

  • ​@@Limpi43so peak society is one without negative words?

  • @@llssff1
    No, it is without the negative phenomenon that so common you must give a name for it. Like sati, gishiri, mingi, crucifixtion, Todesmärsche, blasphemy, etc.

    As long as activities those names refer are common and not "just a word from the past" you hardly describe that society as "non-complainable", because all those words I'm talking about are not something you have zero chance to avoid (like tsunami or aurora or meteorite, etc.), but a chosen (or forced) one with negative consequences.

  • How

• I love Japan and Japanese women so much, but that is one thing I hate so much about Japanese women, if my honesty comes out, it has to come out. Haha

• The ukraine girl!

• As a Canadian myself, I was boutta comment “really? Canadians are direct? Cuz we be “beating around the bush too”” LOL, until you gave the context. But yeah, I guess (yet again) it depends on the type of context, cuz when it comes to work you’re right, we’re not as workaholic, but when it comes to other things I say we have a lot of similarities with the Japanese in the sense that we’re not very forthcoming either.

  • Yeah, Canadians are passive aggressive

• Ah nice two of my favourite Canadian travelling YTers from the former USSR together , hope you had a good chill 😊

• Happy Saturday Marina and Alina! Today I went to a Japanese 🇯🇵 buffet for lunch and the food was delicious and the workers were nice. Japan 🇯🇵 is a place that I would like to visit one day. Blue 💙 looks great on you Marina and Alina as it is my favorite color

• That’s such an unhealthy way of life

  • Imagine being respectful and considerate of others, so unhealthy right

  • Japanese people have the longest average life expectancy in the world so they are probably healthier than Westerners.

  • @@broflo8859its giving up yourself to pertain to the wills of others rather then being cordial and courteous

  • ​@@broflo8859 The comment is clearly pointing out to the "beating behind the bush" social gestures and toxic working culture.

    You don't just pick qualities of a society you wanted, yknow.

  • @@n1kk3l9 tell yourself what you need to hear, same results

• That's so funny! As a middle eastern I find that we're a lot more direct and Canadians are the polite ones that beat around the bush lol

  • Canadians don't like other Canadians but from the outside like you said they are polite and more friendly

• Yeah, Japan is definitely not for lazy people and or people who thinking that they can say or do anything they want.

• Japan built a vast economy on a very tricky piece of land, they developed a strong mentality of fighting for the greater good (society wise, not so much morally or religiously), so the country would develop economically (and it has done that really well), especially so their children could have a better life than those first lived there (and themselves for that matter). very beautiful culture and amazing society. unfortunately, extremely difficult for people like us (western cultures) to adapt there and be happy 😢. unfortunately our joy always comes from individual things, not giving up
  pleasure to fight for our unborn children. that's why our governments praise ethics, not so much empathy.

  PS: that's also why japonese people are very strict when it comes to following rules!