I just watched TV program featuring debate about unusual behavior of Japanese from out-side 0f-Japan perspective, debate was held between Japanese group and non-Japanese group.
And there are 5 points often get attention when talking about drawbacks of Japanese
1. Japanese people never break rules, always keep rules strictly
e.g. 1 how to wash hands, books on how to do something(e.g. how to communicate with child, how to succeed in dating), not allow customers to have doggy-bag
2. Japanese are cowards!!!
e.g. when japanese asked direction, they never say "I don't know" because they don't want to be seen as fool, or they are afraid of making mistake.
e.g.2 Japanese hesitate or think too much before start doing something being afraid of failure.
3. Japanese are not good at working
e.g. Japanese bring company relation after work(nomikai飲み会 after work)
e.g. in fact, the amount of time men spend in household and communicating with their child is very short
4. Japanese uses too much words borrowed from outside of Japan especially Japanese-English
e.g. manifest, consensus ... etc
And I found that there are 2 kinds of カタカナ語, first one is the notion was completely new to Japan, for example こんぺいとう、カステラ, these are Portuguese. And the notion was already existed in Japanese, but people choose to use words that are borrowed intentionally. I think popularity of カタカナ語 is not bad thing, of course the original Japanese is fading away is sad, but since the influx of foreign culture after WW2, there have been natural selection of language. Therefore, it is quite natural for japanese to use カタカナ語
5. Japanese cry too much
e.g. professional sports player cry when they win first prize
it is interesting that Western people tend to have a stereotype that crying is what people feel only sad, not happy or excitement.
It is all about perspective: one thing can be different thing from here..
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