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Originally Posted by kapilyadav
well i m from india and i m in complete love wid m country..
i came her for an internship,had great expectations from the country..heard lot about japanese people --they are very friendly,very helping,very hospitable..
but yo know what i have been asked many times--Why are you there? What do you do in your spare time? Why Japan?
yes,they treat us like we are inferior to them, but they also treat each other in the same way..i have never seen anybody talking to a stranger here. At the bus stop,itss like pin drop silence,in the bus same situation. Most of the time they sit alone or would rather like standing up then sitting next to a gaijin.
There's no excitement is their lives..everything going in a simple,straightforward manner like no turns..you like it initially when you come here but it starts to get annoying. It's been only 2 weeks and i kind of like it and also dislike it. THis place is beautiful or say something better than beautiful,but the people they wear these masks on their faces. when you go to a departmental store ,they greet you wid those fake smiles and "%&%&*&@###%" in japanese but never never will you find anyone to talk to or speaking to you outside.
Their is no adventure in their lives..i am an extrovert and i m feeling very lonely here. What do these people think about themselves?? I hate this homogeneous society..wid all that makeup on ur face..it pisses me of!!! Comeon you got such a beautiful country ,so natural but look at you guys...everytime under that thick film of makeup
therz an old saying that--a japanese child never sees the face of his mother till death all bcoz of the makeup..n their dressing and hairstyle..no words!!!
what they care about is reducing sound pollution and global warming ?? when their bullet comes out of tunnels ..they says it's a lot of noise and spend billions to find solution...Is that it??
there are more problems in the world..look outside your japan..people die of poverty, therz no water to drink but you people..you suck !!!
one more thing which i noticed, these people always want to live in japan never think about settling in other countries bcoz they never want to come out of there comfort zone,following the same timetable everyday with no changes  |
I experienced a great deal of friendliness... from the delivery man for the restaurant I ate at most often (his brother lived in LA so he spoke some English) to the Office manager at my school who took me bowling and played tennis with me, to the local housewife who traded English for Japanese lessons (but it was always very informal and friendly, and she often made dinner for me, etc), to the musician in the Hiroshima orchestra who took 45 minutes out of his day to help me find my hostel when I visited the city, to the girl at Dogo onsen who gave me her towel when I didn't have one (most onsens will loan or rent you a towel, but not that one), to the retired train driver on Shikoku who still rode the train each day just to talk to his friends (the other drivers) and struck up a long conversation with me about rural life in the US vs Japan, to the 6 homestays I went on (each of them with very kind and generous families), and so many more stories I couldn't relay them all. But it takes time, you can't say "Why haven't I experienced all that yet?" when you've only been there 2 weeks. I was there 2 years, and the longer I stayed, the more people opened up, the more friends I made, and the more chances I had to meet people willing and able to overcome the language barrier and try talking with me.