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GoNative (Offline)
Busier Than Shinjuku Station
 
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Inverloch, Australia
03-08-2011, 09:25 AM

There's a lot of things I love about living in Japan and there's a lot of things I don't but that's no different to my time living in Australia. There are things I think Australians could benefit from Japanese culture and visa versa. Neither place is perfect and like all countries and cultures they have good and bad. For me personally the good about Japan far outweighs the bad which is why I love living here.
I have no problem with people discussing things they dislike about Japan (although maybe with a bit more respect than you're showing ryuurui). There are certainly things in this culture that are very hard for those from western societies to readily accept but hey one of the great things about living here as a foreigner is you don't have to follow all the social norms and customs that Japanese expect of other Japanese! This of course doesn't mean you can be direspectful or insensitive to these norms and customs!
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