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Originally Posted by MMM
Well put, so let's have this part of the bickering end here. I am seeing too many threads reduced to senseless and off topics back-and-forths, and I am seeing the same names come up again and again. I would rather temp-ban obnoxious posters than close otherwise interesting threads, and I will if these interactions keep up.
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honestly I'm getting a little tired of explaining that the sky is blue to someone who is flat out ignoring me and a dozen other people,
Bobby is persistently disturbing threads and aggravating members of this forum who typically don't get upset so easily.
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Originally Posted by MMM
Just as you wouldn't want someone to enter your home without knocking, a Japanese person would not want you visiting her home without invitation.
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Perfect comparison, I'd even go so far as to extend it by saying that in western culture, those very few people for which it
is okay to walk into their house unnanounced, without knocking, are the same people who in Japan it's okay to show up without calling, but definitely knocking first. Like close family.
Does that make sense? lol
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Originally Posted by tokusatsufan
It can't be normal to absolutely loathe the person because of that incident.
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I think if I walked into a friends house in Japan without knocking. Loathing is close to a good description lol. A very strong dislike.
I might get excused on the basis of cultural differences, once.
Showing up without calling, not loathe, that's too far even in Japan.
Honestly a visitor to Japan would have to be SUPER KY to visit anyone unannounced, the cultural differences slap you in the face immediately.
Regarding Dogsbody's friend's situation, it's entirely different because she's not in Japan. She could be getting homesick, or just sick, a friend of hers could have died in Tohoku and she's overwhelmed by it, or she simply may not feel that a few weeks without contact is a big deal, it certainly isn't in Japan! Any number of possibilities.