I am french and I know enough American culture to understand that generalization is not appropriate for America. But Japan is very different from America. There

I am french and I know enough American culture to understand that generalization is not appropriate for America. But Japan is very different from America. There is a culture to follow tradition that have evolved to follow fashion in a very homogeneous manner. Individualism is almost non existent. I discuss often with Japanese people who makes the same types of generalizations. These generalizations are part of the understanding of Japanese people.