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In Japan, a tip can often even been seen as offensive. "What, you work at a curry shop? Here's a few hundred yen you poor thing." sort of message that is implie
by tfha 8y ago
In Japan, a tip can often even been seen as offensive. "What, you work at a curry shop? Here's a few hundred yen you poor thing." sort of message that is implied by tipping.
- kbumsik 8y agoExactly in Korea too. Tipping is often considered as if a generous rich guy throws their money to a poor man with sympathy. I think tipping is very rare in most of asian countries.
- acchow 8y agoIt used to be this way. But American tourism has spread tipping to many countries.
- goostavos 8y agoOur worst export, surely.
- SilasX 8y agoI remember someone on reddit said there was a coffee shop in Iceland that tried to be American-themed, and it had a fake tip jar with fake bills and coins in it, just to look like it would in America.
- acchow 8y agoI would say the worst export was a hard stance against drugs. And sugar-heavy foods (coca-cola and soft drinks, sugar-heavy processed foods, etc)
- kbumsik 8y agoIt is quite opposite way from the Korean's point of view - Korean tourists learn about the tipping culture when being asked for the tip by an American waiter for the first time in their life.
- eesmith 8y agoUsed to be that way in the US too. Quoting from https://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/22/world/ugly-history-tipping-america https://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/22/world/ugly-history-ti... : > Tipping actually originated in the aristocratic homes of feudal Europe.... When tips came to the United States in the late 1850s, 1860s, there was a massive anti-tipping movement. It was actually considered to be undemocratic, un-American.... Well that movement, which came right around the time of the emancipation of the slaves, was squashed by the restaurant industry, which argued that they should have the right to hire newly freed slaves and not pay them anything as valueless people and essentially let them live on customer tips. And so many of the first tipped workers in the United States were former slaves. And from https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12tipping-t.html?_r=4&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1423086904-xmM6Hk44A5dzPPioMk8utw& https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12tipping-t.html... : > After the Civil War, wealthy Americans began traveling to Europe in significant numbers, and they brought the tip home with them to demonstrate their worldliness. But the United States, unlike Europe, had no aristocratic tradition, and as tipping spread — like “evil insects and weeds,” The New York Times claimed in 1897 — many thought it was antithetical to American democratic ideals. “Tipping, and the aristocratic idea it exemplifies, is what we left Europe to escape,”
- pesmhey 8y agoWhat some of us left Europe to escape. The irony of a monolithic ‘we’ at the New York Times lamenting a return to aristocracy. I understand it was 150 years ago, still comical.
- pesmhey 8y agoThat sentiment is baked into the culture here. I will never not tip a barista for handing me a muffin.
- praptak 8y agoI have heard a subtly different explanation: it is considered rude to judge and tipping is in fact judging. Also, it implies that a business could deliver a substandard service, which is also judgemental.