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As a general rule, people are people the world over, and differences between cultures are often overstated.
by ashtonkem 6y ago
As a general rule, people are people the world over, and differences between cultures are often overstated.
- ethbr0 6y agoOnly visited Tokyo briefly, but I found everything remotely odd the result of (1) history, or (2) having to find a way to live harmoniously around that many other people (and they with you). In general, it felt pretty normal.
- Razengan 6y ago(3) people assuming anything that isn’t exactly like wherever they’re from is ""odd""
- neolog 6y agohow is it an assumption? it's almost a definition.
- ashtonkem 6y ago"Odd" implies that the familiar is "normal", which tends towards there being a right and wrong way to do mundane things. If I came over to your house and said "that's an odd way to clean your house" you would reasonably assume that I think you're doing it wrong but am being polite. If they'd said "surprising", "confusing", or "unfamiliar", those are all statements that are relative to the speaker's experience.
- klmadfejno 6y agoI was running around japan for a while with a group of americans and japanese college students. Never felt anything like culture shock. Until one day two of the young male japanese students asked in hushed tones if it was true that the extremely flamboyant guy in our group was gay. Kinda weird, but ok, maybe that's just not something that's culturally normal to acknowledge in Japan. They then continued, saying they were concerned that, since they were unable to get dates, they would become gay. That was a fairly shocking moment.