I’ve heard a thousand variations on this theme. They may be polite but they will never fully accept someone who isn’t Japanese.
And they have no grasp of cultural relativism at all. If I use the wrong form of address in Vietnam, it’s okay, I’m a foreigner. A similar faux pas in Japan, they won’t say a thing but you’ll go to voicemail forever after.
I’ve heard a thousand variations on this theme. They may be polite but they will never fully accept someone who isn’t Japanese.
And they have no grasp of cultural relativism at all. If I use the wrong form of address in Vietnam, it’s okay, I’m a foreigner. A similar faux pas in Japan, they won’t say a thing but you’ll go to voicemail forever after.
I’ve heard a thousand variations on this theme. They may be polite but they will never fully accept someone who isn’t Japanese.
And they have no grasp of cultural relativism at all. If I use the wrong form of address in Vietnam, it’s okay, I’m a foreigner. A similar faux pas in Japan, they won’t say a thing but you’ll go to voicemail forever after.