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29 Mar 2018
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Hindi
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What are the biggest misconceptions most foreigners might have about Japan?
What are the biggest misconceptions most foreigners might have about Japan?
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- Country or region Japan
・https://youtu.be/CxUrpUJycuU
本音 honne and 建前 tatemae↓
・https://youtu.be/cdMgKD-_nlQ
・https://youtu.be/o3QmUNd8HiE
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- Country or region United States
• That it is difficult to navigate around Japan without knowing Japanese. When in actuality, it is not that difficult to get around. People here are very kind and helpful.
• You HAVE to know Kanji—A person could honestly just learn kanji during their stay in Japan, if they chose to stay for a long period of time. You can survive in Japan without it.
• Everything is expensive.
It depends on how you spend your money but Japan is honestly not as expensive as one may think.
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I've meet some people who do not understand the how the Japanese think about their religions or beliefs, and think that those must be very important (they thin Japan is a religious country), and that Buddhism and Shintoism are similar to Christianity (that japanese can have a strong faith and fervour, for exemple, about gods or things like that).
Other misconception is that they think politeness is similar in Japan. So they don't get the honne et the tatemae, and they think it is just hypocrisy, shyness, coldness, etc... and sometimes think that underneath the behaiour of japanese people there is someone who think and feels exactly like them (like a person with a different background, from Europe, USA or Latin America, Australia, etc).
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