This time I will read this book.
Hi
This japanese translation of the Finnish Nightmares 2 -book was published so I will read it this time.
The Finnish personality resembles the Japanese. So I will read this and judge as a Japanese person
wether I understand or don't understand the situations pictured in this book.
I threw away the boards I used last time.
I didn't think there would be a second part so I threw them away. But I made new ones.
These, "I understand" and another one is "I don't get it".
With these boards I will decide whether I understand or not.
So, let's go ahead and read!
"That moment during the security check when you hope you didn't accidentally pack anything dangerous"
I understand
"When you'd like to sit down and wait but "all" of the seats are taken"
I don't get it
"When your arm touches the person sitting next to you"
I understand
"When you forget to tip"
I understand
"That moment during the security check when you hope you didn't accidentally pack anything dangerous"
I understand this because
when you pass though the gate, even if you haven't done anything wrong, it feels like though you have.
So when I pass trough the gate I try to do it with confidence like: "Is there a problem here?"
But on the other hand, that's suspicious from the point of view of the person watching me.
"Why doesn't this dude just pass through normally but has to go so broadly?"
But I have a habit of doing that.
"When your arm touches the person sitting next to you" is
"I really understand"
This is the worst.
But there isn't much space for elbows of example.
Because there isn't space, if you don't take it for yourself, you can't use it.
But if you try to take it, you will surely touch the other person. It's hard.
One time, I was on a plane and a Japanese person was sitting next to me.
He was really polite.
He said for example: "If I'm sleeping and you want to go to the toilet, please wake me. I will move right away."
I wondered why he was so polite.
He was a tour conductor of a travel agency.
So he was with many customers now going home.
So he was working.
I thought: "Okey, that's why he's so polite" and thanked him, but
he ordered a lot of wine and beer and also drank it a lot.
I wondered why he drank so much.
It must be that he needed to go straight to work after returning to Japan.
So he must have wanted to sleep as much as possible on the plane.
And in order to fall asleep as quickly as possible, he drank heavily.
So in the end, even though he asked to wake him if I want to go to the toilet
and seemed to care about me,
the power of the alcohol was strong.
After drinking he was sound asleep sleeping against my shoulder. He was snuggled up in tightly.
So close I wanted to be like: "What's with you!"
So I understand not wanting to touch the person next to you.
"When you forget to tip"
I understand
There isn't a tipping culture in Japan either.
On the other hand, when Finns travel abroad, they might suffer because of this,
but when we Japanese go to Finland, we don't have to worry at all.
Once, when I went to the toilet in a nightclub during my trip to Thailand,
and there was a person in the hand washing area, who gave people soap.
Rather than giving he just put it there.
After that you'd have to pay him.
I thought: "Oh no!", took my hands away quickly and avoided paying tip.
I'm a little bit stingy but I've done things like that.
But aren't you troubled by it?
So the tipples culture of Finland is the best.
"When you run into someone you know in the shop and then you have to avoid them for the rest of the time."
I understand
"When you don't know how to bargain."
I understand
"When you have to share a table with a stranger."
I understand
"When you forgot to buy something, go back and feel like you owe an explanation."
I understand
"When you run into someone you know in the shop and then you have to avoid them for the rest of the time."
In my case, at work, I greet the people working close to me in the morning.
And sometimes when I'm going to the toilet, I pass by my coworkers in the hallway.
And ignoring them wouldn't be very nice.
So I'll say "Good morning" even though I don't really have anything to talk about.
There are people who I don't mind passing by.
But sometimes there are those people that you wouldn't want to run into, aren't there?
So when I see a person like that heading to the toilet at the same time,
I will sometimes deliberately go to a toilet on a different floor.
I wonder what it is.
I don't know what kind of an expression to show them during the second time around.
I have prepared the first "Good morning"-expression.
The second time around, we are just passing by each other without any topic or anything.
So I don't know what I should do the second time we pass by each other.
That's why not wanting to see the person again: I understand
"When you have to share a table with a stranger."
I understand
I don't like this.
There are many in Japan who don't like it, so the restaurants have taken it into consideration.
At a restaurant near me, they have taken it into consideration by
putting up a glass mosaic panel in the middle of a two person table.
So even if there are two strangers eating at the same table, they are sitting on different sides of the glass panel.
But the restaurant failed in that you can't take off the glass panel.
Once, a family of four was sitting so that two of them were sitting on the glass panel table
and two of them, a little further away because you can't move the tables.
So they were talking to each other from afar.
So when I saw this situation where they were talking to each other without seeing each other while eating,
I thought to myself: "What is this?"
But not wanting to eat with strangers is something I understand.
"When you forgot to buy something, go back and feel like you owe an explanation."
I understand
This has happened.
If I have forgotten to buy something, I sometimes wait to buy it the next time.
I don't mind going to the register once more but,
you go in and get greeted the first time,
and then you go in again and get greeted the second time,
and the person is definitely thinking that: "That dude came in the shop again!"
I doesn't really matter. They are working so I doubt they care.
But I don't want to hear the same greeting twice. It's somehow embarrassing.
They must be thinking: "Ah, he forgot to buy this."
It's not a big deal but I think it's embarrassing and that's why I understand.
"Answering seriously to small talk… again"
I don't get it
"When someone doesn't take their shoes off before coming inside"
I understand
"When someone compliments your outfit"
I don't get it
"When someone is late but you don't want to make them feel bad"
I don't get it
"When someone doesn't take their shoes off before coming inside"
This I understand.
In Japanese culture as well, we take our shoes off inside a home.
Because my girlfriend is Finnish, I've gotten to know the Finnish culture.
This was one of the reasons why I was able to get into the Finnish culture so well.
If you wore shoes inside in Finland, it would be really uncomfortable.
I can't relax if I don't take off my shoes.
I don't even want to wear socks if possible.
So I don't like this.
When cultures are really different, like when people from Europe or America come to Japan
they are thinking about wether Japan has some sort of rules when it comes to shoes, is the culture different.
I don't know how big of a part of Europe wears shoes inside but
the European culture is closer to Finnish culture,
so they might just march in wearing their shoes.
I wonder why Finns take their shoes off at home too.
In America, they wear shoes inside, don't they? It's strange.
This can be annoying so I understand.
And so, I have read the "Finnish Nightmares 2" Japanese version
"Matti travels: he is melancholic today as well"
There were parts that I understood and parts that I didn't.
But I think that fundamentally there are lots of things that both Finns and Japanese understand.
Especially seeing someone at the store and not wanting to bump into them again is like written about me.
It wasn't about Japanese or Finns anymore,
I understood it so well it felt like the part of the book was about me.
This was a video where I had fun reading the Finnish Nightmares 2 -book.
Until my next video!
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