Getting annoyed when the train is 1 or 2 minutes delayed.
When someone says A, I do the same thing. This is a very Japanese thing to do.
Ah! I know! We farm our own rice.
That's an amazing dad you got there.
He flies a lot to other countries, France and such.
Hey guys it's Cathy Cat on Ask Japanese.
Today I am gonna go and ask Japanese people, what they think is
very Japanese about them.
It might be something personal, it might be an item that they own at home.
Let's find out what Japanese people identify with as being very Japanese
Let's go and Ask Japanese.
When did you think "I am such a Japanese person".
Foreigners they kiss in public, right?
They have no problem doing that in town.
I think I have seen a lot of tourists doing something like that too...
We would NEVER EVER do that.
Is there anything Japanese people are very proud of?
We have many manners. Also in our sports.
We also have many martial arts. That kind of culture.
We are very proud of our manners.
In the mornings, on the way to work or school...
I get annoyed when the train is one or two minutes late.
In other countries that's totally normal, right?
But in Japan, the train staff has to apologise in a great gesture to the travelers.
That reminds me how Japanese we are.
That's right. In the UK my train once got cancelled and the announcement was
very simple like "Train got cancelled."The end.
Uwaaah. - I would really not like that to happen.
Unthinkable here.
I think a 2 minute delay does mostly not even get mentioned, even in Germany.
When having food with friends, there is always that last item in the middle.
But I feel like it would be rude for me to eat the last item.
And my friends are thinking the same, so the last food item lies around for a while.
It gets hard lying there.
Why does one remain?
The last item, is always hard to claim.
If you come in a group of 4, but they bring out 5 food items...
You all eat one, but then we all eye the last one.
Nobody knows who is the one to eat it. It stays there for one hour.
If it's good friends, I will just eat it.
But if it's people I don't know that well, I will not eat it.
It will just sit there.
You're holding back, for others. - Exactly.
Why don't you decide it with rock scissors paper?
You can't do that with people that are in a higher hierarchy than you.
What is the most polite way to act in that situation?
Not eating the item? Or offering it to the highest person?
Ask them "Would you like to eat it"
But often just by asking, everyone around politely rejects it for the same sake.
Yeah that happens.
When you wait a while, the higher people will ask "are you not eating that?"
That's when I can eat it.
I get sucked into the mainstream culture we have.
When one person says A, I follow that. That's a super Japanese trait.
I can't find my own interests for myself. I think that's a really Japanese thing.
When I am tired, I want to eat rice. That makes me feel like such a Japanese person.
When I look into the mirror, my face is Japanese.
When I look into the mirror, I think I am Japanese.
What often happens, when two people want to go through a door...
Both say "You go ahead."
We both try to compromise for the other person.
We want to let the other person pass first.
We put others needs before ours.
When there is a line, I stand in line.
I do that too.
I hate waiting in line, but I will be curious what everyone is standing in line for.
I might leave the line when I find out for what it is, but first I want to see it.
Even if you don't know what people are standing in line for, you stand in line?
Yeah. And after waiting for a while, I might leave the line again.
If there is a line, there must be something interesting?
Yeah.
Keeping elevator doors open for others.
I will push the button that keeps the doors open until the next person comes.
What happened the other time...
There was a person who quickly pushed the "doors close" button.
I thought that was wrong.
What is the most Japanese thing that you have?
A Japanese festival robe balled "Happi". We wear it on summer festivals.
I have reached a high grade in Japanese calligraphy. That's very Japanese.
What is your favorite Japanese symbol then?
I like the Kanji SHO (written like 承 )
Why that one?
I like the shape of it.
I like that I can eat Sushi any time.
Lots of rice and fish.
Ah, I know. We are farming our own rice at home.
You have a field? - We have a rice paddy.
You have your own RICE PADDY? - Yes we do.
I am so sorry.
So you plant rice? - Plant rice, take weed... and such.
My mentality is very Japanese.
I like doing what everyone else is doing.
I will try not to do things that other people do not do.
That attitude is very Japanese.
You like being part of the crowd.
In America and such, people like adding new and different ideas.
I will not say my own opinions and ideas.
I have bamboo swords for doing Kendo at home.
Why?
We are a Kendo family. We go to tournaments and such.
My father is a Kendo teacher. So I joined the Kendo club too.
My mother, my sister, my brother, they all do kendo.
it would be strange if I did not do kendo too.
Kendo is like a circle, right?
That's a pretty impressive dad you have.
He's visiting abroad a lot. France and such.
He went to France and Germany to teach people how to do Kendo.
Many Japanese have, like me, some sushi tools at home.
Lots of Japanese tools.
But I calm down when I eat Japanese food.
So Japanese cuisine.
Japanese food. Yes.
American food and such, people get very excited.
But when we eat Japanese food, we calm down and thank for the meal.
I leaned flower arrangement, tea ceremonies and calligraphy.
I still have the tools needed for flower arrangements.
I also have calligraphy items and tea ceremony things at home.
You have an impressive collection there.
I used them to learn about it. That's how I got them all.
Do you still use them?
I sometimes still make flower arrangements.
So I still use those tools.
Do those Japanese skills you learnt, come in handy as adult?
Yes, I think tea ceremony does. I learned a lot from my teacher.
I learned a lot about etiquette.
When do Japanese people feel that they are Japanese people?
Lots of things evolved around the things that you have here, manners
of Japanese society, standing in line or putting your wants and needs last...
In order to put someone else first.
Being careful of manners all around you. Don't do PDA, all the things that
are happening in Japan but happen not so much in other countries.
Also, another thing that they like, they criticize about themselves...
they usually do what the masses do. For example if there is a line, and they don't know what the line is for...
they stand in line. Just to find out. Because if everyone else does it,
must be interesting.
Generally just getting a kind of...
dragged down the mainstream because everyone is doing it...
Seems to be a cultural thing. We had that in a couple of past videos
if you are curious about that, Japanese people have mentioned that
That they like being like everyone else.
There is a big draw into that culture.
And then we had simple things like,
making rice at home or only certain traditional items or goods or clothes
that identify with Japanese culture strongly.
How about you? What makes you think, "wow I am very much, a person from my country."
even though you maybe live abroad. One thing, I think....
makes me very German is, I am still absolutely in love with pretzels!
I can't say no to good pretzels, the large german crunchy pretzels
Pretzels and good German bread.
I still love it so much, no matter where in the world I go.
If you offered me a pretzel I'd probably eat it.
That's one of the things I think that makes me very very German.
In a way. Also the time keeping. I am trying to keep the time.
Being a bit strict about my working ethics sometimes...
(depends on when really)
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