Recently I always see Japanese young staff in convince stores chatting and laughing when there are no people. They stop suddenly when I come but I don’t mind people work while enjoying communication with coworkers. It’s sweet. Working as a robot is also not good.
For your information In Poland drivers must let pedestrians cross the road on zebra crossings. It is legally required for them to stop. If you stand close to the street and make it clear that you intend to cross, the drivers have to stop and let you go.
2:20 - it's city dependant, most cities I've been to in Poland automatically open doors on every stop except special ones called "Na żądanie" ("At demand"), where you have to press the STOP button. Usually they are marked with "N/Ż" after stop name. Countryside buses on the other hand nearly always require communication with bus drivers.
In Polish buses, trains and trams, the door opens at the push of a button. The idea is not to cool the bus in winter (to reduce the amount of fuel needed to heat the bus) and not to heat the bus in summer (to reduce the amount of fuel needed to run the air conditioning). This custom is enforced by new buses, trains and trams with air-conditioning installed. Ten years ago, doors opened automatically at all stops.
You see with drinks most people have a kettle and drink a bunch of tea if they don't want to drink a water straight from tap, so they just boil the tap water. Also it is wise to just keep a few drinks at home like a juice or smth in case you have a guest, but it is if you want to be very polite.
In Warsaw and in many other Polish cities tap water is perfectly drinkable. It was not always so but the quality improved significantly over the years. I personally prefer the taste of bottlled mineral water but it's reassuring to know that you can drink from the tap. As for Polish versus Japanese autumn weather, the climate is simply different, Poland being generally a cooler but also dryer place. For me the heat and humidity of summer in Tokyo is hard to bear, I'm all sweating after a half an hour walk. In Poland the temperatures are comfortable up until September or October, depending on the year, afterwards it can get less pleasant. But, as the Swedes always say (and they should know, being being even more to the North than Poland), there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
@@kensolojapa That's what old people use to tell my when I was young because they remembered 60s and 70s. Now, durning the pandemy, i was drinking nothing but tap water for months lol xD
@@karu4115 But in the place I worked water was so mineralized that a thin layer of calcium crust formed on your tea even after boiling water a few times. We didn't bother with deminaralization products, we just took out the stones from the kettle with a spoon.
You made me laugh with "Polish women '' section. Tattoos and piercing are fashionable in Europe, they don't have anything to do with being quiet, your gender etc. I think there is more room here for personal expression and personal taste than in Japan.
@@janwojtyna3392 but it's changing... 15-20year ago, tatoos were seen as atributes of criminals... currently it's a common view and noby is making a fuss about it..
About drinks in Poland. Our water in sinks in most of country is so clean that you can drink it after boiling. Even if you drink it without boiling you should be fine.
hmm the talking on the phone on public transport looks more like on the japanese example - it's considered very rude to talk loudly in public transport in Poland
tap water in cities, Warsaw for sure, is drinkable. many people also own a jug with a filter and if it comes to shops then liquor stores also have non alcoholic drinks, they are 24h and literally everywhere ;) edit: polish cashiers are nowhere near as fast as german ones, but anyways, i feel like if they suddenly slowed down everyone would just get annoyed for wasting time
It's important to notice that if the water is drinkable for Poles or Europeans it doesn't have to be drinkable for other parts of the world. I usually drink tap water at home but learned the hard way to not do this outside of Europe even if locals do drink from the tap. We are used to different bacterias and it can result in food poisoning. And agree for Germans cashiers - living in Berlin now and going to Netto or Lidl is traumatic haha.
The weather may be the reason for all the kids in malls - it may be too cold or to wet for them to met their friends outside. And if they use seatings in food courts it's only polite to eat something there.
4:12 - Actually you can drink tap water in Poland, polish water supply systems were bad a few decades ago, so older people don't do it and they teach young ones no to do it - so many polish people don't drink tap water just because someone've told them no to - I guess it's a tradition now.
On the other hand, should I start drinking it now because someone said it's ok? I'm no expert by any means but it seems just crazy to drink water which is going from sewage treatment plant, through pipes which are like 50 years old. Just one of the rules I live by - to never drink tap water anywhere in the world. Better safe than sorry :)
#3 - in Poland there are a lot of shops that offer alcoholic beverages on 24h/7 duty... these places often also offer a lot of non-alcoholic beverages as well... (anything ranging from mineral water, juice or drinks like coke). although visiting these places in the middle of the night... might give you even more culture shocks...
Remember please that some cities in Poland are SO MUCH DIFFERENT from others. If you compare the Warsaw to Wroclaw, you could be shocked how different the culture is.
At #10: what do Japanese teens do when they want to meet together after school? In Poland the free options are basically someone's house (most people live in flats and have family members that make it awkward at best and usually impossible to fit whole squad), public park (you don't always want to sit outside nor play some sports) or malls. We also don't really have after-school clubs, but I doubt that all social interactions between Japanese teens are limited to school organized activities. As for school food: we pack lunchboxes and there's school cantina for dinner. High-schoolers tend to pass on lunchbox and spend their allowance in bakeries or malls. Those kids who eat in the malls don't eat there cause "that's where they eat", but "we are here, might as well order something". Most of them probably ate something at school beforehand and will have proper dinner at home after.
Kranówka w Polsce nadaje się do picia. Niektórzy filtrują ja w specjalnym dzbanku z filtrem, żeby pozbyć się ewentualnie jakiegoś osadu. Najlepiej przygotować taką wodę z cytryną i plastrem imbiru lub listkiem mięty i smacznego!
I think some of these culture shocks are more European than just Polish. Generally in Europe we don't have many stores similar to Kombini open 24/7 like in Japan. You can always drink from tap water, at home, at a bar/pub or at a restaurant, no one ever died of dehydration. :) I think the problem here is just trying to stick to your cultural habits instead of doing what the locals do.
Vending machines in Poland tend to be placed in schools, hospitals and communications hubs ( train stations, airports etc ), also office buildings. Calling is seen as a more "personal" way of communicating, you write a text message when something isn't very important. Also, some older generation people are not used to cellphones - and that kind of rubs off onto the younger ones. The reason you see employees eating or taking calls while on the job is that many of them don't get many - if any - breaks during their workday. Labor law says they should, but if someone is working in a position like that they usually can't afford getting fired.
You can drink tap water in every city and town in Poland. It is promoted as ecological and environment friendly action. You can improve taste of tap water by using filtrering pitchers or botels. Don't be thirsty after 11PM, just drink water. :) Take care.
I hope you are having a good time in Poland. The country has its positive and negative side as do the Poles. I hope you have more good than bad experiences and I wish you all the best! 😃
It’s really not Stop button opening the door, it’s Open button that you need to press. Because some stops are not compulsory, you need to press a special button - a Stop button which is different from Open button. You can’t throw trash on the streets. Never do that. You may get told off by someone by doing that and police may give you a fine. You need to keep the trash and take it with you to the nearest trash bin. I agree that there are just few trash cans. I agree. Vending machines are not popular because they would need to contain mostly unhealthy products like sweets and sodas. To buy those you need to go to Polish grocery store. There are plenty on every corner. Yes, we are not quiet on buses and in public spaces. There is no need. That is a cultural difference. People working in malls are also people and when they have no clients, they can spend their time how they please. Eating or messaging family members is common. I agree with register and putting the products fast instead of carefully in Japan. I think it’s because everyone is in the rush.
5:10 Fun fact, in my small city, Siedlce, the tap water is one of the most cleanest in the whole country and is almost the same as the one you buy in the bottles!
The second one is really weird and shockly for me too. I don't know where you live, but here, where I am there are many trash containers and there are clean streets. If there are no container, then we take our trash to home.
In my city bus/tram doors opens automatically. You press "open doors" button to open them only when they are not opened automatically. But generally they do. When there are few people in tram/bus the driver may not open the door, so he can stop and drive back again faster. There are some bus stops marked with "n.ż" it means that the driver won't stop there until passenger press the "stop" button. Sometimes "stop" and "open doors" button is the same button, and have the both text on it.
The bus thing, to be honest you only have to push the stop button at certain bus stops where the bus doesn't stop normally, the. NA ŻĄDANIE stops. The doors normally opens automatically on a bus stop. However I think it changed, at least in some places, around covid maybe? and now it's very often that in order to open the doors you need to hit a switch. For example in Wrocław you have to push the button in order to open the doors in a tram. When it comes to trash bins, I've read somewhere that trashbins were removed in Japan because of a terrorist bomb attack in 1995 or something? If you're thirsty simply drink the tap water. It's clean in most cities:) But you may want to look it up just to be safe:)
haha, I just realized you actually think Poland is cold and not just gloomy oh man I wish it was! The latest winters were way too warm and ugly for my taste they used to be like -15 on average for long periods of time in my parents' younger days, Just curious are there any cold places in Japan or is the whole country similar in that regard.
Fajnie jest zobaczyć kogoś kto interesuje się polską z Japonii bo sam się uczę japońskiego ale mi to za bardzo nie wychodzi więc kontakt za tym językiem zawsze jest fajny.
The doors in buses open then the driver opens them from their control pad next to their seat. At some stops (the most popular ones) the drivers will routinely stop and open the doors, and other stops (the less popular ones) you need to press the Stop button, with makes a red light light up for the driver that someone wants to get off so the bus will need to stop and will need open doors. Sometimes, rarely, in fancier buses in winters you may need to press an OPEN button near the door, because the driver will not open them all like in the summer to let fresh air in regardless if someone is going through the said door, but in winter the driver will want to avoid warmth escaping from the but so his button will only enable the passengers to be able to use the Open button for adjacent door. At least that's how it works in Szczecin, can't tell for sure if it's the same in every city. But I think that would be the standard for most Europe.
7:36 - well, the logic is that when there aren't any clients requiring your help, then what's the point of you standing next to them looking pretty and stressing them out? In Poland help from shop workers is considered something extraordinary while shopping normally and used mostly when you cannot find your size on a clothes rack or other prodyct you were searching for. They are meant to be there "just in case". Polish people actually tend to really dislike when salesperson tries to help them unasked. And salesperson following you is considered to be practically purely anti-theft measure, so if they do it to you most people feel like they are accused of stealing. As for eating, well, it's not encouraged in service positions, but it's better for you to eat and keep working than pass out from hunger, right? If you have time, go for it. In office spaces tho it's pretty normal to see people with half the kitchen on their desks while working. Less walking to work kitchen that way.
For example my friend who works as a guard in mall usually takes a book or two with her for her job. Her job is to sit in place for hours to call police if anything strange happens. Noone care she isn't purely focusing on her job, cause everyone knows it's one of the most boring jobs and it's better for her to stay awake reading a book and looking around from time to time than to fall asleep and get the mall robbed. Vast majority of robberies are stopped by mere existance of a guard anyway and if someone tries to steal despite her presence it's not like a petite 1,5m girl can do anything to stop it.
It for sure depends on your employer but I completely agree with wanting to be left alone shopping retail. I don't really see it as anti-theft measure but more like trying to pressure me to buy something I don't want (although I know whe that happens it's usually just store policy and the shopping assistants are made to do this). I just want to browse and shop at my own pace! I prefer when employees mind their own business xD
That "stop" button depends of the city. While living in Podlasie I have never heard of that before I came for a trip without car to Warsaw. So nope, not everywere. Probably only huge cities. In Białystok if you do that, that an emergency button, so if a bus driver see through the camera nothin is happenin he'll ignore that... or he will stop get out from his part and ask what happend.
In Latvia we also press STOP button before jumping off the bus, even in trains and trams, trolleybuses. (just telling you if you decide to visit Latvia haha)
I agree with many things, some ideas from Japan are great and we should learn this here. : D Talking in bus, i don't like it. Talking a lot with other people in work, i couldn't focus on my work. I prefer messages, i don't need a call each time, but i know, a lot of people here prefer voice messages and calls ;D. And many, many things. Maybe I was Japanese in my past life. :D 😊
1.A lot of cities use "hot button" with bus and tram doors it's to save money on heating in winter or cooling in summer. 2. Tap water is safe to drink in Poland. If you don't like taste use something like Brita filter jug if you miss bubbles there are things like SodaStream 3. Phone in work majority of work bosses are human too they turn blind eye, food we have breaks for lunch but like me I have so much work I just eat doing invoices 👍 4. Yeah we have bad driving culture it's changing slowly but we have way too many deaths on road, my wife works in courtroom and it's insane how many car related injuries and deaths they meet so please be careful. 5. Kids in shopping malls if they are on school trip we usually get hour or two for ourselves we can roam freely without teachers supervision. But a lot of kids visit them after school or during because in older grades it's not always that you have continuous lesson after lesson sometimes you get 1-3 hour window between lessons. Then there's culture of running away from school every kid sometimes just doesn't want to be at school they run away to hang out with friends when I was kid maaaany years ago we usually had 1-3 days in year where whole class just want "no we aren't doing it it's spring let's go out and have fun" there's some yelling from parents and usually teachers frown at it but hey it's part of growing up you can skip something and later face consequences it's your choice and you learn taking those decisions.
You know Polish comminity is not that crowded as Japanese. As you said in some video. There are less people everywhere. On the street or in public transport. So that's why people don't feel annoyed when one person will have a phone call. Because we don't need to stand in a crowd all together. We can keep the distance from that person.
4:45 - XD, well there's a Żabka on every street corner tho. And they're basically always open, even if goverment spends 2 years of legally forcing them to close on Sundays. Drzymała's spirit is still strong in Polish.
O wait, you actually leave hoise after 11p.m.? Why? The only thing open at that time are dance clubs and those are pretty stinky places to be most of the time.
Only rude ppl talk on the phone in a bus/tram/train. Normal people don't do it. E.g. I got a job interview call while I was in a tram. I asked the recruiter to call me in 5 mins. I got out of the tram on the next stop, went to a secluded place and got the job :) Most people don't eat in front of a client, but there are exceptions. E.g. I worked for few years in a computer shop as a service technician. On saturdays the service part of the shop was closed (it was so called internal day). So I was eating my breakfast when my boss came with a client to help him with his computer. My breakfast was an ice cream (it was hot summer) so I couldn't leave it for later. So I attended to the client while eating an ice cream...
All these you experienced is European culture shock, not Polish. From your point of view Europe might be a very colorful place with many cultures and countries, but in reality it is ONE big culture technically with little differences (some general difference can be between north, west, east and south part of Europe, you are in Poland so that means you experienced the eastern version, but you would see the same in every eastern version, with just a little difference). Like a dish in Poland can be almost the same in Czechia or in Slovakia or Serbia.
I don't think you will die from 11 pm to 6 am due to thirst of water, unless you need another kind of drink... This panic Polish people understand very well.
About tatooes and body piercing Don't be anxious, we' re not Yakuza ☺️👍 but i understand it may be shocking to you. For Polish women such things mean fashion and a way to express our personality. Fir example, I work as a teacher and have a big tatoo on my forearm and parents reactions to it have always been positive.
Ale niektóre wyznaczone przystanki są oznaczone jako "na żądanie" (przynajmniej w Warszawie). Żeby autobus się na nich zatrzymał, trzeba wcisnąć przycisk (jeśli ktoś jest wewnątrz autobusu) albo zamachać (jeśli ktoś jest na zewnątrz, na przystanku).
For each 10 Poles in Warsaw that get firstly at night, there probably are 10 000 Japanize that get firstly at night in Tokyo. This is why vending machines make sense in Japan. TBW, 10 bodies is relatively easy to hide. :)
Many young people (millennials and younger) prefer to text on facebook (or other social media, because you don't pay extra for it), older people either talk or send SMS. I have to fight with my mom a lot to stop calling me all the time, because she always calls when I can't pick up. If it's important she should text me and I'll read it when I'm not busy 🙄. Also voice messages are evil. I usually ignore those! 😅
Why tf you can not drink tap water in Poland? Everywhere in the EU you can drink tap water. Even in showers water must be potable. When I was young at red fascist times I experienced butchery shop staff smoking cigarettes while working in Poland. It was ftortally shocking for me, even I'm Czech (neighbor country). Here in Czechia I experienced and well survived -28 °C. Human body needs one year co acommodate new climat. But not whole Nihon is such you talk. I'm pretty sure on Hokkaido they have a lot of snow and frost. Bro. If you'll ask travellers which nation is world's weirdest, most of them will answer Japanese. 😜
Listen to me, Ken. Polish drivers isn't do bad. Drivers from USSR countries ( Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) on Polish roads drive worse than Poles. But breaking rules in Western Europe as the same as here.
As a Polish person I hate being abroad and seeing Rubish bin every 2 km , I want to dispose of it right away because it's occupying my hand and it's not giving my monkey brain any peace.
With littering the streets... its very much frowned upon in Poland, we have public trash cans all over for a reason so people did not litter (unlike in countries that don't have them in fear of terrorists hiding bombs there, like in the UK). Sure there are people who weren't brought up properly and will litter cause they're just as trash as the litter they're polluting streets with, but if caught they will be fined for that - rightfully so.
Also, UK having little to no trash cans in the streets makes their streets so much unbelievably dirtier, way more littered than in Poland. Poland is really very clean in comparison. And the damn ubiquitous and really cheeky seagulls are making even more of the mess with all that litter in the UK!
Japanese cash register workers do everything neatly but they are so slow. Neatly means takes too much time. And I always feel sorry for Japanese workers standing in front of the cash register. Don’t they fell pain in their back?
9:52 - well, I'd say that most people in Poland more dislike person taking long to pack than fast to scan, tho some cashiers are real machines at this. When it comes to everyday grocery shopping we are all about that SPEED. Tho, I can definitly see how demanding it can be on the person who isn't used to it. If that makes things better, noone really expects you to keep up with the cashier, as long as you don't take your sweet time conversing with cashier people will just wait looking longly to a door. I didn't see any conveyer belts without packing space tho in Poland. Either it's just the cash register without any fancy tracks or the full package.
One advice: Load first onto conveyer belt things that you want to be on the bottom of the bag. Then you can just start packing without care when the cashier starts scanning. You have plenty of time standing to conveyer doing nothing anyway.
@@Ussurin also if I wait in a line I organise things on the register so that the cashier will go through them in an order I want them to be packed. But sometimes they take for example a tea box in the middle of my refrigerated section
11:29 - we stop by the rule: If you didn't leave skid marks under your car, the stop wasn't sudden. Well, jokes aside, personally I hate those drivers that stop slowly and for long time before the xrosswalk when I'm going over it. I'm not walking onto thw street until you've stopped, so I prefer you to stop suddenly or speed past me and save us all the time. I hate the agonizing wait time to see if the car is really stopping or he just slowed down for unrelated reason and will go past me anyway without stopping. Most of the time it'd be faster to wait for the gap after they've passed than wait for them to slowly stop for 100m.
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Recently I always see Japanese young staff in convince stores chatting and laughing when there are no people. They stop suddenly when I come but I don’t mind people work while enjoying communication with coworkers. It’s sweet. Working as a robot is also not good.
you can drink tap water in poland, seriously, it's true
Yes, everywhere
It is, but some of us still remember times when it wasn't a great idea.
@@hannagadyn6203 well maybe not in the countryside. My aunts water is unsuitable to drink
Also, you dont have to die if you dont drink tap water, just boil it.
For your information
In Poland drivers must let pedestrians cross the road on zebra crossings. It is legally required for them to stop. If you stand close to the street and make it clear that you intend to cross, the drivers have to stop and let you go.
Nope, it's not
@@snek_john_titor tell that to my traffic ticket for not giving way to a pedestrian on a zebra crossing.
2:20 - it's city dependant, most cities I've been to in Poland automatically open doors on every stop except special ones called "Na żądanie" ("At demand"), where you have to press the STOP button. Usually they are marked with "N/Ż" after stop name. Countryside buses on the other hand nearly always require communication with bus drivers.
In Polish buses, trains and trams, the door opens at the push of a button. The idea is not to cool the bus in winter (to reduce the amount of fuel needed to heat the bus) and not to heat the bus in summer (to reduce the amount of fuel needed to run the air conditioning). This custom is enforced by new buses, trains and trams with air-conditioning installed. Ten years ago, doors opened automatically at all stops.
Littering in the street even for me, a Pole, is a "shock". No dumpster nearby is no excuse!
You see with drinks most people have a kettle and drink a bunch of tea if they don't want to drink a water straight from tap, so they just boil the tap water. Also it is wise to just keep a few drinks at home like a juice or smth in case you have a guest, but it is if you want to be very polite.
I see!!
@@kensolojapa fun fact Polish people drink more tea than Japanese...
@@janwojtyna3392 Yeah, I agree! I just can't live without tea, I'm drinking a few cups of tea everyday. :)
@@tamashii6670 Tea in Poland is a basic drink
@@JolajnaLoja Yeah, and?
In Warsaw and in many other Polish cities tap water is perfectly drinkable. It was not always so but the quality improved significantly over the years. I personally prefer the taste of bottlled mineral water but it's reassuring to know that you can drink from the tap.
As for Polish versus Japanese autumn weather, the climate is simply different, Poland being generally a cooler but also dryer place. For me the heat and humidity of summer in Tokyo is hard to bear, I'm all sweating after a half an hour walk. In Poland the temperatures are comfortable up until September or October, depending on the year, afterwards it can get less pleasant. But, as the Swedes always say (and they should know, being being even more to the North than Poland), there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Yes, but I've heard the tap water in Poland isn't appreciate to our body, because it isn't used to it😂 And I also hate the Japanese summer😂
@@kensolojapa That's what old people use to tell my when I was young because they remembered 60s and 70s. Now, durning the pandemy, i was drinking nothing but tap water for months lol xD
@@kensolojapa it really changes from house to house and region. The water in my mother's house is better than bottled water for example
@@karu4115 But in the place I worked water was so mineralized that a thin layer of calcium crust formed on your tea even after boiling water a few times. We didn't bother with deminaralization products, we just took out the stones from the kettle with a spoon.
You made me laugh with "Polish women '' section. Tattoos and piercing are fashionable in Europe, they don't have anything to do with being quiet, your gender etc. I think there is more room here for personal expression and personal taste than in Japan.
lol i remember what my mother said after i got my tattoo 🤣 to say the least she reacted in a very Japanese way ...
@@janwojtyna3392 but it's changing... 15-20year ago, tatoos were seen as atributes of criminals... currently it's a common view and noby is making a fuss about it..
About drinks in Poland. Our water in sinks in most of country is so clean that you can drink it after boiling. Even if you drink it without boiling you should be fine.
i finally found someone who respects and likes my culture and nation. This is very heartwarming.
Thank you😌
Hey, tap water is drinkable in Poland, they even promote drinking it.
hmm the talking on the phone on public transport looks more like on the japanese example - it's considered very rude to talk loudly in public transport in Poland
tap water in cities, Warsaw for sure, is drinkable. many people also own a jug with a filter and if it comes to shops then liquor stores also have non alcoholic drinks, they are 24h and literally everywhere ;)
edit: polish cashiers are nowhere near as fast as german ones, but anyways, i feel like if they suddenly slowed down everyone would just get annoyed for wasting time
It's important to notice that if the water is drinkable for Poles or Europeans it doesn't have to be drinkable for other parts of the world. I usually drink tap water at home but learned the hard way to not do this outside of Europe even if locals do drink from the tap. We are used to different bacterias and it can result in food poisoning.
And agree for Germans cashiers - living in Berlin now and going to Netto or Lidl is traumatic haha.
It's not that you have to smile artifically... Today was different, your eyes were smiling! That's great! :-)
Haha, I was conscious of that😂
The weather may be the reason for all the kids in malls - it may be too cold or to wet for them to met their friends outside. And if they use seatings in food courts it's only polite to eat something there.
4:12 - Actually you can drink tap water in Poland, polish water supply systems were bad a few decades ago, so older people don't do it and they teach young ones no to do it - so many polish people don't drink tap water just because someone've told them no to - I guess it's a tradition now.
On the other hand, should I start drinking it now because someone said it's ok?
I'm no expert by any means but it seems just crazy to drink water which is going from sewage treatment plant, through pipes which are like 50 years old.
Just one of the rules I live by - to never drink tap water anywhere in the world. Better safe than sorry :)
@@kodivoid9109 you don't trust them so you trust people providing you water in plastic bottles. Makes sense
#3 - in Poland there are a lot of shops that offer alcoholic beverages on 24h/7 duty... these places often also offer a lot of non-alcoholic beverages as well... (anything ranging from mineral water, juice or drinks like coke). although visiting these places in the middle of the night... might give you even more culture shocks...
Remember please that some cities in Poland are SO MUCH DIFFERENT from others. If you compare the Warsaw to Wroclaw, you could be shocked how different the culture is.
At #10: what do Japanese teens do when they want to meet together after school? In Poland the free options are basically someone's house (most people live in flats and have family members that make it awkward at best and usually impossible to fit whole squad), public park (you don't always want to sit outside nor play some sports) or malls.
We also don't really have after-school clubs, but I doubt that all social interactions between Japanese teens are limited to school organized activities.
As for school food: we pack lunchboxes and there's school cantina for dinner. High-schoolers tend to pass on lunchbox and spend their allowance in bakeries or malls. Those kids who eat in the malls don't eat there cause "that's where they eat", but "we are here, might as well order something". Most of them probably ate something at school beforehand and will have proper dinner at home after.
Kranówka w Polsce nadaje się do picia. Niektórzy filtrują ja w specjalnym dzbanku z filtrem, żeby pozbyć się ewentualnie jakiegoś osadu. Najlepiej przygotować taką wodę z cytryną i plastrem imbiru lub listkiem mięty i smacznego!
I learned a lot about Japan, ありがとうございました
Thank you for watching!!
I think some of these culture shocks are more European than just Polish. Generally in Europe we don't have many stores similar to Kombini open 24/7 like in Japan. You can always drink from tap water, at home, at a bar/pub or at a restaurant, no one ever died of dehydration. :) I think the problem here is just trying to stick to your cultural habits instead of doing what the locals do.
Vending machines in Poland tend to be placed in schools, hospitals and communications hubs ( train stations, airports etc ), also office buildings.
Calling is seen as a more "personal" way of communicating, you write a text message when something isn't very important. Also, some older generation people are not used to cellphones - and that kind of rubs off onto the younger ones.
The reason you see employees eating or taking calls while on the job is that many of them don't get many - if any - breaks during their workday. Labor law says they should, but if someone is working in a position like that they usually can't afford getting fired.
You can drink tap water in every city and town in Poland. It is promoted as ecological and environment friendly action. You can improve taste of tap water by using filtrering pitchers or botels. Don't be thirsty after 11PM, just drink water. :) Take care.
I hope you are having a good time in Poland. The country has its positive and negative side as do the Poles. I hope you have more good than bad experiences and I wish you all the best! 😃
Talking via your phone on the bus (public transport) is considered rude. At least among the civilized ppl.
I was born in Poland in 1963. This was a real shock 4 me!
Wow😳
It’s interesting video
Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you for watching😁
It’s really not Stop button opening the door, it’s Open button that you need to press. Because some stops are not compulsory, you need to press a special button - a Stop button which is different from Open button. You can’t throw trash on the streets. Never do that. You may get told off by someone by doing that and police may give you a fine. You need to keep the trash and take it with you to the nearest trash bin. I agree that there are just few trash cans. I agree. Vending machines are not popular because they would need to contain mostly unhealthy products like sweets and sodas. To buy those you need to go to Polish grocery store. There are plenty on every corner. Yes, we are not quiet on buses and in public spaces. There is no need. That is a cultural difference. People working in malls are also people and when they have no clients, they can spend their time how they please. Eating or messaging family members is common. I agree with register and putting the products fast instead of carefully in Japan. I think it’s because everyone is in the rush.
5:10 Fun fact, in my small city, Siedlce, the tap water is one of the most cleanest in the whole country and is almost the same as the one you buy in the bottles!
The second one is really weird and shockly for me too. I don't know where you live, but here, where I am there are many trash containers and there are clean streets. If there are no container, then we take our trash to home.
In my city bus/tram doors opens automatically. You press "open doors" button to open them only when they are not opened automatically. But generally they do. When there are few people in tram/bus the driver may not open the door, so he can stop and drive back again faster. There are some bus stops marked with "n.ż" it means that the driver won't stop there until passenger press the "stop" button. Sometimes "stop" and "open doors" button is the same button, and have the both text on it.
Konichiwa! 👋I will not call TikTok like that anymore. It's Tiku Toku from now like you pronounced it 😂 so cute😂
It's Japanese style😂
Me and my family always drink tap water. We are still alive!😄
I am curious what was the problem with tap water in Poland? Thx Sir :)
I don't know but I heard I shouldn't try it🤣
The bus thing, to be honest you only have to push the stop button at certain bus stops where the bus doesn't stop normally, the. NA ŻĄDANIE stops. The doors normally opens automatically on a bus stop. However I think it changed, at least in some places, around covid maybe? and now it's very often that in order to open the doors you need to hit a switch. For example in Wrocław you have to push the button in order to open the doors in a tram.
When it comes to trash bins, I've read somewhere that trashbins were removed in Japan because of a terrorist bomb attack in 1995 or something?
If you're thirsty simply drink the tap water. It's clean in most cities:) But you may want to look it up just to be safe:)
haha, I just realized you actually think Poland is cold and not just gloomy oh man I wish it was! The latest winters were way too warm and ugly for my taste they used to be like -15 on average for long periods of time in my parents' younger days, Just curious are there any cold places in Japan or is the whole country similar in that regard.
~30 years ago we had winters hitting -30 and below. I still remember that, and not very fondly.
#3: I drink tap water. You can always boil it, if you need too. Or tea.
When people talk loudly over the phone in a bus we do get annoyed. Luckily it doesn't happen too often :}
Fajnie jest zobaczyć kogoś kto interesuje się polską z Japonii bo sam się uczę japońskiego ale mi to za bardzo nie wychodzi więc kontakt za tym językiem zawsze jest fajny.
The doors in buses open then the driver opens them from their control pad next to their seat. At some stops (the most popular ones) the drivers will routinely stop and open the doors, and other stops (the less popular ones) you need to press the Stop button, with makes a red light light up for the driver that someone wants to get off so the bus will need to stop and will need open doors. Sometimes, rarely, in fancier buses in winters you may need to press an OPEN button near the door, because the driver will not open them all like in the summer to let fresh air in regardless if someone is going through the said door, but in winter the driver will want to avoid warmth escaping from the but so his button will only enable the passengers to be able to use the Open button for adjacent door.
At least that's how it works in Szczecin, can't tell for sure if it's the same in every city. But I think that would be the standard for most Europe.
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6:30 so Japanese people treat buses like Polish people treat elevators. In Poland rules in bus are like on a sidewalk, not like in an elevator.
To be fair, near Cracov when I live bus doors open automatically. It depends on a bus company, more than on culture in Poland.
7:36 - well, the logic is that when there aren't any clients requiring your help, then what's the point of you standing next to them looking pretty and stressing them out? In Poland help from shop workers is considered something extraordinary while shopping normally and used mostly when you cannot find your size on a clothes rack or other prodyct you were searching for. They are meant to be there "just in case". Polish people actually tend to really dislike when salesperson tries to help them unasked. And salesperson following you is considered to be practically purely anti-theft measure, so if they do it to you most people feel like they are accused of stealing.
As for eating, well, it's not encouraged in service positions, but it's better for you to eat and keep working than pass out from hunger, right? If you have time, go for it. In office spaces tho it's pretty normal to see people with half the kitchen on their desks while working. Less walking to work kitchen that way.
For example my friend who works as a guard in mall usually takes a book or two with her for her job. Her job is to sit in place for hours to call police if anything strange happens. Noone care she isn't purely focusing on her job, cause everyone knows it's one of the most boring jobs and it's better for her to stay awake reading a book and looking around from time to time than to fall asleep and get the mall robbed. Vast majority of robberies are stopped by mere existance of a guard anyway and if someone tries to steal despite her presence it's not like a petite 1,5m girl can do anything to stop it.
It for sure depends on your employer but I completely agree with wanting to be left alone shopping retail. I don't really see it as anti-theft measure but more like trying to pressure me to buy something I don't want (although I know whe that happens it's usually just store policy and the shopping assistants are made to do this).
I just want to browse and shop at my own pace! I prefer when employees mind their own business xD
That "stop" button depends of the city. While living in Podlasie I have never heard of that before I came for a trip without car to Warsaw. So nope, not everywere. Probably only huge cities. In Białystok if you do that, that an emergency button, so if a bus driver see through the camera nothin is happenin he'll ignore that... or he will stop get out from his part and ask what happend.
In Latvia we also press STOP button before jumping off the bus, even in trains and trams, trolleybuses. (just telling you if you decide to visit Latvia haha)
Latvia?! I'm really curious about that country!!
@@kensolojapa yes, i am from Latvia! Please visit Latvia when you can, it's so beautiful here!
5:25 ガソリンスタンドありますよ・・・ちなみに、水道水は都市によって異なります。
I really like watching your videos!:)
Thank you soooo much!!
I agree with many things, some ideas from Japan are great and we should learn this here. : D Talking in bus, i don't like it. Talking a lot with other people in work, i couldn't focus on my work. I prefer messages, i don't need a call each time, but i know, a lot of people here prefer voice messages and calls ;D. And many, many things. Maybe I was Japanese in my past life. :D 😊
Pov: you are thirsty on Sunday in Poland.
You:💀
1.A lot of cities use "hot button" with bus and tram doors it's to save money on heating in winter or cooling in summer.
2. Tap water is safe to drink in Poland. If you don't like taste use something like Brita filter jug if you miss bubbles there are things like SodaStream
3. Phone in work majority of work bosses are human too they turn blind eye, food we have breaks for lunch but like me I have so much work I just eat doing invoices 👍
4. Yeah we have bad driving culture it's changing slowly but we have way too many deaths on road, my wife works in courtroom and it's insane how many car related injuries and deaths they meet so please be careful.
5. Kids in shopping malls if they are on school trip we usually get hour or two for ourselves we can roam freely without teachers supervision. But a lot of kids visit them after school or during because in older grades it's not always that you have continuous lesson after lesson sometimes you get 1-3 hour window between lessons. Then there's culture of running away from school every kid sometimes just doesn't want to be at school they run away to hang out with friends when I was kid maaaany years ago we usually had 1-3 days in year where whole class just want "no we aren't doing it it's spring let's go out and have fun" there's some yelling from parents and usually teachers frown at it but hey it's part of growing up you can skip something and later face consequences it's your choice and you learn taking those decisions.
Thank you for your explanation😌
Speaking of the people who talk on the phone.. I must admit.. I do it too.. But grandmas in the bus are different "breed" hahaha they yell so loudly
You can buy drinks at gas/petrol stations 24/7.
ポーランドで0℃なのにパーカーだけの人多いですね、あと遠足でよく映画館行きます映画見終わった後1時間自由行動だから皆フードコートに行く
え、そーだったんですね！映画なんて行ったことないです！
polish tap water is drinkable, also most of this is common around the world apart from Japan
But you can drink tap water in poland i do it for a few years already
You know Polish comminity is not that crowded as Japanese. As you said in some video. There are less people everywhere. On the street or in public transport. So that's why people don't feel annoyed when one person will have a phone call. Because we don't need to stand in a crowd all together. We can keep the distance from that person.
lol surely the north of Japan is much colder than Poland :D I am guessing you come from the south of Japan?
I love Ramen 😋😋😋 but here in Sweden and Norway it's not easy to make Ramen home. We don't have the Japanese shop..so I go to the Ramen restaurant...
And, the taste is different from ramen in Japan. I want you to try authentic one in Japan!!😁
There aren't instant noodles such as the cupnoodle available in Sweden unlike the U.S?
I always buy 24 bottles of water and put them next to the shoe rack to have easy access everytime i'm thirsty :)
4:45 - XD, well there's a Żabka on every street corner tho. And they're basically always open, even if goverment spends 2 years of legally forcing them to close on Sundays. Drzymała's spirit is still strong in Polish.
O wait, you actually leave hoise after 11p.m.? Why? The only thing open at that time are dance clubs and those are pretty stinky places to be most of the time.
Only rude ppl talk on the phone in a bus/tram/train. Normal people don't do it. E.g. I got a job interview call while I was in a tram. I asked the recruiter to call me in 5 mins. I got out of the tram on the next stop, went to a secluded place and got the job :) Most people don't eat in front of a client, but there are exceptions. E.g. I worked for few years in a computer shop as a service technician. On saturdays the service part of the shop was closed (it was so called internal day). So I was eating my breakfast when my boss came with a client to help him with his computer. My breakfast was an ice cream (it was hot summer) so I couldn't leave it for later. So I attended to the client while eating an ice cream...
"It must be winter"
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Looks like you didn't know the meaning of winter, but seeing as it's been half a year, you must know it by now.
All these you experienced is European culture shock, not Polish. From your point of view Europe might be a very colorful place with many cultures and countries, but in reality it is ONE big culture technically with little differences (some general difference can be between north, west, east and south part of Europe, you are in Poland so that means you experienced the eastern version, but you would see the same in every eastern version, with just a little difference). Like a dish in Poland can be almost the same in Czechia or in Slovakia or Serbia.
I don't think you will die from 11 pm to 6 am due to thirst of water, unless you need another kind of drink... This panic Polish people understand very well.
About tatooes and body piercing Don't be anxious, we' re not Yakuza ☺️👍 but i understand it may be shocking to you. For Polish women such things mean fashion and a way to express our personality. Fir example, I work as a teacher and have a big tatoo on my forearm and parents reactions to it have always been positive.
Yeah, Japan still don't accept the culture for real😅
@@kensolojapa Old Polish people either :)
Dzień dobry. ❤❤W Polsce są wyznaczone przystanki autobusowe . Autobusy nie zatrzymuja się na żądanie. Nie ma takiego zwyczaju.!
Ale niektóre wyznaczone przystanki są oznaczone jako "na żądanie" (przynajmniej w Warszawie). Żeby autobus się na nich zatrzymał, trzeba wcisnąć przycisk (jeśli ktoś jest wewnątrz autobusu) albo zamachać (jeśli ktoś jest na zewnątrz, na przystanku).
It's interesting that Japan is so clean, but the beach is not, i watched Rachel and Jun on youtube, that beach looked very sad
The 9th one is probably a Warsaw thing, people there drive like crazy 😬
True children often go to Cinema for the field trip
For each 10 Poles in Warsaw that get firstly at night, there probably are 10 000 Japanize that get firstly at night in Tokyo. This is why vending machines make sense in Japan. TBW, 10 bodies is relatively easy to hide. :)
Hm, Japenese people are well organized, kind and very interesting but I think I prefer polish culture :)
Many young people (millennials and younger) prefer to text on facebook (or other social media, because you don't pay extra for it), older people either talk or send SMS. I have to fight with my mom a lot to stop calling me all the time, because she always calls when I can't pick up. If it's important she should text me and I'll read it when I'm not busy 🙄. Also voice messages are evil. I usually ignore those! 😅
And now I know one thing...I don't know nothing about Poland 😆
Polski język bardzo trudny
Why tf you can not drink tap water in Poland? Everywhere in the EU you can drink tap water. Even in showers water must be potable.
When I was young at red fascist times I experienced butchery shop staff smoking cigarettes while working in Poland. It was ftortally shocking for me, even I'm Czech (neighbor country).
Here in Czechia I experienced and well survived -28 °C. Human body needs one year co acommodate new climat. But not whole Nihon is such you talk. I'm pretty sure on Hokkaido they have a lot of snow and frost.
Bro. If you'll ask travellers which nation is world's weirdest, most of them will answer Japanese. 😜
As a Polish person i agree about water, but you misspelled socialism.
I agree with #4. Not interested in other people's life on the bus. Call you friends later.
Listen to me, Ken. Polish drivers isn't do bad. Drivers from USSR countries ( Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) on Polish roads drive worse than Poles. But breaking rules in Western Europe as the same as here.
Waiting for Fame Mma fight between ken z Japonii vs Ignacy z Japonii
How many years it takes😂
As a Polish person I hate being abroad and seeing Rubish bin every 2 km , I want to dispose of it right away because it's occupying my hand and it's not giving my monkey brain any peace.
With littering the streets... its very much frowned upon in Poland, we have public trash cans all over for a reason so people did not litter (unlike in countries that don't have them in fear of terrorists hiding bombs there, like in the UK). Sure there are people who weren't brought up properly and will litter cause they're just as trash as the litter they're polluting streets with, but if caught they will be fined for that - rightfully so.
Also, UK having little to no trash cans in the streets makes their streets so much unbelievably dirtier, way more littered than in Poland. Poland is really very clean in comparison. And the damn ubiquitous and really cheeky seagulls are making even more of the mess with all that litter in the UK!
3 is incorrect, there are bars instead of vending machines ;)
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there are good and bad tiktoks, stop
@@raywa5821 he clearly has not seen Brody Wellmaker and his "mother" Amber. He is my antidepressant
Japanese cash register workers do everything neatly but they are so slow. Neatly means takes too much time. And I always feel sorry for Japanese workers standing in front of the cash register. Don’t they fell pain in their back?
I can explain you a lot of wierd behaviour in Poland, If you would like to know 😆😁👌
What are they?😁
@@kensolojapa 😅 really too much to write you here, I would like to explain everything that you talked about in this video and more 😁
siema Ken
You should make this video on town not in front of green and pictures.
@5:19 You traitor! You sit at home after 11:00 p.mp and as a Japanese you won't make yourself a cup of tea? 😬 😃
Dzien dobry japonczyku pszyjedzi do warszawy
ボイスメッセージいっぱい使う友達多い
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9:52 - well, I'd say that most people in Poland more dislike person taking long to pack than fast to scan, tho some cashiers are real machines at this. When it comes to everyday grocery shopping we are all about that SPEED. Tho, I can definitly see how demanding it can be on the person who isn't used to it. If that makes things better, noone really expects you to keep up with the cashier, as long as you don't take your sweet time conversing with cashier people will just wait looking longly to a door. I didn't see any conveyer belts without packing space tho in Poland. Either it's just the cash register without any fancy tracks or the full package.
One advice: Load first onto conveyer belt things that you want to be on the bottom of the bag. Then you can just start packing without care when the cashier starts scanning. You have plenty of time standing to conveyer doing nothing anyway.
@@Ussurin also if I wait in a line I organise things on the register so that the cashier will go through them in an order I want them to be packed. But sometimes they take for example a tea box in the middle of my refrigerated section
11:29 - we stop by the rule: If you didn't leave skid marks under your car, the stop wasn't sudden. Well, jokes aside, personally I hate those drivers that stop slowly and for long time before the xrosswalk when I'm going over it. I'm not walking onto thw street until you've stopped, so I prefer you to stop suddenly or speed past me and save us all the time. I hate the agonizing wait time to see if the car is really stopping or he just slowed down for unrelated reason and will go past me anyway without stopping. Most of the time it'd be faster to wait for the gap after they've passed than wait for them to slowly stop for 100m.