High school in America is just a battle royal to see who has the most tolerance and mental strength basically. I couldn't imagine being sad to graduate but if you are, school must be pretty good
Some are sad to leave their friends, teachers (they like), hometowns, and community of peers in general. One's mileage may vary greatly. It can be bittersweet, but it's always an accomplishment, and marks a new chapter in life.
@RB - 10ZZ 826142 Chinguacousy SS They just need help balancing the increased studies with emotional intelligence. They are happier to go to school though. And going to Japan with American cultural understanding can help.
I was a waitress for many years. It's not rude to raise your hand, it's rude to snap your fingers. I loved when people raised their hand when they needed something. It made my job easier lol.
Your kind if he did that back in the day my friend would have dumped water on him , she actually did that once , in my defense I told her she wasn’t cut out for the job 🤷♀️
I'm so glad you added this comment, because I have always raised my hand and never thought it was rude. Nor have I ever been told that it's rude. I was wondering for a moment if it was a state by state or regional thing since I've lived in the Pacific northwest my whole life.
The best I can figure is that maybe he raised his hand in an ostensible manner, like he fully extended his arm when he could have just raised a hand. But I think he was just hanging with the wrong people.
UPS is even worse though, if you're not standing outside waiting to sign for the package, they'll just put a notice on your door saying you weren't home, they dont even try to get you
I thought he said ups not usps. USPS will never leave your stuff out. They will just leave a slip and sometimes they will knock on your door. UPS and FedEx don't care at all.
@@angellover02171 I have the exact opposite experience. USPS leaves packages at my door (out in the open walkway at my apartment complex) and UPS and FedEx leave notices without knocking.
Fedex is worse. They never knock and leave those “we missed you” notices. Then I have to go online to inform them to leave it at a facility for me to pick up at.
When I was in high school I was bullied a lot and was even suicidal at one point. The school administration didn't care much about these things and I just felt very alone. Now that I am out of high school I feel that I have more freedom to be myself and make genuine connections with people who really care about me as a person. In America high school can be such a rough time in someone's life.
I blame the teachers and administrators 100% for any consistent bullying at high school. Then they punish you if you dare fight back somehow. They're also to blame for school shootings.
You are not alone! imagine spending 4 years in an inner-city gang infested high school and trying to graduately with honor and this was the time before cell phones and internet. But alot of us made it. You talking about bullying 7 hours per day. So glad you made it and go on to college.
@@tomsuh1362 i can imagine... i grew up w/o cell phones, tablets, laptops, internet, and even "the girl next door", or a childhood sweetheart.... bullied for my good grades, teachers hated my way of thinking (even though it made better sense).
Oh my gosh, SO TRUE! So many different regions with their own unique accents, foods, ethnic backgrounds like the heavy French influence in the New Orleans area, different local customs, different local opinions on manners! It's enough to give you a headache and I'm American. 😳
As a foreigner who lived in 3 different US states over 7 years , i only found cultural shock when i moved to US. Pretty much evrything is same except northern states are not that friendly as southern states.
How I see it American's: Oh so Japanese highschools must be like anime Japanese: Oh so american highschools must be like High school musical Honestly things are so diffrent yet so alike in the same way
@@ChinesePeter445 You mean your canine tooth? We don't have fangs, lol. Anyway, if you have a tooth in your gums above the rest of your teeth, you don't necessarily use braces to fix that. They do a small surgery to attach a gold chain to it and use rubber bands to apply pressure to pull it down. They'll use braces with a spacer to create space for the tooth If they need to.
@@brandongonzales3785 thks for clarifying that now I know how they're supposed to do it I got it checked out by a orthodontist but they deemed it wasn't anything severe even tho sometines when I sleep or move my mouth wrong it cuts the inside of my lip
@@brandongonzales3785 the tooth feels so weird and out of place I kinda wanna feel the pain and be in agony cause thn I know it's working is it weird that I like pain sometimes
So, I can't speak to the experiences of many High Schoolers in the US, but my experience was absolutely terrible. I was not part of any clique; I was a nerd in the late 90s, so I was treated like a disease. If I talked to anyone new, people looked at me with disgust. I was only able to talk to people I knew in Junior High, and even some of them abandoned me. I don't want to talk about the things that happened physically, because *that* subject is never comfortable. Let's just say that I was relentlessly bullied, and leave it at that.
i can understand what you are saying- i was rejected by classmates, girls, bullies, teachers, the principal, but got a 3.7 gpa. didn't understand what that was, and didn't care, either... but i;m still here...
I hear ya...my experience in HS was ...similar. I was tiny my first few years ...like if i cut my hair too short the doctor would declare me a dwarf tiny...I had a very small and very loose group of 'friends'...and most of the rest of school it seemed was out to torture and make my life hell...teachers included...I still seethe over the time where the dean of discipline singled me out...in middle of the lunchroom...and gave me a demerit because my fucking shirt was partially untucked. I cant tell you how many times I'd had people kidney punch me as they went through the hallways, try to steal my bag and 'nugget' it, try and get me in trouble with teachers Even once had someone jump on my back and try to choke me out in the hallways between classes...and nobody stepped in. Luckily by that point I was on guard and ended up reversing that scenario in my favor. I was able to slip the chokehold and push him away, before slinging my backpack (which was fully loaded and about 60 lbs) at him to knock him further off balance. Unburdened by the backpack (and him now burdened with both) I followed up by charging in and drop kicking him down the stairs! The bullying dropped off for a good month after that display.
@@spartanfury1 Right? The standard line you hear in HS is "Making memories that will last forever." I never wanted to be there, and the only "memories" I made in that place were of things I'd rather not remember. Home didn't help, either, with *my own father* (real class act, that one; I could write a fucking book) repeating almost all of it when I got home. Gotta love the hypocrisy it takes to instruct a kid not to be a victim while threatening them with violence if they fight back.
I wasn't a nerd, nor a jock, so therefore I was an outcast. It sucked. I was relentlessly bullied as well and it took me quite a bit until my early twenties to get over it. Worst was sixth grade for me though. Some people would hold me down and literally physically torture me by dislocating my my fingers over and over again. If I were to try to get help, or struggle, they'd punch me wherever they wanted. I've of course gotten to the point at which it doesn't bother me that much anymore, even if the memories resurface here and there, as I've become... "numb" to them. Anyways, eventually I did find my courage and fought back against them. Turns out that getting tortured like that for several months makes one quite resistant to pain. So when I got punched in fights, it was like I barely felt them. They never messed with me again. I'll say this though. No matter what my experience was like, I'm not trying to one-up you here. I know the horrible feelings that being bullied can conjure in children because I, like you, was one of them. No matter how bad or small it might seem, in comparison to other's experiences, it is always a nightmare for the person experiencing it. And unfortunately, we must all face our own nightmares. But we don't have to do it alone. I was the type of kid who loved my parents, but hated some of the peers I grew up with. Because I loved my parents, and because I was a self-sacrificer, I never told them a thing until it was too late, and I was in college. It doesn't have to be that way though. Horrible memories aside, its great that you are or were going into training for being a teacher. We need more teachers like you, who understand the pain that comes from being bullied, so we can put a stop to it whenever we see signs of it.
I think it's because of the whole dormitory situation in the US. Japan doesn't have that, so when you go to college you either live with your parents or rent an apartment alone or with roomates.
In high school here in america, we lack structure and respect for one another so it is hectic beyond belief. It leads to many issues not being resolved such as bullying or many teachers not really caring about students. So many things as a result suffer. It is overall, a terrible experience.
High school is a 6 year training program to get you used to working 8 hours a day and to stop asking why. Apart from socialization , Complete Waste Of Time. I only knew a few people who cared about the material and how they were going to apply this knowledge for the future. The rest of us are still figuring it out. How do schools exist with UA-cam.?
@@shimmerstack8506 schools provide certification and learning structure. its difficult to learn anything properly on the internet because you don't know what resources are bad and good and if its worth your time to even try out.
Highschool is a brutal social quagmire of cliques and elitism, and the lessons are often bland and monotonous because public education is abysmally funded. And, yes, there's also the constant fear of violence and gun nuttery.
this exactly. Raising the hand or a simple wave is not a bad idea. But the belittling "come here" gesture along with calling out is the worst. My dad has done this to waiters and I die a little inside every time
I raise my hand, but usually only about halfway lol. For some reason I don't want to stand out by raising my hand all the way like in school or something. I would never call out across the room. People want a quiet meal (or at least I do), not people yelling and screaming.
@@youdontneedtoknow9980 It is japanese culture that their staff give a 100 percent and it is considered bad for the staff to ignore anybody because of that.
Exactly what she said. I get the attention of the waitresses all the time.. just don't be "That Guy." You also tip based on the servers performance. if they go above and beyond for you then double the Tax of your bill and the tip would start at that amount again based on performance. I very rarely don't leave a tip unless they really pissed me off... BJ's restaurant comes to mind. This is funny though, whenever i go to Olive Garden I tip them based on how many chocolates they give me at the end of my meal. This one time i received 15 chocolates. I told her i gave you $15 tip because you brought me 15 chocolates... she quickly replied... "I can go grab the box for you" HAHAHAHA. love that story.
This can be somewhat true I think it is a mater of American high school is not as much about mentorship and learning or forming bonds as it is about them teaching us to pass the Government education test for us it was T.A.S. Test as a student in Hight School it is becoming less and less them caring about the student actually learning and more about the school district attendance and pass fail numbers. After graduating from school I went to collage for some job specific studies for instance I went in for (Windows NT Administration classes). And then I was immediately in the work retail force and retail here is terrible as there were no jobs available for what I went to collage for. There is a Lot of American's that take 0 pride in there work and do the absolute least amount of work to not get fired.
@@vladiiidracula235 you only get student debt after higher education tho. Not graduating highschool. Highschool is free and required for everyone as a bare minimum education.
Really fun video. I think it was interesting about the "rude to signal a waiter with a raised hand". I wonder if that varies by region in the U.S.? Having spent most of my life in the southeast US (Tennessee, Virginia), I've been taught/found it's fine to signal with a *partially* raised hand and a smile/nod if you catch an eye - you don't wave a hand over your head like a third grader who knows the answer to a question about dinosaurs in class. What I would consider rude is *snapping* your fingers to get the wait staff's attention. I would imagine that's frowned on in most of the U.S. I wonder if that's something considered rude in other countries?
I was a waitress in Finland. We used to call those people who waved like crazy as people in distress at sea. (This doesn't translate very well from Finnish to English, but the waving looked like someone is drowning nearby.) Snapping at the waitress is very rude in here too. But if someone slightly lifted their hand, took an eye contact and smiled a bit, it was very polite way to say they needed something. I didn't mind that at all.
Don’t do that in the north especially in the rural areas, also don’t ask for peanut butter on pancakes unless in the south, and don’t ask for pop in the west 🤦♀️ I had a standoff once over that. I’m American, I can handle it don’t recommend it if your not.
apparently snapping isn’t rude in every country though. i remember a coworker of mine once going off on a guy for snapping at her and he looked like a deer in headlights and was like “i’m so sorry, i didn’t mean to offend, in my country it’s totally normal” he was from somewhere in south america but this interaction was like eight years ago so i can’t remember which country exactly.
Sometimes the Japanese take a rather harsh tone when they do it, though...as though you should run at top speed to go get it and should be very ashamed of yourself that the item is not there (even if it isn't supposed to be).
@@sledgetable172 not quite as harsh, but case by case. America is filled with more types than Japan. We have more economic backgrounds/differences, races, ethnicities, and a larger geographical area each area having a slightly different culture/mindset. I like to date Japanese men, but I feel no hesitation to criticize Americans. Japanese, or any other group- because all groups and individuals have strengths and weaknesses. If you wanna get butt-hurt by that, that is your choice. I don't control YOUR emotions/thoughts and you don't control my thoughts/actions.
Yeah I'm in Canada, mid-west, and I don't think anyone would bat an eye if you raised your hand. I mean I don't see anyone do it, but everyone would understand WHY you raised your hand.
"Do you not enjoy high school?" The teachers don't even like school in general "I thought High School Musical was a real thing" We all wished the same thing
@@dumbleman1911 "Do you not enjoy high school?" "Sorry, I was too busy sleeping..." XD "Then how did you pass!?" "That's one of those things I still don't know..." XD
@@seink9163 my highschool experience is literally being in PE and doing nothing the entire period because it's online I can only dream of going to school in Japan
i think its more related to the general attitude from all students. it kinda seems like a fad to not enjoy highschool, but i also did have some teachers that really weren't up for the task
@@Ytinasniiable Doesn't have to be. The relevance, is that Americans even want/like the idea and flavor. (And to be technical, eat actual raw cookie dough went baking commonly). Yet have issues with other none native foods that aren't that odd sounding on paper.
Shun Chan, I am Japanese American, raised and educated here in the U.S. I was raised very much in a 100% Japanese culture (Mother was from Kyoto and Father in U.S.) and truly can relate to what you are will continue to be shocked to the America habits and culture. You will truly appreciate your Japanese life as you get older. I myself appreciate raised in a Japanese house. To this day I have Japanese habits in my current household. Appreciate who you are and how you were raised.
The thing with this is, it promotes more business. Besides, the federal law states that you HAVE to meet minimum wage pay with combined cash and tip. So, if you don't get paid what would otherwise meet minimum wage, the restaurant pays you the difference. Some states even require that restaurants pay more than federal minimum wage to make up the difference. Secondly, a college student will probably pick to be a waiter in the states because they can make a solid $100-$300 (depending on where) a night. If there was no tipping, then a few things would happen. Food would become more expensive due to increased costs of employees. I lived in Germany for 3 years and been all over the north/western EU, restaurants there compared to the US were more expensive for less food. And/or you would see less waiting staff. And/or some restaurants would go out of business. As a person who worked as a waiter in the 90s while going to college. I much prefer this method because I was making way more money for way less time spent just because I gave good service. The only people really complaining are the ones who pretend to care about the worker when they're usually getting paid more than minimum wage; all because they don't want to tip when it isn't financially possible for the business to pay their employees the $15 that they should be making. Edit: Taken directly from the Fair Labor Standards Act. (FLSA) "Employers electing to use the tip credit provision must be able to show that tipped employees receive at least the minimum wage when direct (or cash) wages and the tip credit amount are combined. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct (or cash) wages of at least $2.13 per hour do not equal the minimum hourly wage of $7.25 per hour, the employer must make up the difference." I can't reply to everyone.
Yeah, tipping is basically bs the restaurant business has pulled to pay their workers below minimum wage. Like if I'm already paying to eat at the restaurant, why do I also have to pay the workers' salary? The frustrating thing is that as long as the system exist, you kind of have to give tips, because otherwise servers can't really make money.
Don’t get us wrong: most people get very nostalgic for their high school years, but that’s because they miss being a teenager. Our culture still regards our teen years as being one of the best times of our lives, we just hate high school itself. Our grade schools are way different from Japanese schools. Perhaps we wouldn’t hate it as much of ours was designed differently, but our grade school system has a lot of issues. But our teen lives are way more than just high school, so we miss those years in general.
My teen life wasn’t special at all tbh. I miss the lack of responsibility but it honestly isn’t something I regard as being amazing. It was underwhelming. I hate how society places such an emphasis on youth because it makes me feel like I missed my chance to have fun
Teenage-hood is idolized a lot in the U.S. media (since the 1950s). However, if your teen years sucked, there is almost no market for that. Every crime documentary you see is about unhappy teenagers with mental health problems. I think being a teenager is overrated, and now, we are seeing how unhappy teenagers are with more technology, social media, and more. If you cannot conform or transcend, you lose; if you cannot be ultra popular and sustain that, you lose. The winners are afraid to lose face; the losers can never win. Not a great recipe for happiness. Shallow to the core.
So true! We hardly had any money growing up (not starving mind you, just regular working class no money for vacation type). But my mother looked around for a cheap clinic to get me braces. It’s a cultural thing for sure.
So very true! My 6yr old's front 2 adult teeth are coming in crooked and already the dentist is like, "Next appointment we will talk about how to fix that, get her teeth where they need to be." And because I had braces to fix my teeth in early high school and whitening in college, I was immediately, without thinking like, "Yes, let's get on that now so it's not a problem later on." What can I say, Americans are crazy.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo Avoid alcohol, eat only a whole food diet, brush with coconut oil? This all sounds depressing enough that I would rather lose my teeth to a mango martini.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo so be a mindless liberal spending your ehole hipster paycheck at whole foods. Jk But seriously, listening to your body is not really a thing. Unless I eat taco bell. Knowing about nutrition and where you have excess and deficiencies is more important because many issues do not manifest themselves unless critical levels are achieved. Otherwise peope would always catch potentially fatal diseases early and they would never progress. Sometimes, symptoms are silent. I mean I get what you are saying but you need to elaborate more and avoid name dropping names. Tell us what they say briefly and why it is good. Just some advice. Have a good one.
So, the thing with the cookie dough: it's made for safe consumption. There are literally recipes that are JUST for eating the dough itself, and we have warnings on those that can't be eaten raw. :)
Mm, at least it’s good though (in terms of actual available services and options) like I think Australia has like 60% of the medicines and drugs the United States has available Edit: also in other countries, it’s probably expensive too, unless it’s actually a problem why fix it for free?
@@39doritoz maxing out their credit card is just what a dipshit does, no actually decently smart person does that people seem to “need” their precious iPhone and will spend anything for it
@@crazywyvern4704 nope in Germany it’s paid from the government if you’re homeless and don’t have enough money to afford it on your own. The amount of money you have to pay for health expenses is measured with your monthly income and therefore everyone can afford it. I was quite shocked, when I found out how awful the healthcare system in the USA is.
Japan: America offers school kids' lunches at restaurants. Weird, huh? America: Yup. And the Japanese serve Kentucky Fried Chicken as a romantic Christmas dinner Japan: Point taken
not necessarily romantic... just a tradition. my dad's family always (i think always) had kfc on christmas day (they're japanese) and there aren't romantic relationships within the family lmao. it was popularised by a kfc advert saying that kfc was for christmas or smth like that (idk all the details), so it was basically a marketing strategy and it stuck.
I am English. We always had fried chicken and cake for Christmas. All my friends did too. We would talk about it at school after the holiday or take some to a friends house to share.
It's complicated, basically the waiter/waitress is suppose to be so attentive to your needs that you should not need to raise your hand, if your sitting their with your hand up for longer then 7 seconds, your kinda indicating your getting bad service to everyone else coming in the building.
@Lawnmower They generally come by every 10 minutes or so and ask how you're doing and if we need anything, it's also why Tips are pretty much mandatory, the idea is everyone in the states pays for extra attention because we all have the extra money to spare.
It's literally not rude to raise your hand for a waitress and say excuse me. As long as your tone isn't rude, it's completely fine. TIPS are a scam to justify paying wait staff incredibly low amounts of money and putting the expectation on the customer to make up for it but it's so ingrained at this point it's hard to get rid of.
Yeah, as someone from the service industry I wholeheartedly agree. But man, if someone snaps and or whistles at me like I'm some sort of dog or something... I end up going into autopilot just to help it roll off my back and not let it affect my mindset, in which if it does my work competency depletes.
@Lawnmower Again, it's complicated. The Tip is directly related to the service you get, the way the waiter gets the biggest tips is if they kinda predict what you want before you want it, and you never need to wave them over for anything because they are right there before you even realized you needed them. That's of course the most exceptional service. Normally however you just sort of wave them over, in the states most waiters have a sort of 2ed sense and will see you out of the corner of their eye. Personally if I need something immediately because I forgot to ask when they showed up with the food, I will just get up walk over and ask the waiter directly. The only thing is that if you keep your hand up until the waiter arrives for like a minute or something. You're basically saying the waiters are all terrible at their jobs and everyone should avoid that restaurant right now because the waiters aren't paying any attention. Just waving your hand in the air for like 3 seconds should be all that's needed.
As far as hating high school in the US, I'll try to explain it the best I can. Basically, people in the US who say they loved high school are those who were popular. The rest of us were outcast and had to go to school every day to be bullied viciously. I have very few good memories from those years. And it's even worse if you lived in a small town.
@@Mr_Mistah You have no idea what you are talking about. So your parents move the family because of a job, and choose a small town where no one accepts new people, where every attempt to make friends is rejected -not a kid’s fault. Parents can’t afford expensive designer clothes for you to wear to school? You’re an outcast-also beyond a kid’s control. Undiagnosed learning disabilities where a kid has had no help-just another excuse for bullying. NEVER BLAME A VICTIM FOR THE ABUSE THEY RECEIVED! Grow up and learn some empathy.
The adults don’t interfere. I actually took on the bullies and I mean even the shit of the shit the boys who harassed the girls, so I had a reputation as crazy , and my mom worked in the casino in Europe, so I had a bad ass reputation. Anyone had a problem, they came to me, all I had to do was say hi. I also tried to lead a protest against prom and was sent to a country club for the night . Not all Americans are rebel as me and not all live to tell the tale. Independent, Red white and blue.
I mean,, For Americans sure, everyone here feels self-conscious about their looks (for some reason lol), but I'm sure in Japan, like he said, it'd probably be culturally acceptable~ 😌❤️
As an American, here are my answers to your questions to the best of my ability. 1) It isn’t actually considered rude to raise your hand for restaurant staff, or politely asking “excuse me” to get there attention. It is rude to yell and snap fingers in order to get staff’s attention. They may be doing something already so it’s good to be patient. 2) People sexualize boobs, even in regards to normal functions like breast feeding. Dudes look at moms breast feeding like someone’s giving oral. I mean, infant be hungry. Nothing wrong with breastfeeding. 3) People are obsessed with having good teeth. We actually have a lot of body image issues due to companies trying to sell us stuff we don’t need, or from all the models glittered around media and stuff. It’s kinda bad actually. I remember my mum suggesting I get braces cuz two of my teeth came in interestingly. Nobody thought it was particularly weird, even a few peeps I remember as a kid thought they were cool, I looked like a vampire, so I don’t know why I would’ve needed braces. 4) It’s all about speed of delivery, and how Americans don’t really like interacting with people at their doorstep unless they personally know them. 5) I love sashimi personally. But because of my ASD, a lot of combination of foods I find gross. I don’t dip bread into anything for example, as I don’t want crumbs getting in the dip. And I don’t like celery. Can’t speak for everyone though. 6) High school was terrible. Everyone was an asshole, and if you enjoyed your experience, chances are you’re the asshole. I actually liked my teachers luckily, but peers destroyed my experience. Interestingly enough, I’m the only person I know who prefers middle school to high school. My reasoning is while I can brush of middle school shit with “well we just didn’t know any better”, because face it middle schoolers are dumb, those in high school were actively malicious. 7) For the last one, answer is actually kinda simple. We don’t eat bento regularly, so we treat it like some once in awhile cuisine. I’d also always prefer the bento to sushi rolls any day.
In my first year of high school, I was quiet and shy so there's literally no way I could've been the asshole and I genuinely think my school was one of the nicest. Nobody ever really did anything and there's obviously the occasional drama but not much else, even the "cool kids" were in good terms with the "nerds"
all of the above, I concur. Except I had a wonderful high school experience. but I was an outgoing, ambitious student who had their hands in many pots. Honors student in top 10% of the class, at least 3 clubs and 7 performing arts groups, and was an exchange student to France for part of my junior year. I was a loud and proud nerd who, despite being bullied at times, turned the other cheek and made the most out of high school, bc I had the "Make lifetime memories/live your best life" attitude. I do understand that I am an exception to the general rule.
@@likethecheeze321 Yeah, and then the varsity students like you then turn around and make fun of autistic, weird, not popular, and poc kids when no one is looking. But sure, "you go queen"
I agree with everything here, except for the high school experience. I really believe it all depends on the high school you attend.What people don’t understand are the cultural differences in every state, of the United States. For instance, high school cultural norms in Hawaii, are way different than high school cultural norms in New York, or Utah. I went to high school in Utah and Arizona, big difference!
I'm American and I've never heard someone say calling a waitress like that is rude. I've been a waitress many times and I actually prefer this over some random person walking up to me and scaring me
I have been a waitress and I was never offended by someone politely raising their hand for help. Not tipping is super rude if the service has been good.
Yeah, your friends don't know what they're talking about. Raising your hand to get a waitress' attention is perfectly acceptable. Tipping is expected because waitresses aren't paid a living wage.
Oh my gosh, my mom would be so embarrassed if I called a waiter over or even raised my hand to get their attention! The most I feel you can do without being rude is eye contact 😆.
I think there’s a wide range of experiences in high school, some love it some hate it, but it’s not widely seen as the best part of your life bc most see their graduation as the beginning to their next adventure where they can do whatever they want with their life. On to bigger and better things I guess.
This is true. We don't see highschool as the golden age where we make all of our memories, we see it as a place to get ready for when our lives *begin*, and think of it as the time we'll look back to and remember how young and dumb we were, and put it in the context of "where it all began".
So sad that 4 years of your life could have more impact that it has any business of being. Trust me when I say that when you graduate high school, everything begins: your life, your future, career, reputation, etc. You'll look back to HS and realize that it had no meaning whatsoever.
Yeah, Americans don't even like how shipping is handled in America. I get frustrated when I get a UPS notification that my package was delivered but it's still a few days out.
Email: "Your package was left at your house." Calling them: "Excuse me but I was home all day and I definitely didn't see my package get dropped off" Them: "No it was dropped off, we have record of it."
@@Jordan-Ramses I only order things when I can't find them in store. Even then it's still frustrating as fuck to not get my packages when I should get them. I don't care that I pay 50 or 60 dollars for priority shipping, that kind of service SHOULD BE FREE, not trying to sound bratty my bad. I've heard ordering stuff in Japan is handled way better.
I haven't travelled outside the US that much -- I've been to 7 other countries I can think of -- so when I eat at a "foreign food" restaurant I often wonder how authentic it is. And that gets me to thinking, do people in, say, Japan, have "American restaurants"? And what kind of food would they have there?
So, not so much like, American restaurants? I mean.. Kinda? Like.. they do hamburgers weird sometimes... You can order a 'hamburg' and its essentially just whatever you'd find in a hamburger, but with no bun... served up like a steak. its not bad, in fact its usually delicious but it is a little strange to us to be eating essentially a plain cheeseburger without a bun and with a knife and fork. They do have lots of different restaurants with their own Japanese sorta take on the cuisine... Like, tacos with carrots and radish on them, or Italian food where they throw a sausage on top of the pasta instead of a meatball. The most hilarious thing of all is the 'California Roll' which is like, reverse imported into japan as a fusion cuisine. Its already a Japanese inspired pseudo-sushi... here in japan they will make them and serve them up as almost like foreign food, but they throw in a bunch of things that you'd never find in a traditional (lol) California Roll in the USA. To Americans, California rolls are more about the California based ingredients (crab-avocado-cucumber), whereas in Japan, it means the particular style of reverse-maki roll with the rice on the outside, and you can put whatever wild things you want on the inside. Essentially, to the Japanese, any 'roll' that you see on the menu of a sushi restaurant in California is a California roll because it's about the style it's made, whereas a Californian only considers one particular ingredient option of that as a California roll, and the rest are whatever things the restaurant concocts... (dragon roll, rainbow roll, etc etc etc things you'll never see on a menu in a japanese sushi restaurant)
There are American restaurants in Japan and other countries. They vary in style a bit, but commonly it's food like you'd get at a bar & grill (burgers, steaks, BBQ, etc). Also there are diners - the food you get at a diner is largely American in origin. Hash browns, American-style pancakes, biscuits & gravy, milkshake, and so on.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo I have a sensory processing disorder that makes me _unbelievably_ picky. A diet change just wouldn't work out. Plus, although I do like some fried foods, about 90% of what I eat is peanut butter sandwiches and cereal.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo If anything, my sensory processing disorder has gotten stronger. And how would I even alter my biochemistry to my benefit? Wouldn't I need medication for that?
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo Well there's not much social bonding and love, because I'm also _very_ introverted, and I have another mental condition that causes me to be unable to express as much emotion. As for adrenaline and noradrenaline, I am generally very calm. I just don't like most food because of a sort of strengthened nocebo effect.
When Americans say we hate high school, we're mostly referring to the classes, (most) Americans do enjoy making friends and memories, extracurriculars, etc.
Nah I it wasn’t just the classes that I disliked about high school. Spirit week was always fun, though I couldn’t give two shits about the actual homecoming game. My best memories from high school are the things I did with my track/cross country team. So nothing to do with the regular school day itself. And I wasn’t sad to graduate at all.
wel while most people where to make memory's at school having an everyday live i was hating my school life because of no friends, bully's and the fact that racisem (from my mother) was a thing what ended for me like a 20 year old shut in with no friends bad connection with my family and wanted to end up dead or in a situation like the sao accident
Eh. High school sucked overall. The people and the classes. A few teachers made it worth some days, but it definitely was a terrible experience for me.
I think it *really* depends on the social environment of your school and what kind of person you were at the time. I was pretty nerdy and went to a few of different High Schools. One of them was really nice and had a culture of valuing people for a variety of reasons, but the other High Schools were really toxic and tended to only be positive experiences if you were good at (the important) sports or your family was well-off. Also, I think there's a strange cultural assumption in America that if you had a good time in High School, its all downhill from there, and vice versa if you had a bad time, which makes people say that High School sucked, even if it wasn't that bad for them. Obviously that idea is ridiculous, but I still had college friends who would describe people as having "peaked in high school" as an insult.
Also about the teeth- many people in the states are just kind of expected to have braces at a certain age. For me and my brother, we needed braces because our teeth were all kinds of messed up lol. But for my friends, hardly any of them had braces because of cost and because it wasn't a necessity for them. You're more likely to see people without braces in more rural/poorer areas, so wherever you were (maybe a city or wealthier town?) a lot more people are going to have or have had braces.
Yes I agree with you. In Japan, I think you need to "get into" a high school. We don't need to take exams to get into a high school in America; you are forced to continue in whichever district your house is in. We are carried through the system and only middle of Junior year (I think? It's been a while) you start to apply to colleges and hope for an acceptance. Out-of-state university is popular... you can travel thousands of miles and start your new life super fresh, customizing. I travelled 2,500 miles across the country. So definitely agree that seishun usually has to wait until adulthood in America.
@@FlubberBands really? About the braces that is crazy if that's actually true. I live in Canada so not a huge difference but only people who are well off get braces usually. If you're poor you don't get braces. My teeth are pretty fucked up. And I'm now missing like 3 or 4
I love Japanese food! And personally, I think the whole bento fascination stems from the neat portions and "authentic" look of the food. The idea of eating such beautifully portioned and prepared food in a Japanese restaurant is really cool!🤪
Yeah, I never understood why so many animes are about or take place in school until I watched this video. High school in America is so hated because of how bad the education and the students are.
An analysis I saw somewhere else is that the Japanese culture is a bit obssessed with it's youth in part because it's an aging country, with roughly a third of the population being over 60. Also adult work-life is so demanding and all consuming that high-school age is the only brief period of life in which people have any semblance of freedom, so it only makes sense that any interesting stories going on with which people can relate to happen to 16 yrlds.
The teeth issue is more of a “acceptance” thing. People want to feel accepted socially and America places a lot of weight on appearance. Many people are quick to fix it despite it still being expensive, due to societal pressure.
It can also sometimes be easier to clean straighter teeth, depending. But definitely, it is highly valued, and straighting them earlier is seen as preferable to later.
Well, America places a lot of weight on good teeth. It's become a country of yoga/sweat pants with tee shirt wearers so the expectations are specific. You will find people who live in trailers on fixed incomes who have perfect teeth, that's how obsessed Americans/Canadians are with good teeth.
And a lot of parents feel they ought to provide orthodontic care for their children. To the point where those who have crooked teeth as young adults might end up being the odd ones out.
I guess I'm in the minority. Never had braces, and my teeth are nowhere near straight and not even very white. But they are healthy, so I don't really care what people think about my teeth. :)
I went to middle/high school in Japan for a few years and America for a few years. In Japan, I could choose to stay at school late and take the "late bus" home, choose to walk to a friend's house, choose to go to the store, I could /go/ places. In America, I couldn't do any of that without a car (no late bus, no public transport, and I'm not walking 10 miles to my nearest friend's house). This leaves most US high schoolers dependent on parents. That's what I hated about high school in the States
You can do all this, it just depends where did you go to school. But high school sucked as*s compared to where I grew up. There was no sense of long friendship and it felt more like people you just pass by in the streets. There was also so much animosity between having people from so many different places. I think the later is what contributed to the horrible sense of not having anything in common.
I'm in American Highschool, and your absolutely correct. It's terrible. My siblings and I all need accommodations, but the schools refuse to give us any, probably because it costs them money. Money over health, apparently.
Yeah, that's more something I've seen/heard from British people. I've never heard anyone in the US (at least where I have lived) say that is rude to do. How else are you going to get your servers attention? Just yell across the restaurant? Now THAT would be pretty rude. heh
Yeah I never considered it a rude thing. I actually would prefer people raising their hands instead of people raising their voice. Also in a restaurant environment where it at times can be loud, seeing a customer with a raised hand is a lot easier to spot then making out "excuse me" in a sea of voices.
Depends where you are. America is huge. Japan is a small largely homogenous island, America is half a continent where one part can be having foot of snow, while another is in the high 70°F
I actually ate an an "American" pizzeria while I was in Beijing (China and Japan are incredibly different obviously) but it was a very interesting experience. My friend had a pizza that had literal french fries as a topping. My pizza had no bread crust and the crust was just cheese. A Pizza Hut that I also went to in Beijing was a full-on Italian restaurant with fettucine alfredo, spaghetti, and of course pizza. I'd love to know what specifically an American restaurant in Japan would serve.
@@mythik4840 well if you go to an American restaurant they will serve you the same thing as America when I say restaurant I mean the shitty fast food like McDonalds, tacobell, etc. A&W was probably the best I had there. The portions tho are half the size of the ones here in America but their quality of food is prestiege and also the service. I mean America is not really well known for their huge viarity of cuisine either so dont expect much. Pizza is not even American and they completely messed up the itilian dish to be honest so your stardards of a real pizza is probably much lower of what the real dish really is. Anyway dont expect much abput American food in other countries.
That sounds like a great idea actually. I'd love to move to Japan and open up a NY style diner that serves all the diner classics and has a retro 50's vibe. I wonder how it would do though, once the nostalgia of it wears off on the people.
@@jpizzleforizzle It comes down to cents when companies go over the bill of materials (BOM). It's frustrating. They will try extremely hard to get the lowest price possible.
Love Japanese good but raw fish and sushi taste really plain to me, not worth the potential food poisoning or the extremely high price, if its grilled I'm cool with it
@@ninifofini But why is your society like that do you think? I'm British so... obviously y'all take the piss out of our teeth standards here... but my dad, we have relatives in the states, so he felt compelled to get his teeth whitened, and he just looked foolish - to us, here in the UK... nobody looks like that. It looked freakish and unnatural. Honestly, the rest of the world does not have this practice, we are not so vain when it comes to this... 'bone white' is not - bright white... Why do you think you do that yourselves? Mentally I mean? It's crazy vain pressure for no reason. I've never had fillings or a tooth out... but my teeth are yellow-ish.. through smoking etc... just how life goes.
The first time I went to Japan, one of the women who was taking me sight seeing was so nervous about me eating Japanese food, she tried to talk me out of it several times. I assured her, I LOVE Japanese food. Every restaurant we went to she was so shocked I liked things like mackerel and Burdock root. She used to live in the US and I guess some of her American friends had trashed Japanese food, it was really sad. I hope I set a better example!
It's like the first time I had calamari I think that's how it's spelled eating squid was at a best friends like 11 th birthday party and the calamari made by his aunt was amazing philapino food is amazing adobo is really good as well I just really like food but what do you expect I'm a American male
i did an exchange program in japan sophomore year and my friends brought me to mcdonald’s when i told them i was home sick and wanted something that reminded me of home...all i wanted was this fancy salad my mom makes 💀
Had a similar experience when I tried natto while an exchange student in Japan. Decided to stop at a small family-owned restaurant near the dorm and the entree I ordered had natto on the side. Deciding I should try it at least once, I ordered it explicitly knowing it was there. The owners came out, wanted to make sure I knew that the natto was there, and asked if as a foreigner I might prefer something else. I said I was interested in trying it, and so they brought it out and proceeded to watch as I took a bite of it. I really didn't notice much of a flavor good or bad right away as I was chewing on the first bite, but they panicked so much from my "processing..." response that they apologized and took it away before I could try a second bite to confirm the first.
My high school years were the worst in my life. I went to a terrible school with unmotivated staff who were teaching lesson by lesson from the book without much positive teaching aspects. Despite my good grades I couldn't take the classes I wanted because they were "full", which they weren't, the school just didn't want to put in the effort to work student's schedules in complex ways. While I was goin the entire school was under construction with dust clouds in the air and we had coal miner lights lighting up the hallways. The meals and staff from the cafeteria's were so terrible that they got replaced by vending machines. Not to mention every year we had new teachers and new principles because the old ones kept quitting. The teachers were judgmental and mean, bulling students and purposely causing drama. The students themselves weren't much better, passing with bottom of the barrel grades or barely showing up to school at all, they would only pass because teachers would forcibly pass them just so they didn't have to deal with them the next year. I was in several clubs, joining and quitting every year or so to join new clubs. Every club was unexceptional. The only ones I joined and liked were music and soccer. Every other club in the school was a waste of funding tbh, the students were terribly unmotivated and always strived for the bare minimum and I blame the school for teaching them and expecting that kind of behavior. My school was considered one of the worst schools in America when I was going there. When I went to college I learned how truly useless my High school was, I didn't learn a damn thing about anything, it makes me mad I spent my time going there and wasting my life.
I wish it is but its usually because if your teeth arent good you feel like your gonna get hate crimed lmfaoaoa but you actually wont and people don't care lmaoaooa
I actually don't understand why getting a waiter's attention would be considered rude. I was born and raised in America and I raise my hand and ask for service.
because it can make it seem to other customers, as if he/she isn't doing their job being attentive to tables. I tip based on service, and if I have to ask for anything (things that are not unusual, of course) that will affect the tip.
It's soooo different in the Far East. It was ages before I could bring myself to call a waiter in Seoul. You SHOUT for them. "WAIIITERRR!" or "HEYYY!" It's just the way they do things.
In Japan, you can raise your hand and yell “sumimasen!” to get the attention of the server. In America, i think it’s ok to raise your hand and politely ask for assistance or service but i can understand what he’s saying. When I stayed in Japan, it’s very common to hear a patron say loudly for the server to come where as here, it might be considered a little more rude.
@@submaxcw7947 The US really should go back to smaller potions and an extra course. I mean it can't be that hard to actually let people enjoy the company they're with.
@@KRYMauL Sounds like a great idea but not one that's going to happen anytime soon. In the U.S. portion size is equated with value, so the bigger the portion the more value for your $. At least that's how it started.
People do steal packages in America, but, in places where I've lived anyway, it's pretty rare. I have had many, many packages left on my front porch and I don't recall ever having one stolen. I only recall once that a company even worried about the possibility of a package being stolen, and that was when it was an item that cost $5,000. For that they required the delivery service to hand deliver it and get a signature from me.
@@HappyH4ppyHappy I don't think they do. They may not like the rigor of college but, everything I've seen suggests that Americans like college overall.
yeah i think it's less that it's cheap and more a cultural thing. we're obsessed with looking like celebrities, and american celebrities are obsessed with looking perfect. just one symptom of america brain
It cost like 700,000¥ to 1,100,000 ¥ yen in Japan, which is roughly around 7,000$ to 11,000$ for a full 2/3 years braces plan. It cost too much for many people. How much does it cost from where you come from?
There are new technologies coming out every day that are making dentistry cheaper in the U.S. They can even create retainers to re-align your teeth online without a doctors office visit in person. Its becoming affordable for most of the middle class and even the lower income people.
I've never heard of it being rude to grab the attention of a server with a raised hand. People do it all the time. I don't know where you were, but that's weird.
@@jeanvignes Yeah it's more about making noises in my opinion. Simply making eye contact and small hand gesture to get attention is the proper way for me. Just no no to the yelling out loud "EXCUSE MEEEE", standing up or waving hands rigorously, or something like that.
currently a senior in high school and in my experience, its not that I hate school, its the work that I hate especially when i have a learning disability. Work piles up fast and also I genuinely don’t think anyone here in the US actually studies unless a teacher assigns a study guide.
I really do wish we can get rid of it someday. It makes no sense to me that the customers are paying the wait staff when their employer should be paying them a living wage from the get-go.
A lot of European countries have tipping culture too, although it's changing. Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece if I'm not mistaken tip too. But yeah we don't have tipping wages like in America that's just retarded, and you don't tip when you pay with card, only when you pay with cash (you let the change in the tray, normally it's only 1 or 2€)
"Do you not enjoy high school?" It's a depressing conformation machine that drains you of your energy, destroys self-esteem, and teaches you crap you'll never use again. On top of that, everyone falls into their cliques, fights over trivial garbage, and the majority of us are just left worrying what the hell we're gonna do with our lives once it's over. College/University is fine, so long as you can afford it and have a general idea of what you're majoring in. Otherwise it, too, can feel like a very expensive waste of time.
I think its pretty prevalent culture in the eastern culture, the responsibility to give back to the family as an adult rather than chasing our individual happiness, family over self
Yeah in America high school is like four years of hell. Most of your classmates are jerks, and at most schools there is a lot of pressure to fit in, exams, way too much homework, stress about your grades being good so you can into college, constantly being tired... Highschool is the worst
not so sure about the squid ink stuff but I cant get enough of sushi, (Raw fish) and rice with shoyu sauce, and I appreciate tofu when cooked certain ways. My brother can't understand blue cheese (WHY DO YOU EAT THE MOLDY CHEESE!)
I really hit me when he said that high school is supposed to be the best time in your life. I had a horrible experience and I'm assuming that adult life is very difficult so it only gets worse after graduating.🤦♀️
Nah high school is absolutely not the best time of your life, regardless of what anyone says. After high school is when you're able to make your own choices, and while adult life is certainly hard, it can be mitigated by your own positive choices. A lot of the difficulty comes from school failing to teach us the things we need to succeed in everyday life.
Currently waiting on a package that's been marked as "out for delivery" twice now, like they left the post office with my package.. and brought it back to the post office with them.. twice.
I got the steel book for weathering with you. Said it was delivered at front door. After searching for 45 minutes I found it in the back of my aunts truck parked next door (it was also overcast with a chance of rain. )
@@SZXMonster I hate that shizz. Especially when the contents of my package are illegal. I'm like yo mail man, I've been waiting like 5 hours to get high now. Geez hurry it up.
All of the different countries cultures are weird at first to people from other places. That’s just how it is. Doesn’t mean they have to be arguing about it and also literally every country would be saying it to every other country.
Yeah most Americans hated their high school years. They're described as "the hell years" and "the worst years of my life" quite often. In fact, having a lot of fond memories and nostalgia for your time in high school is considered by many to be a very negative trait and a sign that somebody failed to amount to anything in "the real world" and holds on to shallow accomplishments and popularity as a balm for a poor level of accomplishment.
which i think is ridiculous honestly...not everyone was a loser or hated in high school and just bc they were successful or enjoyed themselves doesnt mean thats when they peaked
Add to this point the fact that teachers have very low pay and are not well respected, a curriculum level far bellow the standards of most prosperous nations, and the serious lack of respect or empathy displayed the average American, and you wind up with an experience that is often mediocre at best.
@Gerry C I enjoyed high school but I now find that I have little in common with my friends from that time except our memories together. And there's only so much time you can spend reminiscing. I can understand how it can be a traumatic time for some people, though.
The teeth thing is social pressure and pressure from dentists. For years, every time I went to the dentist, they would tell me I needed braces. They try to convince you your teeth are bad so you will buy braces, it's how they make more money.
Actually, I thought about that, and then I realized that America is a very 'smily' culture. Americans smile a lot to portray friendliness and positivity. It's so engrained in our behavior that we don't realize it, but people from other countries realize it. So it makes sense, in a culture where smiling and positivity is valued to such a degree, that teeth become a center of self-consciousness.
@@thedude8227 i read once that Americans smile a lot because at the beginning people didnt speak one language, so to show that you're friendly towards other people, Americans smiled. Since people in UK or Japan etc speak same language in their countries, they arent used to smile as much as Americans. Dont know if its true
Dentists in Finland encourage you to have your teeth fixed during your childhood/teen years so that they don’t bring complications in your later life. However all dentist expenses are paid by taxpayers (until you turn 18) lol.
I wanted to believe this before (because braces, yeuck), but growing up further, and seeing how the rest of my teeth have grown, I can see how it would have been a Much more painful problem had nothing been done. (Not that I liked any of it, but such is genetics, yay)
In America, we actually have edible cookie dough where they replace the ingredients but make it taste the same. I understand it may be weird, but since kids, like me, grew up sneaking cookie dough while our mom or dad was making it, stores came up with the idea of a more healthy cookie dough without chance of salmonella (egg) poisoning. Also, do Japanese not eat raw sweets before they are baked or ready to be served?
you don't get sick from the egg in the dough its the raw flour that makes you sick. that's way you sometimes see people eating raw eggs, its a good source of protein.
American here. Most of these points can be explained with "Depends". The country is so big that many things apply to one part of the country but not another part. These days, it can be hard to pinpoint "American Things" without discussing what part of America. Restaurant: I think it's because most restaurants in the US assign a server to your table so they already come to your table periodically. So maybe people think it's rude as it's like you want them to come back faster. But I don't think it's a big deal. I've been in other countries where the waiters are just floating around so you have to wave someone down. Progressive: Really depends on where you are in the US. Liberal areas like NYC or Seattle agree with the movement but the conservative areas like Texas or Alabama are very much like what you said Japan is like. I don't know how the women in those areas feel about it though. No one is bothered if you're topless at the beach but walking downtown topless will cause a disturbance. Teeth: It has just become a tradition to get your teeth fixed with orthodontics at this point. It certainly not cheap however. Generally the only people that don't get work done are the people that can't afford it. So having bad teeth has been associated with being poor in a way. USPS: Also depends where you live. I've never had a package stolen but I've had 1 or 2 get lost in the mail. Larger or denser cities have a bigger issue with this because it's easier for someone walking down the sidewalk to swipe your package. This is a big reason why doorbell cameras and porch cameras have become popular. Also, all delivery services do this (FedEx, UPS, Amazon), not just USPS. Very expensive shipments like $1,000+ usually require a signature. But stealing a package that is very valuable can be a Felony so that stops some people from doing it. American Food: Many Americans are incredibly picky when it comes to food so don't feel bad. They won't even eat food from other "white people" countries like Poland. Sushi is actually quite popular in the US, especially on the West Coast. Raw Egg is not common but I think that has to do with how we get our eggs since they have to be refrigerated. Also Turkey Butt Bread aka "stuffing" can be made without putting it in a turkey at all. It's often made without the turkey as it's easier, cheaper, and removes the risk of bacteria from raw meat. High School: Depends who you talk to. Some students spend a lot of time at football/cheerleader practice, going to parties, being popular, etc, so High School to them is the best time of their lives. Others though aren't into that sort of thing and either spend a lot of time studying or doing activities outside of school. So to those people, they hate school. But after all that studying, they get to go to college and that's where they enjoy things like clubs. So our college experience sounds more like your high school experience. Japanese Restaurants: Many of the Japanese restaurants here were opened by Japanese immigrants so they likely understand what a Bento Box is for. My guess is that it sells well to the American customers so they put it on their menu. I personally like them because the box usually has an assortment of Japanese food. Now I can try different Japanese items without having to order multiple dishes.
The food thing was weird to me because I seen so many different types of restaurants of foods around the world but at home people only really stuck to the same routine of “American food” with maybe a bit of Mexican or Asian but that’s as far as it would go and there didn’t seem to be a forever changing types of food at home. But then again I didn’t spent years in America to fully know and the country is big and different everywhere.
The popularity of the Bento box as a menu item in America has once been theoretically linked to the feeling of having a lunch box made for you by someone else. A novelty that most adults, and even children and teenagers, lose out on with the way America has been developing.
Because high school is drama, bullying and cliques. A lot of people don’t really “find themselves” until AFTER high school, so it’s just a really awkward period where a lot of people just float on by. We have tons of movies about this. The “best time” is your 20s. You’re free of the shackles of high school. You probably moved out of your parents house or even out of town. You probably have a car. You can drink and date freely. Your social circle is no longer restricted to where you grew up.
When I grow up I wanna be a video game maker that is 6 feet tall and strong and doesn't have a driver's license because I'll use a bike or walk and be strong
I think the last part you mentioned is the most important, "Your social circle is no longer restricted to where you grew up." In high school, many people are just hanging out with whatever crowd they fit into. After high school you get to make some real deep connections with people who you fit with more.
I hated high school and I hated most of my 20s as well. I really hit my stride in my 30s and really enjoyed it. Now I'm in my 40s and enjoying them as well.
I was a waitress (in Oregon) and I would have loved it if my customers would raise their hand when they wanted something instead of having to go around asking if they needed anything and interrupting their meals. -___- So I say raise your hand away! Maybe it'll catch on and we can all be happier lol.
Thats what I'm talking about. I know that waiters/waitresses have to, but the mid-meal checkups are annoying. Give the customer the agency to ask for you when and if they need it. It's better for the staff and the customers. As an American who lives in Japan, we Americans have a lot to learn from the Japanese in terms of service.
you have a lovely personality! peanut butter and celery is one of my favorite snacks (if you add raisins it’s AMAZING) and your opinion about it made me laugh so hard lol.
Re "before you click the dislike button": Aw, I think learning about other cultures and hearing about what people from other cultures think about mine is fun! If we all had exactly the same customs and tastes and so on, that would be boring.
“I thought High School Musical was a real thing.”
Me, an American: Me too. Me too.
It kind of is where I live the school they used in the films is literally like 30 minutes from me and my brother can walk to it.
Facts when I went to HS for the the first time it was a culture shock from an American
Thank Goodness it's not.
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@@ranasiaclark8030 what do you mean?
High school in America is just a battle royal to see who has the most tolerance and mental strength basically. I couldn't imagine being sad to graduate but if you are, school must be pretty good
Using the term 'battle royale' is a bit ironic. Look up the Japanese movie Battle Royale to find out why.
Some are sad to leave their friends, teachers (they like), hometowns, and community of peers in general. One's mileage may vary greatly. It can be bittersweet, but it's always an accomplishment, and marks a new chapter in life.
For this reason I will raise my kids in Japan
@RB - 10ZZ 826142 Chinguacousy SS They just need help balancing the increased studies with emotional intelligence. They are happier to go to school though. And going to Japan with American cultural understanding can help.
I'm sad to graduate bc that means its time to adult
The fake play button on the wall is probably one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen lol
Cant wait to see the real one
I'll give him a sub, just so it can be real one day :)
@@6Beast6Rider6 because that's what heroes do
That's not fake?
I didn’t even know it was fake until you pointed that out
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I was a waitress for many years. It's not rude to raise your hand, it's rude to snap your fingers. I loved when people raised their hand when they needed something. It made my job easier lol.
Yeah unless you're waving your hands around acting like a maniac, its perfectly okay.
@@BeyondBaito meh. Then they just look like the dumb ones, not me
Your kind if he did that back in the day my friend would have dumped water on him , she actually did that once , in my defense I told her she wasn’t cut out for the job 🤷♀️
Thank you. I was wondering why I sort of agreed with him. Honestly I never have to do so because staff always come by regularly.
I'm so glad you added this comment, because I have always raised my hand and never thought it was rude. Nor have I ever been told that it's rude. I was wondering for a moment if it was a state by state or regional thing since I've lived in the Pacific northwest my whole life.
It's not rude to raise your hand to get the wait staff's attention. Screaming across the restaurant for your waiter/waitress is rude.
this. i didn't know what he meant. As an American, i never saw this as rude. I think he just had silly American friends.
The best I can figure is that maybe he raised his hand in an ostensible manner, like he fully extended his arm when he could have just raised a hand.
But I think he was just hanging with the wrong people.
Raising your hand is only rude if you do it as a precursor to snapping your fingers at the wait staff.
@@BlackCatsAndCorgis Exactly what I was thinking. Raising your hand isn't rude. Raising your hand and snapping to get the wait staff's attention is.
Yelling and snapping your fingers is horrible,but just a raised hand ana a polite request...totally acceptable.
“Is it cheap in America or what” *laughs in crippling debt*
Chris Stone Unlisted laughs in a Russian accent
no but for real why do all americans have perfect teeth are you like required to get braces or?
@@m4tta i wasn’t, we vist the dentist every 6 months to a year, tho we basically are socially pressured into getting braces
I felt that but I can’t afford braces so imma have messed up teeth for the rest of my life🙃
@@m4tta We fluoridate our water supply.
“The USPS is not consistent.” Yes, we Americans have noticed that too.
UPS is even worse though, if you're not standing outside waiting to sign for the package, they'll just put a notice on your door saying you weren't home, they dont even try to get you
I thought he said ups not usps. USPS will never leave your stuff out. They will just leave a slip and sometimes they will knock on your door. UPS and FedEx don't care at all.
@@angellover02171 I have the exact opposite experience. USPS leaves packages at my door (out in the open walkway at my apartment complex) and UPS and FedEx leave notices without knocking.
Fedex is worse. They never knock and leave those “we missed you” notices. Then I have to go online to inform them to leave it at a facility for me to pick up at.
Yeah... None of them are good except maybe DHL
When I was in high school I was bullied a lot and was even suicidal at one point. The school administration didn't care much about these things and I just felt very alone. Now that I am out of high school I feel that I have more freedom to be myself and make genuine connections with people who really care about me as a person. In America high school can be such a rough time in someone's life.
i totally understand you.. (are you a nerd? i was, and still am)
Tell me about it!
I blame the teachers and administrators 100% for any consistent bullying at high school. Then they punish you if you dare fight back somehow. They're also to blame for school shootings.
You are not alone! imagine spending 4 years in an inner-city gang infested high school and trying to graduately with honor and this was the time before cell phones and internet. But alot of us made it. You talking about bullying 7 hours per day. So glad you made it and go on to college.
@@tomsuh1362 i can imagine... i grew up w/o cell phones, tablets, laptops, internet, and even "the girl next door", or a childhood sweetheart.... bullied for my good grades, teachers hated my way of thinking (even though it made better sense).
You could get a culture shock just by moving to another state in the U.S.
Oh my gosh, SO TRUE! So many different regions with their own unique accents, foods, ethnic backgrounds like the heavy French influence in the New Orleans area, different local customs, different local opinions on manners! It's enough to give you a headache and I'm American. 😳
Yep! New York to Utah.
As a foreigner who lived in 3 different US states over 7 years , i only found cultural shock when i moved to US. Pretty much evrything is same except northern states are not that friendly as southern states.
@@sarathkumarmulugurthi9206 I can see that. Southern states are well known for their hospitality. 🙂
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I like how respectful this guy was while talking about america,he was super polite and funny
I really liked how he talked about good things to most people just like to shit on America
i would be fine if he was rude about it but he respectful.
except the celery with peanut butter even tho i 100% agree with him lmao
I WILL DESTROY THE HUMAN RACE (=
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How I see it
American's: Oh so Japanese highschools must be like anime
Japanese: Oh so american highschools must be like High school musical
Honestly things are so diffrent yet so alike in the same way
Truuueee
Yea
TRUUE
Rest of the world: Oh so american high schools must be like pubg
@@ryumikooo Lmao
No, I was a waiter, I was never offended if someone raised their hand,in fact I think it's polite. Thank you, 😊
Getting whitening strips as a gift would honestly be kind of insulting in America 😅
Your teeth look bad here are some whitening strips.
My 5th grade teacher gifted me travel size deodorant. I laughed about it
@@marcusbrown188 - I laughed aloud. 🤣
Wow!
@Chris Nunyabeezwax my dentist literally wears three masks
Big, straight white teeth are a sign of youth, health, and beauty in America. It's a weird obsession. You do NOT need braces; you have lovely teeth!
I AGREE!!!!
Yea the fang that's above in my gums about 3inches says others wise and so does my overbite
@@ChinesePeter445 You mean your canine tooth? We don't have fangs, lol. Anyway, if you have a tooth in your gums above the rest of your teeth, you don't necessarily use braces to fix that. They do a small surgery to attach a gold chain to it and use rubber bands to apply pressure to pull it down. They'll use braces with a spacer to create space for the tooth If they need to.
@@brandongonzales3785 thks for clarifying that now I know how they're supposed to do it I got it checked out by a orthodontist but they deemed it wasn't anything severe even tho sometines when I sleep or move my mouth wrong it cuts the inside of my lip
@@brandongonzales3785 the tooth feels so weird and out of place I kinda wanna feel the pain and be in agony cause thn I know it's working is it weird that I like pain sometimes
“Shoving vegetables into a turkey’s butt and roasting it” 💀 this sent me over the edge.
That was great.
@guano I guess people eat celery to lose weight, which is immediately undone by the amount of fat and possibly sugar in the peanut butter.
Idk why we do that
@@outcoredragraces8656 Because fat and sugar taste better than celery.
But its dead already
So, I can't speak to the experiences of many High Schoolers in the US, but my experience was absolutely terrible.
I was not part of any clique; I was a nerd in the late 90s, so I was treated like a disease. If I talked to anyone new, people looked at me with disgust. I was only able to talk to people I knew in Junior High, and even some of them abandoned me.
I don't want to talk about the things that happened physically, because *that* subject is never comfortable. Let's just say that I was relentlessly bullied, and leave it at that.
i can understand what you are saying- i was rejected by classmates, girls, bullies, teachers, the principal, but got a 3.7 gpa. didn't understand what that was, and didn't care, either... but i;m still here...
I hear ya...my experience in HS was ...similar. I was tiny my first few years ...like if i cut my hair too short the doctor would declare me a dwarf tiny...I had a very small and very loose group of 'friends'...and most of the rest of school it seemed was out to torture and make my life hell...teachers included...I still seethe over the time where the dean of discipline singled me out...in middle of the lunchroom...and gave me a demerit because my fucking shirt was partially untucked.
I cant tell you how many times I'd had people kidney punch me as they went through the hallways, try to steal my bag and 'nugget' it, try and get me in trouble with teachers
Even once had someone jump on my back and try to choke me out in the hallways between classes...and nobody stepped in. Luckily by that point I was on guard and ended up reversing that scenario in my favor. I was able to slip the chokehold and push him away, before slinging my backpack (which was fully loaded and about 60 lbs) at him to knock him further off balance. Unburdened by the backpack (and him now burdened with both) I followed up by charging in and drop kicking him down the stairs! The bullying dropped off for a good month after that display.
@@spartanfury1 Right? The standard line you hear in HS is "Making memories that will last forever." I never wanted to be there, and the only "memories" I made in that place were of things I'd rather not remember.
Home didn't help, either, with *my own father* (real class act, that one; I could write a fucking book) repeating almost all of it when I got home. Gotta love the hypocrisy it takes to instruct a kid not to be a victim while threatening them with violence if they fight back.
Yep, the Rush song Subdivisions really spoke to me back then. Was like my theme song.
I wasn't a nerd, nor a jock, so therefore I was an outcast. It sucked. I was relentlessly bullied as well and it took me quite a bit until my early twenties to get over it.
Worst was sixth grade for me though. Some people would hold me down and literally physically torture me by dislocating my my fingers over and over again. If I were to try to get help, or struggle, they'd punch me wherever they wanted. I've of course gotten to the point at which it doesn't bother me that much anymore, even if the memories resurface here and there, as I've become... "numb" to them.
Anyways, eventually I did find my courage and fought back against them. Turns out that getting tortured like that for several months makes one quite resistant to pain. So when I got punched in fights, it was like I barely felt them. They never messed with me again.
I'll say this though. No matter what my experience was like, I'm not trying to one-up you here. I know the horrible feelings that being bullied can conjure in children because I, like you, was one of them. No matter how bad or small it might seem, in comparison to other's experiences, it is always a nightmare for the person experiencing it. And unfortunately, we must all face our own nightmares. But we don't have to do it alone. I was the type of kid who loved my parents, but hated some of the peers I grew up with. Because I loved my parents, and because I was a self-sacrificer, I never told them a thing until it was too late, and I was in college. It doesn't have to be that way though.
Horrible memories aside, its great that you are or were going into training for being a teacher. We need more teachers like you, who understand the pain that comes from being bullied, so we can put a stop to it whenever we see signs of it.
The way you describe high school seems to be like we treat college/university.
I've read they view high school in the same way we view college/university so that sounds just about right to me.
This is very true
I think it's because of the whole dormitory situation in the US.
Japan doesn't have that, so when you go to college you either live with your parents or rent an apartment alone or with roomates.
@@elimalinsky7069 could you explain more
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In high school here in america, we lack structure and respect for one another so it is hectic beyond belief. It leads to many issues not being resolved such as bullying or many teachers not really caring about students. So many things as a result suffer. It is overall, a terrible experience.
High school is a 6 year training program to get you used to working 8 hours a day and to stop asking why. Apart from socialization , Complete Waste Of Time. I only knew a few people who cared about the material and how they were going to apply this knowledge for the future. The rest of us are still figuring it out. How do schools exist with UA-cam.?
@@shimmerstack8506 schools provide certification and learning structure. its difficult to learn anything properly on the internet because you don't know what resources are bad and good and if its worth your time to even try out.
@@shimmerstack8506 you had 6 years of highschool? 😂
@@kristynspon8070 all of what you said is idealistic and nonuniversally applicable
@@DragoX7 some areas have a grade 13
"Do American's not like high school?"
*Raucous laughter*........... oh wait you're serious
He must not have been educated on our unique way canceling class😢
I liked ditching school 😂🤣
Schools say they are anti bullying but when you tell authorities they don’t give two shits
Highschool is a brutal social quagmire of cliques and elitism, and the lessons are often bland and monotonous because public education is abysmally funded.
And, yes, there's also the constant fear of violence and gun nuttery.
I love that hating high school has just become a common American theme
"Why do people eat bento at restaurants?"
I died. LOL
Oh, I always eat bento at Japanese restaurants with fork
no more hating "we have enough depression in Japan " that line took me off my feet
Same
The face was kinda cute, no homo 😂
Doesn't explain the yakuza paradox
Makes me want to hug a Japanese person! 😢💔
Sorry sir, we do not serve lunchables here at Olive Garden
I’m a waitress it’s not rude to raise your hand, it’s okay, just don’t call us from across the room. Then it’s rude.
this exactly. Raising the hand or a simple wave is not a bad idea. But the belittling "come here" gesture along with calling out is the worst. My dad has done this to waiters and I die a little inside every time
yes, or if the waitress is clearly helping someone else but then you shout or call for the waitress then that is rude.
I raise my hand, but usually only about halfway lol. For some reason I don't want to stand out by raising my hand all the way like in school or something. I would never call out across the room. People want a quiet meal (or at least I do), not people yelling and screaming.
@@youdontneedtoknow9980 It is japanese culture that their staff give a 100 percent and it is considered bad for the staff to ignore anybody because of that.
Exactly what she said. I get the attention of the waitresses all the time.. just don't be "That Guy."
You also tip based on the servers performance. if they go above and beyond for you then double the Tax of your bill and the tip would start at that amount again based on performance. I very rarely don't leave a tip unless they really pissed me off... BJ's restaurant comes to mind. This is funny though, whenever i go to Olive Garden I tip them based on how many chocolates they give me at the end of my meal. This one time i received 15 chocolates. I told her i gave you $15 tip because you brought me 15 chocolates... she quickly replied... "I can go grab the box for you" HAHAHAHA. love that story.
in America after graduating : finally, we got freedom
in Japan after graduating : playing time is over guys
For some reason I read your comment in PewDiePie voice lol
Student debt: *You sure about that*
This can be somewhat true I think it is a mater of American high school is not as much about mentorship and learning or forming bonds as it is about them teaching us to pass the Government education test for us it was T.A.S. Test as a student in Hight School it is becoming less and less them caring about the student actually learning and more about the school district attendance and pass fail numbers. After graduating from school I went to collage for some job specific studies for instance I went in for (Windows NT Administration classes). And then I was immediately in the work retail force and retail here is terrible as there were no jobs available for what I went to collage for. There is a Lot of American's that take 0 pride in there work and do the absolute least amount of work to not get fired.
@@vladiiidracula235 you only get student debt after higher education tho.
Not graduating highschool.
Highschool is free and required for everyone as a bare minimum education.
@@Mel-qr5ob I was talking specifically about higher education
Really fun video. I think it was interesting about the "rude to signal a waiter with a raised hand". I wonder if that varies by region in the U.S.? Having spent most of my life in the southeast US (Tennessee, Virginia), I've been taught/found it's fine to signal with a *partially* raised hand and a smile/nod if you catch an eye - you don't wave a hand over your head like a third grader who knows the answer to a question about dinosaurs in class.
What I would consider rude is *snapping* your fingers to get the wait staff's attention. I would imagine that's frowned on in most of the U.S. I wonder if that's something considered rude in other countries?
Yeah of course, that would be rude and unnecessarily condescending
Snap! Snap!
Oh, can I get you anything? A kick in the nuts perhaps? A punch in the eye?
I was a waitress in Finland. We used to call those people who waved like crazy as people in distress at sea. (This doesn't translate very well from Finnish to English, but the waving looked like someone is drowning nearby.)
Snapping at the waitress is very rude in here too. But if someone slightly lifted their hand, took an eye contact and smiled a bit, it was very polite way to say they needed something. I didn't mind that at all.
Don’t do that in the north especially in the rural areas, also don’t ask for peanut butter on pancakes unless in the south, and don’t ask for pop in the west 🤦♀️ I had a standoff once over that. I’m American, I can handle it don’t recommend it if your not.
apparently snapping isn’t rude in every country though. i remember a coworker of mine once going off on a guy for snapping at her and he looked like a deer in headlights and was like “i’m so sorry, i didn’t mean to offend, in my country it’s totally normal” he was from somewhere in south america but this interaction was like eight years ago so i can’t remember which country exactly.
I was a waitress and never thought it was rude when a customer raised their hand. Must be dependent on what state you are in.
Sometimes the Japanese take a rather harsh tone when they do it, though...as though you should run at top speed to go get it and should be very ashamed of yourself that the item is not there (even if it isn't supposed to be).
@@lechsiz1642 so you're saying Americans don't?
@@sledgetable172 not quite as harsh, but case by case. America is filled with more types than Japan. We have more economic backgrounds/differences, races, ethnicities, and a larger geographical area each area having a slightly different culture/mindset. I like to date Japanese men, but I feel no hesitation to criticize Americans. Japanese, or any other group- because all groups and individuals have strengths and weaknesses. If you wanna get butt-hurt by that, that is your choice. I don't control YOUR emotions/thoughts and you don't control my thoughts/actions.
Yeah I'm in Canada, mid-west, and I don't think anyone would bat an eye if you raised your hand. I mean I don't see anyone do it, but everyone would understand WHY you raised your hand.
I raise my hand. I’m never rude. I’m not going to wait 20 minutes till she feels like passing back by my table. I never thought it was rude.
"Do you not enjoy high school?"
The teachers don't even like school in general
"I thought High School Musical was a real thing"
We all wished the same thing
If only
@@dumbleman1911 "Do you not enjoy high school?"
"Sorry, I was too busy sleeping..." XD
"Then how did you pass!?"
"That's one of those things I still don't know..." XD
@@seink9163 my highschool experience is literally being in PE and doing nothing the entire period because it's online I can only dream of going to school in Japan
i think its more related to the general attitude from all students. it kinda seems like a fad to not enjoy highschool, but i also did have some teachers that really weren't up for the task
Preaching to the choir
"You guys eat cookie dough!" ...I lost it, that was too funny, and honestly so true.
Well the stuff they put in ice cream these days isn't technically cookie dough anymore, so there's that
@@Ytinasniiable Doesn't have to be. The relevance, is that Americans even want/like the idea and flavor. (And to be technical, eat actual raw cookie dough went baking commonly). Yet have issues with other none native foods that aren't that odd sounding on paper.
This man exploded like a volcano
@@jesshavok1015 cookie dough is good
It might kill me if I eat it to much,
But good
@@Pingoz lol it does taste good.
Shun Chan, I am Japanese American, raised and educated here in the U.S. I was raised very much in a 100% Japanese culture (Mother was from Kyoto and Father in U.S.) and truly can relate to what you are will continue to be shocked to the America habits and culture. You will truly appreciate your Japanese life as you get older. I myself appreciate raised in a Japanese house. To this day I have Japanese habits in my current household. Appreciate who you are and how you were raised.
One thing I don't understand in USA is their tipping culture. Restaurants should pay their employees properly. Tipping should always be optional.
The thing with this is, it promotes more business. Besides, the federal law states that you HAVE to meet minimum wage pay with combined cash and tip. So, if you don't get paid what would otherwise meet minimum wage, the restaurant pays you the difference. Some states even require that restaurants pay more than federal minimum wage to make up the difference.
Secondly, a college student will probably pick to be a waiter in the states because they can make a solid $100-$300 (depending on where) a night. If there was no tipping, then a few things would happen. Food would become more expensive due to increased costs of employees. I lived in Germany for 3 years and been all over the north/western EU, restaurants there compared to the US were more expensive for less food. And/or you would see less waiting staff. And/or some restaurants would go out of business.
As a person who worked as a waiter in the 90s while going to college. I much prefer this method because I was making way more money for way less time spent just because I gave good service. The only people really complaining are the ones who pretend to care about the worker when they're usually getting paid more than minimum wage; all because they don't want to tip when it isn't financially possible for the business to pay their employees the $15 that they should be making.
Edit: Taken directly from the Fair Labor Standards Act. (FLSA)
"Employers electing to use the tip credit provision must be able to show that tipped employees receive at
least the minimum wage when direct (or cash) wages and the tip credit amount are combined. If an
employee's tips combined with the employer's direct (or cash) wages of at least $2.13 per hour do not
equal the minimum hourly wage of $7.25 per hour, the employer must make up the difference."
I can't reply to everyone.
Yeah, tipping is basically bs the restaurant business has pulled to pay their workers below minimum wage. Like if I'm already paying to eat at the restaurant, why do I also have to pay the workers' salary? The frustrating thing is that as long as the system exist, you kind of have to give tips, because otherwise servers can't really make money.
minimum wage in norway is 10 dollars a hour. Almost nobody has minimum wage
Tipping is a way to show appreciation for their hard work. It's a sign, saying they did an excellent job
@@tinydeku5557 yes and it should be optional. What if they did a horrible job? Still gotta tip.
Don’t get us wrong: most people get very nostalgic for their high school years, but that’s because they miss being a teenager. Our culture still regards our teen years as being one of the best times of our lives, we just hate high school itself. Our grade schools are way different from Japanese schools. Perhaps we wouldn’t hate it as much of ours was designed differently, but our grade school system has a lot of issues. But our teen lives are way more than just high school, so we miss those years in general.
My teen life wasn’t special at all tbh. I miss the lack of responsibility but it honestly isn’t something I regard as being amazing. It was underwhelming. I hate how society places such an emphasis on youth because it makes me feel like I missed my chance to have fun
Maybe because Japanese students have less free time outside of school so they associate most of their teen memories with school life.
OLD I feel the exact same way. Luckily, my 20s have been far more eventful.
What? People treat being a teenager like being a prisoner, I think the part of life considered good is maybe late college into your twenties
Teenage-hood is idolized a lot in the U.S. media (since the 1950s). However, if your teen years sucked, there is almost no market for that. Every crime documentary you see is about unhappy teenagers with mental health problems. I think being a teenager is overrated, and now, we are seeing how unhappy teenagers are with more technology, social media, and more. If you cannot conform or transcend, you lose; if you cannot be ultra popular and sustain that, you lose. The winners are afraid to lose face; the losers can never win. Not a great recipe for happiness. Shallow to the core.
"Are braces cheap or something?"
No. We just feel pressured to have perfect teeth all the time so we break our banks to obtain perfect teeth
So true! We hardly had any money growing up (not starving mind you, just regular working class no money for vacation type). But my mother looked around for a cheap clinic to get me braces. It’s a cultural thing for sure.
So very true! My 6yr old's front 2 adult teeth are coming in crooked and already the dentist is like, "Next appointment we will talk about how to fix that, get her teeth where they need to be." And because I had braces to fix my teeth in early high school and whitening in college, I was immediately, without thinking like, "Yes, let's get on that now so it's not a problem later on."
What can I say, Americans are crazy.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo Avoid alcohol, eat only a whole food diet, brush with coconut oil? This all sounds depressing enough that I would rather lose my teeth to a mango martini.
Meanwhile teenage me was like "f*ck your norms!" Never got braces and never will unless it becomes a health thing.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo so be a mindless liberal spending your ehole hipster paycheck at whole foods.
Jk
But seriously, listening to your body is not really a thing. Unless I eat taco bell. Knowing about nutrition and where you have excess and deficiencies is more important because many issues do not manifest themselves unless critical levels are achieved. Otherwise peope would always catch potentially fatal diseases early and they would never progress. Sometimes, symptoms are silent.
I mean I get what you are saying but you need to elaborate more and avoid name dropping names. Tell us what they say briefly and why it is good.
Just some advice. Have a good one.
So, the thing with the cookie dough: it's made for safe consumption. There are literally recipes that are JUST for eating the dough itself, and we have warnings on those that can't be eaten raw. :)
This is true but most of the people in my life eat the not safe for eating raw kind 😂
@@Youcantseeme-c5f It's a right of passage in life..eat the genuine raw cookie dough!
Your were so kind , I was like well there goes Pandora’s box. 🤷♀️
To be fair, the chance of getting sick from eating raw egg is VERY low. it exists but its extremely low.@@Youcantseeme-c5f
"Is it cheap to fix teeth in America?" You made me spit out my snack dude, healthcare and cheap don't go in the same sentence together
Mm, at least it’s good though (in terms of actual available services and options) like I think Australia has like 60% of the medicines and drugs the United States has available
Edit: also in other countries, it’s probably expensive too, unless it’s actually a problem why fix it for free?
@@39doritoz maxing out their credit card is just what a dipshit does, no actually decently smart person does that people seem to “need” their precious iPhone and will spend anything for it
Visaline is affordable and sent to ur home
@@crazywyvern4704 nope in Germany it’s paid from the government if you’re homeless and don’t have enough money to afford it on your own.
The amount of money you have to pay for health expenses is measured with your monthly income and therefore everyone can afford it. I was quite shocked, when I found out how awful the healthcare system in the USA is.
Americans just take care of their teeth.
Japan: America offers school kids' lunches at restaurants. Weird, huh?
America: Yup. And the Japanese serve Kentucky Fried Chicken as a romantic Christmas dinner
Japan: Point taken
I think the KFC in Christmas this was a genius marketing plan that became ingrained into the Japanese culture itself.
not necessarily romantic... just a tradition. my dad's family always (i think always) had kfc on christmas day (they're japanese) and there aren't romantic relationships within the family lmao. it was popularised by a kfc advert saying that kfc was for christmas or smth like that (idk all the details), so it was basically a marketing strategy and it stuck.
@@penguin-tc1cx Romantic doesn't have to mean sexual. I believe the other definition was meant.
@@penguin-tc1cx To be fair... chicken is so much better than Turkey
I am English. We always had fried chicken and cake for Christmas. All my friends did too. We would talk about it at school after the holiday or take some to a friends house to share.
I don’t think raising your hand is rude for the waitress
It's complicated, basically the waiter/waitress is suppose to be so attentive to your needs that you should not need to raise your hand, if your sitting their with your hand up for longer then 7 seconds, your kinda indicating your getting bad service to everyone else coming in the building.
@Lawnmower They generally come by every 10 minutes or so and ask how you're doing and if we need anything, it's also why Tips are pretty much mandatory, the idea is everyone in the states pays for extra attention because we all have the extra money to spare.
It's literally not rude to raise your hand for a waitress and say excuse me. As long as your tone isn't rude, it's completely fine.
TIPS are a scam to justify paying wait staff incredibly low amounts of money and putting the expectation on the customer to make up for it but it's so ingrained at this point it's hard to get rid of.
Yeah, as someone from the service industry I wholeheartedly agree. But man, if someone snaps and or whistles at me like I'm some sort of dog or something... I end up going into autopilot just to help it roll off my back and not let it affect my mindset, in which if it does my work competency depletes.
@Lawnmower Again, it's complicated. The Tip is directly related to the service you get, the way the waiter gets the biggest tips is if they kinda predict what you want before you want it, and you never need to wave them over for anything because they are right there before you even realized you needed them. That's of course the most exceptional service.
Normally however you just sort of wave them over, in the states most waiters have a sort of 2ed sense and will see you out of the corner of their eye.
Personally if I need something immediately because I forgot to ask when they showed up with the food, I will just get up walk over and ask the waiter directly.
The only thing is that if you keep your hand up until the waiter arrives for like a minute or something. You're basically saying the waiters are all terrible at their jobs and everyone should avoid that restaurant right now because the waiters aren't paying any attention.
Just waving your hand in the air for like 3 seconds should be all that's needed.
As far as hating high school in the US, I'll try to explain it the best I can. Basically, people in the US who say they loved high school are those who were popular. The rest of us were outcast and had to go to school every day to be bullied viciously. I have very few good memories from those years. And it's even worse if you lived in a small town.
If you're a social outcast it's your fault
@@Mr_Mistah You have no idea what you are talking about. So your parents move the family because of a job, and choose a small town where no one accepts new people, where every attempt to make friends is rejected -not a kid’s fault. Parents can’t afford expensive designer clothes for you to wear to school? You’re an outcast-also beyond a kid’s control. Undiagnosed learning disabilities where a kid has had no help-just another excuse for bullying. NEVER BLAME A VICTIM FOR THE ABUSE THEY RECEIVED! Grow up and learn some empathy.
@@Mr_Mistah frrr
@Mr Mistah not at all lol the fact that you don't know that shows you got a kola brain
The adults don’t interfere. I actually took on the bullies and I mean even the shit of the shit the boys who harassed the girls, so I had a reputation as crazy , and my mom worked in the casino in Europe, so I had a bad ass reputation. Anyone had a problem, they came to me, all I had to do was say hi. I also tried to lead a protest against prom and was sent to a country club for the night . Not all Americans are rebel as me and not all live to tell the tale. Independent, Red white and blue.
"Is it cheap in America?"
*laughs in not upper middle class*
Some dentist offices have good prices and payment plans
it aint cheap anywhere :/ unless you have general healthcare and even then it aint that cheap
@Katsud0n yes
*laughs in barely lower middle class* 90% of my time is spent at work.
Protip: Never give teeth whitening strips as a gift. That says something lol
Right? I’m already insecure about my lack of braces but I do NOT need to be self conscious about my teeth coloring >_>
Lol
Nailed it!😆
Whitening strips can strip the teeth of enamel
I mean,, For Americans sure, everyone here feels self-conscious about their looks (for some reason lol), but I'm sure in Japan, like he said, it'd probably be culturally acceptable~ 😌❤️
SHUNchan: “how do Americans have such good teeth?”
Americans: Checkmate.... Britain
Damn some of y’all uk people are mad mad
Right?
Oi Oi Oi as a Briton I can proudly say I have great teeth 😤
*cries in britishness*
@@whydoIneedaname-df4uj That’s a myth, British people have some of the best dental care etc in the world
Yeah some of us came from Britain also because we were plastic covering for our teeth well some do anyways
Love your dry humor
Loved this video. Thank you for your transparency.
I remember whenever I went to Japan for Christmas, I saw a shop trying to embrace Christianity. They had Santa on a cross. I love this earth so much.
I need this in my life. No reason. But I need it.
love it
The worst thing about Christmas in Japan is "Last Christmas" by Wham! on a loop in every other store for weeks.
@@wormfood868 that sounds terrible
@@raynhylance3546 It's truly awful.
As an American, here are my answers to your questions to the best of my ability.
1) It isn’t actually considered rude to raise your hand for restaurant staff, or politely asking “excuse me” to get there attention. It is rude to yell and snap fingers in order to get staff’s attention. They may be doing something already so it’s good to be patient.
2) People sexualize boobs, even in regards to normal functions like breast feeding. Dudes look at moms breast feeding like someone’s giving oral. I mean, infant be hungry. Nothing wrong with breastfeeding.
3) People are obsessed with having good teeth. We actually have a lot of body image issues due to companies trying to sell us stuff we don’t need, or from all the models glittered around media and stuff. It’s kinda bad actually. I remember my mum suggesting I get braces cuz two of my teeth came in interestingly. Nobody thought it was particularly weird, even a few peeps I remember as a kid thought they were cool, I looked like a vampire, so I don’t know why I would’ve needed braces.
4) It’s all about speed of delivery, and how Americans don’t really like interacting with people at their doorstep unless they personally know them.
5) I love sashimi personally. But because of my ASD, a lot of combination of foods I find gross. I don’t dip bread into anything for example, as I don’t want crumbs getting in the dip. And I don’t like celery. Can’t speak for everyone though.
6) High school was terrible. Everyone was an asshole, and if you enjoyed your experience, chances are you’re the asshole. I actually liked my teachers luckily, but peers destroyed my experience. Interestingly enough, I’m the only person I know who prefers middle school to high school. My reasoning is while I can brush of middle school shit with “well we just didn’t know any better”, because face it middle schoolers are dumb, those in high school were actively malicious.
7) For the last one, answer is actually kinda simple. We don’t eat bento regularly, so we treat it like some once in awhile cuisine. I’d also always prefer the bento to sushi rolls any day.
In my first year of high school, I was quiet and shy so there's literally no way I could've been the asshole and I genuinely think my school was one of the nicest. Nobody ever really did anything and there's obviously the occasional drama but not much else, even the "cool kids" were in good terms with the "nerds"
all of the above, I concur. Except I had a wonderful high school experience. but I was an outgoing, ambitious student who had their hands in many pots. Honors student in top 10% of the class, at least 3 clubs and 7 performing arts groups, and was an exchange student to France for part of my junior year. I was a loud and proud nerd who, despite being bullied at times, turned the other cheek and made the most out of high school, bc I had the "Make lifetime memories/live your best life" attitude. I do understand that I am an exception to the general rule.
@@likethecheeze321 Yeah, and then the varsity students like you then turn around and make fun of autistic, weird, not popular, and poc kids when no one is looking. But sure, "you go queen"
I agree with everything here, except for the high school experience. I really believe it all depends on the high school you attend.What people don’t understand are the cultural differences in every state, of the United States. For instance, high school cultural norms in Hawaii, are way different than high school cultural norms in New York, or Utah. I went to high school in Utah and Arizona, big difference!
@@likethecheeze321 can you please tell us more about your accomplishments as a teenager? We're all rapt with attention.
I'm American and I've never heard someone say calling a waitress like that is rude. I've been a waitress many times and I actually prefer this over some random person walking up to me and scaring me
I have been a waitress and I was never offended by someone politely raising their hand for help. Not tipping is super rude if the service has been good.
Agreed... i worked in restaurants for many years and would not have been offending by this
That was a weird one.
Yeah, your friends don't know what they're talking about. Raising your hand to get a waitress' attention is perfectly acceptable.
Tipping is expected because waitresses aren't paid a living wage.
Oh my gosh, my mom would be so embarrassed if I called a waiter over or even raised my hand to get their attention! The most I feel you can do without being rude is eye contact 😆.
I think there’s a wide range of experiences in high school, some love it some hate it, but it’s not widely seen as the best part of your life bc most see their graduation as the beginning to their next adventure where they can do whatever they want with their life. On to bigger and better things I guess.
This is true. We don't see highschool as the golden age where we make all of our memories, we see it as a place to get ready for when our lives *begin*, and think of it as the time we'll look back to and remember how young and dumb we were, and put it in the context of "where it all began".
American high school number one objective: SURVIVE
When you figure out how to survive then you gotta climb the food chain.
@@joshuamorales1095 haha
that's
Right
VALID
Graduate!
So sad that 4 years of your life could have more impact that it has any business of being. Trust me when I say that when you graduate high school, everything begins: your life, your future, career, reputation, etc. You'll look back to HS and realize that it had no meaning whatsoever.
"how about shoving vegetables into turkey's butt and roasting it?!" lol my thanksgiving is gonna be so much better with this phrase.
Definitely the best comment in the video 😂
Saves time: doing 2 things at once. Also, some of the spices get steamed into the turkey.
Same🤣🤣 @Dubious Prime
@Max lol don't care Thanksgiving dinner food is the best
Its generally shoved into the neck hole, but whatever. XD
Yeah, Americans don't even like how shipping is handled in America. I get frustrated when I get a UPS notification that my package was delivered but it's still a few days out.
I don't think I've ever encountered this issue even once lol
Email: "Your package was left at your house."
Calling them: "Excuse me but I was home all day and I definitely didn't see my package get dropped off"
Them: "No it was dropped off, we have record of it."
And that's why FedEx is better. Also the USPS may rifle through your packages and things might go missing.
I buy things in stores, i don't want to wait 2 weeks for them.
@@Jordan-Ramses I only order things when I can't find them in store. Even then it's still frustrating as fuck to not get my packages when I should get them. I don't care that I pay 50 or 60 dollars for priority shipping, that kind of service SHOULD BE FREE, not trying to sound bratty my bad. I've heard ordering stuff in Japan is handled way better.
I haven't travelled outside the US that much -- I've been to 7 other countries I can think of -- so when I eat at a "foreign food" restaurant I often wonder how authentic it is. And that gets me to thinking, do people in, say, Japan, have "American restaurants"? And what kind of food would they have there?
I think an American restaurant would be really interesting.
So, not so much like, American restaurants? I mean.. Kinda? Like.. they do hamburgers weird sometimes... You can order a 'hamburg' and its essentially just whatever you'd find in a hamburger, but with no bun... served up like a steak. its not bad, in fact its usually delicious but it is a little strange to us to be eating essentially a plain cheeseburger without a bun and with a knife and fork.
They do have lots of different restaurants with their own Japanese sorta take on the cuisine... Like, tacos with carrots and radish on them, or Italian food where they throw a sausage on top of the pasta instead of a meatball.
The most hilarious thing of all is the 'California Roll' which is like, reverse imported into japan as a fusion cuisine.
Its already a Japanese inspired pseudo-sushi... here in japan they will make them and serve them up as almost like foreign food, but they throw in a bunch of things that you'd never find in a traditional (lol) California Roll in the USA. To Americans, California rolls are more about the California based ingredients (crab-avocado-cucumber), whereas in Japan, it means the particular style of reverse-maki roll with the rice on the outside, and you can put whatever wild things you want on the inside.
Essentially, to the Japanese, any 'roll' that you see on the menu of a sushi restaurant in California is a California roll because it's about the style it's made, whereas a Californian only considers one particular ingredient option of that as a California roll, and the rest are whatever things the restaurant concocts... (dragon roll, rainbow roll, etc etc etc things you'll never see on a menu in a japanese sushi restaurant)
Haven't traveled outside the US much yet went to 7 different countries? That's 7 more than a LOT of Americans (myself sadly included).
There are American restaurants in Japan and other countries. They vary in style a bit, but commonly it's food like you'd get at a bar & grill (burgers, steaks, BBQ, etc). Also there are diners - the food you get at a diner is largely American in origin. Hash browns, American-style pancakes, biscuits & gravy, milkshake, and so on.
"I've never seen a single person in America with bad teeth."
My scissor over-bite with impending wisdom teeth: "Allow me to introduce myself."
I'm just wondering how he managed to avoid meeting anyone with a serious case of meth mouth. They're everywhere around these parts.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo I have a sensory processing disorder that makes me _unbelievably_ picky. A diet change just wouldn't work out. Plus, although I do like some fried foods, about 90% of what I eat is peanut butter sandwiches and cereal.
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo If anything, my sensory processing disorder has gotten stronger. And how would I even alter my biochemistry to my benefit? Wouldn't I need medication for that?
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo Well there's not much social bonding and love, because I'm also _very_ introverted, and I have another mental condition that causes me to be unable to express as much emotion.
As for adrenaline and noradrenaline, I am generally very calm. I just don't like most food because of a sort of strengthened nocebo effect.
Like no offense but do you mean Hollywood when you say states because that is not rlly true lol
When Americans say we hate high school, we're mostly referring to the classes, (most) Americans do enjoy making friends and memories, extracurriculars, etc.
I wonder if people in Japan actually enjoy their classes.
Nah I it wasn’t just the classes that I disliked about high school. Spirit week was always fun, though I couldn’t give two shits about the actual homecoming game. My best memories from high school are the things I did with my track/cross country team. So nothing to do with the regular school day itself. And I wasn’t sad to graduate at all.
wel while most people where to make memory's at school having an everyday live i was hating my school life because of no friends, bully's and the fact that racisem (from my mother) was a thing what ended for me like a 20 year old shut in with no friends bad connection with my family and wanted to end up dead or in a situation like the sao
accident
Eh. High school sucked overall. The people and the classes. A few teachers made it worth some days, but it definitely was a terrible experience for me.
I think it *really* depends on the social environment of your school and what kind of person you were at the time. I was pretty nerdy and went to a few of different High Schools. One of them was really nice and had a culture of valuing people for a variety of reasons, but the other High Schools were really toxic and tended to only be positive experiences if you were good at (the important) sports or your family was well-off. Also, I think there's a strange cultural assumption in America that if you had a good time in High School, its all downhill from there, and vice versa if you had a bad time, which makes people say that High School sucked, even if it wasn't that bad for them. Obviously that idea is ridiculous, but I still had college friends who would describe people as having "peaked in high school" as an insult.
In the states, our equivalent of "seishun" would actually be early to mid twenties, during college.
Also about the teeth- many people in the states are just kind of expected to have braces at a certain age. For me and my brother, we needed braces because our teeth were all kinds of messed up lol. But for my friends, hardly any of them had braces because of cost and because it wasn't a necessity for them. You're more likely to see people without braces in more rural/poorer areas, so wherever you were (maybe a city or wealthier town?) a lot more people are going to have or have had braces.
Yes I agree
Yes I agree with you. In Japan, I think you need to "get into" a high school. We don't need to take exams to get into a high school in America; you are forced to continue in whichever district your house is in. We are carried through the system and only middle of Junior year (I think? It's been a while) you start to apply to colleges and hope for an acceptance. Out-of-state university is popular... you can travel thousands of miles and start your new life super fresh, customizing. I travelled 2,500 miles across the country. So definitely agree that seishun usually has to wait until adulthood in America.
I said elementary school lmao
@@FlubberBands really? About the braces that is crazy if that's actually true. I live in Canada so not a huge difference but only people who are well off get braces usually. If you're poor you don't get braces. My teeth are pretty fucked up. And I'm now missing like 3 or 4
I love Japanese food! And personally, I think the whole bento fascination stems from the neat portions and "authentic" look of the food. The idea of eating such beautifully portioned and prepared food in a Japanese restaurant is really cool!🤪
That explains why anime and manga romanticise school so much...
I like high sexology actually
Yeah, I never understood why so many animes are about or take place in school until I watched this video. High school in America is so hated because of how bad the education and the students are.
@@IceInTheSoda
Maybe because high school is the Golden age for Japanese people
An analysis I saw somewhere else is that the Japanese culture is a bit obssessed with it's youth in part because it's an aging country, with roughly a third of the population being over 60.
Also adult work-life is so demanding and all consuming that high-school age is the only brief period of life in which people have any semblance of freedom, so it only makes sense that any interesting stories going on with which people can relate to happen to 16 yrlds.
It explains a lot.
The teeth issue is more of a “acceptance” thing. People want to feel accepted socially and America places a lot of weight on appearance. Many people are quick to fix it despite it still being expensive, due to societal pressure.
It can also sometimes be easier to clean straighter teeth, depending. But definitely, it is highly valued, and straighting them earlier is seen as preferable to later.
Well, America places a lot of weight on good teeth. It's become a country of yoga/sweat pants with tee shirt wearers so the expectations are specific. You will find people who live in trailers on fixed incomes who have perfect teeth, that's how obsessed Americans/Canadians are with good teeth.
And a lot of parents feel they ought to provide orthodontic care for their children. To the point where those who have crooked teeth as young adults might end up being the odd ones out.
I guess I'm in the minority. Never had braces, and my teeth are nowhere near straight and not even very white. But they are healthy, so I don't really care what people think about my teeth. :)
I have naturally straight teeth, not when I was little but when I grew because my teeth properly fit my jaw
I went to middle/high school in Japan for a few years and America for a few years. In Japan, I could choose to stay at school late and take the "late bus" home, choose to walk to a friend's house, choose to go to the store, I could /go/ places. In America, I couldn't do any of that without a car (no late bus, no public transport, and I'm not walking 10 miles to my nearest friend's house). This leaves most US high schoolers dependent on parents. That's what I hated about high school in the States
Well I mean you're able to get a car and drive when you're 16, it just depends on how strict your parents are
You can do all this, it just depends where did you go to school. But high school sucked as*s compared to where I grew up. There was no sense of long friendship and it felt more like people you just pass by in the streets. There was also so much animosity between having people from so many different places. I think the later is what contributed to the horrible sense of not having anything in common.
car culture sucks
Don't forget the schools in the USA outright refuse to let students enjoy things like clubs. most school by now have probably gotten rid of all clubs
hit the nail on the fuckin head
I'm in American Highschool, and your absolutely correct. It's terrible. My siblings and I all need accommodations, but the schools refuse to give us any, probably because it costs them money. Money over health, apparently.
I’ve never thought raising your hand to get a waitresses attention was rude.
Yeah, that's more something I've seen/heard from British people. I've never heard anyone in the US (at least where I have lived) say that is rude to do. How else are you going to get your servers attention? Just yell across the restaurant? Now THAT would be pretty rude. heh
That being rude sounds like a northern thing
Yeah I never considered it a rude thing. I actually would prefer people raising their hands instead of people raising their voice. Also in a restaurant environment where it at times can be loud, seeing a customer with a raised hand is a lot easier to spot then making out "excuse me" in a sea of voices.
Depends where you are. America is huge. Japan is a small largely homogenous island, America is half a continent where one part can be having foot of snow, while another is in the high 70°F
@@kinggerr7093 I’m in of the northiest states, we all be raising our hands.
Just imagine going to Japan and eating at an ' American ' restaurant and your food being served in a Flintstone lunchbox or a Starwars lunchbox
I'd be down with that no lie
I actually ate an an "American" pizzeria while I was in Beijing (China and Japan are incredibly different obviously) but it was a very interesting experience. My friend had a pizza that had literal french fries as a topping. My pizza had no bread crust and the crust was just cheese. A Pizza Hut that I also went to in Beijing was a full-on Italian restaurant with fettucine alfredo, spaghetti, and of course pizza.
I'd love to know what specifically an American restaurant in Japan would serve.
@@mythik4840 well if you go to an American restaurant they will serve you the same thing as America when I say restaurant I mean the shitty fast food like McDonalds, tacobell, etc. A&W was probably the best I had there. The portions tho are half the size of the ones here in America but their quality of food is prestiege and also the service. I mean America is not really well known for their huge viarity of cuisine either so dont expect much. Pizza is not even American and they completely messed up the itilian dish to be honest so your stardards of a real pizza is probably much lower of what the real dish really is. Anyway dont expect much abput American food in other countries.
That sounds like a great idea actually. I'd love to move to Japan and open up a NY style diner that serves all the diner classics and has a retro 50's vibe. I wonder how it would do though, once the nostalgia of it wears off on the people.
you do know someone is going to make that a "thing" now.
Don't forget about toilet stall doors. There's HUGE spaces below and around where people can see you pooping.
I'm american and I don't get this.
Cheaper to manufacture and install.
@@2WheelsGood.01 that's been my reasoning. But really how much more expensive could it be? Even for a plastic or rubber gasket?
@@jpizzleforizzle It comes down to cents when companies go over the bill of materials (BOM). It's frustrating. They will try extremely hard to get the lowest price possible.
@@2WheelsGood.01 so other people can see my junk because the standard is to cut cost or make as much as possible. Kinda sucks.
@@jpizzleforizzle Maybe just get over being a prude and thinking anyone notices you?
it’s the willingness to learn that leads to education. great job!
Who tf is out there saying Japanese food is bad? y’all’s snack game is on point. Food is great too.
@Sarah : lol, I see what you did there.
I love Japanese food. Totally agree.
I laughed so hard when he pointed out the raw cookie dough, the stuffing the turkey butt and peanut butter on celery sticks. 🤣🤣
Facts I’ll fuck it all the way up! No napkin needed. 😋
Love Japanese good but raw fish and sushi taste really plain to me, not worth the potential food poisoning or the extremely high price, if its grilled I'm cool with it
Lmao if you bought someone white strips in America they’d lowkey be ready to fight 🤣
I know i would be ready to throw hands. it's like telling me my teeth look bad. That hits hard on a personal level.
@@Buckle-Bucky exactly, i might cry from embarrassment.
Deadasss 💀
Lol
@@ninifofini But why is your society like that do you think?
I'm British so... obviously y'all take the piss out of our teeth standards here... but my dad, we have relatives in the states, so he felt compelled to get his teeth whitened, and he just looked foolish - to us, here in the UK... nobody looks like that. It looked freakish and unnatural.
Honestly, the rest of the world does not have this practice, we are not so vain when it comes to this... 'bone white' is not - bright white... Why do you think you do that yourselves? Mentally I mean?
It's crazy vain pressure for no reason. I've never had fillings or a tooth out... but my teeth are yellow-ish.. through smoking etc... just how life goes.
The first time I went to Japan, one of the women who was taking me sight seeing was so nervous about me eating Japanese food, she tried to talk me out of it several times. I assured her, I LOVE Japanese food. Every restaurant we went to she was so shocked I liked things like mackerel and Burdock root. She used to live in the US and I guess some of her American friends had trashed Japanese food, it was really sad. I hope I set a better example!
We literally have half of their food in the US, some definitely are weird to look at the first time tho
It's like the first time I had calamari I think that's how it's spelled eating squid was at a best friends like 11 th birthday party and the calamari made by his aunt was amazing philapino food is amazing adobo is really good as well I just really like food but what do you expect I'm a American male
I mean people like different things, I don't see what's wrong with that.
i did an exchange program in japan sophomore year and my friends brought me to mcdonald’s when i told them i was home sick and wanted something that reminded me of home...all i wanted was this fancy salad my mom makes 💀
Had a similar experience when I tried natto while an exchange student in Japan. Decided to stop at a small family-owned restaurant near the dorm and the entree I ordered had natto on the side. Deciding I should try it at least once, I ordered it explicitly knowing it was there. The owners came out, wanted to make sure I knew that the natto was there, and asked if as a foreigner I might prefer something else. I said I was interested in trying it, and so they brought it out and proceeded to watch as I took a bite of it. I really didn't notice much of a flavor good or bad right away as I was chewing on the first bite, but they panicked so much from my "processing..." response that they apologized and took it away before I could try a second bite to confirm the first.
My high school years were the worst in my life. I went to a terrible school with unmotivated staff who were teaching lesson by lesson from the book without much positive teaching aspects. Despite my good grades I couldn't take the classes I wanted because they were "full", which they weren't, the school just didn't want to put in the effort to work student's schedules in complex ways. While I was goin the entire school was under construction with dust clouds in the air and we had coal miner lights lighting up the hallways. The meals and staff from the cafeteria's were so terrible that they got replaced by vending machines. Not to mention every year we had new teachers and new principles because the old ones kept quitting. The teachers were judgmental and mean, bulling students and purposely causing drama. The students themselves weren't much better, passing with bottom of the barrel grades or barely showing up to school at all, they would only pass because teachers would forcibly pass them just so they didn't have to deal with them the next year. I was in several clubs, joining and quitting every year or so to join new clubs. Every club was unexceptional. The only ones I joined and liked were music and soccer. Every other club in the school was a waste of funding tbh, the students were terribly unmotivated and always strived for the bare minimum and I blame the school for teaching them and expecting that kind of behavior. My school was considered one of the worst schools in America when I was going there. When I went to college I learned how truly useless my High school was, I didn't learn a damn thing about anything, it makes me mad I spent my time going there and wasting my life.
"why is everyone's teeth so good in america... is it cheap or what" me: OH GOD NO
Actually it is compared to other countries
Everyone’s teeth are so good here because society won’t accept you unless you have straight white teeth
@@dinobro6851 ???, maybe in LA but not anywhere else
@@0326Vet Not even true in LA. Most people just don't care. They'll do it themselves, but they don't care if others do it, at least in my experience.
I wish it is but its usually because if your teeth arent good you feel like your gonna get hate crimed lmfaoaoa but you actually wont and people don't care lmaoaooa
When he compared high school in America to High school Musical, I started laughing..
7 years old: “So that’s how High School will be.”
Me a senior: “My childhood was a lie...”
Lol here from outside USA we think your high school is High school musical, party and drugs
@@amandajakob6565 got the party and drugs part mostly down...
well, i was very antisocial so no parties or drugs for me.
Ok the video didn’t start yet but your comment made me laugh
Lets be honest, no kid expected highschool to suck.
I actually don't understand why getting a waiter's attention would be considered rude. I was born and raised in America and I raise my hand and ask for service.
because it can make it seem to other customers, as if he/she isn't doing their job being attentive to tables. I tip based on service, and if I have to ask for anything (things that are not unusual, of course) that will affect the tip.
It's soooo different in the Far East. It was ages before I could bring myself to call a waiter in Seoul. You SHOUT for them. "WAIIITERRR!" or "HEYYY!" It's just the way they do things.
In Japan, you can raise your hand and yell “sumimasen!” to get the attention of the server. In America, i think it’s ok to raise your hand and politely ask for assistance or service but i can understand what he’s saying. When I stayed in Japan, it’s very common to hear a patron say loudly for the server to come where as here, it might be considered a little more rude.
@@submaxcw7947 The US really should go back to smaller potions and an extra course. I mean it can't be that hard to actually let people enjoy the company they're with.
@@KRYMauL Sounds like a great idea but not one that's going to happen anytime soon. In the U.S. portion size is equated with value, so the bigger the portion the more value for your $. At least that's how it started.
People do steal packages in America, but, in places where I've lived anyway, it's pretty rare. I have had many, many packages left on my front porch and I don't recall ever having one stolen. I only recall once that a company even worried about the possibility of a package being stolen, and that was when it was an item that cost $5,000. For that they required the delivery service to hand deliver it and get a signature from me.
At least America and Japan have one thing in common
*Depression*
Funny because thanks to the pandemic we are in the middle of another depression
Everyone has a little depression, some more than others.
@@lexabug7410 I have never agreed with someone more than i am agreeing with you right now.
Pretty much every first world country
I would like to say all places have depression. Probably not just America and Japan.
It seems like Japanese high-school is the equivalent of American college.
Pay to win
I think that's because not everyone goes to college.
More or less, I guess.
@@HappyH4ppyHappy I don't think they do. They may not like the rigor of college but, everything I've seen suggests that Americans like college overall.
@@HappyH4ppyHappy Same for me but, on the opposite end. I don't think I've met an American who didn't enjoy the college experience.
“Is it cheap in America or what?”
No. Very much no
Japan isn't cheap either, btw. But japan has no inflation. In the 1990s, america was much cheaper than japan. Not anymore
depends where u live to be exact
...we go to our grave in debt. 0_0
Me: *laughs in germany where its "free" till 18 years*
yeah i think it's less that it's cheap and more a cultural thing. we're obsessed with looking like celebrities, and american celebrities are obsessed with looking perfect. just one symptom of america brain
I love watching these types of videos. Hearing other people opinions on certain things is so amusing to me
Bruh, you do not need braces. Compared to my ex and some of my japanese friends, your teeth are like taken out of a Colgate commercial.
I agree! He has great teeth!
They have not seen our homeless lol
Dentistry is so expensive in the USA but everyone says a smile says more about yourself than anything so having good teeth is investment on your smile
It cost like 700,000¥ to 1,100,000 ¥ yen in Japan, which is roughly around 7,000$ to 11,000$ for a full 2/3 years braces plan. It cost too much for many people. How much does it cost from where you come from?
People like nice teeth but the dentistry industry likes to push that even more because it’s good for business lol
@@kuroneko2575 It's because we have health insurance. Without it, we'd be screwed
Good teeth is important for health
So theres that
There are new technologies coming out every day that are making dentistry cheaper in the U.S. They can even create retainers to re-align your teeth online without a doctors office visit in person. Its becoming affordable for most of the middle class and even the lower income people.
I've never heard of it being rude to grab the attention of a server with a raised hand. People do it all the time. I don't know where you were, but that's weird.
I have it’s just like high school
It's all about "catching their eye" and not yelling. The hand might not have been the problem.
Yeah that was news to me, too
@@jeanvignes Yeah it's more about making noises in my opinion. Simply making eye contact and small hand gesture to get attention is the proper way for me. Just no no to the yelling out loud "EXCUSE MEEEE", standing up or waving hands rigorously, or something like that.
Me either. I mean, don't yell and stuff, but you can wave to get their attention. Perfectly normal and OK.
currently a senior in high school and in my experience, its not that I hate school, its the work that I hate especially when i have a learning disability. Work piles up fast and also I genuinely don’t think anyone here in the US actually studies unless a teacher assigns a study guide.
As a European the whole tipping culture is ridiculous to me. Also first time I've heard of it being rude to call for the waiter/ess'.
America Is a backwards shithole in many regards.
Auzzi C where you from
I really do wish we can get rid of it someday. It makes no sense to me that the customers are paying the wait staff when their employer should be paying them a living wage from the get-go.
@@le_spoonman4279 I've lived all around the US.
A lot of European countries have tipping culture too, although it's changing. Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece if I'm not mistaken tip too. But yeah we don't have tipping wages like in America that's just retarded, and you don't tip when you pay with card, only when you pay with cash (you let the change in the tray, normally it's only 1 or 2€)
"Do you not enjoy high school?"
It's a depressing conformation machine that drains you of your energy, destroys self-esteem, and teaches you crap you'll never use again. On top of that, everyone falls into their cliques, fights over trivial garbage, and the majority of us are just left worrying what the hell we're gonna do with our lives once it's over. College/University is fine, so long as you can afford it and have a general idea of what you're majoring in. Otherwise it, too, can feel like a very expensive waste of time.
What kind of high school did you go to?
I think its pretty prevalent culture in the eastern culture, the responsibility to give back to the family as an adult rather than chasing our individual happiness, family over self
I had more fun in college than in highschool
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSS😫
@@xdoxxy lololololol
Yeah in America high school is like four years of hell. Most of your classmates are jerks, and at most schools there is a lot of pressure to fit in, exams, way too much homework, stress about your grades being good so you can into college, constantly being tired... Highschool is the worst
Way to much work? Christ... if I could go back to the level of work I was doing in high-school id be so happy.
It depends on what high-school you go to; some of them don't hand out much work, others do.
i'm a fucking freshman and my first semester of online school was working 14 hours a day.
In highschool
I barely did anything
In Turkey you have to study like a maniac to get in high school as well then you face the same problems :'D
Japanese food is incredible. I don’t understand how anyone could dislike it.
not so sure about the squid ink stuff but I cant get enough of sushi, (Raw fish) and rice with shoyu sauce, and I appreciate tofu when cooked certain ways.
My brother can't understand blue cheese (WHY DO YOU EAT THE MOLDY CHEESE!)
I really hit me when he said that high school is supposed to be the best time in your life. I had a horrible experience and I'm assuming that adult life is very difficult so it only gets worse after graduating.🤦♀️
If high school is the best time of your life, then it’s certainly not a good sign for things to come if it was mediocre.
@@newtfigton8795 Im in danger
@@danshakuimo
ngl that was creepy to read this early in the morning
Nah high school is absolutely not the best time of your life, regardless of what anyone says. After high school is when you're able to make your own choices, and while adult life is certainly hard, it can be mitigated by your own positive choices. A lot of the difficulty comes from school failing to teach us the things we need to succeed in everyday life.
You just figured that out? I've spent months freaking out.
Don't worry. I'm American and the USPS confuses me, too.
Currently waiting on a package that's been marked as "out for delivery" twice now, like they left the post office with my package.. and brought it back to the post office with them.. twice.
I got the steel book for weathering with you. Said it was delivered at front door. After searching for 45 minutes I found it in the back of my aunts truck parked next door (it was also overcast with a chance of rain. )
@@SZXMonster I hate that shizz. Especially when the contents of my package are illegal. I'm like yo mail man, I've been waiting like 5 hours to get high now. Geez hurry it up.
my package got stopped in customs and it was being imported from New York to Texas which make no sense at all.
American: Japan is weird.
Japanese: America is weird.
Rest of the world: Why are those two crazy people arguing?
XD
Why would they have to be arguing about it? That was dumb
Lmao
All of the different countries cultures are weird at first to people from other places. That’s just how it is. Doesn’t mean they have to be arguing about it and also literally every country would be saying it to every other country.
i dont think japan really cares, and a lot of Americans wish they lived in japan
As an American, this is hilarious! Thank you, this is really helpful perspective for me, and also top-notch delivery.
Yeah most Americans hated their high school years. They're described as "the hell years" and "the worst years of my life" quite often. In fact, having a lot of fond memories and nostalgia for your time in high school is considered by many to be a very negative trait and a sign that somebody failed to amount to anything in "the real world" and holds on to shallow accomplishments and popularity as a balm for a poor level of accomplishment.
There's a Springsteen song about that: "Glory Days".
which i think is ridiculous honestly...not everyone was a loser or hated in high school and just bc they were successful or enjoyed themselves doesnt mean thats when they peaked
Add to this point the fact that teachers have very low pay and are not well respected, a curriculum level far bellow the standards of most prosperous nations, and the serious lack of respect or empathy displayed the average American, and you wind up with an experience that is often mediocre at best.
and let's not forget puberty
@Gerry C I enjoyed high school but I now find that I have little in common with my friends from that time except our memories together. And there's only so much time you can spend reminiscing. I can understand how it can be a traumatic time for some people, though.
The teeth thing is social pressure and pressure from dentists. For years, every time I went to the dentist, they would tell me I needed braces. They try to convince you your teeth are bad so you will buy braces, it's how they make more money.
Actually, I thought about that, and then I realized that America is a very 'smily' culture. Americans smile a lot to portray friendliness and positivity. It's so engrained in our behavior that we don't realize it, but people from other countries realize it.
So it makes sense, in a culture where smiling and positivity is valued to such a degree, that teeth become a center of self-consciousness.
@@thedude8227 i read once that Americans smile a lot because at the beginning people didnt speak one language, so to show that you're friendly towards other people, Americans smiled. Since people in UK or Japan etc speak same language in their countries, they arent used to smile as much as Americans. Dont know if its true
@@aigulyam.8316 it makes sense :)
Dentists in Finland encourage you to have your teeth fixed during your childhood/teen years so that they don’t bring complications in your later life. However all dentist expenses are paid by taxpayers (until you turn 18) lol.
I wanted to believe this before (because braces, yeuck), but growing up further, and seeing how the rest of my teeth have grown, I can see how it would have been a Much more painful problem had nothing been done. (Not that I liked any of it, but such is genetics, yay)
If you want a waitress here in America we utilize something called “aggressive eye contact” lol
I just imagined using Byakugan to get a waitress's attention. Hope you've seen "Naruto" or this mental image will be completely lost.
@@josejoaquinbenitez6485 lmao 😂 yes I have and that was hilarious
@@BloodSweatandFears hahaha thanks.
With the slight head tilt up
@@ArvensisAndromeda THIS. Make eye contact, slight upward head tilt, raise eyebrows, and nod when they make prolonged eye contact back.
I really enjoyed this video. I love getting a different perspective. Thanksgiving turkey is pretty weird now that you mention it lol
In America, we actually have edible cookie dough where they replace the ingredients but make it taste the same. I understand it may be weird, but since kids, like me, grew up sneaking cookie dough while our mom or dad was making it, stores came up with the idea of a more healthy cookie dough without chance of salmonella (egg) poisoning. Also, do Japanese not eat raw sweets before they are baked or ready to be served?
I always ate cookie dough and I was allowed to :/ mostly because it’s fresh stuff my grandma bakes
Since Japanese eat raw fish, I’m surprised they’d find raw cookie dough weird.
@@marcilk7534 well because you can eat raw fish, but it just comes down to health I'm assuming
you don't get sick from the egg in the dough its the raw flour that makes you sick. that's way you sometimes see people eating raw eggs, its a good source of protein.
The edible cookie dough is for losers
American here. Most of these points can be explained with "Depends". The country is so big that many things apply to one part of the country but not another part. These days, it can be hard to pinpoint "American Things" without discussing what part of America.
Restaurant: I think it's because most restaurants in the US assign a server to your table so they already come to your table periodically. So maybe people think it's rude as it's like you want them to come back faster. But I don't think it's a big deal. I've been in other countries where the waiters are just floating around so you have to wave someone down.
Progressive: Really depends on where you are in the US. Liberal areas like NYC or Seattle agree with the movement but the conservative areas like Texas or Alabama are very much like what you said Japan is like. I don't know how the women in those areas feel about it though. No one is bothered if you're topless at the beach but walking downtown topless will cause a disturbance.
Teeth: It has just become a tradition to get your teeth fixed with orthodontics at this point. It certainly not cheap however. Generally the only people that don't get work done are the people that can't afford it. So having bad teeth has been associated with being poor in a way.
USPS: Also depends where you live. I've never had a package stolen but I've had 1 or 2 get lost in the mail. Larger or denser cities have a bigger issue with this because it's easier for someone walking down the sidewalk to swipe your package. This is a big reason why doorbell cameras and porch cameras have become popular. Also, all delivery services do this (FedEx, UPS, Amazon), not just USPS. Very expensive shipments like $1,000+ usually require a signature. But stealing a package that is very valuable can be a Felony so that stops some people from doing it.
American Food: Many Americans are incredibly picky when it comes to food so don't feel bad. They won't even eat food from other "white people" countries like Poland. Sushi is actually quite popular in the US, especially on the West Coast. Raw Egg is not common but I think that has to do with how we get our eggs since they have to be refrigerated. Also Turkey Butt Bread aka "stuffing" can be made without putting it in a turkey at all. It's often made without the turkey as it's easier, cheaper, and removes the risk of bacteria from raw meat.
High School: Depends who you talk to. Some students spend a lot of time at football/cheerleader practice, going to parties, being popular, etc, so High School to them is the best time of their lives. Others though aren't into that sort of thing and either spend a lot of time studying or doing activities outside of school. So to those people, they hate school. But after all that studying, they get to go to college and that's where they enjoy things like clubs. So our college experience sounds more like your high school experience.
Japanese Restaurants: Many of the Japanese restaurants here were opened by Japanese immigrants so they likely understand what a Bento Box is for. My guess is that it sells well to the American customers so they put it on their menu. I personally like them because the box usually has an assortment of Japanese food. Now I can try different Japanese items without having to order multiple dishes.
Well explained!!🙋
The food thing was weird to me because I seen so many different types of restaurants of foods around the world but at home people only really stuck to the same routine of “American food” with maybe a bit of Mexican or Asian but that’s as far as it would go and there didn’t seem to be a forever changing types of food at home. But then again I didn’t spent years in America to fully know and the country is big and different everywhere.
sir i think my eyes are broken i read too much
The Bento box is great, its a bit of everything and a better portion size.
The popularity of the Bento box as a menu item in America has once been theoretically linked to the feeling of having a lunch box made for you by someone else. A novelty that most adults, and even children and teenagers, lose out on with the way America has been developing.
Because high school is drama, bullying and cliques. A lot of people don’t really “find themselves” until AFTER high school, so it’s just a really awkward period where a lot of people just float on by. We have tons of movies about this.
The “best time” is your 20s. You’re free of the shackles of high school. You probably moved out of your parents house or even out of town. You probably have a car. You can drink and date freely. Your social circle is no longer restricted to where you grew up.
When I grow up I wanna be a video game maker that is 6 feet tall and strong and doesn't have a driver's license because I'll use a bike or walk and be strong
I think the last part you mentioned is the most important, "Your social circle is no longer restricted to where you grew up." In high school, many people are just hanging out with whatever crowd they fit into. After high school you get to make some real deep connections with people who you fit with more.
I hated high school and I hated most of my 20s as well. I really hit my stride in my 30s and really enjoyed it. Now I'm in my 40s and enjoying them as well.
@@AJ17_ i love and hate my 30s. Family life is dope but responsibilities like keeping them alive virtual class and bills suck ass
Welp I'm in my 20s with none of this, feels like high school was my best years
Your food comments were hilarious!!!
How to make someone self conscious about their teeth: Bring them a whitening kit from across the ocean!
That was my first thought too. When he said to bring it as a present, I thought, "DON'T!" 🤦♂️
I thought the same thing recoil669. I kinda was just “...no...don’t do that...” 😂
I was looking for a way to express my skepticism about his proposal, but someone had already done a perfect job.
@William Black literally not the norm, you just got bad teeth chief.
@William Black I know that Chinese people don't brush their teeth until all of their baby fall out
I was a waitress (in Oregon) and I would have loved it if my customers would raise their hand when they wanted something instead of having to go around asking if they needed anything and interrupting their meals. -___- So I say raise your hand away! Maybe it'll catch on and we can all be happier lol.
Yeeeeaah someone who gets it!
I've always raised my hand if I want something. I had no idea that anyone considered this rude. (Nor do I intend to stop doing so.)
@@daithi1966 I do it all the time too. Had no idea it was considered rude either.
@@cdreamworld Because Americans will go all-out and wave and snap their fingers at servers if you make it socially acceptable to raise your hand.
Thats what I'm talking about. I know that waiters/waitresses have to, but the mid-meal checkups are annoying. Give the customer the agency to ask for you when and if they need it. It's better for the staff and the customers. As an American who lives in Japan, we Americans have a lot to learn from the Japanese in terms of service.
"we have enough depression in japan" WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAMED
you have a lovely personality! peanut butter and celery is one of my favorite snacks (if you add raisins it’s AMAZING) and your opinion about it made me laugh so hard lol.
I found "stuffing vegetables In a turkey's butt", way too funny.
Try stuffing a duck inside a turkey.
Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hilarious but fucking delicious
Me too that took me out rofllmao 😂😂😂
I didn’t hate high.... *world war II flashback* nevermind.
The most realistic depiction ever.
😂😂😂😂😂 Good one!
W.W. High 'Nam
Not gunna lie when he said stuffing vegetables up a turkey’s butt, I was like OK You got it lol
It's our God given right to shove vegetables up a turkey's butt.
@@cheesecrew you're not wrong
@@cheesecrew you're not wrong, and yet it would look weird for somebody that is not used to see that.
@@vampbl7291 cause it technically shows that you eat a vegetable that you shoved to the dirtiest part of the body which is the butt
Re "before you click the dislike button": Aw, I think learning about other cultures and hearing about what people from other cultures think about mine is fun! If we all had exactly the same customs and tastes and so on, that would be boring.