There are a lot of videos in English where Americans talk about what they think about Japan. But there aren't many videos in English where Japanese people talk about what they think about the USA. So I thought it would be interesting to make this video. I think people are curious about what other people think about their country and Japanese people are no exception... if you make videos in Japanese and talk about what you think about Japan, many Japanese people will watch it. But if you don't speak Japanese, I can teach you the kind of Japanese that real-life Japanese people speak, which can be different from the kind of Japanese that textbooks teach you. So click here and subscribe. bit.ly/3icPAuR
Now you've got to do my country and America's best friend the UK (or at least the UK's best friend) else I have the right to acuse you of being unfairly bias towards America and as plenty of Japense visit here too, especially London and the Cotswolds which get's especially flooded by Japanese people making up half of all vistors alone. Even an anime Kiniro Mosaic has been made there due to the popularity and even a studio by former staff members has been named after it (Bibury) c8.alamy.com/comp/JEJ63K/hordes-of-tourists-at-arlington-row-bibury-cotswolds-uk-JEJ63K.jpg, mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2017/04/kinmoza-bibury.html and myanimelist.net/anime/producer/1722/Bibury_Animation_Studios
@@AniMewAlex True - and the Cotswolds are also the setting for "The Ancient Magus' Bride." I spotted Broadway and Burford in the manga, and Bourton-on--the-Water in the anime version!
@@catherinebutler4819 I was wondering that and have just finished episode 6 right now (the feiry queen). The Cotswolds actually opens Japan up to British food as well and of course the ammount of english food shown through out the ancient magus bride certainly speaks for it's self! Over 50 british lebeled food outlets in tokyo on trip avisor. British food is nice but get's a bad rap due to being unfancy pub food. Also Little Witch Academia and Fate Unlimeted Blade along with Fate/Zero (which is techically the same anime) is based in the town of Glastonbury where that massive music concert is held and is near to the Cotswolds as well!
If I dont have a lot to drink w my food I might actually choke. I have drainage in the back of my throat so i have to chew my food up real well and I need to wash it down sometimes. So if I dont have anything to drink I wont eat anything.
In the U.S., having your own car has almost become a sort of modern "rite of passage" into adulthood. Without a car, people treat you like you're either a child that's still dependent on others or like someone that didn't do very well in life and can't afford a car as a result. If you're a 30 year old man riding a bus instead of driving your own car, you're going to be seen as a "failure" in life that women shouldn't date and that they should avoid. I think it's terrible, honestly, but that's just the way it is, here. It's not quite as bad everywhere in the U.S., but it's definitely worst in places like L.A.
Honestly i never thought of this. But you are absolutely right. I remember when i got my first job at 17, all i could think about was getting a car. Never occurred to me till now that, it definitely is something important here in the USA. Weird, but oh well. Maybe one day we will grow outta that mindset.
It also factors into how the city/county are designed or laid out by zoning. The infrastructure is sprawling out randomly and not much of it is organized at all in a logical fashion. So, it is arguably mandatory to drive just for functionality. Hell, lots of people drive to where public transportation is just so they don't have to worry about parking in a different section of the city.
It feels like Japan really idolize childhood and teenage years more than in the states where we want to grow up quickly to be accepted. You don't often see Japanese films and anime focus on characters in adulthood or college. It's always high school as the present while US branches out more into the future.
Yeah there were only a couple words with an Japanese accent and a couple with a British accent which would tip me off that she's not actually from California
Having been to Japan, I can address the size issue: Distance and storage logistics. In Japan, a grocery is almost always a couple minutes’ walk away. The only place in the US dense enough for this to be true is New York City. Everywhere else, groceries usually have to be driven to. In order to save on the energy and gas costs of getting into and using a car, people typically shop for enough groceries to last themselves and their families for a week. So, big milk cartons, big egg cartons, big jumbles of veggies, big packages of meat, big snack bags.
It's actually a pretty true explanation. I have lived places in America where I had to drive for 20 minutes to go to the grocery store, so I would stock up when I went there
I agree, this is a big thing in the US. That’s why stores like Sam’s Club and Costco exist. They’re stores focused on selling products like food and such but in big packs and they’re quite successful cause people would rather buy these big packs than only a small amount for essentials like toothpaste, cereal, etc.
@@tommyfletcher1357 I can second this, and add that it's rarely feasible to not drive, even if you live close enough. At my old house, I was lucky to live within a ten minute walk of a grocery store, but I had two options to get there: walk through a forest, or walk along a 45 mph road with no shoulder or sidewalk. Now, I'm back to having to drive to a grocery store, and I've got some friends in the southwest who are literally an hour's drive (or more!) away from stores. In many places, the sheer distances and sparseness make driving completely necessary. Wish public transportation was better, but I kinda get why it's only big in cities.
I love how you can tell that Shino has been in america for a long time because her mannerisms are so american while Yuta's mannerisms are more Japanese.
Yeah but it's not just LA. I've paid $200+ in suburban salons before for cut and color and only about $100 at another suburban salon in the states for the same services. For some reason it wildly differs depending on the specific salon it seems
I’ve had my hair done in LA by a private hairstylist and it was only hundred, like why did she got to such a expensive place... there’s many options :)
Rachna Dagar it’s a a humorous expression rooted in quasi myth. If you are an American no matter where you live you’ve heard it a million times: everything is bigger in Texas. Besides the big hair, hats, boots, ranches, sky, wide open spaces, money and buildings, Texas is a huge chunk of land [258596 square miles] behind only Alaska. It is also the second most populous state behind California. Then there are the buildings and monuments such as the largest domed state capitol building, San Jacinto monument, the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport [larger than New York’s Manhattan] among others. Texas has the highest speed limit, 85 miles an hour in state highway 130. It’s the third largest oil producer in the world, the mega churches and miles and miles of ranches as far as the eye can see and there’s more. Nobody knows how the expression began but it’s now perpetuated and in fact integrated to the Lone Star State.
That's a fantastic point. I wish we could use that as an excuse for our oversized portions lol. "This isn't one meals soda. I'm drinking my soda for the week." lol
Most Portuguese people shop weekly, STILL the package size is less than half. xD You are only able to do that because everything is HUGE there. Cars are big, houses are big, fridges are big. It's unthinkable to me to fit a 2 gallon anything inside my fridge. I get upset when I have to put a pot in there, takes out so much space.
@Kristen R Yeahhh... But... Here in Sweden we mostly shop once per week, too, since we almost always have to drive to get to a supermarket and we don't have many smaller local grocery stores anymore, i.e. corner stores, quickie marts etc. And yet any food that comes in a bag or container larger than 2 pounds is usual potatoes or something. Most foods come in 0.5-1.5 pound sizes. Like almost everyone in Sweden drinks milk all the time and we have tons of dairy foods as well as having it in most of the food we cook and yet the largest milk carton on sale is 1.5L (50 oz/0.4 gal). You can't even buy milk jugs here. Sure, you probably CAN buy a 14oz Mayonnaise jar in the US, like the rest of the world, but you can also get it in a two and a half gallon bucket...
theres no point in ordering a huge cup especially when most fast food restaurants let you get as much refills as you want. McDonald's seems to have noticed this early on cause they made every cup $1 so technically getting the bigger cup has more value to the general public.
@@Shikon_Jewe1 Yeah, that and soda is probably the worst thing that so many people ingest every day so you should probably practice moderation in soda drinking to the same degree as candy and alchohol.
@@Magnymbus I don't drink soda b/c for some reason when I was younger I had this impression that soda makes me more suseptible to start drinking achohol. A weird and misguided impression but its helping me. Besides, I won't get blamed for drinking all of soda because I hate the bubbles and the suprises. F*** you sprite.
This is hilarious, lol. New York City is a lot like Tokyo in terms of people's personal deportment. The main difference is that there's a higher expectation not to physically collide with people in New York than in Tokyo. If you physically collide with a New Yorker, it's expected that you at least acknowledge it or something. Other than that, the standard rule of engagement is "no engagement".
Depends on where you live. If you live in major cities or where more well to do people live the cost of living goes up because merchants know they can rip people off. But if you live in more rural areas the cost of living is fine and merchants care more about people than money.
I would never pay more than $17 for a men's haircut in suburban Massachusetts. Women's haircuts are about the same unless you're requesting something crazy. Many places advertise men's haircuts for $12.
When I was going to an American high school in the 90’s, we *never* ate or drank anything during class. In middle school or lower, we weren’t even allowed have food with us, or chew gum or eat candy. Bathroom trips were also frowned upon. Maybe all this eating and drinking in class is a product of modern times.
yea and when you go to fucking humid ass japan where the sun is blazing a wet line down your back, sack, and crack, the guy serves a fucking shot glass of water to you. then you press the button and ask, "mizu no pitcha tabun daijyoki dekimasuka?" and no, they only allow great service and shot glasses of water. OK.. ill beep ya 8 times. when in rome right bro..
In U.S high school's and colleges (at least in my experience) how often a student raises their hand depends on the specific class. Foreign language classes seem to get the fewest hands raised with many teachers opting to just call on students, or to have a bunch of sticks to draw from (with the student's names on them) to make it more random. I think it's because they're afraid of embarrassing themselves. Math classes seem to be a close second.
I was a science teacher in an urban high school in New Jersey. I never bothered to ask questions no one ever raised their hands . So i went around while they were doing work and asked. I did tell them there is no such thing as a stupid question. I allowed water bottles, small bits of candy, i even gave out candy if they had been well behaved (I taught general education students, not college prep). College was totally different about drinks and food.If meeting in an auditorium pretty much anything goes, smaller classes that didn't fly.
Maybe it's a California thing? I used to have shorter hair (chin length) and once went to a salon to ask how much they would charge to color it. Receptionist said ''Because your hair is short, we start at $80" and I just thought like "omg, how much would it be if my hair were longer?" I didn't do it.
If you go into an American high school classroom and everybody is raising their hand when the teacher asks for questions, chances are that "class participation" is part of their grade.
The guy who said, “I can play the guitar” lied to you. Perhaps, Japanese people are more likely to be honest about their skills. In the States? You’ll find some people love to brag about knowing things that they don’t.
Hello, I know his comment is late, but I would like to say a few things. I have had the privilege to be able to stay in Japan and I live in the United States. There are very many differences as you’ve described, but I think the main differences that have an effect on everything else are that the United States is huge and that there is a very individualistic mentality about Americans. Logistically, there is just so much space and distance between facilities and different types of infrastructure that there is a marked effect in terms of efficiency. Also a lot of standards in quality of products in the States are unfortunately sub par compared to many other countries. That being said, the US was once known for making high quality products designed to last and while some companies still dedicate themselves to that goal, most companies only care about making money as cheaply as possible. I think the pride of craftsmanship is much stronger in other countries, but that is just based on my own experiences. It also seems like the US is actually 50 different countries, not one. The sheer size of the nation and the very clear differences in ideology, behaviors, customs, etc. is easier to see when you’ve travelled to countries that have a more collective, group-minded way of living. In America, we have always been taught to pull ourselves up with our own strength, and while that idea sounds very romantic, it has caused a mentality that to rely on others shows weakness or somehow diminishes your own life. This shows through in our policies and how we interact with each other on a national level (and in many cases, even on a neighborhood level). It’s everyone for themselves and it really doesn’t work, because when we are forced to rely on others there is a lack of trust and an expectation of debt. In other countries, of course there are individualistic ideologies too, but there also seems to be a more collective effort to make sure that everyone is more or less taken care of so that each person can help to contribute to the greater society. We can see this effort in some states in the US, but more often than not, the systems are not set in place to ensure that people not only help themselves but each other. That is not to say that Americans are selfish, quite the contrary. In my experience, many Americans do help each other and are good people, but there is often so much of a clash of ideologies, be it political, religious, or personal, that the small efforts of some people seems undone by the larger societal mantra of self sufficiency and individual excellence. It seems that we no longer care about excellence as a country, or rather we only care about that superficially and not as an actual practice.
You hit the nail on the head with how slimy corporations can get in the quest for profit, which can be counteracted by doing your research. The most egregious display of societal degradation at the hands of crony capitalists, especially at the federal level, is with mainstream food as well their funding of now debunked studies to push propaganda. Thus leading to many Americans being ignorant on many topics even outside of diets, and it's not intrinsically their faults, fad ideologies from America has spread to other modernized countries. The leading causes of poor health and death in America is dietary related. Dietary recommendations are only one of many things that build up to what you described in your last paragraph. With large federal power, it draws special interests to make laws that does not benefit the whole thus leading to cronyism.The constitutional republic structure of America is the only thing in the way of country wide degradation. In my opinion, the best way to fix this is to have states have more power over governing themselves and compete with other states for population, tax payers, and federal funding. Then best systems that are used and proven will be adopted by other states. This way of structure develops best with individualistic and vast ideologies. America's governance really is in an awkward middle that doesn't work. And in my opinion, the side of collective ideology is a romantic idea. Individualism is much better than collective mentality and 'common sense'. Although I do agree with things like assimilation, commonality, and communal reliance. Cronyism from the previous late century to now, overwhelmingly degraded the morals and mentality people hold, and thus degraded many communities, the worst hit being most urban black populations. Public schools and mass standardized education has been an abysmal failure. Money pit wars both foreign and domestic. The quality of the 'American Condition,' including things like IQ has dropped for 88% of us despite technological advancement. I calculate this statistic based on the fact that 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy and are in a physically superior state of health shared by our hunting ancestors, and among most tribal and third world communities in the present. It is still possible to live in America despite the mass federal level of cronyism, and have a free and fulfilling life better than in any country in the world, thanks to many unique factors. I don't think this statement of mine is conjecture, but I believe it's backed by the fact that the world economy and influence are still on the shoulders of America.
@@memefeed2147 So this looks like some sort of ad. But I can tell you this, the future of the world economy is not on US shoulders. The US has lost its place and is now perhaps one of the leading players but not the determining one.
robert feinberg It sounds like an ad? Wtf kind of moronic response is that? And no, you’re wrong. Sure it’s not as much influence but it’s still the dominant one. Especially within the last 2 years.
@@memefeed2147 I think I said it looks like an ad, since it wasn't a sound medium. So it seems like a canned message of some sort. The US has lost a lot of ground since its hegemony ended in 1971, and it will lose more under Biden. One of the great things abt this medium is that people routinely call each other idiots or morons, and maybe most of the people speaking online fall into these categories and worse. But among the worse are those who use every entry into an attempt to sell something. Or else I can just say I found your post long and not very relevant.
"You can eat and drink in American high school classes!" I don't know how they do things in California, but where I'm from you'd get in trouble for that.
Yeah I was wondering about this. I've been out if school for awhile now but back when I was in high school you were not allowed to have food, drinks and even gum was controversial.
Quality in the U.S. isn't actually lower or higher than in Japan, it's just a lot less CONSISTENT. You'll find plenty of houses and buildings that are well below Japanese standards, but also a lot that greatly exceed them. And that's true of just about everything in the U.S.: from candy to automobiles. A lot of it is just down to the massive wealth inequality...
@Bangor MC 3rd Don't let the video fool you. I lived in Japan for almost a decade, there's quite a bit of diversity in income and standards of living. I had friends in the country side that made significantly less money than folks in the larger metro areas. Regardless of being city dwellers or rural folk they had a variety of living conditions in both areas that would surprise many folks that assume all Japanese are in some egalitarian dreamscape. I would see amazing supremely engineered structures right next to shoddy shanty shacks that needed bulldozed. Spotless eat off the floor level of cleanliness in one spot, then roach infested filth in another. Like a lot of places in the world it's not a dichotomy of rich or poor, but definitely a spectrum with a sizable middle ground.
The US doesn't have that much inequality when you compare it to many other non European countries. Just how things are for most of the unprivileged world. Also, Japan has its own fair share of economic inequality, and most people have less money than Americans do, although they tend to be a little less materialistic.
Howard Kunz Talking about how much money you have is not realistic when you count in the fact that everyone in japan and also Central Europe has health insurance. You can go to the doctor (almost) for free in Japan and in Europe. Also most of Europe has little to no College/university tuitions so if I make less money than you but a lot of things I need to pay for are free it’s not in relation;
"I don't want to say I speak English" she says in perfect English after having spoken perfectly understandable English for the entire video. Give yourself more credit! Both of you speak English quite well.
"perfectly understandable English" Understatement right there. She doesn't even have a noticeable accent. I'm pretty sure most native speakers would consider her fluent.
@@kingkaisero357 She has basic langauge fails like using the wrong time or the wrong conjugation and she has a poor vocabulary and is slow in figuring out how to say what she wants to.
"Japanese people tend to be not confidence enough. American people tend to be over-confident." I've had this same observation. The sad part about it is that it seems more like these roles are bullied into people in both countries.
Do you think part of that might be the yukata/haori they are wearing? I find I move my hands like that when wearing clothing with sleeves like they have too.
Isn't it better than most states though? When I think of other states, I almost imagine a third world country. Not advanced at all and no reason to call themselves "the best country in the world". And if I'm correct, California still is the state that generates the most profit for the entire country. Without California the US would not be as "advanced" as it is now.
@@yogeshghadge5748 Those are gaps bro. They are caused by the paint they attempted to "fill" in the gaps with wearing out, but they are visible gaps between the mortar bricks. Please 'learn' the difference. 'l.o.l.'
@@LordEcks First of all they are tiles and on bricks which are pasted on the wall. I guess you have a very powerful eyesight where you can see microscopical gaps in anything you see. Take care of those eyes, we can use it for scientific research.
I think Yuta touched on this... someone did. Its very Japanese to constantly give verbal acknowledgment of active listening. At first I thought perhaps Japanese were impatient with me but it's an active listening habit that is very common.
@@YoshionoKimochi I started playing Shenmue 3, and from the first village in this game, the protagonist keeps saying: "I see", in the dubbed version. It feels awkward. I didn't notice 20 years ago with ep. 1 & 2. :) And when I think of all the anime I've watched over time, the verbal acknowledgement schemes seem both more varied and common in everyday speech in Japanese.
It's a linguistic phenomenon called aizuchi. Extremely common in Japanese interactions. If you don't do it, it can feel awkward or even come off as rude.
I’m a super impressionable person. Meaning I adopted habits very easily. Even temporarily ones. For example if I’m watching a British tv show (I’m American) I’ll speak in a British accent for an hour or two without even knowing it. I’ve been learning about Japanese and other asian cultures for 5 years now. The point of the story is I do the mmm thing when people are talking to me. My friends just excepted it as my normal but my family thinks I’m crazy. I also used to bow to people. I do that a lot less now a days.
LA isn't America just like Tokyo isn't Japan; they're their own separate cultural entities. Yes, they exist in the same places, but culturally they're completely different. Jussayin'.
I agree with you. As a gaijin who has lived in Japan, I have noticed how Japanese attitudes to Japanese Christians differ quite much. In Kyoto they feel little bit uncomfortable to hang around with Christians whereas in Tokyo they don't care so much.
@scartissuex1 - What I'm saying is that LA doesn't represent America as a whole just like Tokyo doesn't represent all of Japan. Sure, they are both cultural bastions in their own right, but to go to LA and think "This is America" is 100% false; it's just a sizable sample.
LA and California in general are the future of the rest of the nation. As non- European immigration continues to change the demographic makeup of the nation, more and more of the US will look like LA. My hometown has begun to be overrun with latino immigration which has increased the crime rates and lowered the quality of our schools and neighborhoods. I've lived in my neighborhood for all 21 years of my life and over the last two summers we've had two shootings, something that had never happened before. Both involving Latinos in some drug related disputes. My family, while big supporters of the second amendment, never felt the need to own a gun until the first shooting. We made sure to go out and buy our first last winter.
The idea of tipping in the US supposedly comes for the Great Depression when restaurants could not afford to continue paying staff the same as before and encouraged patrons to give extra for good service. As for selling gallons of things like milk? I think this is because there are more households with very large families? It could also be because the US is so much more spread out - it’s not always common to have a grocery within walking distance, so maybe it makes more sense to buy a gallon of milk to last until the next grocery trip. The US also (to my knowledge) no longer has any kind of milk delivery like was popular until the 1950’s. The hair thing? That could just be the salons you went to. High skill or bigger name stylists will charge much more than going to a small mom and pop shop. Public transportation in the US is not great outside of large metropolitan areas. I’m in central Florida and our public transit is horrible - I think this is because so many people have personal cars. I’ve also heard people say the transit is not reliable enough for most people. As for cowboys/girls - they still exist in pretty decent numbers lol. Quality control is not great always in US, but that’s is more people that are cutting corners for money but also some structural issues are due to age. Like if a place is historically important, it can get away with not meeting some codes. The “I can do that” guy, that’s just straight up ego lol but you run into them often... There is a saying here that I hear very much about the “I can do” guy - “Jack of all trades but master of none.” Sorry for the novel XD
"As for selling gallons of things like milk? I think this is because there are more households with very large families?" It doesn't really explain why this is not the case in Europe, where milk is usually bought in one-liter packs (you just buy more packs if you have a big family). I think it's mostly just a cultural thing.
alestane Maybe? I’m not familiar with grocery outside of the US. I am pretty sure US milk is more processed so that it lasts longer, that could also play into it?
@@redacted8525 UHT(ultra high tempereature) milk sold in France can typically be kept 3 months, sometimes more. Surely most people do their groceries shopping more often than once per trimester. They're still sold commonly in 1 liter packs.
Its a common sense thing. Why pay for 2 packs that will cost more than 1 large pack? Not only that but by buying more packs u produce 2x the garbage. Its not logical. Buying larger packs is literally the more intelligent option. Europe should adopt that custom.
Its like seeing a bottle that says its both shampoo and conditioner but u buy a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of conditioner instead. By doing this u produce more waste and u pay more. Why not get the 2 for 1? Its more cost efficient.
Most world believes Japan is more technologically advanced I believe. Some people probably believe they have completely automated sci-fi houses and robots and all that good stuff :)
I think the reason why people ask any question in the USA is because we're always told that there is no such thing as a stupid question and encouraged to ask anything. Unfortunately, that leads to irrelevant questions.
10 irrelevant questions are worthy if there is just one important question (as a teacher, i can confirm this, we dosent apply test expecting student to fail on topics we already teached) -sorry for my bad english
Asian countries are more concerned about saving face, whereas in America the emphasis "used" to be on self-improvement above all else. Thomas Edison was ridiculed for repeatedly failing in his efforts to create the electric light bulb. His response was “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Kel Thuzad yes I’ve been a teacher for the last 10 years haha. So I don’t mind irrelevant questions. If they really don’t pertain to the topic I just tell the student that outside of class we can talk about that topic but in class he doesn’t have to focus on that.
hanamlchl yep and while teaching in Asia for 5 years it’s common to see people try to save face or worry about what other people will think of them if they make mistakes. That was why I spent half of my energy praising and encouraging discourse in classroom and quickly shutting down ridicule from other people.
LA is not a great representation of the U.S. Maybe talk to someone who has been to the midwest or the east coast and maybe experienced more suburban areas.
Massive differences between the Urban, suburban and rural regions of the country, especially those sections not setup to commercialize every aspect of life.
Why would they travel to a boring suburban area? The best part about travel to the US isn't about visiting suburbs or cities, it's about seeing the amazing nature. No other reason for a foreign person to visit.
@@juanpfloresdiaz She wasn't visiting, she lived in the US for 5 years. And they're trying to compare people in the US to people in Japan. Why would they go to the Grand Canyon or Everglades National park to do that? I think you missed the point.
1.) Salons in Japan have more compatition than salons in America so the value drops more in japan 2.) In Japan black hair dye is a cultural must, which makes it so that salons in japan are more likely to sell said hair dye than in America, which makes it so that Salons in Japan can sell hair dye at cheaper prices. 3.) The ingridients of the hair dye might be cheaper to ship to in Japan depending on what they are. 4.) California has the highest taxes and costs on all standards of life do to reasons such as the overwhelming amounts rich people who live in it (especialy LA). There are of course other reasons why it costs so much to live in California, such as the lack of rain to provide water to the plants.
You can eat/drink in class in some schools. When I was in school they would get upset at you and you'd get in trouble. And even different teachers had different opinions on it. So it's really case by case.
We have some really good ESL schools in L.A. County like Torrance Adult School and many community colleges where you can study for free. She is very good. It all depends on your own ambition, hard work, and talent.
US Americans are so scared of their own country... nobody is going to hurt y'all! Movies and news of every thing happening around the world really has everyone living in constant fear.
@@fabianpe0199 very dependant on where you are. I'm in Baltimore and someone was shot in a drive-by two blocks from me yesterday, a couple weeks ago someone else was shot on my block. Our safety concerns aren't baseless.
Just wanted to say, as a Canadian who was in charge of a liquor store for 3 years, we are pretty strict with IDs. I've been yelled at by customers many times for having to ID people who were well above the drinking age. If we don't do so, undercover inspectors can fine us for thousands of dollars. It's pretty stressful honestly.
@@AN4RCHID yeah, a local bar a few blocks down from my work, and when my coworkers and I go there after work. They usually don't card us, but if you buy alcohol from a store, then I get carded. One of my friends goes to a grocery store, to buy his alcohol and I guess that he goes a lot, where they know who he is, and don't bother carding him too much.
When you pass the written test in the states you are given a learning permit that allows you to drive with a licensed driver in the car, its not exactly "go learn by yourself".
I once heard from a friend (I don't know which state he was talking about) that in some states you can get the driver's license at 16 just by driving the car with an adult by your side for one year and then you pay like 20$
@@ConstantinKlose-sj4mb Varies by state. Some will have a "minimum" amount of time behind the wheel as well. There's certified driving schools for the practical training as well, but they aren't mandatory. Most of this is associated with driving as a minor though (below 18 years of age).
In my state, Mississippi there’s no required driving period before taking the test. Just pass the written and driving skills test. If getting a drivers license cost $2000, there would be far, far fewer people doing in my state.
That’s now how it works here. All you have to do to get your Learners Permit is be enrolled in drivers Ed and have a parent/guardian with you while paying/taking the picture for your permit. Than after drivers ed you can take the written and driven tests but you can’t get your license until you turn 16
In America, we say "There is no such thing as a bad question", to encourage others to ask. And we say "If you have a question, ask, because others have it too who are too shy to speak". We think you will learn better this way and be more accepting of others
@@r.w.3378 or any time you need to communicate at work... especially in more complex duties or jobs. I'm in science and healthcare so without good understanding and free communication there can be big problems!
what surprised me the most about Japan was that I imagined it being very technologically advanced, practical and organized but paper work like for example regristration or paying rent is a nightmare. Everything has to be handwritten, nothing is digital and you have to fill out a million forms. When you pay rent you have to withdraw cash and pay in a convenience store. Maybe it depends on where in Japan you live, but at least where I was
That was the most true thing said in this entire video....and that it varies by person. It seems that it is very cultural in Japan to be modest and shy but in America people are encouraged to be loud and forward and think too much of yourself. Trump is the perfect example of this.
I speak Japenese as good as her English but I don't like to say I speak Japanese. It comes from knowing my limits. I could sit in an interview like this video and sound similarly fluent in my Japanese. I have no accent when it's simple everyday conversation but, as an example, I was at a coding meetup and a Japanese person who was new to coding wanted someone to explain why the software was showing an error on line 10 but the error was really on like 9. I didn't understand what she was asking. I don't know what she actually said. If had been just me and her then I would have asked her to say it another way or she would have pointed and I would have gotten it but there were other people around and they stepped in who did understand. I also didn't understand their explanation. I don't think personally I could easily say something like "The issue is the language doesn't care about lines it only cares about whitespace and punctuation so it's not looking at the lines it's looking for a separator between statements. Whitespace doens't matter. You could spread things out across more lines or put everything on the same line. All it cares about is the puctuation between statements". I could come close to saying that but I don't even know the word for "punctuation" in Japanese. It's never a word that comes up in daily conversation. Nor do I know the word for "whitespace" or "separator" so I'd have to explain those in simpliar terms. As maybe an easier example I can watch Kiki's Delivery Service and understand 100% of the dialog. But, if I watch Laputa, when the military starts talking I can't follow it. I've talked to many Japanese at Shino's level of English and they say they have the same issue. They talk and sound fluent but they also can't follow the military scene, or the political scene, or the medical scene, or the court room scene in a movie. Similarly I can talk about a ton of things but I can't explain in detail how to say repair a bike nor could I descibe the design of product except to point it a photo of it and say "design like this". Pick anything in front of you and try to describe it to someome else without showing it to them to a degree they could draw a picture of it. It will likely be difficult but you do it in your native language but if you're learning another language that's a seriously advanced skill and you'll feel like you don't actually speak the language. So, when someone asks me if I speak Japanese I wanna say "no not yet". Note: been in Tokyo 12 of the last 20 years. Went to Japanese language school full time for 2 years. Worked in Japanese compaines speaking only Japanese for 5 of those years. Ashamed my Japanese isn't better.
@@gmanjapan that's completely normal though. even for native speakers. some words are mostly used in specific areas that the majority of people who speak that language don't know them.
@@edwnx0 hell, one could say that for any language though really. Get a group of neurosurgeons or IT specialists together and jabbering about their trade in front of another native speaker of that language that is in no way connected to said field(s) , and/or may not be very far along in formal education for one reason or another ( or even if they are but just not in those areas), and I can see how one becomes lost in the sauce very quickly. Happens to all of us at some point. "yea- I know that was technically English, but what the **** are you saying??"
Her accent is interesting, she has a light American accent, but you can still hear her japanese accent. You can tell she really caught on to our slang and how we talk lol.
America is huge. Its like having 50 countries all in one and its really hard to pin down some of the stuff you are talking about to being true for all of the US
@Eli Pen Tho in present day the federal government is suprime. Only cultural, geographic and demographic diference remain between the states, not so much political.
I knew a Japanese woman who's sister had to move back to Tokyo after having lived in San Fransico for 10 year because her property kept gettinf destroyed/stolen by vagrants. Mostly her cars
Baltu Lielkungs Gunārs Miezis You can’t say that man. Texas has cheap land and cheap everything. It depends on where you are. Wyoming has some of the cheapest housing in the world.
@@mike-0451 I absolutely can say the average. Sure a house in Moscow of Beijing is more expencive than in rural Wyoming, but Im talking about averages.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Yeah, and California and New York are TWO FUCKING STATES OUT OF 50. There are 50 states in the US. Everything in between the two coasts is basically empty. As someone who lives here, I can tell you for sure.
@@mike-0451 And China has 33 first level administrative divisions (keep in mind China is larger than the USA it just doesnt have small administrative regions like Rhode Island), and Russia has 85 federal subjects. We are talking about the average in the country. Not about any regions in that country.
"You can't drink outside...I think it depends on the state or county." There are certain very small areas where you're allowed to drink in the US; for example Beale Street in Memphis, but that street is THE street for bars, so it's basically right on the street for all the bars where you can drink, and everywhere else it's pretty much prohibited. In other words, places where you can drink openly are very much the exception, not the rule. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_open-container_laws#Places_where_legal ) On the other hand, there are still 'dry counties' where liquor sales in general are illegal. In those counties, you cannot buy alcohol unless you are a member of a private club, and the prices are exorbitant in those clubs, so most people will drive to the next county over that allows liquor sales and then drive back. When I was in college, my college was located in a dry county, so any time we wanted alcohol, we had to drive 30 minutes to the next county over to get alcohol. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state ) Many have speculated that dry counties may contribute to drunk driving and crashes, because so many people are having to drive on the road for so long to get alcohol, which naturally leads to some people drinking on the way back, which leads to drunk driving and crashes.
Lol, I think my college situation was the total opposite. I went to college in a place where the campus was dry, but the minute you stepped off the curb and into the street you were allowed to drink, open container and everything, right there. The whole downtown area was totally legal to walk around with drinks. I don't drink at all, but hot damn that place was always packed on St. Patty's day.
+ArgusStrav Thanks for this link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state I'm surprised how much of Texas is dry - does not match their international image.
With driver's license in America, we have a system. You get your permit first, and that has a bunch of limitations on it. Then (Not required in some states, but recommended) you go to driving school. After that you can take the final test, and a driving test. If you pass, you get your driver's license
It’s kinda complicated, though. I mean, Paul McCartney started writing songs on the guitar with four chords (C, G, G7, F). Even though that’s extremely basic, he was still able to write and perform songs that people enjoyed listening to, which I think qualifies Some people have a very high level of technical ability but don’t really know any songs, maybe just snippets of songs. So while they may not be able to sit down and perform even a single song, I don’t think it would be fair to say they can’t play guitar when clearly they are quite advanced It really depends who you ask, ya know? Different people have different criteria
@@doogelyjim8627 i grew up in japan (im american) and I picked up the habit of saying I can't do things even though I can. After coming back I learned to exaggerate again
@@littlefishbigmountain Yeah no, playing the guitar means playing. If you know a lot in paper but can't grab a guitar and play something, you don't know how to play the guitar.
@@littlefishbigmountain except if you can actually play a song that's playing a guitar. If all you can do is strum your fingers and make incoherent noise... That is not playing an instrument
16:00 In my experiences in American Universities and colleges, it's pretty common for there to never be any students that raise their hands for questions. It's usually the same, here, where there's really only one person ever asking questions.
Maybe because the student will be molested and later his/her classmates are going to bully him/her for interrupting Unlike Japan where it seems they tryhard everyday, everytime lol
you can't eat or drink during class in Japan, but you can sleep :) try sleeping during class in any other country and see what happens. Also, if you buy something in Japan and it goes bad, so you go back to shop and try to return it, well good luck to you. Post sale service doesn't exists, when you are about to buy something Japanese will be jumping around you like you are a newborn baby, but after the purchase when you show up they will treat you like shit, telling you it is your fault the product is broken/ doesn't work.
shit services exist in any country. I don't even understand what you are on about. In my country expiration date is written on every single package of food and if you bought an expired product it is completely your fault though some higher-class supermarkets offer you a refund and you can sue all of them if the expiration date turned out to be fake. The law says that consumers should not be able to buy a spoiled product but if you bought a fresh product and it went bad in your refrigerator, it is not the shop's fault. You just did not eat the product in the alotted time. The system in Japan might be similar to this.
BTW at my grocery store you can just bring in the food and they will take it no questions asked. I was actually buying two juice jugs and told the guy at the register about how I bought a spoiled one here the other day and he gave me one free based on my word alone. Granted, I shop there often so maybe he recognized me.
I slept the first quarter of the day every day in middle school in the US. All they did was change my schedule so I slept through geography instead of math.
They actually stopped driver’s ed in my area the year I was old enough. There are a couple of different rules depending on age. You take an exam for a permit (15+). Getting a license (16+) requires a driving test, but people often do a driving course before that
I never went to drivers school coz my parents were too stingy to pay the fee. In California if you're over eighteen you don't have to really drivers Ed and can take the exam at the DMV
This is so interesting! I live in the Netherlands, which is considered very western, but almost all of the same things you named that surprised you in the US, surprised me too when I was there. Because Japan seems so different and far away from my country, I assumed that you guys would mostly mention cultural differences that were very normal to me, but that was not the case in this video. Apparently Japan and the Netherlands have more in common than I first thought :)
Or the USA is just way more different to the rest of the world than a lot of people realize - I think that because of the primacy of American media, people around the world think that their cultures are strange when something is different than what they see on TV, when really it’s something that’s specific to America and they’ve just become intimately familiar with it from the media.
Doesn't Japan love Germany..? XD Though, I'm from Russia and that country seems a lot with Japan too. Japanese even like Russian cartoons for the values they teach xD
@@IsleNaK I don't know if it's widespread, but there are of course Germany lovers. It's one of the more common countries mentioned from what I've noticed, but I suppose that's because it's a fairly well-known country compared to others. Germany also has some historical ties with Japan due to WW2, which is a possible reason.
I've lived in an apartment in LA. It wasn't good. But if you talk about houses, typically houses in the USA are pretty good, at least in suburbia. Oh, and ice cream should never have vegetable oil in it. Like... what the heck?! Sometimes, there are tactics at play to raising your hand in high school school. It's not always confidence. It could be that they're trying to get the teacher to not have enough time to pass out homework, or they are afraid if they are the only person NOT raising their hand that they will be called on.
When I was in Japan (Tokyo) a few years ago visiting a friend, I took Japanese for 1 year (nearly 10 years prior in college), and was trying to re-learn some of the basics. I remember one day we were making our way up to Tokyo SkyTree and we stopped at a large shopping mall first. I had to find an ATM and there was a customer service counter at the mall entry-way, so my friend said, "hey, you need to practice your Japanese, so ask her where the atm is in Japanese!" We were fighting hang overs from the previous evening and that afternoon, but I made my way to the service counter with him by my side and asked, "ATM wa doku-ka?" My friend was *not* impressed with my asking where the ATM was, also it appeared the lady was a little surprised by my question as she jerked her head back and exclaimed, 'Hai!', and proceeded to tell me to go up the escalator, turn left, etc....etc...I'll never forget her reaction, wish I had a goPro to record it. If that's the type of Nihongo you teach then sign me up, sir! Love Japan, glad you generally had a good time in the U.S.! L.A. is fun, but 300 for a hair appointment is a lot! Maybe get a better deal in Inglewood next time you're in the area and spend the rest on sangria at the farmers market! About the public transport, the public transport in L.A. wasn't that great, but it was pretty good in Boston; nothing like Japan, though. My favorite is Mexico City for public transport; every day is an adventure and once you get past the 'sketch' veneer, it's actually very efficient and relatively uneventful. I just saw one fight break out at a subway station, but it was late and in a so-so neighborhood, so it wasn't totally unexpected. Cheers from Oklahoma!
American/Canadian public transport is such a low priority because most of our cities are "new" and therefore designed from the ground up to facilitate vehicular transport. Ancient cities in the old world are designed for pedestrian use and therefore have better working trams, buses and trains that help pedestrians travel to different areas of the city.
For the driver's license, I had to pass a test based off a book of standard rules to get my temps (temporary license). I then had a certain amount of time in which I had to have a minimum number of driving hours with a licensed driver, a few weeks of classes at a driving school, and several sessions driving with a trained driving instructor. Once I had my license, I was only allowed to have one non-directly related person in the car with me at a time until I turned 18.
"I'm the kind of guy who would argue with the teacher." You're an American at heart, Yuta! 🤣 It's easy for people to forget that America was founded by a bunch of drunken rebels. LOL! There are plenty of folks here in The States who think they're 'above' the American stereotype, but there are plenty of us who are damn proud of our heritage and love our sense of individuality and independence. And there's no question that folks from other cultures are sometimes drawn to that pioneer spirit. 😁
America was founded by land owning elites that didn't want to pay the same amount of taxes to the British empire that the rest of the empire was already paying. But I'm glad other peoples are attracted to this "pioneer" spirit. We along with every other nation in the Americas rely on those dreamers to keep our birthrate stable, something that immagrantphobic countries like Japan, Germany (most of the EU nations), and Russia don't do, which leads to population decline.
@@redj1101 Not exclusively, no. But America's cultural values kinda set our kids up to individuate a lot harder and faster than in other countries, certainly among Asian countries. Asian culture is extremely conservative, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it tends to stifle individuation, which is a natural process in teenagers. That said, 'Murica has gotten entirely out of hand with our Millennial generation, of which I am a member, myself. (Leading end; I was born in '85.) Gen Y, as it used to be called, has a serious rebellion issue that stems from radical Boomer protestors getting impenetrable careers as teachers and professors, and warping millennial minds with Marxist propaganda. Not all of my generation were poisoned but the fact that Gen Z has almost completely pulled away from the examples set my my contemporaries serves to illustrate just how bizarre and anti-intellectual most of my generation was made by the small percentage of Boomers responsible for their education. My point being, things have gone way off the deep end, in terms of rebellious spirit, but we've already reached the apex of lunacy and are beginning to return to equilibrium again. That said, whenever a culture values individual liberties over collective cohesion, it will (inevitably, I would argue) pump out generation after generation of incrementally more individualistic people, and a key part of being individualistic is recognizing the value of your own perspectives, which demands that one ask questions and never take the collective answer for granted.
@@redj1101 (I would also point out that before one can argue what is being said, one has to care about the truth. Being an individual demands formulating one's own perspectives, but that doesn't mean those perspectives must be true. And if one is not interested in truth, then there's no motivation to ask questions or argue with an educator. The questions are asked internally, in such instances. Besides, most youngsters think of school as work rather than an opportunity to grow.)
@@K00Ldude98 It was *organized* by land-owning elites, sure. I would mostly just argue that it was *founded* by the blood of the settling laborers who bought what those elites were peddling, so to speak. I think there's a big difference between leading and laboring, not that I believe leading is any less essential than the latter. (And because I suspect it will be pointed out by another by way of argument, I am aware Washington was said to have led his troops directly in at least key battles, but he was an exceptional individual which is why he was asked to be King of America.)
12:26 Actually, that case of the orange juice having gone bad and her having to throw it away almost never happens in the U.S., either; that's quite rare.
@Josh Vang Right, if you go somewhere that's not technically a grocery store, it's a bit more likely that you'll find something like that. Same for produce in convenience stores.
It probably depends on the place you buy it from, the only time that's ever happened to me is at this small boating place and half their drinks were expired. Like i already drank some of it and everything
the house quality thing is interesting because i feel like there's two different ways to interpret it. in america it's not at all uncommon to live in a house that is 100+ years old, especially if you live on the east coast. for instance the house i grew up in was built in the mid 1800s. some of the nicest houses in my town date back to colonial times. i assume this is even more true in europe. so yeah, the doors probably don't fit quite right and the floors are tilted but i think most westerners see the fact that the house is still standing at all as a testament to its quality, and in fact in many places old houses are more desirable than new houses for this reason. on the other hand, i can definitely understand why someone who is used to a culture where houses are rebuilt every 20-40 years or so would see all these old buildings and think they are just dilapidated and run-down.
I'm a Brit, and I live in a very new house, less than 50 years. But not 60 seconds walk down the road is a street with a bunch of REALLY old houses. They're so old that they renamed them all after the era they were built At the end you have Tudor house, then you have Stuart house, then you have Georgian house, then you have Victorian house, then you have a modern house. It's incredibly to think, because Tudor house is at least 400 years old.
When I was a student, I lived in a place from the 1750s. It was not the nicest place in town, but it worked. It was not the oldest building. St. Mary's Church is the oldest building, finished 1181.
Must be something about LA when it comes to schools in the US. The schools I went to never allowed eating food and stuff in classes. One school I was in didn't even let you chew gum unless a teacher was lenient. Can't use phones in classes either or else it will get confiscated. So if you can do whatever you want in schools, then my schools sucked.
@CarlyKpdx Drinks in my case were not allowed either. Only lunch time was that allowed, or else it was the drinking fountain. I think the only exception outside of that was PE. Dress code was on the strict side for us too (not as strict as yours though) but not many people listened to it. This was in a Junior and Senior High School I went to in Pennsylvania.
I could eat food whenever in college but up through high school couldn’t do more than drink water in class (I’m from SF Bay Area). People definitely would walk to restaurants and stuff like that for lunch though, some kids would drive to the nearest in n out and back which was like the length of all of lunch lol.
TheGravityShifter That was true of my high school’s rival which was the other school in the city, so it depended school to school. Apparently for them it was some dumb rule relating to their test scores which was pretty bs.
I can attest to it being more common for students in the states to be more participating in classes. It almost acts like a sport to see who's correct. People are just more vocal overall here. Being a minority in that social respect tended to be a little bit problematic for me. There's no doubt pressure for not only participation but even correctness, at least in my experience. Though when I entered college however. Fewer people were as vocal.
I don’t know where you’re from specifically, but my experience has been pretty much the exact opposite. As long as I can remember, unless the class was extraordinarily small, students (myself included) would avoid answering questions when asked and would rarely ask questions even when prompted to. And while I think this is motivated by the feeling of needing to conform like in Japan, it’s more on the pretense of not wanting to deviate from a perceived average (i.e. not wanting to seem overly invested or smart, but also not wanting to seem too stupid or oblivious) rather than a fear of underachieving. Obviously, every class is different and I’ve been in classes (ranging from high-level honors or AP classes to lower-level ones) where there was a lot more active participation, but overall, my experience seems to be much more similar to Japan than not.
@Steve Slade Not true, my in-laws bought an 80 year old house and only did a mild renovation on it. It's a pretty cool house, but it does lack some modern efficiency and technology standards.
Are you sure? In my part of the country, that is not true at all. People are careful to build things well, and they always get a house inspected before buying it. Maybe you live in a city with a peculiar real estate market.
I get the gripe with housing standards & public transportation in LA, especially compared to more modernized places like Tokyo. I live here in Los Angeles. But when compared with the rest of the country, LA standards are pretty high. But yes, I, in particular, hate the public transit system. I wish the government would finally approve and fund the CA maglev system and more broadly more localized trains and subways.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 that's factually inaccurate. CA is the largest economy in the US by far. In fact, it has an economic surplus that is then used to carry a lot of other states that are in the negative. www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/californias-fiscal-risks-despite-largest-surplus-in-more-than-decade.html
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 You know by "LA" Shino means she live in Los Angeles, right? Which is *in* California? Why would standards be relatively high in LA *because* California robs its citizens?
The guy who said "I can play the guitar" was not a good representative from my experience. There are definitely some people who oversell their talents and abilities, but I would say they're a small outlier. Most people in america will readily admit their faults in my experience, saying things like "I can't do math" "I don't read" "I can't draw" "I'm not creative" , and the more talented people only elevate it by saying things like "Oh I guess I draw sometimes." or "I've come up with a couple okay ideas." Actually, I think the cultural perception (as an american observing other americans) is that if someone touts their abilities too much they're a liar and probably trying to manipulate you somehow.
heyyyy ESL teaching tip: when getting students to ask you questions say "Ask me two questions (or more) about what we've learned so far in class" rather than "Do you have any questions?" When you make it a task to ask questions, it forces students to reflect on their doubts and encourages them to resolve those doubts without looking weak and/or stupid.
I'm always curious at people's surprise at our huge drinks. Not because the oz is big, but because other countries dont fill their cups from bottom to top with ice. I think I go thru a 32oz faster full of ice than when I get a 10oz and just fill it up without ice.
As an American myself I still think they're HUGE. Maybe I'm showing my age, but I remember the time when 32 oz wasn't the largest size you could get. Why the change all of sudden happened I don't know. But I won't complain.. Lol
You realize that ice is less dense than liquid water, right? So of course you'd be able to drink the liquid part faster if there's less of it due to the ice taking up more space. Use your brain.
"I can do" varies person to person, but generally it means, "I know the basics of how to do". You aren't far off the mark. I can do doesn't say how well you can in the States.
Typically though someone who can’t even play a simple song will say “I dabble in guitar” or “am learning” or “mess around” or “noodle” or at least say “I play a little.” Of course there’s always a braggadocio who acts like he’s Jimi Hendrix when he only knows a couple of power chords. Usually they are young and easily found out. Then there are forgotten skills. I might say I play the piano then realize I hadn’t played in a long time and I realize later that my skill has mostly been lost. Or with a language, when I haven’t used it in a decade and passive understanding is still about 80-95% but I’m not good at talking in real time.
I moved several times, each school I went to was very different with their rules. Some schools let you have hair dye and piercings and food in class and some have strict rules about how you dress. Here some school districts are based on the county and some on a town, then private schools are a whole different thing. The small schools I went to in Texas only cared about football. The big school I went to in NC had soooo much more to offer like computer classes and 3d modeling and graphic design.
J Solomon .Evans I’m a man so I’m not sure what prices are normal for women, but I rarely ever pay more than $20 for a haircut...I was shocked when I heard her say that price
i am living in the midwest came from hawaii but lived in asia for a long time and i think its boring and very odd how people keep coming at night to try to open my car door. and bus system sucks never had to stand at a bus stop ever no shelter or anything its so bad as well as scary on the train people making marijuana joints. and annoyed by the terrible service like at sams or walmart. and constant shootings.
I love how they're talking about the high attention to details when it comes to buildings in Japan, while in front of a cinder block wall with an absolutely crappy mortar job. lol
James Eldridge Japan is known for its architectural details. It is true the homes in the U.S. are built differently than the rest of the world. They are built to not last, simply because U.S. is a very mobile society. Homes are more solidly built and to last for generations in other countries, especially in Europe. They are all kinds of constructions, the fact that they are in a cinder block room with poor mortar it is not indicative of the overall quality....it could be that they are in an old building. Japan products are known for their very high quality all over the world. 😊
Also, American houses are flimsy compared to European houses but Japanese houses last an even shorter time, and even often lack insulation and central air conditioning even when built in this century.
There are a lot of videos in English where Americans talk about what they think about Japan. But there aren't many videos in English where Japanese people talk about what they think about the USA. So I thought it would be interesting to make this video.
I think people are curious about what other people think about their country and Japanese people are no exception... if you make videos in Japanese and talk about what you think about Japan, many Japanese people will watch it.
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Yes. This was a very interesting video and I'd love to see more of this.
Yuta, How was your experience in India?
Now you've got to do my country and America's best friend the UK (or at least the UK's best friend) else I have the right to acuse you of being unfairly bias towards America and as plenty of Japense visit here too, especially London and the Cotswolds which get's especially flooded by Japanese people making up half of all vistors alone. Even an anime Kiniro Mosaic has been made there due to the popularity and even a studio by former staff members has been named after it (Bibury) c8.alamy.com/comp/JEJ63K/hordes-of-tourists-at-arlington-row-bibury-cotswolds-uk-JEJ63K.jpg, mikehattsu.blogspot.com/2017/04/kinmoza-bibury.html and myanimelist.net/anime/producer/1722/Bibury_Animation_Studios
@@AniMewAlex True - and the Cotswolds are also the setting for "The Ancient Magus' Bride." I spotted Broadway and Burford in the manga, and Bourton-on--the-Water in the anime version!
@@catherinebutler4819 I was wondering that and have just finished episode 6 right now (the feiry queen). The Cotswolds actually opens Japan up to British food as well and of course the ammount of english food shown through out the ancient magus bride certainly speaks for it's self! Over 50 british lebeled food outlets in tokyo on trip avisor. British food is nice but get's a bad rap due to being unfancy pub food. Also Little Witch Academia and Fate Unlimeted Blade along with Fate/Zero (which is techically the same anime) is based in the town of Glastonbury where that massive music concert is held and is near to the Cotswolds as well!
1:14 - "Are they really going to drink it all? Yes, they are."
Possibly with refills.
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@@chraosta I used to work at a convenience store where I got free refills as a job benefit. I'd drink three giant sodas per day.
@@BradyPostma I am pretty pop-addicted so I have a similar issue lol
If I dont have a lot to drink w my food I might actually choke. I have drainage in the back of my throat so i have to chew my food up real well and I need to wash it down sometimes. So if I dont have anything to drink I wont eat anything.
Doesnt have to be soda. Ill drink a gallon of water if thats whats in front of me.
In the U.S., having your own car has almost become a sort of modern "rite of passage" into adulthood. Without a car, people treat you like you're either a child that's still dependent on others or like someone that didn't do very well in life and can't afford a car as a result. If you're a 30 year old man riding a bus instead of driving your own car, you're going to be seen as a "failure" in life that women shouldn't date and that they should avoid. I think it's terrible, honestly, but that's just the way it is, here. It's not quite as bad everywhere in the U.S., but it's definitely worst in places like L.A.
Honestly i never thought of this. But you are absolutely right. I remember when i got my first job at 17, all i could think about was getting a car. Never occurred to me till now that, it definitely is something important here in the USA. Weird, but oh well. Maybe one day we will grow outta that mindset.
My God man here in Miami you must own a car. The buses are constantly running late
It also factors into how the city/county are designed or laid out by zoning. The infrastructure is sprawling out randomly and not much of it is organized at all in a logical fashion. So, it is arguably mandatory to drive just for functionality. Hell, lots of people drive to where public transportation is just so they don't have to worry about parking in a different section of the city.
it's because some billionaires do everything to stop a functional public transportation system...
I feel so sorry for you all.
It feels like Japan really idolize childhood and teenage years more than in the states where we want to grow up quickly to be accepted.
You don't often see Japanese films and anime focus on characters in adulthood or college. It's always high school as the present while US branches out more into the future.
"We view the United States as very advanced"
This is awkward because we think that about Japan lol
No, no one thinks that
@@FreeOfTheLoop 65 updoots says youre wrong.
@@ovechkin100 lots of idiots exist
@@FreeOfTheLoop uh i do
taiwan too because they get a shit ton of technology from china
Her English is fantastic. She sounds close to a native speaker and even has a slight southern Californian accent. Yuta's English is very good too.
ThisCannotBeTheFuture Exactly. With the exception of a slight Japanese accent, she sounds like she’s from Cali.
Well yea. Not even 2 min into the video she quite literally says I lived in La for 5 years..
Yeah there were only a couple words with an Japanese accent and a couple with a British accent which would tip me off that she's not actually from California
its funny to me, that accent comes from mexican american circles in socal but it seems pretty much every nonwhite person speaks like that there.
I agree! Yuta's English is great 👍 He's got a Japanese accent that I think is really pleasant!
Having been to Japan, I can address the size issue: Distance and storage logistics. In Japan, a grocery is almost always a couple minutes’ walk away. The only place in the US dense enough for this to be true is New York City. Everywhere else, groceries usually have to be driven to. In order to save on the energy and gas costs of getting into and using a car, people typically shop for enough groceries to last themselves and their families for a week. So, big milk cartons, big egg cartons, big jumbles of veggies, big packages of meat, big snack bags.
I doubt that is the explenation.
It's actually a pretty true explanation. I have lived places in America where I had to drive for 20 minutes to go to the grocery store, so I would stock up when I went there
I agree, this is a big thing in the US. That’s why stores like Sam’s Club and Costco exist. They’re stores focused on selling products like food and such but in big packs and they’re quite successful cause people would rather buy these big packs than only a small amount for essentials like toothpaste, cereal, etc.
@@tommyfletcher1357 I can second this, and add that it's rarely feasible to not drive, even if you live close enough. At my old house, I was lucky to live within a ten minute walk of a grocery store, but I had two options to get there: walk through a forest, or walk along a 45 mph road with no shoulder or sidewalk.
Now, I'm back to having to drive to a grocery store, and I've got some friends in the southwest who are literally an hour's drive (or more!) away from stores.
In many places, the sheer distances and sparseness make driving completely necessary. Wish public transportation was better, but I kinda get why it's only big in cities.
No we’re just fat lol
I love how you can tell that Shino has been in america for a long time because her mannerisms are so american while Yuta's mannerisms are more Japanese.
She still doesn’t move her brow when emoting, while Yuta does.
This man Yuta still found a way to plug his lessons I respect it.
Always
That was actually one of the best plugs I felt :)
Always Be Plugging.
He's a seasoned master
Bro the dude be doing it twice in one video whole shit I have heard him say it so much that I can memorize it
The salon was so expensive because it was in Los Angeles. Everything is expensive there.
Yeah but it's not just LA. I've paid $200+ in suburban salons before for cut and color and only about $100 at another suburban salon in the states for the same services. For some reason it wildly differs depending on the specific salon it seems
@@AliceinJapanaland Ah, I guess that puts it into context.
gotta cut some losses in order to save. i cut my own hair
I’ve had my hair done in LA by a private hairstylist and it was only hundred, like why did she got to such a expensive place... there’s many options :)
You say LA as if it isnt the rest of California. Is that the only city you’ve lived in?
"Everything in America is huge." Hold that until you visit Texas.
Curious.. why so?
Rachna Dagar it’s a a humorous expression rooted in quasi myth. If you are an American no matter where you live you’ve heard it a million times: everything is bigger in Texas. Besides the big hair, hats, boots, ranches, sky, wide open spaces, money and buildings, Texas is a huge chunk of land [258596 square miles] behind only Alaska. It is also the second most populous state behind California. Then there are the buildings and monuments such as the largest domed state capitol building, San Jacinto monument, the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport [larger than New York’s Manhattan] among others. Texas has the highest speed limit, 85 miles an hour in state highway 130. It’s the third largest oil producer in the world, the mega churches and miles and miles of ranches as far as the eye can see and there’s more. Nobody knows how the expression began but it’s now perpetuated and in fact integrated to the Lone Star State.
@@samanders2676 Wow that's really interesting. Thanks for sharing ^^
Lilia you’re welcome!
Cure Milky thank you. There’s nothing quite like the Dixie.
Most americans shop weekly not daily so that’s why package sizes are huge
Most??? excuse me. i am not most!!!
That's a fantastic point. I wish we could use that as an excuse for our oversized portions lol.
"This isn't one meals soda. I'm drinking my soda for the week." lol
Most Portuguese people shop weekly, STILL the package size is less than half. xD
You are only able to do that because everything is HUGE there. Cars are big, houses are big, fridges are big.
It's unthinkable to me to fit a 2 gallon anything inside my fridge. I get upset when I have to put a pot in there, takes out so much space.
But then doesn't the milk get bad?
@Kristen R Yeahhh... But... Here in Sweden we mostly shop once per week, too, since we almost always have to drive to get to a supermarket and we don't have many smaller local grocery stores anymore, i.e. corner stores, quickie marts etc.
And yet any food that comes in a bag or container larger than 2 pounds is usual potatoes or something.
Most foods come in 0.5-1.5 pound sizes.
Like almost everyone in Sweden drinks milk all the time and we have tons of dairy foods as well as having it in most of the food we cook and yet the largest milk carton on sale is 1.5L (50 oz/0.4 gal).
You can't even buy milk jugs here.
Sure, you probably CAN buy a 14oz Mayonnaise jar in the US, like the rest of the world, but you can also get it in a two and a half gallon bucket...
Even americans think drink sizes are too big.
theres no point in ordering a huge cup especially when most fast food restaurants let you get as much refills as you want. McDonald's seems to have noticed this early on cause they made every cup $1 so technically getting the bigger cup has more value to the general public.
@@Shikon_Jewe1 Yeah, that and soda is probably the worst thing that so many people ingest every day so you should probably practice moderation in soda drinking to the same degree as candy and alchohol.
@@Magnymbus I don't drink soda b/c for some reason when I was younger I had this impression that soda makes me more suseptible to start drinking achohol. A weird and misguided impression but its helping me. Besides, I won't get blamed for drinking all of soda because I hate the bubbles and the suprises. F*** you sprite.
Big fan of the large drink sizes especially when taking things to-go
@@lucylerma8211 Same. I've never liked carbonated drinks so it's come in handy to stay away from soda. Sometimes being picky comes in handy lol
i said hello to a guy in new york he replied no.
That's normal
No
@David Thorpe is that what it is? i have quite the heavy accent
This is hilarious, lol. New York City is a lot like Tokyo in terms of people's personal deportment. The main difference is that there's a higher expectation not to physically collide with people in New York than in Tokyo. If you physically collide with a New Yorker, it's expected that you at least acknowledge it or something. Other than that, the standard rule of engagement is "no engagement".
That's East Coast for you lol
300-400 dollars for a damn haircut in America..... She must be living in Beverly hills.
I get my hair done in Oakland, CA and it's only $80... not to mention I have triple the hair length and thickness of Shino-san's hair...
I pay like 3 or 4 dollars for my haircut in my home country, America is expensive :'c
Depends on where you live. If you live in major cities or where more well to do people live the cost of living goes up because merchants know they can rip people off. But if you live in more rural areas the cost of living is fine and merchants care more about people than money.
I’ve had my done in both LA and Santa Monica, it’s not that expensive , just gotta find the right places lol
I would never pay more than $17 for a men's haircut in suburban Massachusetts. Women's haircuts are about the same unless you're requesting something crazy.
Many places advertise men's haircuts for $12.
"Are they really going to drink it all?" "Yes, they are." Lmao, love it.
When I was going to an American high school in the 90’s, we *never* ate or drank anything during class. In middle school or lower, we weren’t even allowed have food with us, or chew gum or eat candy. Bathroom trips were also frowned upon. Maybe all this eating and drinking in class is a product of modern times.
Ok boomer
A Ball - Nice try with that tired old response, but I’m not a boomer, I’m a millennial. 😂
@@richerDiLefto :(
@@richerDiLefto Ok boomer
Dolphin xx69xx
Ehhhhh :\
Same joke twice?
Large drink sizes: Q: Are they going to drink all that? A: Yes, they are...and get annoyed if there aren't free refills.
Free refills of soda or water should be an universal right. Specially when they are giving you a really small cup.
HYDRATION
yea and when you go to fucking humid ass japan where the sun is blazing a wet line down your back, sack, and crack, the guy serves a fucking shot glass of water to you. then you press the button and ask, "mizu no pitcha tabun daijyoki dekimasuka?" and no, they only allow great service and shot glasses of water. OK.. ill beep ya 8 times. when in rome right bro..
@@ryanshaw4250 I rofl'd
Sonic's Route 44. Super big.
Her English is so goo, even the over use of the word "like". Impeccable
goo?
@@kingwasabi9598 good lol
She stayed in California. It checks out
Like is by, like, Valley girls. lol
I think the overuse of the word “like” makes her sound more American.... kinda like how Japanese woman tend to over use ああ sounds
This should be titled "What Japanese find surprising about L.A." Come to Colorado or go to Texas, and you'll find very different cultures from L.A.
Not only that, being in states larger than the entire country of Japan it's different in various ways all over.
Dr. K In Maryland we got good blue crabs
Go to southern parts of Virginia. They have a high Filipino population with nice restaurants
Yeah I'm from Washington I have been to over 15 states and all of them have their own culture type of people and how things work
Like what? lol, big cities in Texas have more in common with LA than with middle-of-nowhere, Texas.
The hair was expensive because you were going to an expensive salon in an expensive city. Other places aren't that bad.
I dont even pay that much for 1 months rent.
She was in LA going to probably a high end salon so yeah no duh it was going to be expensive.
her hair does looks really good, i guess that you do need a lot of money to maintain it like that
LA is one of the most expensive cities in the country.
Yeah! I live in New York and go to a place where I get my hair done for like $35. Is it really normally around 100 in Japan?
In U.S high school's and colleges (at least in my experience) how often a student raises their hand depends on the specific class. Foreign language classes seem to get the fewest hands raised with many teachers opting to just call on students, or to have a bunch of sticks to draw from (with the student's names on them) to make it more random. I think it's because they're afraid of embarrassing themselves. Math classes seem to be a close second.
I was a science teacher in an urban high school in New Jersey. I never bothered to ask questions no one ever raised their hands . So i went around while they were doing work and asked. I did tell them there is no such thing as a stupid question. I allowed water bottles, small bits of candy, i even gave out candy if they had been well behaved (I taught general education students, not college prep). College was totally different about drinks and food.If meeting in an auditorium pretty much anything goes, smaller classes that didn't fly.
I am American and I would NEVER pay that much to have my hair done. Most of them have no clue how to cut curly hair anyway.
Maybe it's a California thing? I used to have shorter hair (chin length) and once went to a salon to ask how much they would charge to color it. Receptionist said ''Because your hair is short, we start at $80" and I just thought like "omg, how much would it be if my hair were longer?" I didn't do it.
i dont know what the damn cheeto meant at the time, but to me this is what grabbing one by the pussy looks like. 100 dollars for fucking hair? lol
Same
Yuta's influencer sphere is getting stronger.
his harem?
If you go into an American high school classroom and everybody is raising their hand when the teacher asks for questions, chances are that "class participation" is part of their grade.
I was surprised when Shino said she had been in the US for five years, not born. Her pronunciation is really good.
That's what I thought. She pretty well mastered English.
@@than217 -- Shino CAN speak English. Not like a native, but she can go anywhere or get anything she wants.
@@peachgirldb immersion makes all the difference in the world...
5 years she must have really love US. I couldn't last a day in Japan.
If she spoke English every day, which I'm sure she did then it's not that surprising imo.
The guy who said, “I can play the guitar” lied to you. Perhaps, Japanese people are more likely to be honest about their skills. In the States? You’ll find some people love to brag about knowing things that they don’t.
Ginette Pagan fr, I never say I have a skill unless I am ALEAST average in said skill
Ginette Pagan They use something called exaggeration
Lmao lying and bragging is a human thing.
I’m richer, smarter, faster, stronger & better looking than other guys. It’s true.
Japanese people are more humble I guess?
Hello, I know his comment is late, but I would like to say a few things. I have had the privilege to be able to stay in Japan and I live in the United States. There are very many differences as you’ve described, but I think the main differences that have an effect on everything else are that the United States is huge and that there is a very individualistic mentality about Americans.
Logistically, there is just so much space and distance between facilities and different types of infrastructure that there is a marked effect in terms of efficiency. Also a lot of standards in quality of products in the States are unfortunately sub par compared to many other countries. That being said, the US was once known for making high quality products designed to last and while some companies still dedicate themselves to that goal, most companies only care about making money as cheaply as possible. I think the pride of craftsmanship is much stronger in other countries, but that is just based on my own experiences.
It also seems like the US is actually 50 different countries, not one. The sheer size of the nation and the very clear differences in ideology, behaviors, customs, etc. is easier to see when you’ve travelled to countries that have a more collective, group-minded way of living. In America, we have always been taught to pull ourselves up with our own strength, and while that idea sounds very romantic, it has caused a mentality that to rely on others shows weakness or somehow diminishes your own life. This shows through in our policies and how we interact with each other on a national level (and in many cases, even on a neighborhood level). It’s everyone for themselves and it really doesn’t work, because when we are forced to rely on others there is a lack of trust and an expectation of debt. In other countries, of course there are individualistic ideologies too, but there also seems to be a more collective effort to make sure that everyone is more or less taken care of so that each person can help to contribute to the greater society.
We can see this effort in some states in the US, but more often than not, the systems are not set in place to ensure that people not only help themselves but each other. That is not to say that Americans are selfish, quite the contrary. In my experience, many Americans do help each other and are good people, but there is often so much of a clash of ideologies, be it political, religious, or personal, that the small efforts of some people seems undone by the larger societal mantra of self sufficiency and individual excellence. It seems that we no longer care about excellence as a country, or rather we only care about that superficially and not as an actual practice.
There are 50 different states and the hood.
You hit the nail on the head with how slimy corporations can get in the quest for profit, which can be counteracted by doing your research. The most egregious display of societal degradation at the hands of crony capitalists, especially at the federal level, is with mainstream food as well their funding of now debunked studies to push propaganda. Thus leading to many Americans being ignorant on many topics even outside of diets, and it's not intrinsically their faults, fad ideologies from America has spread to other modernized countries. The leading causes of poor health and death in America is dietary related.
Dietary recommendations are only one of many things that build up to what you described in your last paragraph. With large federal power, it draws special interests to make laws that does not benefit the whole thus leading to cronyism.The constitutional republic structure of America is the only thing in the way of country wide degradation. In my opinion, the best way to fix this is to have states have more power over governing themselves and compete with other states for population, tax payers, and federal funding. Then best systems that are used and proven will be adopted by other states. This way of structure develops best with individualistic and vast ideologies. America's governance really is in an awkward middle that doesn't work. And in my opinion, the side of collective ideology is a romantic idea.
Individualism is much better than collective mentality and 'common sense'. Although I do agree with things like assimilation, commonality, and communal reliance.
Cronyism from the previous late century to now, overwhelmingly degraded the morals and mentality people hold, and thus degraded many communities, the worst hit being most urban black populations. Public schools and mass standardized education has been an abysmal failure. Money pit wars both foreign and domestic. The quality of the 'American Condition,' including things like IQ has dropped for 88% of us despite technological advancement. I calculate this statistic based on the fact that 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy and are in a physically superior state of health shared by our hunting ancestors, and among most tribal and third world communities in the present.
It is still possible to live in America despite the mass federal level of cronyism, and have a free and fulfilling life better than in any country in the world, thanks to many unique factors. I don't think this statement of mine is conjecture, but I believe it's backed by the fact that the world economy and influence are still on the shoulders of America.
@@memefeed2147 So this looks like some sort of ad. But I can tell you this, the future of the world economy is not on US shoulders. The US has lost its place and is now perhaps one of the leading players but not the determining one.
robert feinberg It sounds like an ad? Wtf kind of moronic response is that? And no, you’re wrong. Sure it’s not as much influence but it’s still the dominant one. Especially within the last 2 years.
@@memefeed2147 I think I said it looks like an ad, since it wasn't a sound medium. So it seems like a canned message of some sort. The US has lost a lot of ground since its hegemony ended in 1971, and it will lose more under Biden. One of the great things abt this medium is that people routinely call each other idiots or morons, and maybe most of the people speaking online fall into these categories and worse. But among the worse are those who use every entry into an attempt to sell something. Or else I can just say I found your post long and not very relevant.
"You can eat and drink in American high school classes!"
I don't know how they do things in California, but where I'm from you'd get in trouble for that.
At my high school, you can drink water and you'd get in trouble for drinking anything else
Matt Wong at my son’s school no even water, he keeps it inside his locker.
Yeah I was wondering about this. I've been out if school for awhile now but back when I was in high school you were not allowed to have food, drinks and even gum was controversial.
This has nothing to do with what you're talking about, but I really enjoy your profile picture, that dog is precious
at my school it depends on the teacher
she sounds and acts very American you can tell she spent time in LA
J Solomon .Evans she even has an LA accent lol
So Commiefornia
LA what a shithole, i would deport myself to Japan anyday instead of that plague.
@@subninja8069 you must be a reactionary Trumpanzee
@@lightzpy8049 You don't get out much do you?
US schools are pretty big on the "There is no Stupid Questions" thing
There ARE no Stupid Questions.
The amount of times I've heard "there are no bad questions!" And then a student says something way outta pocket
@@sketchy665 LMFAOOO
They say this, but they don’t always practice this.
@@MirzaAhmed89 yes there is
Quality in the U.S. isn't actually lower or higher than in Japan, it's just a lot less CONSISTENT.
You'll find plenty of houses and buildings that are well below Japanese standards, but also a lot that greatly exceed them.
And that's true of just about everything in the U.S.: from candy to automobiles.
A lot of it is just down to the massive wealth inequality...
@Bangor MC 3rd
Don't let the video fool you. I lived in Japan for almost a decade, there's quite a bit of diversity in income and standards of living. I had friends in the country side that made significantly less money than folks in the larger metro areas. Regardless of being city dwellers or rural folk they had a variety of living conditions in both areas that would surprise many folks that assume all Japanese are in some egalitarian dreamscape. I would see amazing supremely engineered structures right next to shoddy shanty shacks that needed bulldozed. Spotless eat off the floor level of cleanliness in one spot, then roach infested filth in another. Like a lot of places in the world it's not a dichotomy of rich or poor, but definitely a spectrum with a sizable middle ground.
The US doesn't have that much inequality when you compare it to many other non European countries. Just how things are for most of the unprivileged world. Also, Japan has its own fair share of economic inequality, and most people have less money than Americans do, although they tend to be a little less materialistic.
Howard Kunz Talking about how much money you have is not realistic when you count in the fact that everyone in japan and also Central Europe has health insurance. You can go to the doctor (almost) for free in Japan and in Europe. Also most of Europe has little to no College/university tuitions so if I make less money than you but a lot of things I need to pay for are free it’s not in relation;
Howard Kunz this comment is absolutely delusional
Lack of consistency is a lack of quality.
"I don't want to say I speak English" she says in perfect English after having spoken perfectly understandable English for the entire video.
Give yourself more credit! Both of you speak English quite well.
"perfectly understandable English"
Understatement right there. She doesn't even have a noticeable accent. I'm pretty sure most native speakers would consider her fluent.
It’s a Japanese thing. She doesn’t want to sound rude.
The japanese are very humble, they will never brag atleast I have never seen it.
She definitely has an accent it just seems less so compared to Yuta.
@@kingkaisero357 She has basic langauge fails like using the wrong time or the wrong conjugation and she has a poor vocabulary and is slow in figuring out how to say what she wants to.
"Japanese people tend to be not confidence enough. American people tend to be over-confident." I've had this same observation. The sad part about it is that it seems more like these roles are bullied into people in both countries.
This guy is Japanese, but his hands are very clearly italian.
Lmaooo. I scrolled up after seeing this comment and noticed I just happened to pause on him making pizza-pie-a fingers
Do you think part of that might be the yukata/haori they are wearing? I find I move my hands like that when wearing clothing with sleeves like they have too.
I had two taxi drivers start using *both hands* to talk/give fellow drivers kind critique when I was in Rome.
or lebanese
*Davie504 wants to know your location
California is an outlier, not a good average for what the U.S. is like.
It was a great state to live and work in but now it's a third world country of a bad joke of what it once was
Every state is an outlier in America.
California sucks.
Isn't it better than most states though? When I think of other states, I almost imagine a third world country. Not advanced at all and no reason to call themselves "the best country in the world". And if I'm correct, California still is the state that generates the most profit for the entire country. Without California the US would not be as "advanced" as it is now.
Canadian here, and I also don't think there's such a thing as average place in the States
11:10 "There's not like random gaps, in the walls..."
Huge gap in the bricks and paint right behind them.
I think they meant in bathroom stalls.
Please understand the difference between gaps and worn out paint...lol
@@yogeshghadge5748 Those are gaps bro. They are caused by the paint they attempted to "fill" in the gaps with wearing out, but they are visible gaps between the mortar bricks. Please 'learn' the difference. 'l.o.l.'
@@LordEcks First of all they are tiles and on bricks which are pasted on the wall. I guess you have a very powerful eyesight where you can see microscopical gaps in anything you see. Take care of those eyes, we can use it for scientific research.
@@yogeshghadge5748 Whatever kid. Not really interested in debating this so feel free to believe whatever floats your boat.
Yuta: (speaks wisdom)
Shino: m m m m mm
I think Yuta touched on this... someone did. Its very Japanese to constantly give verbal acknowledgment of active listening. At first I thought perhaps Japanese were impatient with me but it's an active listening habit that is very common.
@@YoshionoKimochi I started playing Shenmue 3, and from the first village in this game, the protagonist keeps saying: "I see", in the dubbed version. It feels awkward. I didn't notice 20 years ago with ep. 1 & 2. :)
And when I think of all the anime I've watched over time, the verbal acknowledgement schemes seem both more varied and common in everyday speech in Japanese.
@@nehylen5738 They don't really put the verbal confirmations in anime, but they are suuuper commonplace in real life Japanese speech.
It's a linguistic phenomenon called aizuchi. Extremely common in Japanese interactions. If you don't do it, it can feel awkward or even come off as rude.
I’m a super impressionable person. Meaning I adopted habits very easily. Even temporarily ones. For example if I’m watching a British tv show (I’m American) I’ll speak in a British accent for an hour or two without even knowing it.
I’ve been learning about Japanese and other asian cultures for 5 years now.
The point of the story is I do the mmm thing when people are talking to me. My friends just excepted it as my normal but my family thinks I’m crazy. I also used to bow to people. I do that a lot less now a days.
LA isn't America just like Tokyo isn't Japan; they're their own separate cultural entities. Yes, they exist in the same places, but culturally they're completely different. Jussayin'.
I agree with you. As a gaijin who has lived in Japan, I have noticed how Japanese attitudes to Japanese Christians differ quite much. In Kyoto they feel little bit uncomfortable to hang around with Christians whereas in Tokyo they don't care so much.
@scartissuex1 - Tell that to someone in Ohio.
@scartissuex1 - What I'm saying is that LA doesn't represent America as a whole just like Tokyo doesn't represent all of Japan. Sure, they are both cultural bastions in their own right, but to go to LA and think "This is America" is 100% false; it's just a sizable sample.
LA and California in general are the future of the rest of the nation. As non- European immigration continues to change the demographic makeup of the nation, more and more of the US will look like LA. My hometown has begun to be overrun with latino immigration which has increased the crime rates and lowered the quality of our schools and neighborhoods. I've lived in my neighborhood for all 21 years of my life and over the last two summers we've had two shootings, something that had never happened before. Both involving Latinos in some drug related disputes. My family, while big supporters of the second amendment, never felt the need to own a gun until the first shooting. We made sure to go out and buy our first last winter.
@scartissuex1 You are wrong. Californians are very patriotic. Far more than some places.
The idea of tipping in the US supposedly comes for the Great Depression when restaurants could not afford to continue paying staff the same as before and encouraged patrons to give extra for good service.
As for selling gallons of things like milk? I think this is because there are more households with very large families? It could also be because the US is so much more spread out - it’s not always common to have a grocery within walking distance, so maybe it makes more sense to buy a gallon of milk to last until the next grocery trip. The US also (to my knowledge) no longer has any kind of milk delivery like was popular until the 1950’s.
The hair thing? That could just be the salons you went to. High skill or bigger name stylists will charge much more than going to a small mom and pop shop.
Public transportation in the US is not great outside of large metropolitan areas. I’m in central Florida and our public transit is horrible - I think this is because so many people have personal cars. I’ve also heard people say the transit is not reliable enough for most people.
As for cowboys/girls - they still exist in pretty decent numbers lol.
Quality control is not great always in US, but that’s is more people that are cutting corners for money but also some structural issues are due to age. Like if a place is historically important, it can get away with not meeting some codes.
The “I can do that” guy, that’s just straight up ego lol but you run into them often... There is a saying here that I hear very much about the “I can do” guy - “Jack of all trades but master of none.”
Sorry for the novel XD
"As for selling gallons of things like milk? I think this is because there are more households with very large families?"
It doesn't really explain why this is not the case in Europe, where milk is usually bought in one-liter packs (you just buy more packs if you have a big family). I think it's mostly just a cultural thing.
alestane Maybe? I’m not familiar with grocery outside of the US. I am pretty sure US milk is more processed so that it lasts longer, that could also play into it?
@@redacted8525 UHT(ultra high tempereature) milk sold in France can typically be kept 3 months, sometimes more. Surely most people do their groceries shopping more often than once per trimester. They're still sold commonly in 1 liter packs.
Its a common sense thing. Why pay for 2 packs that will cost more than 1 large pack? Not only that but by buying more packs u produce 2x the garbage. Its not logical. Buying larger packs is literally the more intelligent option. Europe should adopt that custom.
Its like seeing a bottle that says its both shampoo and conditioner but u buy a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of conditioner instead. By doing this u produce more waste and u pay more. Why not get the 2 for 1? Its more cost efficient.
Most Americans think of Japan being more technologically advanced than the states.
i dont think its most, some maybe, a lot, perhaps. but i dont think its that much.
true to some extent
i am not american and i 2 believe that is the case
Japan also has rural areas. We just are only really exposed to cities like Tokyo in the media.
Most world believes Japan is more technologically advanced I believe. Some people probably believe they have completely automated sci-fi houses and robots and all that good stuff :)
I think the reason why people ask any question in the USA is because we're always told that there is no such thing as a stupid question and encouraged to ask anything. Unfortunately, that leads to irrelevant questions.
10 irrelevant questions are worthy if there is just one important question (as a teacher, i can confirm this, we dosent apply test expecting student to fail on topics we already teached)
-sorry for my bad english
Asian countries are more concerned about saving face, whereas in America the emphasis "used" to be on self-improvement above all else. Thomas Edison was ridiculed for repeatedly failing in his efforts to create the electric light bulb. His response was “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Kel Thuzad yes I’ve been a teacher for the last 10 years haha. So I don’t mind irrelevant questions. If they really don’t pertain to the topic I just tell the student that outside of class we can talk about that topic but in class he doesn’t have to focus on that.
hanamlchl yep and while teaching in Asia for 5 years it’s common to see people try to save face or worry about what other people will think of them if they make mistakes. That was why I spent half of my energy praising and encouraging discourse in classroom and quickly shutting down ridicule from other people.
@@hanamlchl Edison is a fraud.Telsa is the real man
When Americans talk about freedom, they're not talking about eating in class. They're talking about guns.
Gneisenau can confirm.
@m_hicks12 I'm from Jersey. I can confirm
Murica
There was that time when Michelle Obama took away big gulps in NY. People got in their feelings lol
@Nostradamus 👏
LA is not a great representation of the U.S. Maybe talk to someone who has been to the midwest or the east coast and maybe experienced more suburban areas.
Yea LA is uhh not good.
Massive differences between the Urban, suburban and rural regions of the country, especially those sections not setup to commercialize every aspect of life.
Why would they travel to a boring suburban area? The best part about travel to the US isn't about visiting suburbs or cities, it's about seeing the amazing nature. No other reason for a foreign person to visit.
@@juanpfloresdiaz She wasn't visiting, she lived in the US for 5 years. And they're trying to compare people in the US to people in Japan. Why would they go to the Grand Canyon or Everglades National park to do that? I think you missed the point.
@@nickhudd2011 Do you think LA doesn't have suburbs?
1.) Salons in Japan have more compatition than salons in America so the value drops more in japan
2.) In Japan black hair dye is a cultural must, which makes it so that salons in japan are more likely to sell said hair dye than in America, which makes it so that Salons in Japan can sell hair dye at cheaper prices.
3.) The ingridients of the hair dye might be cheaper to ship to in Japan depending on what they are.
4.) California has the highest taxes and costs on all standards of life do to reasons such as the overwhelming amounts rich people who live in it (especialy LA). There are of course other reasons why it costs so much to live in California, such as the lack of rain to provide water to the plants.
You can eat/drink in class in some schools. When I was in school they would get upset at you and you'd get in trouble. And even different teachers had different opinions on it. So it's really case by case.
HyperFirez In the ones I went to you could drink water but that was it
5 years is enough to have her sound Americanized in how she talks!
I know! I was surprised to learn she wasn't raised speaking English
She almost has an LA accent
She says yesssss like a person from the west coast.
We have some really good ESL schools in L.A. County like Torrance Adult School and many community colleges where you can study for free. She is very good. It all depends on your own ambition, hard work, and talent.
it’s quite annoying the way she talks
Among the states that he visited in the USA, Yuta didn't come to Utah?! :(
PerfectChaos7 Or Virginia or Colorado
NO UTAH!
That's the _most_ American state!
Who would go to Utah? That's like asking why someone went to New York instead of Jersey
@@new52superman88 because Yuta rhymes with Utah lol. Not a big deal
@@preettyE Oh🤣
"But, if you act normal, no one's gonna hurt you."
...Yep, that just about sums up America.
Just go about your business and don't make eye contact if you find yourself in a sketchy part of town...
US Americans are so scared of their own country... nobody is going to hurt y'all! Movies and news of every thing happening around the world really has everyone living in constant fear.
fabianyou um, yeah 😂
@@fabianpe0199 very dependant on where you are. I'm in Baltimore and someone was shot in a drive-by two blocks from me yesterday, a couple weeks ago someone else was shot on my block. Our safety concerns aren't baseless.
Just wanted to say, as a Canadian who was in charge of a liquor store for 3 years, we are pretty strict with IDs. I've been yelled at by customers many times for having to ID people who were well above the drinking age. If we don't do so, undercover inspectors can fine us for thousands of dollars. It's pretty stressful honestly.
Liquor stores in the states where I live usually have mandatory ID checks, but getting a beer at a restaurant or bar I will rarely get carded.
@@AN4RCHID yeah, a local bar a few blocks down from my work, and when my coworkers and I go there after work. They usually don't card us, but if you buy alcohol from a store, then I get carded. One of my friends goes to a grocery store, to buy his alcohol and I guess that he goes a lot, where they know who he is, and don't bother carding him too much.
Can you punch the inspectors in the face ?
When you pass the written test in the states you are given a learning permit that allows you to drive with a licensed driver in the car, its not exactly "go learn by yourself".
I once heard from a friend (I don't know which state he was talking about) that in some states you can get the driver's license at 16 just by driving the car with an adult by your side for one year and then you pay like 20$
@@ConstantinKlose-sj4mb Varies by state. Some will have a "minimum" amount of time behind the wheel as well. There's certified driving schools for the practical training as well, but they aren't mandatory.
Most of this is associated with driving as a minor though (below 18 years of age).
In my state, Mississippi there’s no required driving period before taking the test. Just pass the written and driving skills test. If getting a drivers license cost $2000, there would be far, far fewer people doing in my state.
The licensed driver doesn't techically have to teach you anything.
That’s now how it works here. All you have to do to get your Learners Permit is be enrolled in drivers Ed and have a parent/guardian with you while paying/taking the picture for your permit. Than after drivers ed you can take the written and driven tests but you can’t get your license until you turn 16
In America, we say "There is no such thing as a bad question", to encourage others to ask. And we say "If you have a question, ask, because others have it too who are too shy to speak". We think you will learn better this way and be more accepting of others
That's school not the real world tho
@@r.w.3378 or any time you need to communicate at work... especially in more complex duties or jobs. I'm in science and healthcare so without good understanding and free communication there can be big problems!
what surprised me the most about Japan was that I imagined it being very technologically advanced, practical and organized but paper work like for example regristration or paying rent is a nightmare. Everything has to be handwritten, nothing is digital and you have to fill out a million forms. When you pay rent you have to withdraw cash and pay in a convenience store. Maybe it depends on where in Japan you live, but at least where I was
“Japanese people tend to be not confident enough, while Americans are over confident.”
This was a big wake up call for me 😂
That was the most true thing said in this entire video....and that it varies by person.
It seems that it is very cultural in Japan to be modest and shy but in America people are encouraged to be loud and forward and think too much of yourself. Trump is the perfect example of this.
Eh I must be Japanese. I am not confident at all lol. I find overly loud people annoying. But then again I am also weird so.
stiimuli I’m also shy and modest and try to have good manners always. Being shy and too friendly to people is discouraged in America
Shane Davidson me to lol
False.
Her English is phenomenal, I’m shocked she hesitates to say she “can speak English”
When I went to high school we never ate or drank in school classrooms we also had a dress code
Maybe she’s a Virgo
I would have never thought she wasn’t American if she didn’t say she wasn’t, and yes, i am American
15:37 "i don't wanna say 'i speak English.'", she says after speaking English for 15 minutes lol
she's already saying "like" every other word
I speak Japenese as good as her English but I don't like to say I speak Japanese. It comes from knowing my limits. I could sit in an interview like this video and sound similarly fluent in my Japanese. I have no accent when it's simple everyday conversation but, as an example, I was at a coding meetup and a Japanese person who was new to coding wanted someone to explain why the software was showing an error on line 10 but the error was really on like 9. I didn't understand what she was asking. I don't know what she actually said. If had been just me and her then I would have asked her to say it another way or she would have pointed and I would have gotten it but there were other people around and they stepped in who did understand. I also didn't understand their explanation.
I don't think personally I could easily say something like "The issue is the language doesn't care about lines it only cares about whitespace and punctuation so it's not looking at the lines it's looking for a separator between statements. Whitespace doens't matter. You could spread things out across more lines or put everything on the same line. All it cares about is the puctuation between statements". I could come close to saying that but I don't even know the word for "punctuation" in Japanese. It's never a word that comes up in daily conversation. Nor do I know the word for "whitespace" or "separator" so I'd have to explain those in simpliar terms.
As maybe an easier example I can watch Kiki's Delivery Service and understand 100% of the dialog. But, if I watch Laputa, when the military starts talking I can't follow it. I've talked to many Japanese at Shino's level of English and they say they have the same issue. They talk and sound fluent but they also can't follow the military scene, or the political scene, or the medical scene, or the court room scene in a movie.
Similarly I can talk about a ton of things but I can't explain in detail how to say repair a bike nor could I descibe the design of product except to point it a photo of it and say "design like this". Pick anything in front of you and try to describe it to someome else without showing it to them to a degree they could draw a picture of it. It will likely be difficult but you do it in your native language but if you're learning another language that's a seriously advanced skill and you'll feel like you don't actually speak the language. So, when someone asks me if I speak Japanese I wanna say "no not yet".
Note: been in Tokyo 12 of the last 20 years. Went to Japanese language school full time for 2 years. Worked in Japanese compaines speaking only Japanese for 5 of those years. Ashamed my Japanese isn't better.
@@gmanjapan that's completely normal though. even for native speakers. some words are mostly used in specific areas that the majority of people who speak that language don't know them.
@@edwnx0 hell, one could say that for any language though really. Get a group of neurosurgeons or IT specialists together and jabbering about their trade in front of another native speaker of that language that is in no way connected to said field(s) , and/or may not be very far along in formal education for one reason or another ( or even if they are but just not in those areas), and I can see how one becomes lost in the sauce very quickly. Happens to all of us at some point.
"yea- I know that was technically English, but what the **** are you saying??"
The only thing I know how to say in Japanese is "I don't speak Japanese".
I've never heard "mmm" so much in one video
looking for this comment.
Yuta has talked about Japanese active listening culture in another video.
10/10 mmm would recommend
mmm
Summer house or whatever that crap is called. The girl Rika or whatever does the same. Its annoying.
Her accent is interesting, she has a light American accent, but you can still hear her japanese accent. You can tell she really caught on to our slang and how we talk lol.
America is huge. Its like having 50 countries all in one and its really hard to pin down some of the stuff you are talking about to being true for all of the US
TheRaven Every state has their own culture. Some may seem similar but they all have different quirks
I like to break it down into the bigger regional groups. New England, The South, etc.
But 3 things can be said for the whole country: 1) way too expensive health care; 2)way too expensive education tuition; 3) Unreasonable president
America is only the 4. largest country on the planet.
@Eli Pen Tho in present day the federal government is suprime. Only cultural, geographic and demographic diference remain between the states, not so much political.
I knew a Japanese woman who's sister had to move back to Tokyo after having lived in San Fransico for 10 year because her property kept gettinf destroyed/stolen by vagrants. Mostly her cars
Glorious San Fran has been deteriorating
@@RCXDerp Yeah. Ever since the state turned blue.
@Amuro Ray Most people that are trying heroin are people that got hooked on pain pills and can no longer get them.
@@goeast12 Those are all extremely Democrat leveled states for your information.
@@goeast12 Washington DC is extremely Liberal. In addition, it isn't a state.
It is hilarious for me to hear how people in my American town are different from the people in L. A.
Same. It's kinda sad how much L.A. people are often disconnected from how the rest of the country works.
@@shadowprince4482 In what ways?
Huge country, you would be surprised to see the amount of regional differences there are.
@@Stagnating_ A big thing I've noticed is that people in towns & country areas think political correctness is silly, and actively make fun of it
LA is so expensive, the smaller cities in California aren’t that bad
All of the USA is expencive, this is why the USSR could and China and India can field larger armies than the USA.
Baltu Lielkungs Gunārs Miezis You can’t say that man. Texas has cheap land and cheap everything. It depends on where you are. Wyoming has some of the cheapest housing in the world.
@@mike-0451 I absolutely can say the average. Sure a house in Moscow of Beijing is more expencive than in rural Wyoming, but Im talking about averages.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Yeah, and California and New York are TWO FUCKING STATES OUT OF 50.
There are 50 states in the US. Everything in between the two coasts is basically empty. As someone who lives here, I can tell you for sure.
@@mike-0451 And China has 33 first level administrative divisions (keep in mind China is larger than the USA it just doesnt have small administrative regions like Rhode Island), and Russia has 85 federal subjects.
We are talking about the average in the country. Not about any regions in that country.
"You can't drink outside...I think it depends on the state or county."
There are certain very small areas where you're allowed to drink in the US; for example Beale Street in Memphis, but that street is THE street for bars, so it's basically right on the street for all the bars where you can drink, and everywhere else it's pretty much prohibited. In other words, places where you can drink openly are very much the exception, not the rule. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_open-container_laws#Places_where_legal )
On the other hand, there are still 'dry counties' where liquor sales in general are illegal. In those counties, you cannot buy alcohol unless you are a member of a private club, and the prices are exorbitant in those clubs, so most people will drive to the next county over that allows liquor sales and then drive back. When I was in college, my college was located in a dry county, so any time we wanted alcohol, we had to drive 30 minutes to the next county over to get alcohol. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state )
Many have speculated that dry counties may contribute to drunk driving and crashes, because so many people are having to drive on the road for so long to get alcohol, which naturally leads to some people drinking on the way back, which leads to drunk driving and crashes.
Lol, I think my college situation was the total opposite. I went to college in a place where the campus was dry, but the minute you stepped off the curb and into the street you were allowed to drink, open container and everything, right there. The whole downtown area was totally legal to walk around with drinks. I don't drink at all, but hot damn that place was always packed on St. Patty's day.
+ArgusStrav Thanks for this link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state
I'm surprised how much of Texas is dry - does not match their international image.
@@ThreadBomb The yellow means a 'mixed' county, so it's not completely illegal in those counties, but there may be restrictions.
With driver's license in America, we have a system. You get your permit first, and that has a bunch of limitations on it. Then (Not required in some states, but recommended) you go to driving school. After that you can take the final test, and a driving test. If you pass, you get your driver's license
I can play a guitar means you can actually play it. Dude was misrepresenting himself aka lying.
i know what he means though, i've definitely met people like that in the states (i'm american)
It’s kinda complicated, though. I mean, Paul McCartney started writing songs on the guitar with four chords (C, G, G7, F). Even though that’s extremely basic, he was still able to write and perform songs that people enjoyed listening to, which I think qualifies
Some people have a very high level of technical ability but don’t really know any songs, maybe just snippets of songs. So while they may not be able to sit down and perform even a single song, I don’t think it would be fair to say they can’t play guitar when clearly they are quite advanced
It really depends who you ask, ya know? Different people have different criteria
@@doogelyjim8627 i grew up in japan (im american) and I picked up the habit of saying I can't do things even though I can. After coming back I learned to exaggerate again
@@littlefishbigmountain Yeah no, playing the guitar means playing.
If you know a lot in paper but can't grab a guitar and play something, you don't know how to play the guitar.
@@littlefishbigmountain except if you can actually play a song that's playing a guitar. If all you can do is strum your fingers and make incoherent noise... That is not playing an instrument
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In my experiences in American Universities and colleges, it's pretty common for there to never be any students that raise their hands for questions. It's usually the same, here, where there's really only one person ever asking questions.
Maybe because the student will be molested and later his/her classmates are going to bully him/her for interrupting
Unlike Japan where it seems they tryhard everyday, everytime lol
@@leisiyox i don't think molested means what you think it means lmao
I usually had like 5 people goin for the question. People are less attentive in the morning though.
depends on the class really i think most people just are tired and want to leave
These are great observations. It's interesting to hear the other side.
you can't eat or drink during class in Japan, but you can sleep :) try sleeping during class in any other country and see what happens. Also, if you buy something in Japan and it goes bad, so you go back to shop and try to return it, well good luck to you. Post sale service doesn't exists, when you are about to buy something Japanese will be jumping around you like you are a newborn baby, but after the purchase when you show up they will treat you like shit, telling you it is your fault the product is broken/ doesn't work.
shit services exist in any country. I don't even understand what you are on about. In my country expiration date is written on every single package of food and if you bought an expired product it is completely your fault though some higher-class supermarkets offer you a refund and you can sue all of them if the expiration date turned out to be fake. The law says that consumers should not be able to buy a spoiled product but if you bought a fresh product and it went bad in your refrigerator, it is not the shop's fault. You just did not eat the product in the alotted time. The system in Japan might be similar to this.
BTW at my grocery store you can just bring in the food and they will take it no questions asked. I was actually buying two juice jugs and told the guy at the register about how I bought a spoiled one here the other day and he gave me one free based on my word alone. Granted, I shop there often so maybe he recognized me.
I slept the first quarter of the day every day in middle school in the US. All they did was change my schedule so I slept through geography instead of math.
So basically ASUS customer support. Baby your products because if you break you're better off buying new
People used to go to a driving school in the US, but it's changed so much since then.
Now its all done with the schools.
They actually stopped driver’s ed in my area the year I was old enough. There are a couple of different rules depending on age. You take an exam for a permit (15+). Getting a license (16+) requires a driving test, but people often do a driving course before that
I'd have loved to go to driving school if I could have afforded it.
@ it's the same now too
I never went to drivers school coz my parents were too stingy to pay the fee. In California if you're over eighteen you don't have to really drivers Ed and can take the exam at the DMV
Her charisma is so good, and that was a really good conversation, made 20min go so fast
Yuta is getting younger day by day...
Everybody already knows the japanese age backwards.
This is so interesting! I live in the Netherlands, which is considered very western, but almost all of the same things you named that surprised you in the US, surprised me too when I was there. Because Japan seems so different and far away from my country, I assumed that you guys would mostly mention cultural differences that were very normal to me, but that was not the case in this video.
Apparently Japan and the Netherlands have more in common than I first thought :)
That's pretty interesting... But I can see that there are a few things in common between Japanese and European countries.
Or the USA is just way more different to the rest of the world than a lot of people realize - I think that because of the primacy of American media, people around the world think that their cultures are strange when something is different than what they see on TV, when really it’s something that’s specific to America and they’ve just become intimately familiar with it from the media.
Doesn't Japan love Germany..? XD
Though, I'm from Russia and that country seems a lot with Japan too. Japanese even like Russian cartoons for the values they teach xD
@@IsleNaK I don't know if it's widespread, but there are of course Germany lovers. It's one of the more common countries mentioned from what I've noticed, but I suppose that's because it's a fairly well-known country compared to others. Germany also has some historical ties with Japan due to WW2, which is a possible reason.
Great conversation! Life in Japan sounds challenging but also fun. I’m from Chicago and the Asian community here is big and continues to grow.
I've lived in an apartment in LA. It wasn't good. But if you talk about houses, typically houses in the USA are pretty good, at least in suburbia.
Oh, and ice cream should never have vegetable oil in it. Like... what the heck?!
Sometimes, there are tactics at play to raising your hand in high school school. It's not always confidence. It could be that they're trying to get the teacher to not have enough time to pass out homework, or they are afraid if they are the only person NOT raising their hand that they will be called on.
When I was in Japan (Tokyo) a few years ago visiting a friend, I took Japanese for 1 year (nearly 10 years prior in college), and was trying to re-learn some of the basics. I remember one day we were making our way up to Tokyo SkyTree and we stopped at a large shopping mall first. I had to find an ATM and there was a customer service counter at the mall entry-way, so my friend said, "hey, you need to practice your Japanese, so ask her where the atm is in Japanese!"
We were fighting hang overs from the previous evening and that afternoon, but I made my way to the service counter with him by my side and asked, "ATM wa doku-ka?"
My friend was *not* impressed with my asking where the ATM was, also it appeared the lady was a little surprised by my question as she jerked her head back and exclaimed, 'Hai!', and proceeded to tell me to go up the escalator, turn left, etc....etc...I'll never forget her reaction, wish I had a goPro to record it. If that's the type of Nihongo you teach then sign me up, sir!
Love Japan, glad you generally had a good time in the U.S.! L.A. is fun, but 300 for a hair appointment is a lot! Maybe get a better deal in Inglewood next time you're in the area and spend the rest on sangria at the farmers market!
About the public transport, the public transport in L.A. wasn't that great, but it was pretty good in Boston; nothing like Japan, though. My favorite is Mexico City for public transport; every day is an adventure and once you get past the 'sketch' veneer, it's actually very efficient and relatively uneventful. I just saw one fight break out at a subway station, but it was late and in a so-so neighborhood, so it wasn't totally unexpected.
Cheers from Oklahoma!
Ryan Shannon When to LA literally saw 18 homeless people in the first two hours there
American/Canadian public transport is such a low priority because most of our cities are "new" and therefore designed from the ground up to facilitate vehicular transport. Ancient cities in the old world are designed for pedestrian use and therefore have better working trams, buses and trains that help pedestrians travel to different areas of the city.
"I don't speak English." she says in perfect english with a perfect American accent.
For the driver's license, I had to pass a test based off a book of standard rules to get my temps (temporary license). I then had a certain amount of time in which I had to have a minimum number of driving hours with a licensed driver, a few weeks of classes at a driving school, and several sessions driving with a trained driving instructor. Once I had my license, I was only allowed to have one non-directly related person in the car with me at a time until I turned 18.
Yuta needs to go to Utah sometime.
"I'm the kind of guy who would argue with the teacher." You're an American at heart, Yuta! 🤣
It's easy for people to forget that America was founded by a bunch of drunken rebels. LOL! There are plenty of folks here in The States who think they're 'above' the American stereotype, but there are plenty of us who are damn proud of our heritage and love our sense of individuality and independence. And there's no question that folks from other cultures are sometimes drawn to that pioneer spirit. 😁
America was founded by land owning elites that didn't want to pay the same amount of taxes to the British empire that the rest of the empire was already paying. But I'm glad other peoples are attracted to this "pioneer" spirit. We along with every other nation in the Americas rely on those dreamers to keep our birthrate stable, something that immagrantphobic countries like Japan, Germany (most of the EU nations), and Russia don't do, which leads to population decline.
Is arguing with teachers an American thing? I've always been like the only student to argue with my teachers and I'm American
@@redj1101 Not exclusively, no. But America's cultural values kinda set our kids up to individuate a lot harder and faster than in other countries, certainly among Asian countries. Asian culture is extremely conservative, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it tends to stifle individuation, which is a natural process in teenagers. That said, 'Murica has gotten entirely out of hand with our Millennial generation, of which I am a member, myself. (Leading end; I was born in '85.) Gen Y, as it used to be called, has a serious rebellion issue that stems from radical Boomer protestors getting impenetrable careers as teachers and professors, and warping millennial minds with Marxist propaganda. Not all of my generation were poisoned but the fact that Gen Z has almost completely pulled away from the examples set my my contemporaries serves to illustrate just how bizarre and anti-intellectual most of my generation was made by the small percentage of Boomers responsible for their education. My point being, things have gone way off the deep end, in terms of rebellious spirit, but we've already reached the apex of lunacy and are beginning to return to equilibrium again. That said, whenever a culture values individual liberties over collective cohesion, it will (inevitably, I would argue) pump out generation after generation of incrementally more individualistic people, and a key part of being individualistic is recognizing the value of your own perspectives, which demands that one ask questions and never take the collective answer for granted.
@@redj1101 (I would also point out that before one can argue what is being said, one has to care about the truth. Being an individual demands formulating one's own perspectives, but that doesn't mean those perspectives must be true. And if one is not interested in truth, then there's no motivation to ask questions or argue with an educator. The questions are asked internally, in such instances. Besides, most youngsters think of school as work rather than an opportunity to grow.)
@@K00Ldude98 It was *organized* by land-owning elites, sure. I would mostly just argue that it was *founded* by the blood of the settling laborers who bought what those elites were peddling, so to speak. I think there's a big difference between leading and laboring, not that I believe leading is any less essential than the latter.
(And because I suspect it will be pointed out by another by way of argument, I am aware Washington was said to have led his troops directly in at least key battles, but he was an exceptional individual which is why he was asked to be King of America.)
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Actually, that case of the orange juice having gone bad and her having to throw it away almost never happens in the U.S., either; that's quite rare.
@Josh Vang Right, if you go somewhere that's not technically a grocery store, it's a bit more likely that you'll find something like that. Same for produce in convenience stores.
latt.qcd92 it’s not that rare actually but it’s uncommon
We have expiration dates on food in the US. Read them!
you might be buying orange drink instead of orange JUICE, cus orange juice spoils.
It probably depends on the place you buy it from, the only time that's ever happened to me is at this small boating place and half their drinks were expired. Like i already drank some of it and everything
the house quality thing is interesting because i feel like there's two different ways to interpret it. in america it's not at all uncommon to live in a house that is 100+ years old, especially if you live on the east coast. for instance the house i grew up in was built in the mid 1800s. some of the nicest houses in my town date back to colonial times. i assume this is even more true in europe. so yeah, the doors probably don't fit quite right and the floors are tilted but i think most westerners see the fact that the house is still standing at all as a testament to its quality, and in fact in many places old houses are more desirable than new houses for this reason. on the other hand, i can definitely understand why someone who is used to a culture where houses are rebuilt every 20-40 years or so would see all these old buildings and think they are just dilapidated and run-down.
I'm a Brit, and I live in a very new house, less than 50 years.
But not 60 seconds walk down the road is a street with a bunch of REALLY old houses.
They're so old that they renamed them all after the era they were built
At the end you have Tudor house, then you have Stuart house, then you have Georgian house, then you have Victorian house, then you have a modern house.
It's incredibly to think, because Tudor house is at least 400 years old.
When I was a student, I lived in a place from the 1750s. It was not the nicest place in town, but it worked.
It was not the oldest building. St. Mary's Church is the oldest building, finished 1181.
"I lived in LA" I'm so sorry
That's one of the worst places you could choose to go to in the US. Really, anywhere in California is a trash heap.
Least it wasn't New York.
Oh you lived in California....I'm sorry
@@Kothar- A state that's on fire half the time would probably be hell.
Not to mention the heaps of human feces in the streets
The South is much more different, having spent all my life in the South it’s been interesting. Japanese with a Southern accent..
What state?
Must be something about LA when it comes to schools in the US. The schools I went to never allowed eating food and stuff in classes. One school I was in didn't even let you chew gum unless a teacher was lenient. Can't use phones in classes either or else it will get confiscated. So if you can do whatever you want in schools, then my schools sucked.
@CarlyKpdx Drinks in my case were not allowed either. Only lunch time was that allowed, or else it was the drinking fountain. I think the only exception outside of that was PE. Dress code was on the strict side for us too (not as strict as yours though) but not many people listened to it. This was in a Junior and Senior High School I went to in Pennsylvania.
@CarlyKpdx Just how it works lol
I could eat food whenever in college but up through high school couldn’t do more than drink water in class (I’m from SF Bay Area). People definitely would walk to restaurants and stuff like that for lunch though, some kids would drive to the nearest in n out and back which was like the length of all of lunch lol.
@@TalussAthner I don't think we were even allowed to leave the premise for lunch either. So that's lucky of you.
TheGravityShifter That was true of my high school’s rival which was the other school in the city, so it depended school to school. Apparently for them it was some dumb rule relating to their test scores which was pretty bs.
I can attest to it being more common for students in the states to be more participating in classes. It almost acts like a sport to see who's correct. People are just more vocal overall here. Being a minority in that social respect tended to be a little bit problematic for me. There's no doubt pressure for not only participation but even correctness, at least in my experience. Though when I entered college however. Fewer people were as vocal.
I don’t know where you’re from specifically, but my experience has been pretty much the exact opposite. As long as I can remember, unless the class was extraordinarily small, students (myself included) would avoid answering questions when asked and would rarely ask questions even when prompted to. And while I think this is motivated by the feeling of needing to conform like in Japan, it’s more on the pretense of not wanting to deviate from a perceived average (i.e. not wanting to seem overly invested or smart, but also not wanting to seem too stupid or oblivious) rather than a fear of underachieving. Obviously, every class is different and I’ve been in classes (ranging from high-level honors or AP classes to lower-level ones) where there was a lot more active participation, but overall, my experience seems to be much more similar to Japan than not.
Yeah, in the US houses are built cheaply with the intention of being sold, not of being lived in for a long time.
The houses over there are houses from the 1970's
We don't have an earthquake problem like Japan has so our building standards don't have to be as high
@Steve Slade Not true, my in-laws bought an 80 year old house and only did a mild renovation on it. It's a pretty cool house, but it does lack some modern efficiency and technology standards.
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But there are tornado, hurricane, flood, and other problems scattered throughout the U.S.
Are you sure? In my part of the country, that is not true at all. People are careful to build things well, and they always get a house inspected before buying it. Maybe you live in a city with a peculiar real estate market.
“Everyone raised their hand.” I don’t know what school you went to but that is NOT the norm.
yeah, that sounds more like North Korea.
Oof, LA of all places...
I get the gripe with housing standards & public transportation in LA, especially compared to more modernized places like Tokyo. I live here in Los Angeles. But when compared with the rest of the country, LA standards are pretty high. But yes, I, in particular, hate the public transit system. I wish the government would finally approve and fund the CA maglev system and more broadly more localized trains and subways.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 that's factually inaccurate. CA is the largest economy in the US by far. In fact, it has an economic surplus that is then used to carry a lot of other states that are in the negative. www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/californias-fiscal-risks-despite-largest-surplus-in-more-than-decade.html
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 You know by "LA" Shino means she live in Los Angeles, right? Which is *in* California? Why would standards be relatively high in LA *because* California robs its citizens?
Which explains some of her distorted perspectives...like thinking a normal haircut is $400.
@@Totenglocke42 Four hundred dollars in LA is not normal for a haircut. A normal price is around ten to fifteen dollars.
The guy who said "I can play the guitar" was not a good representative from my experience. There are definitely some people who oversell their talents and abilities, but I would say they're a small outlier. Most people in america will readily admit their faults in my experience, saying things like "I can't do math" "I don't read" "I can't draw" "I'm not creative" , and the more talented people only elevate it by saying things like "Oh I guess I draw sometimes." or "I've come up with a couple okay ideas."
Actually, I think the cultural perception (as an american observing other americans) is that if someone touts their abilities too much they're a liar and probably trying to manipulate you somehow.
You couldn't have said it any better. I also agree that those who over express their abilities/skills just bluff in order to feel extra confident.
Lol literally the definition of "sample size of one"
Yeah, but that "fake it till you make it" concept is real. Maybe we SHOULD be more like the guitar guy lol.
I kin rite. lol
Japanese Beauty Standards for Women: "Is that normal human body fat on my body?! Oh no I'm chubbyyyyy."
Normal for modern people, I guess.
heyyyy ESL teaching tip: when getting students to ask you questions say "Ask me two questions (or more) about what we've learned so far in class" rather than "Do you have any questions?" When you make it a task to ask questions, it forces students to reflect on their doubts and encourages them to resolve those doubts without looking weak and/or stupid.
I'm always curious at people's surprise at our huge drinks. Not because the oz is big, but because other countries dont fill their cups from bottom to top with ice. I think I go thru a 32oz faster full of ice than when I get a 10oz and just fill it up without ice.
Thats why I order without ice. The drink comes out cold as it is
As an American myself I still think they're HUGE. Maybe I'm showing my age, but I remember the time when 32 oz wasn't the largest size you could get. Why the change all of sudden happened I don't know. But I won't complain.. Lol
@@rsuriyop 7 11 still has like 100oz big gulps
You realize that ice is less dense than liquid water, right? So of course you'd be able to drink the liquid part faster if there's less of it due to the ice taking up more space. Use your brain.
Friends is actually filmed in Los Angeles (even though the setting is New York)...that's why it doesn't show NY that much😂😂
"I can do" varies person to person, but generally it means, "I know the basics of how to do". You aren't far off the mark. I can do doesn't say how well you can in the States.
It's less bragging and more hoping to be helpful. A "can-do" attitude is one of willingness to try to be of service.
Typically though someone who can’t even play a simple song will say “I dabble in guitar” or “am learning” or “mess around” or “noodle” or at least say “I play a little.” Of course there’s always a braggadocio who acts like he’s Jimi Hendrix when he only knows a couple of power chords. Usually they are young and easily found out.
Then there are forgotten skills. I might say I play the piano then realize I hadn’t played in a long time and I realize later that my skill has mostly been lost. Or with a language, when I haven’t used it in a decade and passive understanding is still about 80-95% but I’m not good at talking in real time.
I moved several times, each school I went to was very different with their rules. Some schools let you have hair dye and piercings and food in class and some have strict rules about how you dress. Here some school districts are based on the county and some on a town, then private schools are a whole different thing. The small schools I went to in Texas only cared about football. The big school I went to in NC had soooo much more to offer like computer classes and 3d modeling and graphic design.
That's cause funding for schools is directly based on the wealth of the county/neighborhood. It's shitty.
We're just SO good at staying hydrated. 30 oz drinks. Carrying water to class. Huge bottles at the store. lol
Me: *visible confusion* after hearing haircut prices because i pay something like 6 dollars
She said for a cut style and dye.
i've NEVER heard of a woman paying $6 for a haircut. my cousin does hair and she charges FAMILY over $40.
Its 12 dollars for a hair cut where I'm from. 60 for a cut and color.
It’s around 60 or 70 dollars for a cut, style, and dye. For a wash, cut, and style it’s 12 dollars.
J Solomon .Evans I’m a man so I’m not sure what prices are normal for women, but I rarely ever pay more than $20 for a haircut...I was shocked when I heard her say that price
You should visit the Midwest United States! I'm curious as to what you think about it
i am living in the midwest came from hawaii but lived in asia for a long time and i think its boring and very odd how people keep coming at night to try to open my car door. and bus system sucks never had to stand at a bus stop ever no shelter or anything its so bad as well as scary on the train people making marijuana joints. and annoyed by the terrible service like at sams or walmart. and constant shootings.
@@MrChubhub22 People trying to open your car door to see if they can steal valuables. Oof.
@@MrChubhub22 Sounds like what you'd expect living in a poor neighborhood
I like how foreigners are scared by people rolling joints
Why? It's called flyover country for a reason.
@@MrChubhub22 "and very odd how people keep coming at night to try to open my car door"
And that, kids, is how you detect a liar.
I love how they're talking about the high attention to details when it comes to buildings in Japan, while in front of a cinder block wall with an absolutely crappy mortar job. lol
Lol your comment made me laugh
That gap near the center got larger and larger as Yuta talked about his perfecting standards.
James Eldridge Japan is known for its architectural details. It is true the homes in the U.S. are built differently than the rest of the world. They are built to not last, simply because U.S. is a very mobile society. Homes are more solidly built and to last for generations in other countries, especially in Europe. They are all kinds of constructions, the fact that they are in a cinder block room with poor mortar it is not indicative of the overall quality....it could be that they are in an old building. Japan products are known for their very high quality all over the world. 😊
You obviously haven't been to Japan.
Also, American houses are flimsy compared to European houses but Japanese houses last an even shorter time, and even often lack insulation and central air conditioning even when built in this century.
Is the "mm"ing Shino does while you are talking the same as people typically act when talking to each other in Japanese?
The answer is yes
Yes, "mm" is casual/relaxed way to saying yes
uumm is the "no"
Takumi Inamoto they’re
うん=un
ううん=uun
This behaviour is called backchanneling and it is considered to be polite. It is a behaviour interpreted as attentiveness.
It's to show that they're paying attention. They make noises of affirmation. It threw me off the first time I talked to a guy straight from Japan lol.