Foreigner Exposes the BIGGEST Culture Shock of Living in Japan 🇯🇵

Youtuber Alina Macleod shares her biggest culture shock about her experience living in Japan. What is a uniquely Japanese trait? What should you know before you move to Japan?

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[IrfanArio]

Japan is a great country to visit, but no so to stay.

[therealgigster]

That's so funny! As a middle eastern I find that we're a lot more direct and Canadians are the polite ones that beat around the bush lol

[johngonzalez]

Happy Saturday Marina and Alina! Today I went to a Japanese 🇯🇵 buffet for lunch and the food was delicious and the workers were nice. Japan 🇯🇵 is a place that I would like to visit one day. Blue 💙 looks great on you Marina and Alina as it is my favorite color

[ImmortalRimas]

Japan is a great country to visit, maybe to stay for a short time if you have your own money already to live on there long enough for a few years but not to work or live there long-term. If I have kids someday I would not want them growing up in such a harsh working environment where work/life balance is pretty much non-existent

[hirsch]

Ah nice two of my favourite Canadian travelling YTers from the former USSR together, hope you had a good chill 😊

[numbersix]

So there are three Japans: Planet Tokyo, Planet Osaka, and traditional Japan, which is extremely varied by region and history. All that is said here, is about Planet Tokyo.
In Osaka and its surrounding territories, the people tell you exactly how they feel, are warm and funny and not too demanding. Just as in Tokyo, they work hard and play hard, but in a more "laid back" way!

[carlosneumann]

Japan built a vast economy on a very tricky piece of land, they developed a strong mentality of fighting for the greater good (society wise, not so much morally or religiously), so the country would develop economically (and it has done that really well), especially so their children could have a better life than those first lived there (and themselves for that matter). very beautiful culture and amazing society. unfortunately, extremely difficult for people like us (western cultures) to adapt there and be happy 😢. unfortunately our joy always comes from individual things, not giving up
pleasure to fight for our unborn children. that's why our governments praise ethics, not so much empathy.

PS: that's also why japonese people are very strict when it comes to following rules!

[erzascarlet]

As a Canadian myself, I was boutta comment “really? Canadians are direct? Cuz we be “beating around the bush too”” LOL, until you gave the context. But yeah, I guess (yet again) it depends on the type of context, cuz when it comes to work you’re right, we’re not as workaholic, but when it comes to other things I say we have a lot of similarities with the Japanese in the sense that we’re not very forthcoming either.

[chrisskywalker]

Yeah, Japan is definitely not for lazy people and or people who thinking that they can say or do anything they want.

[КаринаФедулаева-нл]

Is this the girl from the episode “dating with a Russian girl”?

[LJBrown]

If Canadians proclaim themselves to be direct and not beat around the bush, how would a German or a New Yorker survive in Japan😂

[zeldamachina]

I love Japan and Japanese women so much, but that is one thing I hate so much about Japanese women, if my honesty comes out, it has to come out. Haha

[dickrichard]

It sounds like you owe them your soul if they give you a job