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Japan is a big machine, I would not want to live there if they asked me to. Technologically they are very good, but society is rather rigid and hierarchical, lots of rituals etc. I could never be happy in a culture like that.
I have the same opinion about Japan.
Wouldn't want to live there at all.
I have the same opinion about Japan.
Wouldn't want to live there at all.
Not to mention that we would always remain outsiders, simply because we look different and strike out as foreigners. Heck, even in Portugal occasionally employees at the cash register say the price in English, somehow knowing I am not Portuguese, I am the wrong kind of white
Not to mention that we would always remain outsiders, simply because we look different and strike out as foreigners. Heck, even in Portugal occasionally employees at the cash register say the price in English, somehow knowing I am not Portuguese, I am the wrong kind of white
Yes, the "Northerner" and it shows.
I, and another hand ( when in Italy) has been always addressed exclusively in Italian in all public places)))
PS. I wouldn't mind remaining an "outsider" in Japan, because I'd always feel this way anyway.
Northern Europe is the richest and technologically most developed region in the world. That's why there are jealous Americans pretending to be from the Netherlands starting threads about the US being better. They should learn to deal with their inferiority complex.
In Italy they have quite a few blond people in the northern regions, so they can't be so sure someone looking like that is a foreigner. Also, the Italians just like the Spaniards are prouder and more self-confident, they don't try to appeal to foreigners the way many Portuguese unfortunately do.
Northern Europe is the richest and technologically most developed region in the world. That's why there are jealous Americans pretending to be from the Netherlands starting threads about the US being better. They should learn to deal with their inferiority complex.
I don't think that's correct. The technologically most advanced region is East Asia these days.
(Rural) China and North Korea are a part of East Asia too ... I'll take Northern Europe any time.
Northern Europe is not as technologically advanced as South Korea or Japan, certain regions of China have surpassed and are surpassing northern Europe in terms of technological advancement. When it comes to Japan, that's why the saying; if you want to see what the future looks like, go to Tokyo, exists.
Northern Europe is not as technologically advanced as South Korea or Japan, certain regions of China have surpassed and are surpassing northern Europe in terms of technological advancement. When it comes to Japan, that's why the saying; if you want to see what the future looks like, go to Tokyo, exists.
Certainly. The Japanese and Koreans are obsessed with technology and all new things, while the Nordics think more that "if it's not broken, don't fix it". Not that we use fax anymore, though.
That's the same with the whole of Europe, too. If it is broken though it'll be ''If its broken, match it up''
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