The Japanese are monsters, I tell you! Monsters!

Rude in Japan: Helping and old lady struggling with her shopping

Polite in Japan: Minding your own fucking business and letting other people mind theirs in peace

Really? You're supposed to slurp? I think I can do that.

Rude in Japan: Being in the country at all and expecting them to all speak English

Polite in Japan: Grinning and paying complements when EVERYONE you speak to talks to you in broken English

That guy is blatantly disregarding マナーモード

Rude: Consent
Polite: Rape

How does one eat noodle soup without slurping?

>Rude in 1st world: Sniffing up the snot

lol retard, lots of 1st countries do this in public. especially when you have flu

>>1888615
what?

is your face broken or something? are you missing some important facial muscles?

>>1888621
and it's fucking disgusting

>Minding your own fucking business and letting other people mind theirs in peace

qft

>>1888592
Means you're enjoying your meal or some shit

fuck politeness, i just like getting air in there if it's hot

Rude in Japan: Being American
Polite in Japan: Being Japanese

>>1888633
Blowing your nose in public isn't any less disgusting

>>1888633
Hmmm
snot exiting your body, it's out there and possibly on your face
snot re-entering your body so its where it should be

>>1888599

Rude in 1st world: Being in the country at all and expecting them to all speak Japanese

Polite in 1st world: Grinning and paying complements when SOMEBODY you speak to talks to you in broken Japanese

Actually, I can see no difference.

>>1888599
The whole world doesn't speaks the only language I know BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW

>>1888646
Blowing once to clear your nose is infinitely better than snorting every 15 seconds because you have to clear to breath.

Blowing is necessary and forgivable. Snorting is completely unnecessary and is warrant for an ass kicking.

>>1888633
the reason its not disgusting is because you're making an attempt to keep the germs inside your own body. Blowing your nose is releasing all those germs out into the world. Even though you're forcing the snot into a kleenex, most people who blow their nose forget to wash their hands afterward, which is only helping spread the germs to others. Japanese people always put others before themselves.

>>1888656
That's not even close to what I was saying, Aniki

>>1888662
This

Maybe it's because I grew up in the west or something, but sniffing up snot is too gross

Rude in Japan: Leaving the company you work for if you consider your working conditions inadequate
Polite in Japan: Getting browbeat by your boss for taking exception to his standpoint and put up with mobbing for a year

>>1888562

Blowing your nose can be considered somewhat more annoying, and interuptive.

Slurping your noodles or soup is considered showing your gratitude for the food, or that you like it in general to the host.

These simple things will change in time, but for now thats how it is.

I had no idea sniffing up the snot was rude in America

>>1888675
That's why you learn to blow without making a huge racket by blowing with moderation or turning your head away from the table, or you excuse yourself from the table and find a nice restroom/hallway to clear your nose.

Dear god, people excusing themselves from a table for bodily functions. It's amazing.

>>1888639

>>Rude in Japan: Acting like a stupid American
>>Polite in Japan: Acting like the Japanese, and pulling it off due to knowledge of culture, habits, life in Japan.

>>1888603

I saw all the signs asking for manner mode, and I selected it on my cell phone when asked...but it didn't seem to make a difference. The phone still rang if someone called.

Does it do something else? I had a 2004 generic Docomo phone.

I never used my phone on the subway; I'd just turn it off if someone tried to call then, or I'd head to the space between cars if I was on JR.

>>1888675
slurping or munching is so disgusting to me and pisses me off to hell. I guess I have to learn to accept other countries customs...but it still pisses me off like no other.

>>1888685
I have a Docomo SO905i, and it never does that.
Maybe you edited your default manner mode without knowing?

>>1888716

It is quite possible. So manner mode just kills the ringing then, yeah?

>>1888731
According to my manual (which I have out since I was working out how I should encode my movies for the whole night):

Manner Mode - Everything is silent, except for the vibrations.

Silent Mode - Everything is silent.

Original Manner Mode - Editable manner mode. For some reason, by default, the tone volume is at 4.

>>1888746

Nobody practices proper manners in America anyways. Almost no one short of high class citizens, that is.

>>1888792
I practice good manners whenever I'm not alone.

Rude in Japan: Expressing emotion
Polite in Japan: Acting like a robot

..do you mean just saying thankyou and shit? that is nothin

Polite in Japan: Keeping yourself discreet, even to the detriment of others. When in doubt, do what everyone else is doing.

Polite everywhere: Being pleasant and courteous and engaging in random acts of kindness, even when other people are being discourteous and meanspirited

>>1889309
>*everywhere else (that isn't a shithole)
fix'd

>>1888621
It's etiquette to purge the stuff from your nose asap, because sniffing is nothing short of annoying after a while.

>>1888716
You in Japan bro, or are you using something like a hypersim?

>>1889309
Actually this is very true... On a recent trip to Japan I was walking into a shop with a door that had a handle on it (slightly unusual since most doors there are sliding or electronic) and there were people coming in behind me, maybe 15 feet away. I waited and held the door open for them and they gave me distinct glares and was told by the shopowner to shut the damn door. (I'm Chinese so maybe they thought I was Japanese). Apparently opening the door for someone in Japan is not a generous gesture and is thought of as weird.

My habits align better with Japan.

>>1889317
Well too fucking bad

I'm gonna hold the door for them whether they like it or not

spoiler: Japan is a 1st world country.

>>1889317
>I'm Chinese so maybe they thought I was Japanese
No. They can smell the Chiense off you.

>>1889333
Then why did they speak Japanese to me, smartass?

>>1889343
Because you were in Japan.

>Rude in 1st world: Sniffing up the snot
>Polite in 1st world: Blowing your nose (ideally with a fancy >handkerchief)

Not everywhere in the first world, somplaces both are "polite"

>>1889331
Seems like women actually know their place in Japan.

>>1889343
They don't know Chinese?

Rude in Japan: bowing to greet women
Polite in Japan: raping to greet women

>>1889347
If they knew I was Chinese they would have probably treated me like every other gaijin, as in, avoid as much as possible or attempt clumsy conversation in English. Almost everywhere I went people spoke Japanese to me, and since I spoke Japanese back it was virtually undetectable that I was a foreigner. I am the perfect spy.

>>1889358
I sincerely doubt you have a native accent

Native phonetic skill is the hardest thing to acquire

>>1889358
nice one bro.

No really I mean it.

Rude in Japan: Taking it easy
Polite in Japan: Doing it slowly

>>1889358
They couldn't tell you weren't Japanese based on your accent?

>>1888676

Only in fat elite clubs is it not polite

Polite in Japan: being japanese
Rude in Japan: not being japanese

Sniffing is annoying as fuck, blow your nose. Just turn away when you do it and don't open the hanky to inspect what came out.

Rude in Japan: Thinking for yourself.
Polite in Japan: Conform to society and discard all sense of personal freedom and expression.

>>1889377
Because everyone carries handkerchiefs around with them at all times.

>>1889363
>>1889366
I've known Japanese since I was very young. My parents are from Taiwan and a lot of older Taiwanese people know Japanese because of foreign occupation and being forced to learn it. Since they knew about the "critical period" for learning languages, they decided to teach me all the languages they knew and I was able to learn three, and I still speak all three fluently; Chinese, Japanese, and English. My knowledge of kanji and Chinese characters is incredibly lacking, though.

>>1889387
Most people have at least paper hankies with them.

>>1889391
Forgot to add: My parents have a Chinese accent when speaking Japanese but through continued study I sound like a Japanese person when I speak.

Rude in Japan: apologising after doing something wrong.
Polite in Japan: hari kari after doing something wrong.

>>1889391
Fair enough.

>>1889393
Maybe if you are female and have a pocketbook. Otherwise, no, most people don't even have that.

>>1889401
It's harakiri.Besides Japanese people don't do that anymore. They just fuck up your life by firing you and let your life be buried under millions of yens worth of debt. A fate much worse than death.

>>1889403
Well maybe you should start you slob, sniffing is very irritating.

>>1889391
I'm envious.

>>1889411
zawa

ITT: trolling + a few serious morons

>>1889331
It's funny because it's true

>>1889411
well at least korea still has a sense of honour

>>1889448
He's doing it wrong, though.

How do the Japanese view farting?

>>1889448
This is the most inhumane picture i have ever seen. What's the source on this?

>>1889461
its very polite to silently let one out on a crowded train or subway.

>>1889464
Source = Corea

>>1889464
no idea, i've had it for a really long time

Just another one of those idiot Koreans who go to absurd lengths to troll Japan and China. I bet he got hospitalized soon after he did that crazy stunt.

>>1889485
He's dead.

>>1888651
That's like saying shit and piss should re-enter your body because that's where it should be.

>>1889496
Those are actually meant to leave your body.

>>1889510
Well, it's two completely different cases. Shit and piss are designed by your body to remove things that need to be removed; snot is designed to keep crap out of your lungs by trapping it and dragging it back and into your throat, where it can then be digested and released through shit and piss. Blowing it out your nose is basically the same thing, except your body doesn't get to reuse the mucus.

>>Rude/Polite in Japan
>>Rude/Polite in 1st world
>>1st world
>>not Japan

Oh look! Another country has different standards for what is and isn't acceptable. That makes them savages.

>>1889554
They're savages! Savages!
Filthy stinking devils!
Savages! Savages!
Killers at the core!
They're different from us, which means they can't be trusted!
We must sound the drums of war!

>>1889554
Actually when the phrase was coined, "first world" referred only to Nato allied states, of which Japan was not a member. Japan was, however, US-allied so it had a "token" membership along with Israel and Korea

>>1889554
>>1889577
The natives make fine warriors. WHEN COMMANDED BY WHITE OFFICERS.

>>1889591
My second sentence refers to late cold war era by the way.

Regardless of variations most cultures in the world have many things in common. They are based on the positive values of humanity such as politeness, kindness and respect.

Thus you can never get to see cultures who, say, condone farting loud in public or blowing your nose to the floor. Even if there are, chances are it is practiced by some nearly extinct tribe deep in the jungle somewhere on the farthest reaches of the world.

>>1889621
In china and india, people still spit in the street all the time

They did in Japan before WW2, hence why people still take their shoes off even though today's Japanese streets are cleaner than American hospitals

>>1889621
I live in Canada, and we condone farting as loud as possible. Last time I went to the doctor, he farted right in my face as a greeting.

>>1889631
What are you, a 2nd grade teacher? lol spitting.

>>1888562
>Polite in Japan: Sniffing up the snot

Japan's doing it right. Blowing your nose in private is fine, but in public? Shit's fucking annoying, not to mention disgusting if you're using a handkerchief. Blowing snot into a rag and shoving it back into your pocket - now that's just gross.

>>1889631
You fucking bastard, we have great medical professionals in this country and they keep their facilities sterile.
FUCK YOU TROLL. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU .

oh /jp/ how can you come up with all this shit?

>>1889654
Sniffing is disgusting, using a handkerchief is also digusting. Using a tissue and disposing of it immediately is the only non-disgusting choice.

I think it's mostly about social class. For me, sniffing snot up -and- blowing your nose in public is very rude but mostly disgusting. You go outside, bathroom, whatever to do that.
And helping people like that baby stroller down the stairs pic, it really depends. If it's a man, you never ask if they need help but you of course help them if they ask. If it's a woman it's a no brainer.

>>1889675
>/jp/
there's your reason

>For me, sniffing snot up -and- blowing your nose in public is very rude but mostly disgusting
What the fuck do you do when you're out in public and have a runny nose? Let it drip down your face?

Sniffing up your snot is fine if it's light and relatively quiet. But when you go HRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNK, then that shit's loud, disgusting, and disruptive. Get a napkin, go into a bathroom, and blow your nose if you've got that much snot in your nose.

>>1888562

I don't understand. In third-world countries like America isn't it polite to blow your nose? Doesn't that mean Japan is opposite so it's correct?

>>1889621
>Regardless of variations most cultures in the world have many things in common. They are based on the positive values of humanity such as politeness, kindness and respect.
>politeness
= acting in accordance with courtesy, standards of which vary by culture
>kindness
Different standards of the extent to which strangers are supposed to help each other exist.
>respect
same as politeness, or close enough.
None of these are universal.

>>1889665
What country?

>>1889653
This guy spits on the street. Direct quiet contempt his way.

>>1890706
death before dishonour

>>1888562
FFFFFFFFFFFF

I sat next to a japanese dude in chemistry. He was sniffing up snot loudly, all fucking class. It was fucking gross

late night eating/drinking

Rude in Japan: Pay the check equally.

Polite in Japan: Let the Oldest (Senpai) to pay for your meal

>>1890741

Japan is opposite land.

>>1890806
I should also mention that he had his head down on the desk the whole class while his jap girlfriend next to him took his notes for him.

>>1890819

Make the youngest person pay out, personal belief

>>1890837
Definitely this.

>>1890837
shit on the youngest / newest people and if they can manage to keep kissing ass while they endure it, maybe they're worthy of being closer to treated as equals. that's the american way, for sure.