Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "12 Unspoken Rules NOT to Break in Japan" video.

  1. Well, i'd liked the idea of Japan (i've been there once over 20 years ago), but wearing shorts and sunglasses while taking a call on a train, then walking down the road eating a soy sauce drenched bowl of rice seems a normal attractive thing to do, which is a faux-pas in Japan. I've now the urge to do that hearing that it's forbidden (although i don't want to outrage the Japanese more than an uncouth gaikoku hito can achieve, so i probably won't do that there). It's rather like telling a child not to open the cookie jar and eat the cookies, then place that jar on the top shelf (out of reach) and the moment your back is turned and hearing a loud crash behind you, you see a guilty looking child sitting among fallen shelves, broken glass and loose cookies, with chocolate mint cookie smeared on his face. If i never heard it was forbidden; i wouldn't have the urge to put my hand in the cookie jar. Maybe eating choc-mint cookies will be now faux-pas in Japan. Yeah, pointing a someone, not cool, i'm agreeing with that.
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