Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Why I HATE Japanese TV" video.

  1. Shame culture face-saving goes to blandness of the most excruciating sort, and (unlike the Chimese) the Japanese are very polite, which makes it sort of worse. It's a kabuki theater of understanding the degree of the bow to discover your ranking in society, and social nicities which kind of make your head impode with it's careful subtleness. Leaving a dead fly on your neighbor's doormat is a declaration of war, yet the Japanese army acted with extreme brutality during World War 2, which made the Waffen SS look like jolly nice chaps. So definitely volcanic level of schizophrenic destruction there if the kill switch is flicked. Incomprehensible, baffling and time-wasting from a more direct Westener point of view (Westerners are bigger on guilt culture than shame culture). Probably the Japanese feel negativity about Westerners being crude and rude peasants in return.
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  2. TV is awful in any culture. The number of foodie shows leaves one feeling sick, and I'm not a fan of televised sport at all (fine if you play the game, awfully boring to watch it). Not to mention the number of commercials force feeding you images of stuff that you never want to buy (why the hell do you want or need an Apple Watch? i rather buy a Tamagotchi). That is why i rarely watch TV these days. Better to read a book; no commercials, doesn't need power or connection to anything to work, no lost remote control, it's not noisy, and I'm using my brain more.
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