Cultural Other Awareness

 In last week's class we talked about the differences between your culture and japanese culture in various topics including but not limited to:

Introducing yourself to others

Appropriate behaviors when seeing people you might know(like your neighbors)

and much more.

Through that, I discovered that Japanese culture is completely different from where I'm from, as I believe Japanese society prefers non confrontativeness compared to how open and outgoing we are in the Middle East, interestingly, I also learned from conversations with a classmate that some European countries are also similar to my own culture and different to Japan's.

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  1. BorisMay 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM

    I agree with you—Japanese culture really values non-confrontation and subtlety, which is quite different from the more expressive and open way we interact in many other places. I’m from Bulgaria, and I also noticed that some parts of Europe share similarities with Middle Eastern culture when it comes to being more direct and social.

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  2. AliMay 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM

    Yes i also notice the difference between the arabic culture and asian culture cause i came from to side, and i agree that asian are much more non confrontative compare to arabic, especially in japan.

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