3 Things Japanese People DON’T Do that SHOCK Foreigners!

3 things that Foreign tourists are shocked that Japanese people DON’T do. There are a lot of different culture shocks that people experience in Japan but sometimes its the things that AREN’T there that are just as surprising!

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  1. I studied abroad in Japan and yes. Its all true. It got to a point where I almost felt weird holding the door open for folks, but I kept doing it out of habit, genuinely surprising the person behind me. I'm originally from Boston and people driving their cars honk their horns excessively as if the dozens of cars in front of them are just going to disappear Bruce Almighty style. I even saw a handicap person in Boston trying to carefully back their car into a handicap parking spot, and angry drivers kept just hoking their horn at them with zero patience. It was genuinely infuriating. Literally wanted to yell "let the poor guy park!" The traffic in Tokyo is so quiet

  2. In the US people don’t hold door open in big cities, only smaller rural towns typically. And it’s more so men for women, rarely do women hold open doors. At least that’s how it is in Missouri, every state seems to have its own rules.

  3. Imagine you're in an Uber in New York and your driver continously hunk like an ambulance on an emergency mission blowing its siren. Well…that's how they drive Nigeria, complemented with reckless and dangerous driving.

    Unlike in the civilised world were about 10% may not know how to drive properly, 99% of Nigerian drivers don't know how to drive at all. Now the question is how do they obtain their drivers license? Don't even get me started on that if you don't want to be shocked.

    On Nigerian roads, anything goes, including creating extra lanes where non previously existed, running red light at the ratio at which people stop on red light in the civilised world, doing 80mph in a residential neighborhood, disregarding the presence of pedestrians on a crosswalk etc. Foreiners dread driving here, not even for a mile.

  4. Nee also sorry in Deutschland schaffen wir das doch auch die Tür aufzuhalten egal wie viele Leute da kommt du hältst die Tür auf und dann nächste der kommt hält die Tür für den nächsten auf ganz einfach

  5. You forgot that they don't tip. Just like Indians. They don't believe in it. But I find it real funny that every Chinese restaurant and Dunkin' Donuts has a tip jar at the register. Sorry, did I say real funny? I meant extremely hypocritical. I respect their customs and don't tip any of them. Ever. Being a mover for over 20 years, Asian and Indian people NEVER tip. But they ALWAYS want you to do extra work and expect not to be charged for it. They also wait until the job is completely finished to complain about the service or falsely claim damage was done to their property and/or furniture in an attempt to have money taken off the bill. Without fail.

  6. I stopped holding doors Asian tourists.. funniest time was when the door slammed into a Japanese tourist’s face. She was shocked an upset claiming in Japanese that she thought Americans held doors. I laughed and replied in my sh!tty Japanese that I know they don’t do I won’t for them.

  7. So the origins of not holding the door open is because of crowded areas, does the practice also appear in more rural areas? Like do people in rural areas tend to hold the door open?

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