Bragging about Japan?
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haha... i must've popped a blood vessel while laughing!
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Japan, USA, GB, Germany, Thaiwan... and so on
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If you saw how long I spend on some of my answers you might think I must come from a different country according to your statement. (Or maybe you'd just think I was a bit slow witted? Ha ha!) But guess what, I'm a US citizen.\n\nOne of my humbling moments as a US citizen came when I was living in Japan. I was at a business meeting with Japanese, Australians, English, and a couple of US citizens. One of the Australians started doing an impression of US citizens. She started talking loudly, smiling broadly (showing a lot of teeth), and gesturing. I thought it was funny. The citizens from other countries thought it was even funnier. I might imagine the whole world enjoying such a joke on US citizens, but that would be another stereotype--on the other citizens of the world.\n\nI think people will see what they want to see--especially if they are looking for it. For instance, "Is it true that Americans answer immediately, without giving it much to think about?" \n\nIt's easier for people to think in stereotypes. People think like that to make sense of their world. I'm not saying it's a terrible thing. However, they may be missing interaction with people they might actually enjoy spending time with. Such separation doesn't bring the world closer to peace. It's also rather lonely and boring don't you think?
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hiya,\n\ntry\n\nhttp://www2.mylot.com/?ref=onetopdesigner\n\nthere are quite a few japanese on there, its like a blog like this one that you get paid for asking and answering. try it
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i don't know exactly, but i have a japanese friend and he\nHATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! koreans, so i would guess pretty bad.
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Couldn't agree more with sdmagic. \n\nBut then, when you think about, why just asians? There's a tendency for people (of any origin) who are smarter-than-your-average-joe- but-not-quite-PhD-material to brag... simply because it helps them to feel better about themselves.
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Co-Hosts South Korea & Japan!!!
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Tough one.......if your wife hates Japan....what is more important at the end ? money or quality of living ?\nDon't know.....try to pinpoint the best in that culture.
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Sure Yes! The consititution of Japan protect freedom of speech. I think this right is very powerful more than US.
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I happy you asked this Question\nAustralia & Japan
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I hope you can be proud of what you do and who you are.  And if you are trying to show off your accomplishments, the  Question  is "are you" not "don't you".   There are a lot  of wonderful things about the culture.  What are you going to add?
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You should get all the inf. you need by going to www.homework.com.Once you get there, type in Japan.
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Read up on the Japanese culture - it is not considered good form to show your private feelings in public.  If you judge another culture using YOUR cultural values you will almost never understand what is going on...
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I don't have one yet, but I hope he's from Japan, it seems like a nice place with very good culture.
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Even during the seclusion, Japan had some trade going on, but exclusively with a few peoples.\n\nAnyways, I think you should mention something about it giving Japan a strong sense of unity or nationalism that other countries don't necessarily have. Or say something about how it allowed them to preserve their own culture longer than other countries that began extensive trading with other countries earlier.
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I'm going to venture a wild idea, that I hope people forgive me on, it is just an idea. I think we should either imitate what they do in Japan, Germany, or France.\n In every TIMSS study, Japan is constantly and consistently at the top. In everything, from math(the best tested nation in math in all of the developed world),science( I think they're number 2) and in reading( there in the top ten(I'm not sure about rank). We score 32, 33 in terms of ranks in all major areas.Japanese students are taught from the time they start school to be self-sufficient, and to be competitive. They study, study, and study some more. In order to move on to the next level like middle school and high school, they have to take a national exam! Students definitely want to do well!  Granted, they are the most stressed children in the world, but you can't argue with results. They have a 90% national graduation rate from high school. We have a 67% high school graduation rate. American students need to be taught that in life sometimes you have to be competitive to be the best, and that there is nothing wrong with doing well in school. Our culture of nerds and jocks, where the jocks are popular is not setting the right culture for us to be competitive in the long run.\n Also in Japan everyone wants to be the best so that they could attend the best universities. True,in the US we have the same culture(i.e. for Ivies), but it is so much more pronounced in Japan. \n   In short, Japan, Germany, and France have rigor that is lacking in some parts of our school system.\n "No Child Left Behind" is a step in the right direction, but we have a long way to go, to truly have a K-12 school system that is the best in the world. We are THE BEST in research and grad school.
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Try the Japanese players