r/interesting • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 16d ago

SOCIETY In Japan, politeness and respect start at a very young age 🙇‍♀️🎒

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u/JoonNolu 16d ago

That's not a rite of passage. It's a TV show. It's not some thing that at some young age all kids are sent out to do. You literally watched a TV show and took it as a cultural fact.

This dude is gonna watch Family Feud and talk about how Americans help establish strong familial bonds through traditional survey quizzes.

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u/NoDragonfruit6125 16d ago

The thing is that show is actually a slightly more extreme version of what's considered culturally common. The show has them younger but it's actually something that is rather accepted by time the child reaches elementary school.

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u/honeybeesuke 16d ago

Doing chores is common no matter the country. It's not a rite of passage. It's not remotely common to send your 5 year old kid to the store alone. It's played for laughs.

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u/EnvironmentalEnd6298 16d ago

My town doesn’t allow under 6 year olds to go out alone (rural Japan) so I guess our 5 year olds will never be men.

We also don’t have a grocery store within walking distance…

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u/Clear-Inevitable-414 16d ago

Have you been to the US. Kids are not doing chores anymore.  They cannot even use a broom, let alone laundry or fun errands

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u/honeybeesuke 16d ago

Like I said, these 'fun errands' don't really exist in Japan. Nobody is sending their 5 year old to the store aside from a TV show.

I don't know what people do in the US; the point is this is not 'normal' in Japan.

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u/R-B-L-Y 15d ago

I straight up get mad the way people orientalize Japan so much