That happened one week ago.
Even I was surprised
that I cried my eyes out by watching the live video of Tokyo's junction.
I thought I didn't feel homesick.
But I realised that I've been missing Japan.
I'll take this opportunity to talk about
the culture shock between the UK and Japan.
I always cross this bridge to go to the uni.
There's a thing I wanna mention before talking about the culture shock.
In terms of the character,
I think each personality is similar.
That's one of the reason why I came here.
That being said, they are different countries.
So there are some culture shocks.
The first thing surprising me is
about washing dishes.
In Japan, we rinse the dishes after washing with detergent.
In the UK, of course, they wash them with detergent.
But they don't rinse them.
I was astonished by it.
Now I got used to the culture.
But I sometimes rinse glasses because I'm a bit worried to taste the detergent with water.
I arrived here.
Over the National Rail.
Once I cross this bridge, I get into the uni.
This is the accommodation.
These are also.
I'll show you how the student hall looks like...
I changed my mind.
I believe you can imagine that now.
These are just a part of them. The uni has more of them on campus.
Outside the campus, there is also student accommodation called Manor Park.
One on the campus is very expensive as you can imagine.
I'll tell you the second culture shock I had.
The second one is...
They like sharing themselves.
The conversation starts with like 'You alright?'
'How's it going?'
In Japan,
"Hello."
That's it.
In the UK, they start the conversation with like "How are you?" "You alright?"
and talk about themselves.
Such as today's affair, what they did yesterday...
Sharing such things with others.
You know, in English lesson in Japan,
sometimes we are told to talk about today's things, right?
That's very helpful and practical.
We have to practice to talk about it in English.
Otherwise, the conversation won't be continued.
I'm still bad at it.
to talk about myself.
This is the library.
I often visit it.
This is the surrey hive.
My second home.
This is the place called nest.
My third home.
I'm...
in the group study room of the library.
Let's talk about the third culture shock.
This is the last.
It is related to the second one.
The culture of mobile phone.
They like talking on the phone.
Almost everyday they call someone to talk.
I believe everyday.
I assume they generally like speaking with someone.
I feel it depends on the personality besides the fact of the national character.
As for me, I like text to talk with someone.
I asked my friend about her friends.
They are appeared to prefer the phone call.
I talked about three culture shock things.
Actually there are more.
Then why didn't I mention them?
Because I think we can't say all of them is culture shock.
I agree that the washing dishes thing is obviously culture shock.
But things about phone call and talking about themselves is...
not applicable to everyone.
Some of the reason is possibly the national character.
But some part is from individual personality.
So we shouldn't take it out on the culture difference.
When we have a conflict with someone who has the different culture,
I don't want to say 'This is a culture shock.' easily.
It must include their individual personalities and policies.
I don't wanna give up the relationship because of the culture shock.
This idea is not just for the culture difference.
But also for racism, such as Asian Hate, Black Lives Matter.
I'm going to talk about it later in another video.
Recently, racism is being brought up all over the world.
And many YouTuber argued about that.
I've been considering that issue in my mind.
I'm about to reach at my conclusion.
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