Can I do it? I WILL do it!
You are SCARING me!
(sound of heartbeat)
Is your heart ready? Here I go! - Ok
How do you touch each other? - Like this
I am a foreigner. Can I greet you like foreigners do? - Ok
Are you sure? I will do it!
You are scaring me.
I scared her.
Can I hug you?
You are welcome to. - Really?
Are you sure? I will hug you then!
(heartbeat)
Me too!
You are cute - I am so happy
That was a great hug - Thank you
Do you hug your friends?
We did just now when we met!
You get along well
You touched my back like that too. This was a good hug.
Yay!
Do you kiss as greeting?
No not in Japan.
Did you know many don't kiss the cheek directly as greeting?
Whaaat is that so? - Didn't know
Foreigners often just kiss the air on both sides to each other's cheeks.
Not the skin but the air. - Ah
Did you know that
Can you try that greeting with your friend?
What??? Like that maybe?
You leveled up your foreign greeting skills. - Yay!
Sudden surprise challenge: Can I hug you? - Yes?
I will do it - Ok
(heartbeat)
(happy sounds)
She is a good hugger!
She was not shy and squeezed me tight!
I like traveling abroad too.
When going abroad everyone is really open.
I like chatting with foreigners in their stores
But Japanese people generally do not hug people as greeting.
I like the way foreigners greet and hug.
Did you hear us squeal in excitement? That was fun!
That was fun! - I felt a lot closer to you!
We have eliminated the distance between us
Before the hug and after, we are both now naturally standing closer to each other
We became closer. With hugs the world becomes a kinder place! - It does!
This QR code is inviting people to Abamon, the Youtube channel of me and 4 others.
Abamon is for Urban sports.
We do skateboard, Parkour and Bmx biking on our channel
And I am also trying to do urban sports with everyone, we are aiming for the Olympics
We try to promote urban sports and become better at it.
Feel free to check her sports out too - Thank you
Can I give you a foreigner's greeting? - Yes - Let's do it.
Are you ready? Here I go - Ah ok.
Oh
The sign was definitely in the way.
Sorry hehe
Do you hug? - Not at all. Japanese people do not hug.
Foreigners are more open - How long since your last hug
How long since my last hug... maybe four days or so?
Well then you hug a lot? - I hug a lot?
Hug level... medium for you.
You tried not to squeeze me on purpose?
Uh that's right.
Do you squeeze friends?
If we are close I will squeeze them
I am a stranger so... - I don't squeeze
Are you shy? - I am
Have you ever greeted a foreigner?
What? Maybe never...
Not at all
Do you know that foreigners hug each other? - I heard that
Shall we practice hugging?
Let's try practice hugging once.
Let's do it. Here we go....
(laughter)
We didn't know where to put our arms
Thank you so much. You next please!
Hug
(laughter) Thanks for the hug
How did that feel?
What? - It's nice to be closer.
It was very close.
Can you hug each other?
Ok you do it. - Ok you can hug me.
Do you usually hug? - We do.
This is our first hug - Feel like better friends now?
We are buddies now
Feel like better friends now? - I do, we are closer now
This is the power of hugging - It's amazing.
You can instantly become friendlier!
Please hug each other more from today on!
I sound like I'm promoting hugging.
Do you have foreigner friends?
Foreigner friends... ? Oh I have some.
Where are they from? - Vietnam
There are some girls and boys from Vietnam at my workplace.
We exchanged Instagram, exchanged language advice and became friends.
Have you hugged them? - Hug?
I do not hug them. I give them high fives.
Do you have friends from other countries?
I go to a fashion school, so there are a couple of foreigners there.
They are exchange students
Did you ever give them a big squeeze?
Never.
Have you ever hugged each other? - Of course!
As greeting?
Yes we hugged each other today.
You can squeeze hug each other? - We do.
How did that look? - Like this
That's a bit of a distance hug though.
Today we are telling people, when hugging foreigners...
Don't do this distance hug
You get what I am saying? - Yeah
I would like to give you a tight hug, ok? - Yes
I will do it - Hugging you?
Yes with me! Is that ok? Let's do it.
Oooh
She did pat my back.
What is the right way?
You don't have to pat my back
Let's do it again.
(squeeze) Oh!
We got closer. If you squeeze the other a little, it makes you happier. - It does
What is the difference between our first and second hug?
More closeness... and trust.
The second hug was... well
a lot warmer
Let me hug you too. Here we go... oh!
You learned from her didn't you?
This was quite a new experience
What is embarrassing?
Embarrassing but happy? - Happy!
I am glad to hear that!
How did you like our social experiment? Do people hug, touch, kiss at all in your country?
If so let us know in the comments down below which country and what the kind of greeting is between people.
I was very excited or surprised when I got a kissy on the cheek by a French gentleman.
Ladies and gentlemen I hope you enjoyed this video if you're curious about more little videos
We have done another video about hugging Japanese people before...
We got some really cool reactions, that one is a pretty good video...
Be sure to check that one out next. Thanks for checking us out?