hello people we are back and today it's
gonna be a pretty funny episode I think
I hope so I think so so we're gonna
delve into and explore a few funny would
you say funny funny weird
habits yeah that Asians have that maybe
westerners won't understand all right
the first one has to do with food and
just like eating in general because I
think you guys might have heard about
you know you're not supposed to
stick your Chopstick vertically on your
rice bowl is just rude and also
um I've heard that people are just
wondering why like especially for
Japanese they like slurp their noodles
really loudly whereas like in the west
that's considered rude it's actually in
Japan it's a sign of like you're
enjoying the meal so you're actually the
the louder the noise that you make the
better apart from that I think there's
also like you know when you're at the
dinner table
um I think Asian culture we all share
the food we all have our individual rice
and then just a whole bunch of dishes
whereas in the west you stick to your
own plate well the closest thing is
probably what we do during Thanksgiving
you have like a bunch of food on your
table and you're like sharing things
everything's like family size
um and then all you do is really like
pass the mashed potatoes the peas or the
sauce and that's the closest you really
get to like sharing food when I was at
home in Australia my friend was telling
me how her neighbor she like was driving
down the road and her neighbor had like
chickens hanging in the the clothesline
like an entire chicken yeah I think so
just like hanging in the clothesline
waiting for it to dry or like ripen or
something like crisp up I don't know
next one
the good old squat
okay no but seriously this is a pretty
serious issue because when I was it is
not an issue I would go to the toilets
and like there's a lot of Asian students
right we have a lot of international
students and there would be signs on the
back of the door that said please no
squatting on the toilet there's actually
some health reason behind it it says
that squatting is better for you in
terms of it improves your digestion and
also your bowel function not sure how I
know that so we should all start
squatting
not that type of sweaty the next one on
our list is especially Chinese people
from mainland China they talk really
loudly
I don't really know why they do that but
I remember when I was
um working before my boss was like
wondering if people who are next to us
were like fighting with one another
because they were like talking really
passionately and they're really loud and
actually a lot of the time they have a
lot of like their faces look really
angry as well because I'm like
but they're only talking about like
flowers awesome we're not just saying
because it is a fact that they do talk
louder
um and I think there's a lot of theories
like you know in China there's a lot of
people so in order to be heard and you
know speak to each other in public
places you have to speak louder in
general to get your message across so
maybe
um when they came here they thought it
was the same thing so probably and
especially when you go to like Chinese
restaurants some Chinese restaurant like
you have to flag them down and you just
have to be like hey you know really
loudly otherwise they can't hear you
okay so another one might be pretty
obvious to some people it's removing the
shoes
to me it's just so obvious yeah you
don't want your house to get dirty
that's why when you go to an Asian
person or Asian family house they always
have extra slippers if you're not
comfortable just walking around with
your socks then you can wear these
sleepers but I was told actually that
it's pretty common in some European and
South American countries too so it's not
just Asia I don't know I think it's just
I don't think this is cultural thing I
think it's more like hygienic reasons I
really think it's about a cleanliness
yeah yeah another one we kind of picked
up is you know how when you see a friend
or you know you meet someone you're like
hey how are you going and that can
either be like an invitation to actually
it's like a high right yeah I think
Asian people generally don't really you
know when you meet someone like stand
there and just small talk about like
little mundane things like
um especially with people that you don't
really know or like people that you just
run into on the streets or something
like that they just don't like I don't
know they're not really expressive and I
think that's maybe like a cultural thing
because when like this is a
generalization you know like Western
countries are very open and very
welcoming yeah welcoming and they like
to talk yeah whereas
um Asian cultures we're much more
reserved yeah so that's our list of this
weird or not really weird just like
typical Asian habits that you might see
and you may not understand and I'm sure
there's like a lot of other things that
we may have missed so whatever we missed
just tell us in the comment section
below yeah and these are just you know
stemmed from cultural differences it's
not like it's a bad thing it's a good
thing it just exists it's just different
so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this
video remember to let us know if we
missed out anything or you think there's
other differences and see you guys soon
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