Boys chat me up all the time. There's a lot of "nampa" (chat-up) here.
yeah I guess working like in a Japanese company you need to be ready to adjust to like
rules that are here
Hey guys and girls welcome to Tokyo this is your frilly flashy fashion reporter
CathyCat and today we're gonna go hit the streets of Tokyo and ask the foreigners that currently are
residing in Japan what their culture shock is they have a lot of years of experience under
the belt so we might get some very interesting answers so let's go and ask foreigners in Japan
All right guys where are you from? - California -Spain Spain yeah
what brings you to Japan?
I came here for like school originally but I already graduated so now i'm just modeling here
so I did the same and then go back to Spain and come back here so i'm working here in Japan so
Are you model too? - No no i'm not
right we're asking everyone today what was your kind of
Japan culture shock moment where you're like "this surprises me"
Japan culture shock moment oh okay um really
Were kind of surprised when you came to Japan like oh my gosh okay that's new
Boys chat me up all the time.
there's a lot of NAMPA here I was like "oh I thought like Japanese were kind of like more
like on the shy side but like they're kind of aggressive they're like oh like "hey"
"I'm like wow okay" this is like kind of like unexpected but like
I don't know probably like that for me it's like kind of an everyday occurrence so i'm like okay
okay so that's my shock I guess I don't know but you know
Oh my gosh I don't have that experience
i'm used to it at this point so i'm like "okay Japan" Japanese things nice
How are they aggressive?
and how do you usually turn them down? -usually i'm just like sumimasen like kind things like
i'm just like okay just like keep like walking I was like usually depends
like on the person but like usually it's like an old dude so i'm like "ewww"
gross but like i'll just like keep like walking and be like that kind of vibe but yeah then like
aggressive they're just like "hey girl let's go." "let's go drinking"
don't drink it's like "let's go" like I don't know somewhere i'm like "no i'm good i'm pretty good"
like "no thanks" like yeah I was like yeah they're first like "let's go let's go" i'm like "nah" yeah bye
yeah yeah that's interesting what's your culture shock moment? - Tokyo maybe that there's music
everywhere all the time super loud and it's like I don't know I always picture Japan to be more like
quiet place maybe even though you know like Shibuya for example is crazy all that but I don't know
like every time you even the smallest supermarkets has music and stuff that's one thing and the other
one I used to live close to Ikebukuro so when I was doing part time I was coming home like really late
at night finding all these men just passed out on the floor like from drinking everything it's like
still today it's weird to be like what is going on like you said you know this proper salary mom
50 year old like nice, well dressed and then he's passed out the floor WHAT!?
yeah I remember especially at the beginning now it's kind of like you're not going to be so normal
now every day they arrive but at first I was like how is this happening like I don't know yeah
probably that - I don't think about it like these days just because like I see it like pretty much every
day like someone's just like pretty much like dead on the floor - Yeah they need time every day right yeah
true yes
would you see that back home?
uh I don't know things I mean like I really went out like a
lot like when I was like back like at home just because like you know like danger like at night
but like yeah I like just don't really like I wouldn't like notice that kind of thing so I
don't like having an experience like back home but like here i'm just like
okay like here but like I don't really imagine it like happening like that often
for sure ... I don't know maybe it does but i'm unaware of it but ... yeah I don't know like
of course like during the weekends or whatever it is always people who you know party too much maybe
it's not like something I know it's gonna be there all the time you know like
i'm gonna go here and there's gonna be someone dead on the floor like yeah it doesn't happen
It's not really daily things.
oh yeah Ikebukuro in the Evening and Shinjuku right?
Yeah
Where are you from? I'm from Poland - What brings you to Japan? - S o i've been here six
years now and right now i'm working so i'm working in a creative agency and doing styling like on my
freelance on my side
that's where the cool earrings are coming from right? - yeah
Show off the cool earrings. - nice
So you have a main job and you're doing styling too? -Yes this - Are you like a stylist who gives people
like their clothes yes yes yes yes
That's so cool right we're asking everyone today since you came
here six years ago remember what was your first Japan surprise moment like a culture shock moment
I like for sure like the first day in shibuya it's like really intense feeling like especially
i'm from like Poland so even the capital the warsaw it's not so busy so it can be like pretty WHOAH
Overwhelming - Yeah overwhelming and right now the biggest culture shock I don't know are
people expecting that it gets so cold at Japanese apartments in winter I don't think like coming
from abroad many people not ready for this - it's like so cold it's the same temperature as
outside right yes? - Poland is colder than Japan but like the central heating is so nice that like when
you're inside you're just like in your t-shirt but like here it's like even going to the bathroom
it's like oh my god i'm freezing and like right now i'm using my air conditioner but so the moment
you switch it off it's just like yeah - I think that that's the Poland in Germany so we're
kind of like we have our nice warm apartments in winter you don't get that here especially
yesterday i've been told that Tokyo is sometimes said to be even colder than some of the northern
parts of Japan okay - recently any culture shocks you've had now that you're living and working
here in the working environment? - Well I guess working environment it's not that much shock
because like you read about it before coming to Japan about like the cultural differences but
yeah I guess working like in a Japanese company you need to be ready to adjust to like rules that
are here because it's pretty different comparing to Europe and Poland you need to be ready that the
meetings they don't finish on time so you can't schedule anything after work because you never
know like how long will it take time - Long meetings and they might extend - yes that's true
As someone who's lived here for several years now I find it very interesting that if we interview people who
also are residing in Japan we get very different answers than what we usually get when we ask
tourists to come to Japan the Tourist's first impression generally is "the toilets yay"
but it seems to be a lot of people here are saying now you know work life and similar
things like that that surprised them here in Japan so I found that very interesting
we have done this topic before and we got a very different response in that way be sure to check
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