Directionally accurate from Bloomberg regarding business etiquette in Japan: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-02/how-to-succeed-at-a-job-interview-in-japan … The interesting thing, though, is that as a foreigner, sometimes it is to everyone's advantage for you to act Japanese, but that is not 100% of the time.
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There's an art for knowing when to be enthusiastically the best salaryman you can be, when to act as you would act among friends, and when to pretend to be the clueless foreigner.
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Replying to @patio11
What do you make of that conformity? Is it just superficial, or does it apply throughout the culture? Maybe I’m uncomfortable only because I’ve never listed the conformist restraints of western culture...
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Replying to @dela3499
X is neither superficial nor applies throughout Y culture, for most combinations of X and Y.
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