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日本在住カナダ人が日本文化の難しさを語る

日本在住カナダ人が日本文化の難しさを語る

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日本在住のカナダ人ティアに聞いてみた！

Hi

I hadn’t talked to you for a while, this is the first time in long time

Today, it’s weird to say but I wanna ask you about Japan

I have a lot of questions ready for you

But first of all Could you give us introduction of yourself please?

My name is Tia I’m from the greater Vancouver area in Canada

I’ve been in Japan for eight years now

Eight years? That’s quite a long time

Yeah it is a long time

I’ve been in an idle and I’ve been…

I graduated from a Japanese school

I graduated from a fashion school

I was a fashion stylist for musical artists

Oh sorry, I was a fashion stylist assistant

I was an assistant for musical artist

And now I’m stay at home mum

You have a kid now yea?

Yeah I have my little baby. He just turned one

I saw great pictures on your Instagram

I actually see them quite often

I have to ask you. I think you said idle

You’ve been an idle in Japan

What do you mean by saying idle?

What sort of things did you do?

Like a normal Japanese idle like

What’s normal Japanese idle?

I was in a group with twenty other girls

And we did like lives and

We had our own TV shows

We were like on the radio

Wow, you were literally on TV?

Just sometimes. Not that much

Not like ten times but just sometimes

Just sometimes is good enough I think

So you’ve been in Japan for a quite a long time. You said eight years and

Now you have a family over there and must be having a good life

That’s what I see from your Instagram anyway

But first of all, this Canadian girl looks very beautiful

What made you come to Japan? What made you interested in Japan at the beginning?

First I think like I’ve always loved like Japanese things since I was little

But I didn’t know they were Japanese

I don’t know like Polemon and

Like certain video games and stuff like that

And ten when I was like ten, I started watching anime

What anime?

What anime?

Like Bleach and

Fruits basket and

Fullmetal alchemist

Alright I have no idea about anime

Like Hagaren

Hagaren? Yeah yeah

I know that

Like those kind of anime from like over fifteen, almost twenty years ago

Yeah and then I just started watching like dramas and stuff like that and my mum said

If you’re gonna spend so much time watching these things, why don’t you learn Japanese?

So I started studying Japanese and then now I’m here

How did you start studying Japanese? Did you go to school?

I went to like this Japanese school in a town over

I think it was like two or three hours every weekend

And I did that for four years

And then I just like studied by myself with X box and watching like anime and dramas and stuff

The anime you just talked about are they famous in Canada as well?

I think now anime is like more mainstream like

Shingekinokyojin

Alright yeah

It’s like super mainstream but back then when I was younger

It was just like a nerdy thing

I was just a nerd

I was just gonna say that

日本人と西洋人の性格の違いについて聞いてみた！

You know because you lived in Japan for may years, you might know this well

I wanna ask you about personality differences

What’s the obvious difference do you think between Japanese boy’s personality

And western boy’s personality?

And about girl’s as well

Tell me if you can think of any, it’s difficult question but I wanna know

It’s good opportunity you’ve lived there for a long time and I’m pretty sure

You can speak Japanese, right?

You must be a very fluent Japanese speakers so

You are a perfect person to ask this question

To be honest I’m not really sure that the difference between like men’s personalities coz I feel like

Once you get to know people, it’s pretty like similar

Or not similar but I mean like I feel like everyone’s different

In Japan and in Canada

But I feel like everyone kind of acts the way They are expected to act

Like for example women

In Canada they are really outgoing and like outspoken

So we like express our feeling at that moment

You don’t have to hide anything you just express your feeling

Yeah exactly

And then it’s not like weird if you do that but like in Japan

Women are especially I think expected to act certain way

Even if they are a outgoing person they still have to like

Act like

It has to kind of follow the atmosphere as well like the situation where they are at the time

Yeah but like for example I met a lot of outgoing Japanese women

But I feel like especially those women, they don’t feel like they belong in Japanese culture so

I think they tend be interested in foreign culture

Like me I have more Japanese friends than foreign friends

Coz I feel more connected to Japanese culture than foreign culture

Is it because you are used to it? Or is it because of your natural personality?

I think like both

Definitely I think western women are a lot more outgoing

I think so

How about boys

I feel like Canadian men

I don’t wanna say foreign men I mean like Canadian men are more like manly men

Manly men yeah

And like Japanese men are more…Maybe more

Like I said before they are expected to be polite

A little bit different

I know how they behave and how they act because of the culture as well but

You know Sosyokukei danshi?

Sosyokukei

Do you think they can be popular for Canadian girls as well?

I mean it depends on the girl, right?

When I was younger

I preferred more quiet

Like I didn’t care if he was like a manly man

Yeah I didn’t mind it. I think it’s like

It’s more relaxed

It does depend on the person though

Don’t have to be like party people all the time hey like Jersey Shore

I don’t know if you know Jersey Shore

I go to the gym, I got mascle, I get a lot of girls

Don’t have to be like that all the time

ハイコンテクスト文化に苦戦…！！

Before I talked to my girlfriend in a different video. She is Australian. About this topic which is about

High context culture and low context culture

So Japan has high context culture

Which basically means that sometimes you don’t have to say things say much to express how you feel or

What you want the person to understand

Because in the culture especially in Japan we read the air Kukiwoyomu

Whereas most of western countries has like you said low context culture

Where you have to say what you wanna say What you want to tell the person verbally

Have you ever felt this cultural difference?

Have you ever found any difficulty related to this thing?

I’ve actually had a lot of issues with it

I think I lost a lot of Japanese friends and relationships

Because of this coz I’m a very verbal person

Like I like to express my feeling with words

Because I want to make sure that people understand how I’m feeling

I want them to understand and

Not having any like misunderstanding, right? And

Yeah like especially with feelings like most I don’t wanna say most but I think it’s common in like western culture to express your feelings

Even with me and my husband we have like an issue with this because

He doesn’t wanna talk

Or for example after we had a fight, he doesn’t wanna say sorry

But instead he’ll like wash the dishes or like he’ll be super nice to me

He’ll be like “You said you wanted to go to this place”

“Do you wanna go there today?” He’ll just be like overly nice to make up for it

But he won’t say I’m sorry and I’ll be like

”Okay, are we making up or what?”

He’s like “Well, what do you think?”

Do you guys speak in Japanese?

Yeah we only speak in Japanese

So that’s also a problem because

Even though I think I express something properly I use the wrong words and then

Like misunderstands that as something else

I think there’s a lot of misunderstandings in international couples

It’s just like I think you have to find like a middle ground

Like in my culture we do it like this, in his culture they do it like this so

Let’s do it like half and half

That’s an international couple hey

You gotta kind of like compromise in the middle

If one of us is totally on one side, which is good

But in most cases we grew up in a different culture background and then

We kinda like have to meet up in the middle

You said a really good thing I think

That’s the hardest part in an international couple I guess

日本はイメージ通りの国？

I’ve been in Australia for a quite long time now and I can say that

I have communicated with people from all over the world

I feel like including everyone who’s been to Japan for holiday or never been to Japan

People tend to have some sort of images of Japan

Which is usually like many people say Japanese are very polite

Japanese are very shy

And Japanese people are very punctual

What do you think about these with a perspective of a Canadian person who lived in Japan for a long time?

Is it true or false?

Has your image about Japan changed?

Yeah I think there’s like a lot of truths in there but

There are reasons them like

I talked to Japanese people before about how people think Japanese are like

How foreigner think Japanese people are shy

And a lot of them usually say like

“I’m not like shy” “I just get nervous”

“Because I don’t know how to act around foreign people”

Or like they say like ” I get nervous because”

“I don’t speak English and I don’t wanna make a mistake”

I mean I’d be nervous talking to someone who I don’t speak their language

Yeah true

I also think the punctual part I think

I really think it’s a lot to do with Japanese culture

Being punctual is a part of not causing problems for other people and

You know like meiwaku

Has it been like too strict for you?

Like when I was in an idle for example

We had like five thousand yen fine for if you’re lare

Omg that’s like a Kyabakura

Yeah

That’s like Kyabakura or like night jobs

Really? They do that for night jobs too?

I think my image of Japanese people has changed since I’ve come here

But I think it’s changed because I’ve just come to understand the reasons behind everything

Like I reckon if you said something like “If you are thirty minutes late” ” I charge you fifty bucks as a penalty”

I’m pretty sure that everyone’s gonna leave in foreign countries like western countries like “F**k this!”

Also like you said not being shitsurei

Let’s say on a train in Japan, there is a commonsense that you gotta be quiet but

Most cases some people talk still on phone or something

And then people just get kinda like annoyed and then they don’t really say things

But in western countries they say I think

In Australia they say if they feel like that

Yeah in Canada too people’d be like “Excuse me! You’re causing an issue”

“Can you get off the bus?” Or whatever

I like that sort of culture though it’s like

You don’t have to do an extra work

Extra work means that you kinda like

Have to kinda like think first in your mind like “Should I do this?”

But at the same time you’re still getting the stress from the cause

But then in low context culture in western countries, it’s like

Just solve the problem like straight to the point

I don’t say which one is the better but I think it’s easy

I kind of miss. Well I mean

I do on like trains and stuff I do ask people to stop in Japan

If someone was like in Yusenseki when I was pregnant

I’d ask like “Excuse me? Can I sit down please?”

Sometimes they ignored me and I said again “Excuse me?”

Nasty!

Yeah I’m like what the hell

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