Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Daistallia 2104 wrote:
That's sort of it, but not exactly.
A really good example came from a friend who was teaching English in the public schools. In one of his classes, he had a returnee. Returnees, especially those who lived in Anglophone countries, quite often speak English well. Many Japanese students, for a variety of reasons we won't go into right now, have trouble with English. Behind this kid in class sat a kid who particularly struggled. The returnee kid had no intention of showing up the other kid, but he did just by virtue of his life experience. As i mentioned above, in japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. Sometimes it happens quite literally. In this case, one day in class, the weak at English kid decided the returnee needed hammering down, and gave him a good hard smack on the head with a heavy book when he answered the teachers question easily. The returnee clammed up and stopped "showing off" his English abilities in class.
I really have no words for that.
Cultural differences are interesting.
