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And talk about culture shock! We could take a lesson or two from them! They are the most traditional, respectful, hard working people I have ever come to know in my life. Brett; You said you are going for three weeks? You will love it, and then love it even more when you come home. It only took a couple of minutes after landing in Chicago today to realize that we are in general, pretty rude, especially to foriegners. Japanese show respect in so many ways, in the way they greet you coming into thier shops, the way they service you as a customer. When arriving at the hotel in Kyoto, we were greeted by 3 young female bell hops that refused to let me carry my own bags past the front door. They go overboard to please customers, nothing is overlooked. They also do not allow tipping! At least in all of the places I was, and from what others have stated, nowhere in Japan. It was realy overwhelming the way they treat people. This goes especially for the "Elders". I watched a very old man in Kyoto station go to get on an escalator in front of a group of teens, they quickly stepped out of the way and did a small bow to him to let him proceed. I never saw people yelling, arguing, or being dis-respectful in any way. This is compared to the young employee in Chicago who made a joke to another employee about an oriental couple (who flew back on our plane to the US)expecting him to stow thier bag for them on the rack on the shuttle by laughing and saying that "this was his house", and it wasn't his job to lift nuthing for no G**K! I was speechless...
Anyways, feel free to email me off line for more of my "custom" observations.
Scott: I think the show you watched on high speed skidding was called "Drifting". We did not witness any of this, but did see some pretty crazy driving. The cars as I stated before, seemed to be all modified. About the strangest thing we saw was a "gang" of teens on motorcycles, and in custom "domestics" driving around and around the downtown area revving thier engines, and blowing musical horns. I think it was like thier own little parade to show off thier rides. They did this almost every night, and not only did it seem like people enjoyed it, but they were not acting like "hoodlums".
Other then that, the streets are narrow, the taxis drive fast, and it seem like no one ever wrecks...or maybe they rush them into the body shop for repairs since none of the cars (even the realy old ones) were dented up.
Sorry for the long winded post, I took off from Osaka at 5:55 PM today, and got to Chicago at like 4:30 PM!!! That was wiered.
-Tom
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