What Living in Japan Actually Does to You 🇯🇵 Ft. CDawgVA

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Living in Japan changes people by making them more comfortable being naked in public baths, more willing to learn languages, and more appreciative of nature and convenience. It also makes them less tolerant of small talk and more dependent on Japan's efficiency.

• 🛁 Public baths (onsen) normalize nudity, reducing body shame and awkwardness common in Western cultures.
• 🗣️ The "sucking noise" (dental ingressive sound) is a subconscious Japanese way of saying "difficult" that expats pick up.
• 💬 Small talk is rare in Japan, leading expats to feel awkward or apologetic when it occurs in their home countries.
• 📚 Learning Japanese is easier after embracing the embarrassment of making mistakes, even if fluency is hard to reach.
• 🔄 Japanese "backchanneling" noises (aizuchi) like "so desu ne" are often unconsciously used by expats in non-Japanese settings.

Two men, one holding a bag of Japanese snacks and the other a small Japanese food item, look surprised at the camera.