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Piscataway, NJ
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Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China
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My age when I lived there
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~6-22
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22-25
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26-
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Years
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1984-2000
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2000-2003
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2004-
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Population
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50,000
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350,000
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3,000,000 ?
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Status
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Small town near NYC in a dense
suburban area
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Capital of a rural prefecture
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Industrial city & train hub
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Feeling
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nothing going on locally except
Rutgers U, NYC is close enough though
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Sleepy town, everyone
interesting leaves for the big cities as soon as they can
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Developing pretty fast,
everybody wants money and expects to live a better life.
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Politics
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Piscataway, NJ
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Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China
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Ridiculous foreign policy stance
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That cuba is bad. That
israel deserves unconditional support. That the war in Iraq was
justified. That the US promotes democracy all over the world.
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That Japan wasn't as bad as nazi
Germany in ww2. That the rape of Nanking didn't happen.
That they were victims of ww2. That dropping the bomb was worse
than starting ww2.
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That Taiwan is part of china.
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Ridiculous belief
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Our language is the hardest in
the world. You get colds from being cold and wet.
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Our language is the hardest in
the world |
Our language is the hardest in
the world. You get colds from being too cold.
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Many foreigners
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YESSSS
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some
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no
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If a foreigner in your store
can't speak the local language...
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be incredibly rude
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Try one more time, then give
up. Get really nervous and try to make them go away.
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Try out your english, call over
your friend, ask someone walking by on the street to help, try drawing
pictures & gesturing.
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How do they feel about the
Japanese?
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They study really hard and don't
have many feelings, OR, they're crazy artists.
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They are unique among
countries/races and impossible for outsiders to understand
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They don't much like them.
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Locals like white foreigners?
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Not really
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Yes, if they're not too rowdy.
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Yes
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Locals like nonwhite foreigners?
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No
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No
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No
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Free Speech
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Yes
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Yes, but nobody uses it
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Yes, but watch out when talking
about politics or Taiwan. Actually it's quite open, you can talk
about democracy all you want, as long as you don't criticize China.
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Elections
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Yes
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Yes, but no issues and one party
rule
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No
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Corruption
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Yes
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YES
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YESSSSS
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Mafia
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Not that I know of.
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Supposedly
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YES
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A poor guy can win in court
against a rich guy
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Sometimes
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Unlikely, and it'll cost
millions and take years
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No
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How often do people think about
lawsuits
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All the time
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Never
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Never
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Locals allowed to move
freely
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes, but if you're a peasant
trying to go to the city, you
won't be able to get a residence card in your new home, so you won't be
able to get any public services and your kids won't be able to go to
school
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Racist nationalists
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A few
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YES
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Yes
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TV
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Piscataway, NJ |
Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
TV
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Shit
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Shit, but amusing
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SHIT, but there is a public 24
hour a day sports channel
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Public TV
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A little boring, some good
nature documentaries and foreign tv. Oh yeah, and it's sponsored
by big oil companies.
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Lots of japanocentric
documentaries, some go on tv
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LOTS of samurai dramas.
They censor political talk, non-standard Chinese accents, and
sexy clothes.
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# of public channels
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11
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5
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15+, if you have an
antenna. (Once I got a good antenna, I was up to 60
Channels. Why can they manage to fit 60 channels into their
spectrum in China, and only like 10 in the US?) (update: that wasn't an antenna, that was an illegal splice (into the really cheap local cable, which just broadcasts the tv from each province))
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Food
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Piscataway, NJ |
Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
Food
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Good, unhealthy
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Bland, some ok, lots terrible
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Great, but it'll make you sick
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Spicy Food
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Thai, indian, chili. You
can find it.
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Almost nothing except coco's
curry house and indian restaurants. And you can put a lot of
wasabi on stuff but that's different
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Oh god yeah. Everything is
covered in peppers. black, green, and red. You can order dishes
that are 100%
peppers. 我喜欢辣椒
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Blue collar daily food
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Sandwiches, pizza, pasta?
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Ramen, Udon, fried stuff
(agemono), box lunches (bento)
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Noodles, dumplings, some
vegetable I don't know the name of, eggs
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Surprisingly good local food
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Cheap pizza
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Japanese curry
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Chopped tomatos with
sugar. Egg pancakes.
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Terrible local food
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Liver?
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Rotten soybeans (natto),
cooked rice smashed into blobs by hammers (mochi), pickled things,
boiled
smashed potato extract mixed with animal bone ash (yes, really)
(konnyaku), internal organs
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Internal organs. all kinds
of dried sea invertebrates. Apparently they have chinese natto
too.
Nice looking chicken/pepper/rice dishes where every other piece of
chicken is actually a bone chunk
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Foods I ate a lot at first but
then got tired of
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Velveeta cheese, potato chips
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Triangular chunks of rice with
chopped salmon
inside (onigiri), conveyor belt sushi |
Dumplings
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Food I ate a lot of and could
eat all the time for the rest of my life
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Pizza, garlic bread, thai
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Japanese curry, melon bread,
pizza potato chips which have this flavoring splattered over them that
is just solid crack, squid sashimi, tuna and egg salad sandwiches,
indian food, royal hat pizza
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Spicy whole fish
hotpot (huoguo 火锅) = a big pot of boiling water full of peppers,
garlic, and peppers in the middle
of the table that you add raw materials such as lamb, mushrooms,
noodles to and then fish out and eat. Beef and onions fried over
rice. Fried noodles with those long skinny mushrooms and peppers.
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Food you always hear about but
people barely ever actually eat
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Baked alaska?
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Sushi
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The wonderful food from their
hometown, which is always better than the local version.
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Fat People
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OH YESSSSS
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A few
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A few, 30+ guys are all a little
thick. More than japan.
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Bones in your food
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Yes, but just eat around it.
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Ha ha, never. Except for
fish.
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Chopped up bone bits mixed in
with chicken, pork, beef. Fish served whole full of bones.
Bits of bone/rock mixed into your rice occasionally.
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Spitting things out
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NOOOOO
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NOOOO
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Just do it, right on the
table. while talking.
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1$ gets you how much food
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1 slice of pizza |
Half a tiny bowl of rice?
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A big bowl of noodles and a
bottle
of beer.
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A soda
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1$? 1.50$
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1.25$
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0.35$ |
Taking 30 people out for dinner
and getting them drunk in a nice restaurant
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1200$ + tip
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1200$
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100$
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Ordering
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Go as fast as possible and don't
ask questions. If you piss them off they will do stuff to your
food.
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Be serious, follow the
script. Impossible to break out of standard phrases.
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Take 10 minutes, ask as many
questions as
possible. The restaurant will be out of half the stuff you
order. Chat,
laugh, joke.
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Getting the attention of the
waiter
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Look them in the eyes, or raise
a finger
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Yell "sumimasen" or "master"
(mastaa)
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Yell "laoban"
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Get treated like a human being
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No, unless they pretend to in
order to get tips
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No, if they vary from the script
they could get fired.
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Yes
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Tipping
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Yes. 15-20% for meals, 1$
for drinks
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No
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No
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Floors of cheap restaurants
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Clean
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CLEANNNN
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DIRTY, spilled food, used
napkins. floor = garbage can.
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Local alcohol
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None
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Sake, 15%, it's awful
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Baiju, 40%, really bad
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Effects of drinking
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Louder, more violent, sloppy
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Red face, louder, shows
emotions, gets naked
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Red face, louder, grabs people
more, shows emotions, more expressive
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Someone says "You're drunk!" to
you
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?
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Jovial
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Condemnatory
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Obviously extremely drunk people
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Yes
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YESSSSS
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No?
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Drinking on the street
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NOOOOO, you will be arrested
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Yes, during festivals.
Bunches of 10 drunks drinking "cup of sake" in the park all day.
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YES
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Drinking on trains/public
transport
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NOOOOO, you will be arrested |
Yes
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Yes
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Street
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Piscataway, NJ |
Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
Street
Tables
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No!
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NO
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YES, it's great
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Dudes sitting at street tables
with no shirt and 10 empty beer bottles
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No
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No
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YES
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People walking on the street
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No, no public streets.
Unless you count malls
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Yes, on the shopping street
obiyamachi. Little towns have dead shopping streets full of old
ladies at 5 am.
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Yes, on every little street
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People selling stuff on the
street
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No
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Yes, some israelis selling
jewelry.
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YESSS. Little mirrors,
fake mahjong tiles (to help you to cheat), etc.
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People hanging out on the street
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NOOOO
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Yes, 80 year old women, school
kids, guys trying to pick up girls, old guys drinking in the park
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Yes, sitting around, taxi/moto
guys waiting to pick up rides, store workers, washing stuff, cleaning,
eating, playing with their kid, grandmas talking, guys smoking together
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People sleeping in the street
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No
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No |
Yes, on newspapers
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People sleeping at their
workplace
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No |
No |
Yes, lots of construction workers
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People sleeping in the park
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No |
Yes
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No parks
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People washing their hair on the
street
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No |
No
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YES
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People playing games on the
street
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No
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Hidden groups of old men in the
park playing shogi
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Many old dudes playing xiang qi,
on weekends every house has the whole family outside playing mah jong,
many young
guys waiting around playing cards
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Parks
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Yes, joggers & lovers in the
day, closed with cops patrolling at night
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Yes, old men and school kids
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(Initially no, later I realized
there are lots of them)
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Obstacles on the sidewalk
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Nothing, if there is you can sue
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Huge canals with no rails,
telephone poles, signs everywhere, bad pavement, blind people's "yellow
brick road" walking paths which have raised slippery bumpy tiles which probably
cause hundreds of bike accidents in the rain ever year.
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Rotten food, urine, air
conditioning drips, people sleeping, beggars, babies, dogs, parked
motorcycles, taxis,
big piles of bricks, concrete, sand, sticks, garbage. Open
grates, glass
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If the sidewalk is wet it means
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It rained, or somebody's
watering their lawn
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It rained
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It rained, someone washed their
hair, someone did laundry, someone has an AC above you, someone was
cleaning the street, there is a leak, there is construction near there, someone drank something
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If you have some water to throw
away
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Down the drain
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Down the drain
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Throw it on the street,
spreading it as widely as possible. I don't know why they do this
but they make a real effort to get it to cover as much area as possible.
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Things carried in bicycles
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yourself, your baby
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yourself, guitars, umbrellas
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yourself, babies, bottles of
propane gas, giant water bottles, your brothers
and sisters, your passengers, giant pieces of styrofoam, 10 food long
metal poles, giant balloons
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Beggars
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No
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Play jpop on acoustic guitar,
bow in their monk outfit, read palms with a laptop sitting next to
them, play xylophone.
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Have signs telling their life
story, challenge you to chinese chess problems, are horribly deformed
(and I mean really really horribly),
have their pitiful babies in their arms, have obsessive motion disorder
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Vehicles on the road
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Cars, trucks, motorcycles, suvs,
18 wheelers, vans, buses
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Cars, k-cars, mopeds,
motorcycles, schoolkids on bicycles, strange little mutant cars,
weirdly decorated
trucks
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Taxis, buses, rickshaws,
motorcycles, motorcycle taxis, motorcycle
carts, rickshaw taxis, carts, cars, suvs,
bicycles, trucks, dumptrucks
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Honking
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No
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No
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every 2 seconds
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U-turns?
|
Prepare to get a ticket and get
raped by insurance.
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Yes, anywhere you want
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Yes, anywhere you want
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Lines on the road
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YESSSS, yellow in the middle and
white on the edges
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YESSSS
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No.
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Interesting things in the road
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No
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Tram stops
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Trees with pavement laid around
them, trucks loading and unloading giant bales.
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Park anywhere you want
|
NOOOO, prepare to be towed/your
car damaged
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YES
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YES, sidewalk, side of the
highway, wherever
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Suicidal old ladies veering into
the road
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NO
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YESSSS
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YESSSS
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Jaywalking
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Yes
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NO!
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YEEEESSSSS
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Visible dirt/grass
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yes, everywhere
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NOOOOO.
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dirt gashes around construction
sites - yes. grass a little
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Land Use
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Thanks to zoning laws, even the
densest housing developments still have yards. There are still
forests (about 10 acres across from my house, another 500 acre forest
fairly
close) A giant park running along the raritan river. It's
incredibly beautiful.
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20% extremely steep hills
covered with "industrial cedar", 40% rice fields/concrete canals, 30%
houses packed back to back with no yard/gravel yards filled with
propane tanks/dead cars/buses, 10% roads/stores/parking lots.
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8 story apartment buildings,
wide roads, a few rubble/garbage pits. Lots of construction
sites.
Almost no private houses. The ground floor of apartment buildings
is always given over to commerce.
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Ridiculous Land Use
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Imagine a circle big enough to
contain 5000 people's homes. It is likely that there aren't any
stores in that circle. At ALL.
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Farmers use billion dollar plots
of land to grow rice, since Japanese rice prices are kept at 10x the
rest of the world's. So everyone lives in shitty little houses
and there are almost no open spaces.
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Giant square pools of water with
a mysterious purpose, surrounded by at least 40 8-story apartment
buildings.
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Chain Stores
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Yes, everything is a chain.
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Lots of huge outlet
stores. In some areas there are still pitiful little mom and pop
stores run by 80 year olds.
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They are spreading fast.
Chinese local restaurant owners don't seem to realize that a
McDonalds with clean floors is a lot more appealing than a local place
with drifts of used napkins under the tables.
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If you have nothing to do at work
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Chat, look busy
|
LOOK BUSY
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Sit down, smoke, talk, eat,
sleep, read the paper
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Dirty Streets
|
No, incredibly incredibly clean
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No
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YES
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"Be careful not to step in that
vomit!"
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um... once a month? once a
year?
|
once a week
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multiple times daily.
|
Public Garbage cans
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Yes, of course, what do you
expect people to do with garbage?
|
No! You must pay to throw
things away!
|
Sometimes, but bums constantly
open them up looking for things and throw the
garbage all around.
|
People pawing through big piles
of garbage
|
NO
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NO
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YESSSSS
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Air
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Beautifully clear
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Clear
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You can't see more than 500
yards clearly due to the pollution fog.
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Design
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Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
Sides of
buildings
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Clean
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Huge rain stains, grimy, or
really rusty
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Soot covered
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Wooden buildings
|
Yes! beautiful!
|
No, except for little falling
apart shacks filled with junk
|
No
|
Tiles as an architectural element
|
Implies bathrooms
|
Common
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Every building
|
The buildings are disgusting and
make me sick
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Modern ones
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Yes
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Yes, but what do you
expect? they're only 30 years away from the cultural revolution.
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Bricks
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Red, or that nice mottled
pattern.
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White, or grey
|
White or red
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Brick layout
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Always laid in that overlapping
pattern |
In a grid, longer axis
horizontal |
Tiles are laid in a grid, longer
axis vertical, Bricks are laid in that overlapping pattern.
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Old stuff
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Revolutionary buildings, nice
old barns and houses
|
Lots of nice old temples in
every neighborhood, mostly falling apart and overgrown, covered with moss. Square stone stumps sticking out of the ground with old family names cut into the sides.
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No. Some old temples
obviously recently rebuilt out of concrete.
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Advertising Billboards
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some
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lots
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LOTS
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FYI signs (no standing here, please don't litter, please don't forget your bags, next stop ~, etc.)
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some
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SOOOO MANY
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almost none
|
Recorded women's voices telling
you what to do.
|
Not that much
|
100 times a day
|
surprisingly, almost never.
|
Broken appliances
|
occasionally
|
no
|
YES.
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Doors with no knobs or handles
|
NOOOO! all doors must have
knobs or handles on both sides, it's a rule
|
YES, paper doors with no handles.
|
YESSSSS. In my house there
are 5 doors - only one has a knob. The other 4 are blank on one
side and have only a little
latch on the other side. They also don't fit the frames, so if
the latch falls out you have to pry the door open.
|
Doors fit in the frame
|
Yes, generally, except for
sliding doors.
|
Yeah, I guess so
|
No, ha ha ha
|
Badly designed things
|
Baths are always in the same
room with the toilet. That's gross. Using a public toilet
is equivalent to rubbing asses with some stranger. That's
gross. Sliding doors that don't work. SUVs
that are too big. Too many stoplights that are on all night.
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Sliding doors that don't
work. Walls made of paper and glass with no handles. No
heat or AC.
No basements, so water heaters, propane tanks, electric boxes all are
in the front yard. Power lines everywhere.
|
Buildings are just concrete
shells with all the wires and pipes stuck visibly on the outside.
The drain in my shower is on the wall 1/2 inch above the floor.
The pipes in the bathroom constantly leak massively. The pipes in
the shower have water constantly running through them, even all night.
|
Noisy at 7 am
|
NO, if so you will be arrested,
or get a 500$ no warning fine
|
Rarely, except in political
season
|
YES, the taxis and rickshaws
start moving around at 5, honking starts at 6, construction starts at 7.
|
Money (value in US$)
|
coins: 0.01, 0.05, 0.10, 0.25 $
bills: 1, 5, 10, 20, 100 $
|
coins: 0.01, 0.04, 0.09, 0.45,
0.90,
4.50 $
bills 9, 45, 90 $
|
coins: 0.01, 0.06, 0.12 $
bills: 0.01, 0.06, 0.12, 0.24, 0.60, 1.20, 2.40, 6, 12 $
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Smells Bad
|
rarely
|
rarely. occasionally
intense semen smell. (it's not only me that's noticed this, it's
probably some kind of farming thing) occasionally old ladies
burning/preparing tea leaves smells extremely like marijuana.
|
oh god yes. piss, shit,
rotting food, burning plastic, acidic smoke that makes you cough,
public dumpsters
|
Public Bathrooms
|
No, no, damn you no.
|
Yes, especially in city centers
|
No.
|
Public Urination
|
Prepare to be arrested
|
Ha ha yes, anywhere anytime
after dark. Even have a word for it, "tasshon" Women
too. Twice I've seen people crouched on the side of the
road.
|
I'm not sure yet, but
probably. It
sure smells like it's ok.
|
Taxi base cost
|
um, 5$?
|
5$
|
0.75$
|
DVD cost
|
um, 20$?
|
25$?
|
0.75$ pirated
|
Netbars
|
ridiculously impossible to find, even in New York City
|
a few
|
everywhere
|
Netbar/hour
|
12$ in kinkos
|
5$
|
0.25$
|
<25 years old instant
messaging users
|
High?
|
Low
|
High.
|
Locally written IM program
|
Yes, aim icq msn etc
|
no?
|
yes, qq, it's awesome
|
Cell phone penetration < 25
years old
|
High
|
99%
|
70%
|
Fighting in public
|
Never seen it
|
In 3 years I saw one fight, one
guy getting beaten to a pulp by 4 other guys in a karaoke bar.
|
Haven't seen any in the first 6
months.
|
If something seems to be going
down in public...
|
Call the cops, then go watch
from a distance.
|
Look down at the sidewalk and
walk a little faster.
|
"The Blob" clustering style
|
Society
|
Piscataway, NJ |
Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
Tattoos
|
So many
|
Becoming more popular now,
probably mostly fake
|
Haven't seen any
|
Dudes with Earrings
|
Many
|
Almost none, except for
foreigners and hip hop kids
|
No
|
Guys with no shirts on
|
No
|
NOOOO
|
YES
|
Walking around with no shoes on |
No
|
NOOOOO
|
sometimes! (hard to believe)
|
Male status symbol
|
Car
|
Phone, hair, clothes
|
Brand of Cigarettes, Phone
|
Hottest it usually gets in August
|
95F/35C
|
95F/35C |
95F/35C |
How hot does it feel?
|
Not that hot, because
everyplace has AC. In high school everyone wore sweatshirts in
summer and t-shirts in winter because the AC/heat was so high.
|
Pretty hot, since there's not
much cover. Stores have super intense AC, schools have none.
|
Pretty hot.
|
Weather report consists of
|
Temperatures, and a mention of
sunny or cloudy
|
A report on the state of the
clouds, waves, clothes drying weather, allergy index. Temperatures are
mentioned as an afterthought.
|
?
|
Ansewer to "How's the weather
today?"
|
Hot/cold/warm/nice/cool
|
Sunny/cloudy
|
?
|
Cost of a little box fan
|
?
|
20$
|
4$ - yes that's right. I
have two.
|
Things used as umbrellas
|
Nothing - Just run
from the car to the door.
|
Umbrellas
|
Umbrellas, hands, plastic bags,
books, jackets
|
Umbrellas to keep off the sun
|
NO - who goes walking outside?
|
YES
|
YESSSSSS
|
Gloves to keep off the sun
|
NO?
|
YES
|
Yes
|
Bicycles with gloves built into
the handlebars
|
Ha ha, no
|
Yes, for old ladies
|
Yes, for working people on their
bike rickshaws.
|
Baby haircuts
|
None, or short
|
None, or short
|
Ronaldo, or two little horns
|
Being outside at night
|
No. Why don't you have a
car? The
police will creep along behind you
|
Yes
|
YES
|
Bowing
|
NO!
|
YESSSS
|
No
|
giddy, freespirited laughing in
public
|
Yes
|
No
|
YES
|
Girls
|
Piscataway, NJ |
Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
Do guys go up to girls on the street and try to pick them up?
|
No, prepare to be maced/arrested
|
YESSSS, "nanpa" is pretty common
|
YES, at least according to one of my students
|
Dyed hair
|
?
|
95%
|
20%, will be 90% within 10 years. (including all the grannies who dye black...)
|
Do women wear skirts?
|
Not much
|
YES
|
No
|
Sex industry exists?
|
No?
|
Yes
|
According to rumors, that's what the pink lit "hair salons" are
|
Makeup?
|
Lots?
|
LOTS
|
Not much
|
Pornography
|
Yes, hidden
|
EVERYWHERE (except on tv)
|
Yes, hidden, illegal
|
A beer in a bar
|
3$
|
3$
|
3$
|
Strange bars with women dancing in military uniform, alternating with long haired dudes singing karaoke
|
No?
|
Maybe?
|
YES
|
Bars where every girl there works for the bar
|
No
|
No
|
YES
|
Bars which have customers that are not men
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No! Why would a nice girl go to a bar.
|
Karaoke
|
No, ha ha, only for losers
|
YES
|
YES
|
Police
|
Piscataway, NJ |
Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
Physically afraid of the police
|
YES
|
No
|
Maybe
|
Afraid of the police
|
YES
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
If you are arrested |
must be charged within 24 hours,
don't have to talk without a lawyer. |
can be kept in solitary for up
to 3 weeks with no lawyer and no visitors, 12 hours a day of
questioning, without being
charged. |
??? |
Prison
|
Prisoners are often raped,
beaten, and tortured, with complicity of the guards.
|
Every aspect of prisoners life
is controlled. They're not allowed to look into someone else's
eyes. Not allowed to talk. Must sit in a certain way in the
cell.
|
?
|
Amount of violent crime
|
low
|
low to nothing
|
low?
|
How many times a day do you see
the police
|
3 or 4 times
|
once
|
sometimes...
|
How often do you hear sirens
|
every day, many times
|
rarely to never
|
rarely
|
Language
|
Piscataway, NJ |
Kochi, Japan |
Zhuzhou, China |
Main Language
|
English
|
Japanese
|
Mandarin
|
Other Languages
|
Spanish, NJ English
|
Tosa dialect
|
Xiang (zhuzhou dialect)
|
English Level
|
debatable
|
most people have no english,
educated people have terrible slow exam english, very few randomly have
great english
|
most people have nothing, but
young people have some basics
|
English Teacher Salary
|
?
|
3000$/month
|
500$/month
|
How rich do you feel as an
english teacher |
Not very |
Rich enough to eat out every
day, buy
consumer electronics, and travel to cheap countries |
Rich enough to take your entire
class out to dinner |
English Teacher status
|
low
|
low
|
high
|
English Fear Level
|
-
|
very high. Nobody will
approach you with english, and they'll be super shy and take forever to
say anything.
|
You get a lot of hellos on the
street, sometimes people try to speak english.
|
Accent
|
-
|
Really bad. No/wrong
intonation, can't say vowels right, l/r thing
|
Bad, lots of vowels wrong,
intonation wrong.
|
Uni Student English
|
-
|
Awful. It's like they
haven't studied at all. They stop after every word and try to
remember how to continue. They know tons of written vocab but
don't know the right pronunciation or how to use it. Don't know
basic "Do you..." sentences.
|
Sometimes good, sometimes
bad. They know lots of vocab, but don't use it in the right
way. Pretty emotive though.
|