Brains and computers
Many complain that I never speak ill of Japan and always defend the Japanese, so today I will devote an article to these people, writing behavior of Japanese does not seem very good.
When speaking with non-Asian foreigners who have lived a long time in Japan, almost everyone agrees that the Japanese act like computers. What do I mean?. Computers, there are times when you get on screen a few options - Please choose from the following 5 options by pressing 1,2,3,4 or 5 - What you mean you can only press one of these keys or process does not continues. The Japanese most of the time they do so well, you get some options and you have to choose between these options, you can mix any options or anything like that.
For example, in the last KDD of Spanish in Tokyo , we nomihodai for two hours, which means we could drink all we wanted for 2 hours. People asked for whiskey, vodka etc, until someone thought to ask for beer. No, the beer was not among the options izakaya, and drinking beer had to pay. We all know that beer is cheaper than whiskey, but beer was not in the local options, so do not be altered.
Similar cases can happen when you have options on a menu and you want to change something from a menu the other cheaper, then no, that option is not written, so rather than try to convince the waiter will not get the offer.
In Spain it is very typical to go to a restaurant and order a dish and say - this ingredient I put it please, or put me besides this one - and you do it without problems, but in Japan, most of the time you are invited to ask before changing another dish as one of this writing.
These issues are very curious when you buy something at a store and ask to do something a little unusual the clerk, the clerk gets super expensive missed and will always ask your superior, but as always, as is an option that is not in the systems can not be performed.
This happened to me once when I went with a friend to buy a mobile Shibuya, we were talking to the clerk about an hour, that will explain all fees and such models and to decide on a phone, and when we say porfin - worth We want this phone with the contract - then we are told that they were 21.01 and closes at 21.00, so we had to return the next day has to buy the phone because it was closed, and it was. any of the ways we sold the phone after being nearly an hour chatting with him.
This also come because some people have sent me an email telling me they want such a product sold in a Japanese site but do not send articles abroad, and contact me to me to talk to them and tell them to be paid all expenses freight but please send the item. No, that option was not in his mind, therefore they will not do.
