Everything here is extremely packaged. When I unwrap something, there may be two or three more packages or containers to open before I can finally uncover the product!
I heard Japanese culture can be very obsessive about cleanliness. Do you think that is where the overpackaging comes from?
I studied Japanese for a couple of years when I was an adolescent, but we never learned the stroke order for all of the characters. I mean, it was there in our textbooks if we wanted to look at it, but we weren't graded on it or anything. It was just way too much to understand. But I don't know if native speakers of Japanese are purists about that sort of thing. Maybe it's as abrasive to them as the misuse (or absence) of apostrophes is to me.
yes, cleanliness is a big deal, so i think that's mostly the reason. BUT they don't have soap in most public bathrooms. or hand towels. most people carry around washcloths to dry their hands on. it's very interesting; this country is full of paradoxes.
i think stroke order is as important as it is in the u.s. (i say this from a kindergarten teacher's point of view, where we teach children to write "correctly" with rhymes such as "i pet the dog (draw a c), his tail goes down (draw the verticle line)" for the letter d). once you get out of elementary school, i just don't think it's that important, as long as your finished result is legible.
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I heard Japanese culture can be very obsessive about cleanliness. Do you think that is where the overpackaging comes from?
I studied Japanese for a couple of years when I was an adolescent, but we never learned the stroke order for all of the characters. I mean, it was there in our textbooks if we wanted to look at it, but we weren't graded on it or anything. It was just way too much to understand. But I don't know if native speakers of Japanese are purists about that sort of thing. Maybe it's as abrasive to them as the misuse (or absence) of apostrophes is to me.
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i think stroke order is as important as it is in the u.s. (i say this from a kindergarten teacher's point of view, where we teach children to write "correctly" with rhymes such as "i pet the dog (draw a c), his tail goes down (draw the verticle line)" for the letter d). once you get out of elementary school, i just don't think it's that important, as long as your finished result is legible.
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