Monday, June 29, 2009

Japanese enlightment!

Japan has quite a fasinating culture.I have been lately interacting with a few japanese in lieu of my new project.Their ways are quite facinating and show they are highly patient people.We have to address then as "lastname san" and bow a bit.I have still not quite managed to do that.They detail oriented approach tests our limits.But guess thats why they have the best quality in the world.As an ice breaker,we took the japanese folk to Mysore and it was quite an exciting outing.We took them to kamat and made the eat idli ,dosas :) !They liked it!Then tried a place called "Fish Land" in Mysore.They liked that as well.Only thing they didnot like was the "Paan" .The way japanese to english translation works sometimes is baffling.Let me give you an example.The japanese lady who went with us asked me "What kind of men you like"?.I gave a startled expression.Then again "Do you wanna have kids?" .This was expecially funny as we were avoiding any personal conversation.Our bilingual cultural consultant told us "Japanese dont like the personal question's about family or maritial status".So we were piously avoiding them.So,you can understand on a fun outing avoiding personal question doesnot leave much to talk.But these questions freed my tongue and i got up close and personal with my questions.I had to talk slowly with pauses and repeat myself many times.It was fun and quite exciting as their culture is very unique.Japanese culture to the rest of the world is a mystery as its not widely known due to language barrier.