21/10/04 12:21:58.08 jCNfajlo0.net
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Hi. I am an American who once stayed in Japan for work for five years, during which time I realised how restricted Japan was. Among highly-industrialised countries, I don't know any other place where the people can breathe less freely than Japan.
Japanese people, in general, don't laugh when they want to laugh, but when they should laugh. In other words, even one's emotion does not belong to himself. They far oftener behave themselves as their surroundings hope than as they like.
In Euro-American society, rather contrarily, they are allowed to be angry when they encounter something embarrassing or offensive. Likewise, they can cry if they feel sad.
In the aspect of the freedom of emotion, Korea and China are more similar to the West than Japan, for, in both countries, many more people are found getting furious or screaming freely on the street.