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  • Concrete buildings and the lack of urban planning

    15 23.81%

  • Lack of respect of nature (concrete all along the coast, hills, few parks in cities, etc.)

    12 19.05%

  • Non-buried electric lines everywhere

    18 28.57%

  • Lack of thermic isolation and central heating in houses

    20 31.75%

  • 5-month-long muggy summers (except Hokkaido and Tohoku)

    21 33.33%

  • Natural disasters (earthquakes, typhoons...)

    13 20.63%

  • Lack of preservation of the historical heritage

    15 23.81%

  • Political corruption (amakudari system, government using postal savings...)

    14 22.22%

  • Police checks on non Japanese (e.g. gaikokujin torokusho)

    14 22.22%

  • People pointing or staring at foreigners, or saying "gaijin, gaijin !" or "Hello America !"

    16 25.40%

  • People telling you that gaijin come to Japan to make money, when salaries are higher in your country

    13 20.63%

  • Assumptions that foreigners in Japan commit much more crimes than the Japanese

    24 38.10%

  • Assumptions that almost all foreigners living in Japan cannot speak Japanese

    14 22.22%

  • Remarks inspired by jingoism (4 seasons, farmer vs hunter, etc.)

    13 20.63%

  • Ignorance about the rest of the world (cultures, geography, history...)

    21 33.33%

  • General denial or downplaying of war atrocities

    13 20.63%

  • Discrimination in general (toward women, young people, foreigners, burakumin...)

    30 47.62%

  • The education system (school + juku + homeworks and they still do not learn anything)

    19 30.16%

  • The exceptional Japanese ability to copy what China or the West did/does

    5 7.94%

  • Other (please specify)

    8 12.70%
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  1. Oct 23, 2006, 20:13 #1
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    Fair enough, I'll give you your 1/3.

    Not sure about your last comment though. I've never met a second generation immigrant whose English has suffered as a result of their parents'. My girlfriend's father is Dutch, and her English is perfect. So is his, I might add. And I've met a lot of Chinese Australians/Canadians in Japan who speak English 100% naturally. Some 2nd generation Australians have slight accents though, notibly the Greek community, but the only mistakes they'd make in their speech would be natural mistakes that all speakers make.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucko View Post
    Not sure about your last comment though. I've never met a second generation immigrant whose English has suffered as a result of their parents'. My girlfriend's father is Dutch, and her English is perfect.
    That's quite natural ! Most Dutch people born and raised in the Netherlands speak English very well, some almost like native speakers, without having lived in an English speaking country. Dutch is the closest language to Old and Middle English, that explains a lot !

    And I've met a lot of Chinese Australians/Canadians in Japan who speak English 100% naturally. Some 2nd generation Australians have slight accents though, notibly the Greek community, but the only mistakes they'd make in their speech would be natural mistakes that all speakers make.
    Just on this forum I have noticed a lot of US-born Americans who do not master English very well - less well than many Northern Europeans who have English as their 2nd or 3rd language.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maciamo View Post
    That's quite natural ! Most Dutch people born and raised in the Netherlands speak English very well, some almost like native speakers, without having lived in an English speaking country. Dutch is the closest language to Old and Middle English, that explains a lot !
    Just on this forum I have noticed a lot of US-born Americans who do not master English very well - less well than many Northern Europeans who have English as their 2nd or 3rd language.
    That doesn't really explain anything. Old and Middle English are about as far removed from modern English as Normandy French.
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