Tuesday, April 30, 2013

What Japanese wish Japanese overseas shouldn?t do

goo Ranking published a survey on what behaviour by Japanese people abroad that they have seen and thought ?I really shouldn?t do that sort of thing myself??.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of March 2013 1,083 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.7% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 15.0% in their twenties, 24.9% in their thirties, 24.7% in their forties, 12.7% in their fifties, and 11.1% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Birds of a Feather

As pictured above, as a foreigner who has participated in Japanese tours abroad, that sort of group photo behaviour is quite embarrassing from my point of view. Another behaviour that I witnessed that I would certainly never think of trying myself was when our tour was waiting by our bus, which happened to be a brightly-painted old-fashioned bus, when a young couple came along and asked one of our party if they could take their photo. After this was done, four of the middle-aged ladies in the group one after another asked if they could get their photo taken with the boyfriend, handing their camera to the girlfriend to make sure she was out of the picture.

Ranking results

Q1: What actions by Japanese overseas have you seen and thought you should ensure not to emulate? (Sample size=1,083)

Rank ? Score
1 Letting children be noisy in public places and not checking them 100
2 Buying up lots and lots of brand items 96.4
3 Leaving bags on seats to book them 80.6
4 Slurping food, drink in restaurants 78.9
5 Not experiencing the sights directly, but instead seeing through a camera, video lens 73.1
6 Letting it all hang out too much and going out in underwear-like clothes 71.3
7 Getting ripped-off by high-pressure sales 69.9
8 Never tipping 66.3
9 Wandering around the hotel in slippers 65.2
10 Opening luggage in the hotel lobby, airport, etc 60.6
11 Fixing make-up in a public place 53.4
12 Gathering in the hotel lobby as a group and chatting 53.0
13 Seeing parents in a fix with their children but not helping 52.0
14 Taking kids to a posh restaurant 45.2
15 Using a parasol in busy locations 43.0
16 Taking shoes off in a public place 39.4
17 Staring at a guide book when walking around and bumping into people 38.7
18 Going round all the stores where celebrities shop 38.4
19 At the cash register, converting prices to yen on a calculator to decide whether to buy or not 36.2
20 Replying with ?No English!? when someone tries to talk to them in English 35.8
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