Difference of footwork between Japanese and European I'd like to write about "walking style" of Japanese and European. When I started living in the UK, I was surprised about footwork of European peop

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Difference of footwork between Japanese and European I'd like to write about "walking style" of Japanese and European. When I started living in the UK, I was surprised about footwork of European people. Because European people normally walk with longer steps than Japanese and they don't hesitate making noise of footsteps. Sometime I felt the behavior looks out of manner. For example, The person who are walking a corridor of 1st floor of school with sound of footsteps, Even the step is normal, The person may looks swaggering without care other people. (Every Japanese school has slogan " Walk corridor with silence!" ) In this case happened in Japan, the person should pay attention to avoid making noise and the person should work with slow steps. Generally speaking, Japanese people try to reduce noise of footsteps in every occasion. My mother used to warn about my footsteps when I was a child. As a result, I always walk with paying attention to the noise. After I grew up, I always move my foot like dragging on the surface of floor. The way of walking follow Japanese manor and I've never thought it looks weird from other people. However, I read an old British essay about a woman traveled Japan in early Meiji era (1870?) In the book, British lady described like "Japanese people walk with a slow dragging motion without lifting their feet, it looked miserable" I was totally surprised. because even only the footwork , it has a culture difference! This custom may originally came from the difference of traditional building structure. European buildings tend to make brick and stone, the materials are not easy to brake and the noise is not effect to down stairs. On the other hand, Japanese houses are mainly built with wood which means easy to brake and the noise through a flat and floor. Japanese traditional tatami is also not suit for walking loudly. Learning culture difference is quite fan!

18 ago 2015 21:09

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Difference of footwork between Japanese and Europeans

I'd like to write about the "walking style" of Japanese and Europeans.
When I started living in the UK, I was surprised about the footwork of European people.
Because European people normally walk with longer steps than Japanese and they don't hesitate when making noise with their footsteps. Sometimes I felt the behavior looksed out of manner. For example, The person who are is walking a corridor of on the 1st floor of school with the sound of footsteps, even the step is normal, The person may looks like they are swaggering without care to other people. (Every Japanese school has the slogan " Walk corridors with silence!" ) In This case happened in Japan, the person should pay attention to avoid making noise and the person should work walk with slow steps.

Generally speaking, Japanese people try to reduce the noise of their footsteps in on every occasion. My mother used to warn me about my footsteps when I was a child. As a result, I always walk with paying attention to the noise. After I grew up, I always move my foot like dragging on the surface of the floor. The way of walking follows Japanese manor manners and I've never thought it looks weird. from other people.

However, I read an old British essay about a woman who traveled to Japan in the early Meiji era (1870?)
In the book, The British lady described it like "Japanese people walk with a slow dragging motion without lifting their feet, it looked miserable"

I was totally surprised. because even only the footwork , it has a culture difference!

This custom may originally come from the difference of traditional building structure. European buildings tend to be made of brick and stone, the materials are not easy to brake break and the noise does not effect to down stairs.
On the other hand, Japanese houses are mainly built with wood which means easy to brake break and the noise comes through a flat and floor. Japanese traditional tatami is also not suitable for walking loudly.

Learning culture difference is quite fan fun!

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This was very interesting! Your english is good.

Work hard!

19 agosto 2015

I wrote a new post about a gesture. I have several idea to describe about those culture difference, If I have a time, I will write more! Thanks

19 agosto 2015

Very interesting. Hope you find time to post more things similar to this.

19 agosto 2015

Thank you for the comment. Yes, I think speaking voice is also quite different between Japan and Europe. The Japanese people also quite pay attention to the voice and tend to speak silently. ( Young people sometimes don't do that anyway) For example, when I went back to Japan, I went to shopping with my family by train. We were chatting in the compartment, then my sister said " Your voice is loud, could you tone down?" I'm living in the UK for over 2 years, thus I got used to speak normally with my friend in the train. Then, I forgot to reduce my voice! Japan has so many rules for getting avoid to make someone annoyed. It's quite common in Japan, but once we go to the oversea, the manners become a minority.

19 agosto 2015

Mariko, Thank you for this great notebook entry. I learned so much while reading it. I have never been to Japan. I do notice how many people walk around taking up a large amount of space. This is a very unique cultural difference. I am glad I am aware of it now. I have heard people talk about how some cultures are very loud while speaking. I have also heard the comparison of the brightness of the colors used in various cultures. Now, I will be watching people and listening to how loud they are while walking.

19 agosto 2015

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