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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by Hermitian909 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:05AM (#36502871)
I think the thing you're missing is that in Japanese culture this kind of interaction can't happen unless you're drinking. The social mores just don't allow these sorts of outbursts in any other situation.

This can be difficult to wrap your head around in the US because we don't have social rules anywhere near as strict as Japan and so empathizing with the experience is difficult.

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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by saghm on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:57PM (#36511752)
You're probably right, although I'm not sure it's quite because of a lack of familiarity with strictness; I think I just prefer it distributed very differently. I think there's value in there being a spectrum of what's acceptable across different circumstances, but tying openness to an "optional" form of recreation seems very unfortunate.
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