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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by desas on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:38AM (#6579853)
Yeah, the British are partly the way they are (reserved, standoffish, polite) because they are a small, crowded, island nation. Japan is the same but more so.
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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by lotsofcows on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:27AM (#6580165)
Hmmmm, somebody's never been out in town on a Friday night.
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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by berntb on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:30AM (#6580178)
I always heard it described that Japanese are shy to a large part for the same reason Scandinavian/Nordic people are shy -- a very violent society, which isn't violent anymore. The shyness is a historic anacronism.

(The shyness comes from that in a large fraction of quarrels someone(s) will be carried away, in pieces. You don't cause offense without very good reason. Not sober, anyway.)

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