Jací jsou? - Japonci – group of authors (2019)

An entertaining guide to Japanese nature. Get to know the nature of the Japanese people in depth. Familiarize yourself with their mentality in a fresh way, both seriously and humorously, with exaggeration and understanding. In this book, you will read about their customs, principles, character, and temperament, to better understand them and more easily make contact in this distant country. For the Japanese, the whole world is divided into two parts: 'we Japanese' and everyone else (or 'Westerners', since everything is to the west of Japan, including Hawaii). They are naturally sociable, and they like individuality and selfishness about as much as a sumo wrestler pushing his way to a buffet. Everyone knows that the Japanese are the politest people in the world, but few realize how complex communication is here. The Japanese have perfected the art of intentionally misunderstanding the other. They rarely say what they really want. Due to all this indecisiveness, the Japanese learn from a young age to read each other's thoughts to get anywhere at all. Japanese is considered the most difficult language in the world. One of the problems is the various forms of speech used for polite, respectful, and formal expression. The Japanese are moved by human weakness. When someone makes a mistake, they apologize and ask...