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Originally Posted by Acajack
But East Asia is on a different level (think lower) of familiarity for me than Latin America, regardless of affluence and societal (dis)organization.
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I know that there are some fundamental differences in society and culture, but on the whole I found Japan to be organized in a way that felt very familiar... the streets, the buildings, the cars, media and consumer culture, all that sort of stuff felt like home. Even if people there don't behave exactly the same way they do in North America, it
looks a bit like home.
By contrast, China (especially away from the biggest few cities) looked and felt really different, with its own set of byzantine rules for social interaction. Never been to India, but I'd imagine it would be similar. It's hard to imagine anything in South America approaching the level of foreign-ness of those two.