S2/E2 - What Brits really think of Japanese culture!
The British English Podcast
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The Culture of Sitting in Silence
The first day I arrived at my school and I was very jet lagged, very tired. The principal sat in silence for about what must have been about 60 seconds as I sort of sat there awkwardly sipping my tea. It's just a part of the culture that we don't have in the UK, this concept of sitting in silence, Chimoku. Even now I still feel a little bit awkward when it happens even though I've kind of lived here a long time.
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