alt Hacker News> but what is truly barbaric is the social taboo on strolling through a park on a nice autumn day sipping your coffee!
Wait, what? Has anyone ever said anything to you when you strolled around a park drinking coffee? I've been in Japan over 10 years and do that all the time, no one has given a shit about it. The only time I ever hear about these "taboos" is when foreigners try to tell other foreigners how they should behave in Japan, like it has some mystique about it or something.
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No but I definitely did not observe Japanese people doing it. Maybe something changed over the last couple of years but my understanding is that this is still considered a bit of bad form.
Now yea of course as an obvious foreigner nobody really cares because lol foreigner and even more so in super busy touristy areas but my understanding is it really isn’t done. Same with walking and eating.
Back when backpacker hostels used to be more social and people would talk in the common area, it wasn't unusual to hear a Japanese backpacker saying he was weirded out by the sight in that country of people eating or drinking while walking. Argentinians walking while sipping mate, for instance.