![]() ![]() The mama took a special interest in the newcomer. "I am so honored to receive you," she said with a smile. There were parts that even *condescending italics* I */condescending italics* found interesting, notably the effect of homeroom groups (kumi) on students in middle school.īut Feiler caricatures the Japanese people throughout the book, almost purposefully translating everyday Japanese verbiage into awkward, robotic phrases.įor example, Feiler goes to a hostess bar with his supervisor and the hostess greets them: For people who haven’t been to Japan it might even be "a revelation", as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says on the back cover. It’s a reasonably good book by a former-JET participant who was in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture. I finished reading Bruce Feiler’s Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan on the plane back to New Orleans last night. ![]()
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