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‘People respect each other’s privacy’. Explain with reference to Japan in Mikes Travel writing. |
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Answer» A quarter of an hour in Japan will convince you that you are among exquisitely well-mannered people. People who live on a hopelessly overcrowded island have to respect one another’s privacy or rather, would have to if they had any privacy. But they don’t. So coutesy has a double function: it is courtesy and it is substitute privacy. Take, for example, the . little red telephones in the streets, shops, halls of hotels. The instrument is situated on a table or on a counter they have no space to spare for booths. You conduct your most confidential business transactions, your intimate love-quarrels in public; yet in perfect privacy. Anybody, any passer-by, could listen-in, but nobody does. A man’s telephone-receiver is his castle. |
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