Japanese vs American Culture
There are a number of connotations that are often used to describe a people’s culture. But culture is generally accepted as the way a community of people has chosen to live their lives in the best ways they feel would harmonize their traditions, languages, notions, dress or dietary ways.
As such, any comparison of two cultures would yield a range of stark cultural differences. And definitely, a comparison of American and Japanese cultures reveals numerous variations. Japanese, as well as American culture is heavily influenced by the kind of society of people living in either country. For instance, the society in Japan is largely homogeneous and middle class, whereas the American society is heavily heterogeneous, owing to the increased levels of immigration. This has contributed to a very diverse ethnic setting and widened the inequality gap in American society. These two varying trends have profound influence on the cultures of the two societies.
Because of the divergent set of ethnic groups in American society, this phenomenon has helped to breed a number of subcultures existing within a single American macro-culture. This is one of the key distinguishing features of
American culture. Consequently, every American citizen belongs to a number of subcultures, which may be connoted as ethnic origin, religion, class, gender, exceptionality, geographical location and so forth. Every individual subculture has certain common attributes with the main macroculture.
On the other hand, the Japanese society is not as diverse, in terms of subcultures. This is partly due to the fact that there is less immigration to Japan, and only a small fraction of the total population (