Originally Posted by joejones

That said -- again, I think a lot of the reason foreigners label Japanese people as weird/crazy is that there are simply so many people in such a tight space here that you can't avoid interactions with weird/crazy people from time to time. No different than, say, New York or London, where many people go through culture shock even if they are from the same country. Where I come from, you generally deal with weird/crazy people from the isolated safety of your car on the freeway.