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  2. Japanese profanity - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese culture, social hierarchy plays a significant role in the way someone speaks to the various people they interact with on a day-to-day basis. [5] Choice on level of speech, politeness, body language and appropriate content is assessed on a situational basis, [6] and intentional misuse of these social cues can be offensive to the listener in conversation.

  3. 16 Common Phrases Unhappy People Often Use Without ... - AOL

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    The #1 Phrase To Say Instead When a person is feeling unhappy, Dr. Slavens tells Parade they’ll be surprised how saying one phrase can help them turn things around instead of saying something ...

  4. Mono no aware - Wikipedia

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    Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...

  5. Apathy - Wikipedia

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    Apathy can also be defined as a person's lack of goal orientation. [2] Apathy falls in the less extreme spectrum of diminished motivation, with abulia in the middle and akinetic mutism being more extreme than both apathy and abulia. [3] The apathetic may lack a sense of purpose, worth, or meaning in their life.

  6. Gakkou de atta Kowai Hanashi - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, a visual novel remake of the game, Apathy - Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi ~Visual Novel Version~, was released. Under a new studio name, Nana Korobi Hachi Korogari, Apathy would become its own franchise of visual novels. Since 2007, a number of novels and two volumes of a manga have been released in the Gakkou de Atta franchise.

  7. Shrug - Wikipedia

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    The shoulder-raising action may be accompanied by rotating the palms upwards, pulling closed lips downwards, raising the eyebrows or tilting the head to one side. [2] A shrug is an emblem, meaning that it integrates the vocabulary of only certain cultures and may be used in place of words. [3]

  8. Yūrei - Wikipedia

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    This is a misconception: Japanese women traditionally grew their hair long and wore it pinned up, and it was let down for the funeral and burial. Hands and feet : The hands of a yūrei are said to dangle lifelessly from the wrists, which are held outstretched with the elbows near the body.

  9. Baka (Japanese word) - Wikipedia

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    Baka (馬鹿, ばか in hiragana, or バカ in katakana) means "fool", or (as an adjectival noun) "foolish" and is the most frequently used pejorative term in the Japanese language. [1] The word baka has a long history, an uncertain etymology (possibly from Sanskrit or Classical Chinese ), and sociolinguistic complexities.