2025 Ali's Blog

Everything is going to be short here, but i hope i explain everything clearly. Power distance in Indonesia and japan i would say is pretty accurate. Indonesians government nowadays is like a family business because the last president and the current vice president is father and son, and a lot more families are in the high position. Also if there is like a disagreement between the families to other people, a lot of times its not going to be good for that people. In japan, idk for sure, because i heard that japan is a democrat country, so in my opinion a lot of decision made by a group of the people in the government rather than in a specific people. Individualism and collectivism is not too accurate. I would say indonesia a bit more individualism score, (because now its only 5), it happens because the modern era is starting to get the country culture. Everything can be done online made the people more independent because the have less social interaction than before. Japan, of course is ...

Today we discussed about asking a favor in Japan and also in other countries. Base on experience and also living here for almost 4 months, it can be said that I know how Japanese culture are like. Asking a favor is very indirect, my opinion it happens because the last thing that people want to do here is bothering other people, and asking for a favor make them thinks like that. It also happens because the person that is being asked for the favor can't really deny it, so even though they didn't feel like it, big chance that still give the favor. Japan is a country where kindness and politeness are being met, being indirect is the result. Should i have an opinion about that, then I would say that giving a clarity like "yes" or "no" is better so that it doesn't make the other people overthink. In Indonesia, being indirect is also one of the culture, especially in the main island of java, which where the capital is located. Again i would say that most of the...

Parenting is a big thing and will always be. Peoples have different ways to educate their children, and there is no absolute correct ways to do it. It always depend on the environment, and what kind of a person that their parents want their children to be. I would say that i didn't really know how Indonesian parents raise their children, because again each of them has their own ways, but base on my experience is that my parents raise me to become masculine and teaches a lot about leadership and independence. I can relate to that because im the oldest son and they think that i need to be prepared to lead my own family and also have responsibilities to my siblings in the future. For Japan parenting pov, i would say that they are trying to do the same thing, especially about independence. I've seen multiple times that child from a very young age like around 5yo going to their school alone without having any adults as their companion, one crazy thing is that i've seen elementar...