Re: Jap. prof behaviour

[vuca@envi.env.civil.saitama-u.ac.jp (Vu Thanh Ca)]

At  7:42 PM 97.5.29 -0500, Tuan V Nguyen wrote:
>Hello anh Ca,
>
>        Hope you do not take it personally about my comment on Japanese
>friends' behaviour.

Dear anh Tuan,

I am 100% Vietnamese!! I think you may misunderstand about that
Prof.. Japanese usually do not want to contact stranger, and that
prof. did not know that you are his coleague, I suppose. In general, JPese
are not rude to their guests, even the rank of the guest is much lower
than their rank. They call guest "o kyaku sama" (nga`i kha'ch quy') .
They are rude only with people directly under them. This is true not 
only for prof., but for Japanese in general.

VN students are very poor, but I found many students could not get used
with the behaviours of their prof., and they fought every day with their
supervisors. And in many cases, the student won.


>
>        About your San Francisco hotel question: I was there last September.
>I stayed in the Hotel Richelieu (or something like that) and the price taq
>was 80$/night. Service was reasonable. You may care to check it out. If you
>want more info, I will get it for you. SF is an expensive, but lively and
>vivacious, city. Some say that if you can make it in SF, you can make it
>anywhere in the US! 
>

Thank you for your information about hotels in SF. Anh Trung (tngo@lsil.com)
has provided me the address of a web site about lodging in SF. I do not know
exactly, but wonder why some hotels with the price of 80$/night have only
shower, not bath.


For H.D. Tuan (Japan) 

Dear Tuan,

We just joked, and did not take anything seriously. Thus, no information
regarding this thread. 

Cheers. Ca.