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Try sliding head first on hard court or clay 🤕

You had me at the slide!

Damn.

How delightfully unAmerican.

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I always understood that the depth of bow indicates your deference to the other person … you can’t get much lower than sliding on the floor on your face … so that means he was very sorry.

Yes it does. One we should emulate.

Manners, and respect for fellow humans is one thing I admire of their culture. Yes. All cultures have issues, all have messy pasts (just look at my native homeland the USA- we're all kinds of messy, to say the least,) but I can admire the golden thread of respect they instill from a young age

Watching fans of Japan's World Cup team picking up trash in the stadium at the end of the match also revealed a profound level of respect for people and the environment.

Wow

So sweet cutie girl 💓 n boy..both..

Most of us Americans are either too fat to plank slide on the floor or dont want to risk injury because of how expensive health insurance costs. Those of us who are actually kind use words as apology and that tends to suffice. (S)

💯! Overfishing, eating dolphins, & 15 operating nuclear reactors. 🤬

I could learn a lot from staging hitting someone with a ball, sliding across a floor face down while a camera person follows, and then proceed to apologize which he could have already done had he not slid across the floor on his fucking mouth? I could definitely learn you're an idiot from that.

Maybe it would be better if the Japanese showed this respect not only to their own kind. Then that would truly be a sign of greatness...

Never happen though.

My favorite country in the world.

Extremely high sa and csm rates in japan btw

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I love their culture.

That’s my kind of world.❤️

I’m American n I care about ppl. I think you meant this corrupt administration. MAGA in particular. ✌🏽✌🏼

or a different race or poor or LGBTQ

Spectacular

Two words: Oh my god, Japanese men.

We do the same here in Canada and it can be a veeerrryy passive aggressive ploy to seem nice, but demonstrate contempt at the same time. While the cameras are on, he can perform abject apologies like a courtier, but that same excessive courtesy can freeze people out in other situations

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The shocking thing about this video is the size of the crowd watching volleyball?!?!?!

The apology itself matters less than the *reflex* to apologize. In cultures where collective harmony outweighs individual defense, you don't wait for a PR firm to calculate optics. You move first. That's the actual insight buried under the viral moment.

I’m glad to hear he’s your ex now.

The Japanese show us the way. They are so respectful and kind to each other and the planet. It was like I stepped into another universe when I visited Tokyo this summer.

What year is this video from

'Csm is fine as long as it's happening somewhere else'

Taking ownership … An art form of self regulation that has died due to American politics.

Respect

I have a friend whose mother and grandmother are Japanese and her grandmother lives in Japan She goes there every year and says the Japanese are the most polite people on earth Americans could take a hint from them

Japanese Zen Buddhism is the best because it is half Shinto and Shinto is more about honoring spirits and less about worshipping them.

OoooH! SOO SSOORRRRYYYYYYYY!

Totally honourable, and a great cultural example. But there are also deeply troubling aspects of their culture that are not mentioned much, that make you wonder whether the two are somehow connected, or whether they can really be separated.

Couldn’t agree more.

Are there still people shocked when they learn other countries are better at some things than others, especially the US?

I can still hear the whistling during the march.

You could test that hypothesis by telling us a joke.

Can Americans shut the fuck up on this post already? It's not a dichotomy, y'all are not the only other country in existence.

Respect: 👍 Respect but in Japan: 🤯🙉🌟

Rolled up on her like a beached seal!! That's SO incredible; what a beautiful culture!

I have not enough relationship with Japan. These are good people.

Practiced. If the ball lands far away from you, sliding along the floor like this is a way to extend your reach. Being a good person and apologizing when hurting somebody is not part of volleyball practice though, I'm guessing he learned that somewhere else :).

I love this.

It's also the coolest way in the world to apologize.

Nice one.

lol but I get it from friends (I'm 70). Usually months or years after it happened.

Sweet! Shalom

The Japanese also clean up after watching a match they did here at the World Cup

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Always thought the US should work to form a close alliance with Japan. I hope that occurs one day.

It is a culture Americans should emulate in many ways.

Trying to.imagine an American apologizing half as effectively.

can't say how much I love and admire this!

There was no opposing team to serve to, but there was a camera operator waiting to sprint alongside the player as soon as he hit the target. What did YOU think he was aiming at, and why?

Usually you'd expect a referee to be paying attention

Should have caught it. Or something

Weird. Now let's do xenophobia.

And a profound lack in ours

Let’s not forget what their culture injustice did during WWII. I knew witnesses to their current, at the time, to their actions. People can change this is proof Thank you Japan 🇯🇵 for showing the world

Respect!

Dogeza da MAX! 土下座だマックス！！！

Player? He is an absolute superstar! But in Japan 🇯🇵 that would stop no one to apologize. And everybody honors volunteers.

Or! Maybe he had a crush on her, and this was all to get her to notice him.

It doesn't. It says something about the volleyball player.

America used to be a little like that. Now we’re the complete opposite. We’re garish, impolite, arms carrying, unapologetic Karens who are not at fault…ever. Today people are shocked when you offer to help them or apologize for an indiscretion. I’m sad things are like this.

That’s not what a BRO would do!!

'Cause, in our self-centred culture, apologies are seen as a sign of weakness?

Impressive act of humility, and courtesy!💙

Educación cívica ante todo! Y ves a los jugadores limpiando lo que el público ha ensuciado...son de otra madera, de mejor clase!😊

We're monsters

I can see why they keep tightly closed borders in Japan, any other country's customs would taint it

Professional sports coverage, with every angle used, and cameramen who know their jobs. then editted. Still better than those phony 'proposals',

A man with manners who cares about others and is willing to display it. That struck me as a very sexy move. Am I alone?

Nah this guy knew what he was doing.

Just basic decency, but nowadays, the well for most of the world has been poisoned by trumpism. Toddlers learn accountability in preschool 🫪

That is lovely

That slide 🤣

The pride the Japanese have in their labor and the social and cultural pressure to perform can drive them to be very strict and disciplined, to the point of suicide. There is a very good reason why some of the top engineering has taken place in that country. Toyota hybrid engine comes to mind.

Super high sa and csm rates

I spent two weeks in Japan. Thousands of bikes at the train stations. Didn't see any bike locks.

So cute.

Love this!

You will never see that in America!

I like Japanese peeps. Never met anyone rude from Japan.

And makes ours look pretty pathetic

Maybe we need this in the US…..

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I love this about the Japanese people and their gracious culture.

The Sportsmanship Slide. Well done!

What's interesting is, this is how children behave before they're indoctrinated by their respective cultures. It is a completely natural human reaction and it's strange and sad that it's unique here... I love to see it 🙏🏻🥲

Oh so perfect, Fritti!

Their compassion is unmatched!!!!!!

And it is not an act. It is ingrained.

Before West intruded on Japan (Portugal 1543, Perry 1853), Japanese had literally been bred for respectful behavior, being instantly decapitated by samurai for even appearing different/anxious. Also, I've noticed exaggerated politeness among routinely violent groups in other venues, not surprising.

Proof that a society can be both polite and warriors.

Autizm

Respect!

oh my god!

And that's how I met your mother..