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Hahaha yes! Thats how I felt before. Now we do it around the house cause we don’t even have a proper restroom in Tokyo. Just a toilet room, a separate shower room and a sink outside, but I won’t brush my teeth when other people are here.

It’s kind of silly though. Why?

I mean Japanese people won’t blow their nose at the dinner table, they go to the bathroom to do it. These things feel pretty much equal to me, so why one not the other?

A core principle that must never be deviated from

but I won’t brush my teeth when other people are here.

yeah it's odd how different cultures work