Being open-minded means welcoming new ideas, arguments, and information that you typically do not align with . Open-mindedness is a positive character quality and it enables those who use it to think critically and rationally.
In this case, I believe the Japanese are very open-minded, you see them going everywhere and living in many other countries and trying to always adapt to other’s culture and rarely arguing that “THEY ARE JAPANESE” so they won’t participate on other cultures normal interactions. I’ve seen Japanese in Mexico greeting people with a kiss on the cheek, I’ve seen them in Japan talking to foreigner and asking so many questions and interacting with them. As part of the show, yeah, as part of the vacations, yeah, because they choose to expose themselves to this situations.
As a worker in a company?, nah, they don’t be kissing everyone at work, they won’t be talking to their elders as they see foreigners do. I actually have rarely meet someone who is “afraid” of tattoos, and meet many people who think they look cool, but won’t go put one because the image is very unsanitary, and unnecessary, and even they understand that that is their own view, and won’t dare to flash their own little tattoos to other people in a conservative public space.
They even sale tattoo seals of all sizes
The problem in Japan being so “traditional” or “old school” on some aspects is exactly that, the leaders of this companies who imposed this rules 20-30 years ago… they are still alive and they are in many cases still the leaders of the same companies, and for them any type of change is almost a betrayal to the policies that have brought them to where they are, they are not willing to sit down with a stranger or an employee to discuss their points of view for the company they own, that’s why in Japan many companies have a dress code, including makeup and hair for girls, largest, oldest company usually also means old board of directors that like it “the old way”.
Nikon, Sony, Toshiba, the whole Transport companies
Try to reach one of them and tell them it’s ok to hire someone with horns implants, tattoos, split tongue and rainbow color hair…
So in Japan getting a tattoo, body-mod, etc, means that you will limit yourself even more on the options you could have as part of the society because you are directly choosing something that you know is still tabooed around the society you live in, some are ok with that, I got my job, I got my friends who understand me, and I would never work for a company that:
“makes me wear a suit, that pays half of my pension and my health insurance and gives me huge bonus two times per years and pays me vacation days and lets me rest on every single holiday that the country has and gives me presents on life events like marry or getting a child, who will do anything to not fire me without a heavy legal reason to do so, and will increase my paycheck every year just for continuing working with them”
I rather be myself and work every single holiday, without paid vacations, in risk to be discharged at any time the little boss has a tantrum, getting paid minimum salaries without increment, etc, etc u get the idea.
