| They look like dutiful little robots. I was surprised back in college when I told a Japanese exchange student that I was absent the day before due to a stomach ache, and she asked me "Did you have diarrhea?" very nonchalantly.
Of course, I was a bit taken aback as I was trying to put it in nice terms. In Japan they have no qualms about saying 下痢 in the polite conversation, but I still cringe a bit whenever I hear it as I was raised not to really talk about it except amongst close family or a physician. |