usually characterized as polite. 2Although the Japanese language
=ss that requires a pack of appropriate politeness levels, this does
ese are always polite. 3As a casual look into a karaoke har o-
and drinking reveals, Japanese people, given the right place and
ally in a way that may seem to a foreigner quite impolite or even
me Japanese are always polite has much to do with who is doing
server who is outside the uchi group, the impolite side of the
Expressed. 50nly if participants are actually arguing do Japanese
d level of politeness and formality toward the soto person.
