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21 Japanese students chose A, going to the funeral, and 39 Japanese students chose B, going to the business meeting. The chi-square=5.4 between the two numbers indicates that Japanese students tend to consider their business meeting atwork more valuable than the funeral. Their feelings towards their friends, especially in the case of mourning, might not be taken into consideration much in the quite industrialized society, Japan. Or Japanese people may tend to shy away from such mourning friends. Or they may simply feel that their work is the most valuable thing in their life. All of these reasons could be possible. Also the mixed of each feeling might possibly be considered as well. The figure=5.4 is larger than 3.841. (p=0.05 level)
On the other hand, 15 Australian students chose A, going to the funeral, and only 3 Australian students chose B, going to the business meeting. The chi-square=8.0 between the two numbers indicates that Australian students tend to consider the funeral more valuable than the business meeting. Their main comment is that friends are for their lifetime, whereas jobs can be changeable. The figure=8.0 is larger than 6.635. (p=0.01 level)
Comparing the two groups, the chi-square=13.0 indicates that the two groups have the culturally different criteria for decision-making. Japanese people tend to think that their jobs are life-time employment and that their work is the primary importance of their life. However, Australian people think that their jobs are not for their life time and that taking care of those who are mourning is more important than business matters.
Mother Teretha once commented that Japan is such a poor country that your next neighbor had been dead and left alone for weeks without anybody noticing the dead. So industraliazed, urbanized, and isolated human hearts might be the by-product of Modern Japan.
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