samurai_tofu

found an interesting questionnaire survey.

http://www.ism.ac.jp/~yoshino/arito/eg/top_e.htm

Some results are below.

Q62a. Do you have any personal religious faith?
________________n____1.Yes___2.No____9.D.K.
1992__ITALY___1,048___87.8___12.0____0.2
1987__FRANCE__1,013___64.4___34.8____0.8
1987__FRG_____1,000___74.8___21.8____3.4
1993__NL______1,083___57.1___38.7____4.2
1987__UK______1,043___64.2___34.3____1.4
1988__USA_____1,563___85.3___13.9____0.8
1988__JPN_____2,265___36.5___63.5____-

Q37. Home is the only place where I can relax and feel good"?
(year and n are the same in the question above.)

________1.Yes____2.No____8.Other__9.D.K.
ITALY___73.6_____24.7_____-_______1.7
FRANCE__65.4_____29.7_____3.3_____1.6
FRG_____56.1_____37.5_____2.0_____4.4
NL______31.6_____65.5_____0.8_____2.1
UK______50.7_____48.0_____0.4_____0.9
USA_____44.8_____54.4_____0.1_____0.7
JPN_____80.3_____16.3_____0.6_____2.8

My 6-year-old son has been in a local english school for more than one year and has come to speak in english better than I.

One thing shocked me a little is that he and other children (and people at large) often use the expression "loser!"

It sounds very strong to me.

We usually think that when one won, one should not say that one won too much because someone lost and that is the rule.

In sumo wrestling, a japanese traditional sport, you will be warned if you display your victory. A mongolian Yokozuna-champion was once really critised very much. (judo, kendo, the same, but being internationalised, things are a little changing.)

Calling someone who lost "loser" after you won over them is impossible.

Is it because the english have been always winning against their enemies in wars?

Or just that is the world standard (shared at least by the english and monglian) and we are minority as is often the case.

Usually japanese women do better than men in international sports competetion.

I don't mean that japanese women run faster than japanese men or women football team is stronger than the men's team.

but i mean that japanese women got the first olympic gold medals in swimming, volleyball, figure skating and marathon earlier than japanese men as far as I know.

japnese women do better in tennis tour than japanese men.

In football, too, the women's team does well though only very small number of women play football in japan.
(generally, football was not popular untill only recently.
the (men's) professional league was established only 15 years ago. no women's professional league.)

My hypothesis is that sexual difference between men and women is smaller with the japanese (or mongoloid, in general) than with europeans or africans and this is the cause of the fact above.

Men do better in most sports when they are more masculine while women do so when they are less feminine.

According to medical research,
black girls have their first period earlier than others and then whilte girls and finally yellow girls, and
black men have largest balls and then white and finally yellow.
(length of poles may be a little difficult to measure.)

Of course, individual differences are large.
And ther should be more factors to decide success in sports.

I sold my car half a year ago using autotrader website.

There is autotrader "journal", but it was not very cost-effective, as far as i know.

i recommend you to use the "website only" option.

Prices people give to their own cars are usually too high for others to buy.

Reasonably-priced cars are sold soon after the prices are offered.
So most of the advertisements you find in their website are those left without buyers, often more than several weeks because their prices are not attractive enough for the cars.

By the way,

Even too-high prices invite many e-mails
which usually say something like,
"i am interested in your car,
but i am living in spain(or somewhere else) and so someone on behalf of me comes up to you to pay you for the car and send it to me. So, tell me your final price as soon as possible. i am really interested in your car"

yes, very many. (why buy an ordinary second hand car in UK to send to Spain for not-reasonable price???)

i happen to have a neighbour in car business, and he told me "This is called "money-laundering". Ignore them."

Sometimes i think, could i get 1k pounds more?

but i am not a gambler.

i went to liverpool.
it is difficult to drive in liverpool without violating traffic rules.
we almost arrived at our hotel but really arrived there after half an hour later, even went through tunnels under the sea paying unnecessary fees.

we visited places related to the beatles like penny lane and strawberry field, and so on.

it is formidable thing that people there are not trying to make money using the relation.

there would be many suvenir shops in our country.