Izogashi

Iranians, no doubt, are among those talented nations with great potentials. However, many of those Iranians who get the chances, use their talent in a wrong way (or maybe we can not call it a talent or something). I mean, they learn the negative points instead of positives.

Let me give you an example. Japanese are known for their hard work and responsibility, punctuality, and many other morals. In fact they are (or better to say: were) hardworking people as the young generation is deviating from this line compared to the previous generations who built Japan.

Young japanese pretend to be busy whenever you call them. They show themselves busy even if they are wasting their time reading manga or simply doing nothing.

And Iranians? Yes. They do the same here in Japan. It happened many times here when I contacted some friends asking for their response. In a deal with Japanese, they are very punctual and obey all the rules and reply on-time, just because of their fragile situation here. But when it comes to the Iranian friends, they put no time for response...
Last week, I sent an email to all of our friends in Kyushu island asking for their preferred schedule for a camping program. And I, clearly, asked for the answer by the end of the week whether positive or negative. Many of them did not reply as usual and when I wrote them about their bad habit, I got these answers:

First one: Well, I tried to reply via hotmail but failed. And the fact was that he was sending his email via gmail this time. So he said: Send me emails via hotmail and I'll reply via gmail???

Second one: I was busy with packing my luggage in the university. So I had no time to reply. Here, the fact is that this guy has a 24h access to internet both at home and university. Another lie.

So they are IZOGASHI (busy) and will not care about you coz you are an Iranian? Yeah. I've seen them being puncutual with foreigners.

This has happened several times; to tell the truth, in every case. And the thing is that they are looking for someone to arrange everything and then they say OK we'll join.

Why Iranians expect the others to serve them and then enjoy the result? Why almost nobody is willing to do something him/herself? Why nobaody is taking the responsibilities? And why they do not change themselves especially after being in Japan (among these very high responsible people) for several years?

So how do you treat these guys?