I noticed big cultural differences regarding privacy between me and my wife. For example, I consider that within the boundaries of a married couple there shouldn't be much privacy regarding emails, even on one's mobile phone, but she categorically said that I have no right to read her mails because of "privacy". I think that they are no more private than a phone conversation or regular paper mail (which both or us open as soon as we empty the mail box, regardless of whose name is on the envelope).
On the other hand, I dislike onsen (Japanese hot springs), public baths or even public changing rooms in fitness clubs or swimming pools, and would say that there is no privacy whatsoever regarding nudity in Japan (I have been used to swimming pools where everyone get an individual changing room since my childhood).
Likewise, I have been to several different doctors in Tokyo, and every time there was little separation between two doctors' patients, or even one doctors patient and waiting room, so that anybody could hear what was being said about the other patients. This would be a clear legal infringement of medical privacy in many Western countries, where doctors normally can't even tell a patient's relatives (even parents or spouse) about their patient's condition without the patient's authorization.
This clearly shows that privacy is a very subjective thing, that vary from person to person, but even more from culture to culture.
Any other examples ?
On the other hand, I dislike onsen (Japanese hot springs), public baths or even public changing rooms in fitness clubs or swimming pools, and would say that there is no privacy whatsoever regarding nudity in Japan (I have been used to swimming pools where everyone get an individual changing room since my childhood).
Likewise, I have been to several different doctors in Tokyo, and every time there was little separation between two doctors' patients, or even one doctors patient and waiting room, so that anybody could hear what was being said about the other patients. This would be a clear legal infringement of medical privacy in many Western countries, where doctors normally can't even tell a patient's relatives (even parents or spouse) about their patient's condition without the patient's authorization.
This clearly shows that privacy is a very subjective thing, that vary from person to person, but even more from culture to culture.
Any other examples ?
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