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God, that is so Japanese. I never understood why such an incredibly modest culture could talk so openly about bowel movements. I was there as an exchange student for a year and had 4 different host mothers. I shit you not*, every single one of them at one point asked me "do you have diarrhea?" or "are you constipated?" when I wasn't feeling well, as though they were asking how my day was. I guess it was a good thing, though, because with all the foreign food I was eating I really did go from getting diarrhea to becoming constipation with some weird anal leakage spilling out in between. God knows if they hadn't asked I wouldnt have had the nerve to say shit.*

* puns intended

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