Name: Culture shock! Head size matters カルチャーショック・小顔
Uploaded: 2016-09-12T09:14:26.000Z
Duration: 7 min 45 s
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Today we have an interesting subject to talk about.

The superlative

This is actually one of the biggest things I had a culture shock about

Yes, because I'd never heard of it before I got here!

I watched so many YouTube videos about Japan before I came here.

But apparently, something that's a really big thing here about attractiveness

Yeah, they say face, but they're actually talking about the size of your head.

Japanese people will say, "Oh, you have such a small face!"

It's really good here to have a small face, or a small head,

and it's not so good to have a- -Huge head. -...larger head.

And that's a real thing. This a real, nationwide,

everyone-in-Japan-knows-about-it thing here.

This isn't one of those trendy "HURR JAPAN'S BEING SO WEIRD RIGHT NOW"

"But actually only a dozen people are doing it!" things.

Like whenever you go out shopping, you get comments like "KAO CHISSA!"

which means like "UAGHH HER FACE IS SO SMALL!"

You guys might be really confused. I'll try my best to explain it.

In general, and I don't know how far this extends,

like I don't know if it's all East Asians,

but Japanese people tend to have larger sized heads

in proportion to the size of their body, compared to Westerners.

When I went to America, everyone seemed to have smaller faces.

Well, I did look up some research on this.

But when you get on Google Scholar or Google and you start trying to look up

scientific articles on the size of heads compared to races,

you get a lot of people trying to prove that certain races have naturally higher IQs

than other races because they have larger brains and cranial capacities.

And I did not get a good feeling from those articles so I don't know if I trust them.

But almost all of them did end up saying that East Asians had the largest head size.

Yeah, they looked at cranial capacity, so I think that's like the

overall volume inside where you could have brain space.

And I have to warn our Japanese viewers watching this!

Do NOT go to America and say, "Ugh I have such a big head."

Because that has a completely different meaning!

If you're talking about the size of your "head", you're referring to something else.

So don't talk about the size of your head in America.

So I think the average was 57 centimeters.

57 centimeters? Head size? Do you want me to measure your head?

Oh really? So it's a little above average.

Oh, average male Japanese head size. Yep, I looked it up. Yep.

No, I'm not embarrassed at all. I don't care anymore.

So your head is... 5.5 cm bigger than you.

You're just slightly above average, and I'm a little below average.

But I'm also a lot taller than Japanese women.

Okay. Look into the camera. Okay. Let's compare.

You need to know how small your head is. It's freaking tiny.

If I had a larger face, would you still have been attracted to me?

Okay well I don't care about your face size.

Some Japanese people who have the smaller, Western-sized heads,

They're considered to have very attractive head sizes.

Yeah, people like that often tend to be like models or actors or actresses

because they have such an attractive head size.

The first time I came to Japan, that's when I learned about this head size/face size thing.