In contrast, American TV living rooms are corporate marketing free-fire zones. Hyggelig Danish, adjective. A winter evening with a warm wool blanket and a quiet fire and the dozing cat and close conversation with good friends is hyggelig. Haragei Japanese noun. Communication not by words, but by body cues, stances, motions, glances, and winks.
Men tend to focus on the exact words that are spoken.
Women notice however the reluctance to meet one's eyes or the nervous hand movement. Spaniards express themselves with a tilt of the head that American tourists don't see. Harikuyo Japanese noun. Americans toss everything without sentimentality. But the Japanese have learned to be Americans and now, if one can believe it, they are more crassly materialistic than Americans.