How country bumpkins act when they come to the big city university

By Ken Y-N ( March 10, 2013 at 23:43) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

With the university enrollment season upon us (Japan starts in April rather than September or October), goo Ranking had a short survey looking at how university freshers from the regions tend to be when they come to Tokyo.

Demographics

Over the 9th and 10th of January 2013 1,072 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.4% of the sample were female, 8.5% in their teens, 14.1% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 27.1% in their forties, 10.4% in their fifties, and 10.2% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I left my back-of-beyond home to go to Scotland?s capital to study, but perhaps because in the UK there is less of likelyhood to study in your home town ? hmm, is there really? Many of my Japanese colleagues did so, but in my class of about 30 in university, there was maybe just one (none at all?) from Edinburgh itself ? such a distinction is less likely to be made?

Ranking result

Q: How do university freshers from the regions tend to be when they come to Tokyo to enroll? (Sample size=1,072)

Rank	?	Score
1	They try their hardest to hide their dialect but get all embarrassed when some slips out	100
2	They ask fellow freshers where they are from, and feel relieved when they are from even further away	89.2
3	They get all excited when their friends tell them about the famous people they?ve seen	68.4
4	After eating out and convenience store meals, they get homesick for their parents? home cooking	63.1
5	They splurge all their allowance, and get perplexed by poverty	59.0
6	They get emotional about going to restaurants written about in magazines	56.1
7	They cannot shake off ?Aren?t city folk cold?? and other biases	54.2
8	They get ecstatic when they get asked to be a hair salon model	47.0
9	After holidays they come back in new clothes, hair cuts, etc	46.3
10	They get lonely living alone so hang out at their friends? homes	44.6
11	They try to meet up with friends in front of Shibuya Hachiko, Shinjuku Alta, etc	43.6
12	They encounter a famous person they look up to, and secretly hope that they can become friends	37.3
13	University campus is too large, and they get lost moving between classes	36.4
14	They get excited when they see their address starts with ?Tokyo City?	33.5
15	They frantically look for a boyfriend/girlfriend at society, circle welcoming parties	32.3
16	When they meet up with other people from the same area, they talk about how they differ from the city kids	28.4
17	They think that everyone who tries to talk to them at stations have ill intent	28.2
18	They carry their bag across their chests to try avoid having their wallet stolen	22.7
19	When they use dialect they bask in the attention for a second then get all embarrassed	22.4
20	They often wear their favourite clothes	21.9

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