Asians Sleeping In The Library

Asians Sleeping In The Library

News December 23, 2010 January 24, 2019 by KoreAm Journal

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“they’re better at life and they get better grades than you for a reason. pictures of asian students from universities sleeping in the library and lecture halls.”
A self-proclaimed good-looking Jew has become a mini-internet celebrity of sorts, thanks to his blog, which features photos of Asians sleeping in university libraries all around the world. The blog, which is aptly titled, “asians sleeping in the library,” was recently featured in the Huffington Post’s “ 7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now ” blog.
For the record, none of us ever sleep in libraries…or the office…
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Wake up and smell the Internet debate. So many Western people wonder why Asians deftly sleep by day in public – in libraries, on buses and during classes – that some have started online forums to find out. One commentator launched a photo blog in March called Asians Sleeping on Public Transit and floats the idea of “genetic predisposition to narcolepsy.” A productivity-wary Western office manager with an Asian staff will be understandably perturbed.
What’s really going on? Sleep experts from Taiwan point to two causes that would apply here and throughout parts of East Asia where people doze off mid-day, far from their beds. One reason is childhood sleep habits, from chaotic nights to required naps. The other, disruptive nighttime noise in the major cities.
YIWU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 18: A Chinese man sleeps next to his sign advertising job opportunities as ... [+] workers gather inside a local employment center on September 18, 2015 in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Kindergarten teachers in Taiwan lay down their children for 90 minutes to two hours per day after lunch. Elementary schools usually carry on that habit by requiring children to fold their hands over their desks and lower their heads. Some teachers inspect each submerged head and chastise any that stir.
That might be the best sleep they get. At night, parents unwittingly keep children awake. A kid may wait up for a parent to come home from late shifts at a hospital, for example, to avoid sleeping alone. “I know a case where the father came home late and he was the child’s favorite, so the child always waited up for him,” said Chung Dan-lan, a Taiwan elementary school teacher and sleep expert.
Children, parents and extended family tend to share beds in Taiwan, which is just one such case in Asia. Adults watch television after kids drift off or rise at 5:30 a.m. to get ready for work, disrupting sleep at both ends of the night. Children in those homes eagerly sleep in school as instructed. Same goes for cars or buses where for children the friction of wheels against road “feels like a cradle,” says Chung, who admits to being among the half of her university class that slept during afternoon lessons.
Taiwanese pre-school children averaged nine hours and 26 minutes per weekday night and just 11% got more than 10 hours per night, according to a Taiwan Journal of Public Health report last year. Only 4% of children living in predominantly Asian regions fall asleep on their own, compared to with a parent in the room, a 2010 cross-cultural research paper found. Japanese children slept the least of 17 countries surveyed in a 2011 study.
Years later, grown children are used to shifty nighttime sleep and sound daytime naps. Naps pervade university classes where instructors don’t care who pays attention and in government offices where it’s OK to sleep off lunch with little risk of awakening to a storm of urgent new business. In 2007, a delegate to China's National People's Congress dozed as then-premier Wen Jiabao gave a speech.
Taiwan’s other espresso shot into the sleepy-Asian debate: Cities on the island of 23 million people make noise 24 hours. They're so noisy that a Stanford researcher is doing her PhD thesis on the topic. Scooters, long-distance trains and high-speed rail are among the culprits, said Lo Ming-jae, associate professor at National Taichung Education University’s early childhood education department. Twenty-four-hour businesses such as convenience stores and night clubs add to the problem. Cities across much of Asia are densely populated with little or no zoning enforcement that might, say, require separation between family apartments and commercial discos.
Next day at the office, usually right after lunch, heads tilt and eyes close. “If there’s no work, they recess to get their energy level back up,” Lo says.

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Sleep Inside A Bookshelf At This Cozy Japanese Hostel
You can cozy up with a book, or 3,000 of them, at this Tokyo establishment.
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There's nothing better than cozying up in bed with a good book… or, as in the case of this Japanese hostel, a few thousand of them.
Book and Bed is a small, 30-bed hostel in Tokyo where guests sleep in snug little cubbies hidden behind library shelves laden with books.
(The word “snug” may even be generous here, as the larger of the two room offerings measures just 6 by 4 feet.)
On its website, the hostel -- featured in a viral video posted on Facebook this week by INSIDER -- is honest about what patrons should expect from the self-described “accommodation bookshop.”
“The perfect setting for a good night's sleep is something you will not find here. There are no comfortable mattresses, fluffy pillows nor lightweight and warm down duvets,” the establishment warns .
Instead, the hostel promises its patrons a special experience, known well by book lovers the world over:
“What we do offer is an experience while reading a book (or comic book). An experience shared by everyone at least once -- the blissful ‘instant of falling asleep.’ It is already 2 a.m. but you think just a little more... with heavy drooping eyelids you continue reading only to realize you have fallen asleep... Dozing off obliviously during your treasured pasttime is the finest 'moment of sleep,' don't you agree?”
A photo posted by BOOK AND BED TOKYO (@bookandbedtokyo) on Oct 23, 2015 at 8:01am PDT
It costs upwards of $34 a night to stay at Book and Bed. Each room comes with a simple mattress and reading light. There’s also free Wi-Fii.
A photo posted by BOOK AND BED TOKYO (@bookandbedtokyo) on Feb 27, 2016 at 2:25am PST
The hostel, described by The Guardian last year as a “ heaven for bookworms ,” says its shelves can stock up to 3,000 books.
The books, a mix of English and Japanese offerings, are not for sale, however -- they’re just there for the enjoyment of hostel patrons.
“When I go to five-star hotels, the bed is lovely but I find myself wanting to sleep in the bar,” So Rikimaru of R-Store, the company that runs the hostel, told The Guardian of the inspiration behind Book and Bed. “Even if there is a comfortable bed, sometimes you still want to be in a more interesting place. We wanted to make a place where people can just have a good time and sleep.”

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