Rain and Umbrellas

Hello I'm back.
Today I noticed something different about Canada and Japan.
In Canada, most people don't own umbrellas.  Today, it has been raining all day and quite hard at times.  As I was coming home from school, I thought it was so interesting that most people were just walking around like it wasn't even raining! In Japan, if it was raining and they didn't have an umbrella, they would use a newspaper or something to cover their head to keep the rain off.  No one in Japan seems to want to get even a few drops of rain on them.  But not here - most people were just walking around, taking their time and didn't seem bothered at all that they were getting wet!  The funny is, the few umbrellas that I did see were being held by an Asian-looking person.