In a fairly frequent trope of advertising in Japan, the Japanese here about this guy actually reads “[This poor foreigner can of course] not get used to life in Japan. Therefore, he chooses to entrust **all** household duties to us, to focus on business.” https://t.co/ABcYcWBrx6
And while it is partially driven by empathy, and sometimes useful if you need social license to ask for very high amounts of help, it can get a little annoying to be constantly treated as having the executive function of a three year old.
(Sometimes less than a three year old; there are definitely people who prefer explaining things to my three year old over explaining them to me. Trash disposal rules, for example.)
