Editing Refusal of work (section)

==== "Freeters" and parasite singles ====
{{nihongo|[[Freeter]]|フリーター|furītā}} (other spellings below) is a Japanese expression for people between the age of 15 and 34 who lack full-time employment or are unemployed, excluding homemakers and students. They may also be described as ''[[underemployment|underemployed]]'' or [[freelance]] workers. These people do not start a [[career]] after [[Secondary education in Japan|high school]] or [[List of universities in Japan|university]] but instead usually live as so-called [[parasite single]]s with their parents and earn some money with low-skilled and low-paid jobs.

The word ''freeter'' or ''freeta'' was first used around 1987 or 1988 and is thought to be an amalgamation of the English word ''free'' (or perhaps ''freelance'') and the [[German language|German]] word ''Arbeiter'' ("worker").<ref>{{cite web|date=15 June 2004|title=A Way with Words – freeter|url=https://www.waywordradio.org/freeter/|website=www.waywordradio.org|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=3 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203134152/https://www.waywordradio.org/freeter/|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{nihongo|[[Parasite single]]|パラサイトシングル|parasaito shinguru}} is a [[Japanese language|Japanese]] term for a [[single person]] who lives with their parents until their late twenties or early thirties in order to enjoy a carefree and comfortable life. In English, the expression "sponge" or "basement dweller" may sometimes be used.

The expression is mainly used in reference to Japanese society, but similar phenomena can also be found in other countries worldwide. In [[Italy]], 30-something singles still relying on their mothers are joked about, being called ''Bamboccioni'' (literally: grown-up babies) and in Germany they are known as ''Nesthocker'' (German for an ''[[altricial]]'' bird), who are still living at ''{{ill|Hotel Mama|de|Hotel Mama|vertical-align=sup}}''.

Such behaviour is considered normal in [[Greece]], both because of the traditional strong family ties and because of the [[economy of Greece|low wages]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ΤΑ ΝΕΑ|url=https://www.tanea.gr/|website=ΤΑ ΝΕΑ|access-date=2019-01-02|archive-date=2021-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202044425/https://www.tanea.gr/|url-status=live}}</ref>