Culture influences the ways in which how people feel, react and act in specific situations. Lunch mate syndrome among university students in Japan illustrates how social, cultural, economical forces interact and create special social space, cafeteria where works as a means to determine individual’s identity as a member of collective society. Even though some people with lunchmate syndrome seek for medical helps, I argue that considerable debates over whether their fear and anxiety are considered trait or disorder have to be done by both the public and medical professionals. As several mental conditions have been recognized as medical issues, anthropologists criticize overmedicalization of normal human characteristics and the debate about drawing
