High and Low of Positions and Honorific Speech in Japanese

Though I don't know very much about other societies very much, the consciousness of positions is often regarded as important in Japan.

Exaggeratedly speaking (Better: It's an exaggeration to say, but still), we, the Japanese, cannot sit down in a business meeting, cannot go out from an elevator and cannot sometimes ride a taxi with other people without thinking of high and low positions.

When we decide whether to use honorific speech or not to another person, we must make sure whether his/her position is higher than that of us. ours.

The large amount number of such these experiences will reinforce the consciousness (and the unconsciousness) of positions, though this is just a hypothesis.

Contrary to it, ("Contrary" isn' the right word here. Maybe, "meanwhile" or "In addition") the strong concept of positions will promotes the complicated and detailed system of honorific speech.

So the relationship between the concept of positions and honorific speech in Japanese resembles that between the chicken or the egg, though the concept of positions cannot be fried and honorific speech cannot be thrown to the football players who lost lose an important game.

Social Status and Honorific Speech in Japanese [If you stay with your original phrase, "of" needs to be omitted: High and Low Positions]

Though I don't know other societies/cultures very well, awareness of social status/position is often regarded as important in Japan.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that Japanese people cannot sit down in a business meeting, cannot come out of an elevator and sometimes cannot ride in a taxi with other people without thinking about relative social status.

I think that the awareness of social status is strengthened by use of honorific speech in Japanese (敬語, keigo). ["I guess that... may be..." sounds like you are very unsure of this.]

When we choose whether (or not) to use honorific speech to another person, we must decide whether the other person's social position is higher (or lower) than our own. [It is easier to read "whether or not" if you keep it together when the verb phrase is long. "Or not" can also be omitted entirely-- you can translate かどうか with the single word "whether." Alternatives: "The choice of using honorific speech when addressing another person depends on whether the other person's social status is higher or lower." "... depends on whether we perceive the other person as having higher or lower social status."]

Perhaps many such experiences will reinforce the awareness (sometimes unconscious) of social position/status.

On the other hand, firmly established ideas about social status promote the complicated and detailed system of honorific speech.

If you have learned Japanese, you may have been bewildered by its complicated honorific system.

Japanese people sometimes feel the same way.

I am often not certain of the correct honorific expression to use, and have probably made lots of mistakes. [In English, a comma always comes before a conjunction (such as "and"), not after it, as in Japanese.]

I think that the complexity of honorific speech in Japanese is due to the intricacies of social status in Japan.

So the relationship between social status and honorific speech in Japanese resembles that between the chicken and the egg, though social status cannot be fried and honorific speech cannot be thrown at the football players who lost an important game (?). [The question is "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?", but "that between" in this sentence refers to "the relationship between," which must be followed by a phrase of the form "X and Y", not "X or Y." If there is a custom of throwing chickens at football players, I have never heard of it. Also, it would be better to have the phrase corresponding to the chicken before the phrase corresponding to the egg, since that is the order of the words earlier in the sentence.]