Though there is full white consensus on a number of white things, there is perhaps nothing that draws more universal white acclaim than the island nation of Japan. It should be noted, that some white people harbor SOME ill will toward Japan because of whaling, killing dolphins or Nanking. But those are generally considered isolated incidents that do not indict the entire nation.
White people love Japan for a number of reasons. Sushi is pretty much the biggest one, since white people have spent so much time Sushi restaurants, enjoying the food, learning about how to eat it, and how to be snobby about it. This natural curiousity fills them with a need to pay a visit to Tsukiji and taste the freshest Sushi possible.
But it goes beyond just food, all white people either have/will/or wished they had taught English in Japan. It is a dream for them to go over seas and actually live in Japan. This helps them not only because it fills their need to travel, it will enable them to gain important leverage over other white people at Sushi restaurants where they can say “this place is pretty good, but living in Japan really spoiled me. I’ve had such a hard time finding a really authentic place.” 
White people also love Japan because of it’s tradition, futuristic cities, films, kawaii stuff, music, and writers. Many white nerds are into anime, so being too into this can be seen as a negative by white people. It’s best to have a passing familiarity for things like Hayao Miyazaki who is universally accepted by white people, or if they don’t know who is he, they will look him up and they won’t find weird violent or sexual cartoons.
If you find yourself in an awkward silence with white people, just mention how you want to go to Japan. They will immediately begin talking about how their trip to Japan, or their favorite stuff from Japan, but it will be entirely about them. This is useful as you no longer have to talk, and they will like you for letting them talk about themselves.
But like with anime, you have to be careful about how much you like Japan. If you know how to speak Japanese, you kind of ruin it for everyone else.
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Hahahahaha!!! Oh so true.
I love Japanese stuff… mostly food… but I stopped eating a lot of sushi a few years back because of the state of blue fin tuna (but so good!) Living there and teaching English would be pretty awesome… but I might suffer greatly without decent Mexican food.
Yeah, I’m a white girl.
JAPAN IS THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE!! safe and clean cities, delicious meals, beautiful cultures. and girls are so pretty haha
I liked Japan a lot, but there is too much you can’t do and they don’t have to make it a first choice for a place to live.
No hunting, no bacon, just two of lifes must have’s to be happy.
ahh HA HA HA. Saw funny these post. White people rike sushi and they tink know about real Japonese? AH HAHAHAHAH.
People in Japan love to eat raw horse and chicken also make a ice-cream flavor out of horse because they love it so much. Obviously this post is for the demographic “Dirty White Boys with Yellow Fever” who “Think They are Turning Japanese,” and likes the kind of Japanese girls (who look more like white girls) the media in Japan puts in magazines to sell to dirty white boys like themselves, because it’s just a marketing scheme:
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I’ve had horse in Japan, goat in Afghanistan, and dog in Korea, all of which were pretty good, and I would eat ‘em all again. I’ve yet to try a liberal in America, the thought of eating shit is a hard one to get around.
Kazakhstan opinion here… Japan is kind of considered the prime place to live if you’re in Asia – the most modernised Asian country with highest wealth and standard of living. And the yen is extremely strong. (So Eurasians/Asians who like Japan tend to for opportunistic reasons).
That said, it is also one of the best advertised Asian countries abroad. Lots of people get into the anime/video games here too, as I guess it is so in America. One measure of how many people are very interested in Japan, rather than pretend to be interested, is counting the number of students who study Japanese at each level.
In my old university (40,000 students total), first year Japanese classes had about 300 students a year. Second year shrunk to about 200. Third year classes usually decreased to 50-60 students a year. After this, Japanese class don’t count for credit and became very (Chinese character) reading-intensive, so the most telling was the amount that made it to fourth-year Japanese though…. 15 to 20 people at most. (The class tended to consist of about 5 white people and the rest are Korean or Chinese people brought up or lived in Japan. ) So, calculated, maybe 5 out of 400 white people who claim to be interested in Japan take effort to learn the language well (Approximately 1 or 1.5%). (That value is much too high actually, because it excludes the vast amounts of people who like Japan but don’t take any Japanese study at all). Interesting, is it not?
Not really. Japanese is an extremely difficult language. 3 alphabets, and 3000 chinese characters are minimum to be considered partially literate. Differentiation between Chinese characters depends on where the pen starts on the page and where it leaves.
Oh crap, I totally stuffed it up by becoming fluent in the language.
congrats! I lived and worked in Korea and Japan for 10 years and am still functionally illiterate in both. Fluency isn’t easily achieved and that is a gross understatement.
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