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.
Stuff White People Like 
It’s interesting.
I love SUSHI resaurant so much.
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Drat! I shouldn’t have spent all that time studying Japanese: I didn’t realize that ruins it for everyone else. It does however make my daily life a lot easier. 🙂
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My aunt and uncle got back from Japan a few years back. Thier entire house is now in a japanese theme. More orchids than you can shake a joke at. They have Majhong (sp) night with thier friends. That game is impossible, and white people just weren’t meant to understand anything beyond battleship. But, they did get an awesome automated toliet thing from over there! It thanks you for the “gift” you leave.
Crap – I am SO white. This post was a bit too close to the bone for me, which is probably for the best. I better go and recycle something to feel better…
I am dying to go to Japan.
I embrace my whiteness.
One thing that white people don’t like – being inferior gaijin. Pro Tip: xenophobia is king in Japan.
White people rike to speak in fake Japanese accent when go to lestaulrant. It’s universal, and I think it may be genetic. All whites do it.
The nice thing about actually living in Japan is so many of the things white people love are readily available here. The mountains and natural scenery allow the #9 “Making you feel bad about not going outside” rule to be very applicable. Japan’s location makes traveling to the third world (#19) easy and by God, if you haven’t been to Cambodia yet, you will get it from the other whites here. Obviously many white men here are working on rule #11, and Japan’s general love of bad music makes having an 80s Night a snap (just hit up Harajuku for the clothes).
This is so true! I went to Japan over the summer, and all of this article is so true! Hahahaha.
This blog title is misleading: what you are in fact referring to and mocking is a certain subsection of white people in North America (mainly the US and to a lesser extent the non-Francophone parts of Canada), who are liberal/left-wing poseurs with above average incomes.
Most whites in the UK (where I am from) are nothing like that! Indeed, many whites from America itself are nothing like the whites you mock here. Moreover, whites from the non-anglophone world would hardly recognise any of the stereotypes you portray here. Talk about ethnocentric!
I suspect you are an Angry Asian Male (AAM) who has been brought up and educated among upper-middle class whites, subjected to their patronising behaviour and seen most of “your” fellow Asian women hook up with white men. This blog is your way of expressing your anger and getting some measure of revenge against the whites who have bothered you for so long. It’s funny and all, but please remember the target of your lampooning is a very narrow sub-section of the Caucasian race as a whole.
Oh, and Asians can be just as funny and weird too.
And don’t forget how this relates to how much white people love martial arts! If a white person can tell a group of white martial arts enthusiasts about the amazing karate/aikido/judo/jiujitsu/kendo/kyudo teacher he or she studied with in Japan, that person automatically becomes exponentially more hip. I’ve witnessed this many times but sadly have never been the one telling the story.
I speak Japanese and am married to one. However I am not White. Though I love my wife very much, I have found the more I learn about them, the less I like them.
Japanese people can be extremely rigid and racist in ways they will never understand. I guess it’s from being closed off for 200 years. But I regularly find when dealing with my wife’s family when they visit us in America, there is only one way to do anything and that’s the Japanese way. If a Japanese way doesn’t exist, there there is a real problem!! When I go to Japan, of course everything is the Japanese way. I get asked repeatedly how big my penis is and get called “my nigga” because of television and movies.
There are really beautiful aspects of the culture, but those who are looking to find what they see in anime and zatoichi films are in fr a rude awakening!!
you know what white people really like? grilled cheese and or macaroni. it is our crack.
I am in total agreement with the posts above…the author of this blog is ASIAN.
This blog reeks of
“Asian American (I am almost 99% it is Korean-American) Guy who realizes that the Fixed Action Patters of Upper Middle Class, Urban, Liberal White People” is the standard target and pinncale lifestyle to which almost all wealthy and educated people in America strive….and is a bit peeved at it so decides to poke fun of it in a light, but still somewhat derisive manner”
For all of you who mistakenly believe that the author is black or hispanic, I quote the famous SNL skit: “Nigga Please!”
Although Black or hispanic people poke fun at and find much of white culture quirky and hilarious, they do not write blogs which dive so deep into showcasing white culture and critique in a way that exudes insecurity or a vent-up “grudge” as this one does. You can see that that none of the items in this blog are really far from fact. Alot of the items of in the list do indeed apply to a very large section of white population in America. The author does not really lie or distort reality. However, that’s just it. Only Asians find the reality of white culture to be bothersome to their pre-programmed prejudices of what is superior. Hispanics and blacks would be more likely to make up and totally distort the reality of white culture and make jokes about it and leave it at that since they really don’t care what white people do as long as it doesn’t infringe upon their enjoyment of life. In other words, Hispanics and blacks are perfectly fine with the whites wanting to recycle, drive Priuses, live by the water, shop at Whole Foods or what not because if they were making as much money or obtaining the same level of financial comfort, many black and Hispanics would probably want to do the same thing too. Or, they would choose not to, but it doesn’t bother them. Simply put, black and hispanics are comfortable being themselves and with white people being different. They really don’t have any dreams or illusions of black or hispanic culture dominating the “stuff that white people like culture” and really don’t get annoyed that liberal, urban white culture is what it is.
However, with Asians, it is a completely different story. Asians have this strange underlying “grudge” or I should say, “inferiority complex” with any culture or people that are different from themselves but hold a dominance in the society in which both live. Thus, this reality does not fit well with the natural competitive and insecure nature that personififes so much of the Asian immigrant culture in the western world. Unlike black and hispanics, the Asian population in western countries has already reached the same level of economic/financial success that white people hold, and in Asian culture, there is no greater feeling of enjoyment than seeing yourself becoming the dominant power. Thus, because Asians share pretty much the same socio-economic status as whites, they are much aware and exposed to white, urban, liberal blue-state culture since they probably work alongside these types of white people and probably have gone to the same wealthy, high ranked, hippie universities full of white people that this blog ridicules. Not too many black and hispanics have reached this position to be so close and neck to neck with the white population that is the target of this blog. That is the diference.
Thus, Asians see that in this country (USA) or whichever country in which Asians and whites are neck to neck, that despite sharing almost the same economic status with that of the white population, the standard for hipness, wealth, and whatever is considered “cool”, fashionable or trendy is basically “stuff that urban, progressively-minded white people like”…not stuff that “rich, successful, science/engineering background-minded Asian people like.” This reality conflicts and does not bode well with what these Asians have believed throughout their entire lives from birth which is that “Our Asian culture is superior to any caucasian culture because our race is the most intelligent and most beautiful in the world”. It is a commonly known fact that Asian culture in the form of parents, schools, media drill this message of racial superiority into their heads from birth. Thus, when these kids grow up and actually see that reality of the world is totally different from what their masters in their little Asian enclave of racial superiority has told them, they get confused, jealous and spiteful to the point where they need to find tribal comfort in congregating with other Asians and finding humor in telling each other how funny it is that white people’s culture is so different from theirs.
The irony is, however, that in secret or behind closed door amonst themselves, alot of Asians actually yearn for the same things found on this list…especially living by the water or shopping at high end groceries. However, they are just irritated that they came from a culture in which their families could not afford to or did not give a rat’s ass about the environment, recycling, helping poor people in third world countries, eating organic food, helping causes, going snowboarding, renovating a house, throwing dinner parties, travelling to exotic locales, etc., Granted it is not their fault because as immigrants to a new country, their parents did not have the time nor luxury of doing these things because they were too busy trying to make money or push their kids at school to learn Calculus by age 10.
Instead, these Asian kids grew up seeing TV shows from their motherland countries and their families living a different culture: obessing about money, buying expensive designer name brand goods with the label on the front to show off (Gucci, Guess, Dolce Gabanna, etc.), smoking cigarettes in front of their girlfriends, driving nothing other than Mercedes Benz and BMWs, listening to cheezy ballad or R&B based pop music, striving to be a rich doctor, never thinking about travelling to third world countries (only places where they want to travel is K-town in LA, NYC, or anywhere which is considered “fashionable”), etc. Becuase they grew up seeing this type of lifestyle and culture as what is cool and what every normal person strives to acheive, they are heartbroken and angry when they realize that noone in upper class America considers this type of lifestyle to be “cool” or reflecting of high class or wealth. Thus, you get the grudge and blogs like this.
Now of course, before anyone jumps on my back, I know I did ALOT of racial stereotyping and applied a huge range of broad labels to Asians in general. However, my response to that is, “I really don’t care.” Why? Because I can. The reason is that although I am not a member of this group, I spent almost all of my 34 years growing up surrounded by Asian Americans with almost 70% of my childhood friends being Asian, going to school with them side by side, eating dinner and spending weekends upon weekends at their houses with their families, and just knowing their culture inside out. I can even speak Mandarin and Korean even though I am a white boy. Now, I will say that almost half of my close friends now are Asian. However, none of these people subscribe or are victims to the mental disease of insecurity and inferiority complex which I described above. In fact, these guys are “whiter” than me in so many ways and unlike the Asians which I describe above, they really don’t care that “white culture” is different from what they grew up with and really don’t care that it is the dominant standard for what is considered trendy and characteristic of wealth and high-class. In other words, they are absolutely comfortable with themselves. Thus, I want to say that NOT ALL ASIANS ARE LIKE WHAT I DESCRIBE ABOVE.
However, I would like point out three points in the list of this blog that are dead giveaways that the author is Asian and not black or hispanice. Here they are:
#68 Divorce
– Please. I think more blacks or hispanics get divorced than whites. No black or hispanic would be foolish to cite this as something characteristic of being something only a white person would do. However, I can’t even count how many times I have heard the endless adage from Asians saying how terrible and inferior white American culture is because the divorce rate is so high in this country. They insist that Asian culture is that of higher morals because divorce is uncommon. Well, I guess it would be that way since the only other alternative for an Asian women would be to become a prostitute and outcasted by society for the rest of her life since a divorced woman has as much value as a slab of T-bone steak 10 days past the expiration date. No wonder you see so many loveless Asian couples who stay together just for superficial face value while the husband goes and screws whores at the hostess bar on a weekly basis while the wife flies to Europe or Thailand with her girlfriends for a romp in the sack with locals. Meanwhile, the kids grow up seeing such a screwed up household and become permanently scarred for life so they end up jaded, angry, and insecure. Thus, many of them end up writing blogs like this. Oh well, but according to them, this type of relationship is waaaay better than divorce.
#47 Art Degrees
– Again, while in university, I was astounded by the number of Asian students who told me how they hated courses in English lit, history, or any of the humanities courses which required them to write. Thus, it’s not surprising that I found the opportunity to make alot of good money from Asian high school kids who would pay me to write their college application essays since they had no writing skills whatsoever to complement their 800 math SAT scores. I’m not talking about international students either but rather Asian-Americans. It’s strange that even with the privledge of having grown up in an English speaking educational system, so many Asians have difficulty in expressing themselves outside of number or equations. I think this stems from the fact that they are conditioned within their families to think that the only respectable disciplines or professions are ones that use science and math. Any other academic discipline such as arts and the humanities is for the inferior white race. Thus, this becomes ingrained in their heads. However, the caveat is that when it comes time to apply to Harvard or Princeton, they realize that their high grades in math/science and 800 math SAT scores don’t mean jack when they also carry poor grades in English or low verbal SAT scores. I guess that’s where I come in. In any case, many an Asian student who was denied his/her chance at Harvard, Stanford or Yale because of their weakness in the arts or humanities has expressed to me their utmost hatred in all of their high school English teachers, college essays, etc and vow that they would like to exterminate any person who majors in such disciplines and gets a better paying job (probably a lawyer) than themselves. Dead giveaway. Blacks and Hispanics don’t give a shit about who majors in what.
#42 Sushi and #58 Japan
– Actually, these two may be more of a confirmation that the blog writer is definitely NOT Japanese but most likely Korean or Chinese American. However, that in itself serves as a strengthening evidence that the writer is definitely Asian and not hispanic or black because there is no way in hell that a black and hispanic would know or even care to subdivide the Asian fetish that alot of white people have. To black and hispanics, a white person fawning over anything Japanese is just an “Asian fetish.” However, to a Korean or Chinese person, a white person fawning over anything Japanese is just one more cherry on the top of the pudding of insult to their own culture which they believe to be superior to that of Japan’s. To Korean-Americans and Chinese-Americans, Japanese are pretty much at the same level as white people are in terms of targets of jealousy, insecurity, disdain and their grudge. I really don’t think any black or hispanic would give a frog’s fat ass whether or not white people preferred Japanese culture/food to that of Koreans or Chinese but for the Koreans and Chinese, it’s just makes them squirm even more with rage and jealous grudge. Spend any time with a Korean or Chinese and they will tell you that the thing that they hate more than Japan itself is the fac t that Japan enjoys a very popular image throughout the first world and is considered “cool” and “hip” among wealthy, urban, intelligent whites. They really don’t like it that kimchi, soju, Korean soap operas, turtle boats, and Panda express do not conjure up the same image of elegance and chicness that sushi, “Lost In Translation”, samurai and sake do for white people. Definitely, it would not be on this list if it was a non-Asian.
For a better idea of what I am talking about, look at the website below. It’s chock full of Asian American males who are venting their anger and frustration at being the little man on the totem pole in American society. Their posts describe their laments but also their dreams and fantasies of finally being able to turn into the second Ming Emperior who will destroy all white males and reestablish themselves as the ultimate alpha males in society. It’s a good laugh.
http://www.thefighting44s.com/
I think the ‘white people’ in question actually have a bigger obsession with Vietnam. Just check out any of the socially networking sites (Match, MySpace, Facebook) and you’ll see the hottest trend is Ho Chi Minh. It’s even more ‘forbidden’ and [quoting everyone’s favorite white girl, Paris Hilton] hot.
So true!
I worked at a high end Japanese restaurant while in school and I cannot tell you how many times a white guy would come in, insist that something was not as it should be, and inform me that he was an expert because he lived in Japan for x number of years. Even after I told him that
1. I was Japanese and had grown up in Japan
2. The sushi chef was Japanese and had worked at sushi restaurants in Japan
3. both the sushi chef and I eat Japanese food, which we cook, every day
and that he (the white person) was mistaken, he just kept insisting that his one summer internship in Japan or whatever made him a more knowledgeable person than me in regards to Japanese food. I love it.
P.S. For someone who dislikes a blog obviously intended to be tongue in cheek discussing matters of race and ethnic stereotyping, Tom Sawyer sure does a pretty good imitation of a racially (actually asian) obsessed whiner.
White people are turning japanese, i think they are turning japanese, I really think so…hey, it’s 80’s Night somewhere!
Hehehe…obviously, I must have touched a nerve in some Asian boys, eh?
Guess it hits too close to home.
While I am not a fan of the means (satire – I think it’s too easy to make it overly incendiary, i.e. too easily misconstrued), I support the ends to which this blog is aiming (greater reflection and insight to the offensive consequences of mass cultural appropriation). Not as an woman of color but just as a person, I think it’s fucked up that people think that “ethnic peoples” should find the production, packaging, selling, and consumption of different bits and pieces of their cultures to be endearing or cool. Cultural appropriation is offensive to the core, and that this blog brings that to light is important.
That said, I sympathize with Joe’s feelings of offense a few posts above. It’s true that most of this blog’s content applies to a very distinct subsection of White America (and possibly whites of other economically prosperous countries) – the powerful class of White yuppie types. Monied, entitled, and privileged, popular culture conforms to their whims, desires, and fears, whether they realize it or not. Money translates into social power (i.e. the power to dictate culture). That’s not something that those with social power like to admit or even understand about themselves; it’s a not-cool identity, being defined by your money.
So what happens? People want to buy other identities. BUY other identities. The green-conscious consumer. The culturally-savvy consumer. But no matter what, a CONSUMER. Of course it’s good to be green and to be culturally knowlegable and well-rounded. But when “becoming” those things is a means to the end of “being something other than ‘just white.'” that’s problematic, especially when consuming other people’s culture’s in overly simplistic ways. It’s belittling at best, traumatic at worst, e.g. adopting a “poor” Asian or African baby to “save *it*” from its kin and culture… How disturbingly demeaning. [Google the Case of Anna Mae He for an example.] Literally buying into paternalistic, bourgeois stereotypes of “ethnic cultures” is disgusting. But what’s intriguing will sell, and thus, I doubt we’ll ever stop seeing chopsticks being sold as hair accessories or Asian women as polite, submissive Geisha-like sex objects.
In light of all this nastiness, one really shouldn’t wonder why blogs like this exist. People are rightfully angry and disgusted. It sucks that all whites, whether or not they are among the very economically/socially/culturally powerful, are getting ass-kicked stereotyped here, but think about it: That’s what happens to everyone who has their culture packaged up and consumed. It’s becomes a destructive game of tit for tat (see Tom Sawyer’s post above…*shakes head*). But at least this site has satire for an excuse.
so i am into japan for there arcade games, Anime, and music.
personally i am planing a trip to japan to goto a anime related event…
but i dont like people thinking i am a total nerd (i am a total nerd) so ill make somthing up.
i also find it hard to find a girlfriend (dont care what race she is) all i really want is love ❤
but yah i love japan… for the most part.
Have fun at your hentai convention you fat greasy nerd!
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Heh. Well I’m not white and while I enjoy the occasional Japanese song, and have responded to anime-style since I was born (no lie–at 3 if there was an anime cartoon on TV or a western one I would always choose the anime) I have no desire to go to Japan or eat Sushi.
I’ve only eaten Sushi once–at a birthday party for a white person, heh.
Interesting to read reactions from such a cross section of people.
As with respect to any culture, people coming into contact with it diverge in two directions. One is, “Oh, I understand the Japanese better than they themselves do, and I know their flaws better than they themselves do, because I am white or because I come from another country or because I am married to someone from Japan.” The last scenario is especially common, since so many bystanders fall for that nonsense that knowing a few people as your spouse and in-laws makes one an expert. “Kokujin” (#14) falls in this category. It’s people like him who are irreparably racist – and who would likely never realize their racism – their spouses notwithstanding – till their death.
The other, much more positive, direction is to say no to stereotypes and try to understand individuals – Japanese or not – as individuals. All of us share common dreams, joys and fears.
I’m a Caucasian-Japanese/American bi-racial person from the U.S.
If I have to guess the ethnicity of the blogger, I’d have to say Chinese or Korean.
Agree with #16 (Tom Sawyer) completely. This is a blog by a Chinese or Korean-American, with a mixed sense of racial superiority AND inferiority towards whites and, possibly, Japanese people. This perplexing trait is wide-spread among Chinese and Koreans – and often breeds insecurity and jealously.
Interestingly, Japanese or Japanese-Americans exhibit far less of this “grudge” towards whites – and vice versa. Maybe that’s why Japan is such a good friend among 1st-world nations, and we (US) love the nation back.
Tom, your whole post is mired in white privilege as you slandered multiple races describing what they you think they think, attempt to justify this by your Asian upbringing (although this didn’t stop you from doing the same to blacks and hispanics), and referring to “good Asians” as those who act “white?” Then you make the claim that all those Asians are a bunch of cultural supremecists while at the same time touting white cultural supremecy and then you justify Asians’ presence as the “little man” on the American totem pole.
Your post is utterly disgusting, racist, and hypocritical.
Uh, mahjong is Chinese.
i think that
“this place is pretty good, but living in Japan really spoiled me. I’ve had such a hard time finding a really authentic place.”
was probably the bit that pushed Tom over the edge. probably because he might not be able to use that line again.
“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.”
The writing on this site is generally good but that sentence is brutal!
“Hehehe…obviously, I must have touched a nerve in some Asian boys, eh?”
No, Tom, you came off like a total jerk. (And I feel very sorry for anyone who paid you to write for them!)
“Not as an woman of color but just as a person, I think it’s fucked up that people think that “ethnic peoples” should find the production, packaging, selling, and consumption of different bits and pieces of their cultures to be endearing or cool.”
Although I’m not a ‘person of color,’ I do often buy Goya products, so I’m down with what your saying!
I just wanted to be a part of this great array of comments. I think I became more engrossed in some of the rants than the article itself.
Unfortunately, I don’t actually have anything constructive to add. I feel more like that strange colour changing shape shifting suit that’s worn in A Scanner Darkly [by the way Keanu, Bill and Ted’s was your moment to shine] , an outsider in an insiders blog.
Thank you all for entertaining me. Sorry for my pointless post.
White guy in Japan – でも、日本語が分かりません (^_^)
I felt that smiley left a better impression for this style post.
you know what white people really like?
to point out the inferiority that is supposedly felt by races other than themselves.
they love thinking that poor little mr. niihao’s son has a crush on betty sue. they love seeing asians/hispanics and some blacks try so hard to acclimate to the culture they have force fed down their throats.
basically white people like white people.
oh and i’m half asian half white.
To all who wrote a thesis in response to this blog saying that it’s racist – I have to say, the blogger must have hit a nerve somewhere!
Look, it’s OK to love Japan and divorce. No need to get upset. Smile! You’re white!
Hey Tom Sawyer, there’s a webpage I think you should read:
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/20-being-an-expert-on-your-culture/
And also, I think you’re wrong on what you said about #68 Divorce. Blacks and Latinos don’t get divorced more – they just have more kids out of wedlock.
Yes, I made a funny.
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Now you’ve got me worried. Maybe I’m not white after all. I’ve never heard of that Miyazaki fellow. Is he related to Miyabi (Maria Ozawa). Her movies I like, so will you consider me potentially white on that score?
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
Lisa – I worked in a French restaraunt and older white women who lived in paris for a year would do the same thing… It went something like this:
“I lived in Paris, that is not Salade Nicoise!”
(In my head) “You’re right, bitch. You ate at student dives where they used canned tuna. For a $14 salad to pay the rent at this dump, we can’t use canned tuna”
(Out loud) “I will have to let the chef know about this!”
I must now admit with some embarassment, my sister took Japanese in college (minored in it) and went through a phase coming home on break where she ate everything with chop sticks from pancakes to spaghetti…
Don’t be silly Arabs don’t like pumping oil. They hire white guys from Texas to come pump it out of the ground. I’m sure they like owning all the wells though.
not specifically Japanese, but WuTang like everything Asian, and they’re black. Though, white people like WuTang so maybe that cancels them out.
LOL! So true! I never understood the universal fascination with all things Japanese, or wanting to travel there. It’s such a misogynistic country, and people who like anime are invariably creepy, losery white dudes who crossdress and have rape fantasies.
wow. tom knows so much about asians. and blacks and latinos. you are an EXPERT in our cultures. congrats, you can go pat yourself on the back now. or waste another hour typing up another 2 page comment on a blog.
I’m white and don’t give a shit about Japan. Let’s get married and have kids.
A very funny blog. Some of the observations are dead on.
That being said, however, I have to agree with one writer’s comment:
“most of this blog’s content applies to a very distinct subsection of White America – the powerful class of White yuppie types.”
And, another writer makes a good point when he observes that the author of this blog must be of the same social class to have observed all these things in such intimate detail: a yuppie making fun of yuppies.
I’ve run into such narrow-mined generalizations before, e.g., when a local writer/professor who wrote about Hispanic culture assumed that, in describing my non-Hispanic upbringing, I should write about my first (non-existent) car, and joked about inserting la rubia (blondes) into my writing, although I hadn’t ever found blondes that interesting. I think he did. He is a good writer, but he made a lot of assumptions about my upbringing, as well as assuming I knew nothing about what it was like to struggle to make ends meet, or overcoming social prejudice. I should have written along those lines, but it wasn’t as important to me to do so as it was to him.
I will take it upon myself to properly interpret every item on this blog which has been intentially written derisively so as to provide humor at the expense of white people (and does a damn good job at it) however nothing is more white then using analytical thinking and logical deduction to counter incorrect assumptions while arguing just for the sake of arguing!
hence:
White peoples infatuation with japan stems not from a desire to BE japanese but rather an appreciation that the people there have taken the seeds of white culture and developed it so thoroughly.
virtually everything interesting in japan is intersting because it is a take on a ideas taken right from white society but developed a little differently. this is similar to an american infatuation with australia: “oh look they have cereal just like us but they have different names”
imagine an old star trek episode where they visit another planet and it’s just like earth, only a little different. How interesting!
The japanese insulation from an influx of ‘other’ groups has created an insular society where common cultural themes can be fully developed, kind of like america before the restructuring of the white population. clean well ordered cities, the best technology on the planet, high quality, a belief in the superiority of their culture, fabulous cartoons! (disney)why it sounds like new york circa 1949!
japan, what america could have been!
ya, pretty much.
i think there needs to be an entire post on orange chicken!
What about Godzilla? 😦
I’m majoring in Japanese and this is so true. I know I’m pretty much the whitest person on the planet but I feel like I can say in my favor that at least I have accepted my whiteness? As opposed to the kids I see wearing “日本人になりたい” (i want to become japanese) t-shirts. look, guys, you’re not going to become Japanese, and… why would you want to? it’s an interesting language/culture/place, but it has its disadvantages just like anything anywhere else. (especially if you are a woman, unfortunately.)
Omg I love sushi, and I’m white!! It’s like this blog gets me in the deepest possible way, in a way my parents could never get me, and that’s why I hate them…
[…] in Japan is a fairly reoccurring conversation in certain circles of the Internet (probably because White People Like Japan), and since Japan has such a significant presence in the video game industry, the subject of racism […]
C’mon, young East Asians are as at least as likely to like Japanese stuff as white hipsters, though the emphasis may be a little different, especially if they are getting it from non-English media. Chances are the author knows this but is setting it aside to have a piece that fits the theme of this blog.
more than Japan, every white person loves FRANCE. They love French art, French film, French food, and French books. Every white person will be considered illiterate if they can’t talk about Existentialism. It’s not important that you actually read any of these books, you just have to be able to talk about them, and not very deeply. One should NEVER criticize anything French in the presence of white people, unless you want to risk looking like a hick. The only white people who hate the French are Republicans.
i do like sake… hot or cold. feel it travel all the way down.
hey andrew – mahjong is chinese.
meleah – Mah Jong is indeed from China, but it is frequently played in Japan. Andrew’s family, returning from Japan, may certainly have picked up the habit.
I agree with 29 FatCatAttack 100%! This is the main reason some gringos become wasians…lol
I humbly submit a few points about this topic.
First, I’m a 36 year old W.A.S.P. without much money but, in comparison to the mean in respect to educational attainment, I’m well educated (almost finished with my Ph.D. in Philosophy in one of the very best departments for this discipline in the West) and definitely cultured enough to feel-at-ease in the company of elites from not only Anglo-American social circles but, in fact, the very best that any nation has to offer. To the point: I’m from New England and can trace both sides of my somewhat famous lineage back to William the Conqueror, The House of Windsor, John Harvard, Sir William Pepperell, Robert Frost, later 20th Century high brow scientific, mathematical, literary personalities, ad nauseum.
Guess where I live presently? Go on, now, take a guess.
You may guess correctly if I claim that it is the most racist nation, possibly, in the entire world yet infamous for asking other, usually Western, countries to both take care of its problems and assume the blame for them.
This alleged democratic republic is, by definition, still at war with itself and has never in the past 63 years stopped asking a certain North American republic for extremely expensive handouts in terms of money, human lives, open-ended market access, and, if their spys failed at stealing it, it’s extremely expensive High-Technology.
This small nation of fifty millions has sent about 2.6 millions of its people to North America since the latter 1800s, shuns any warranted criticism of its cousins-to-the-North, and was, in some sense, condemned by the United Nations a few months past for its very backwards and resentful or even hateful outlook towards other people of other races, nations, and cultures around the world. Further, in this vein, its own citizens commit nearly all of the crimes in country but the comparitively puny foreign population is blamed by government, media outlets and, it seems, most of the population for the existance of crime in its nation.
The latter point of the above paragraph is the causal reason why a noteworthy number of this nation’s expatriate population leave after a brief sojourn in country – often to the appreciably more welcoming shores of a very nearby nation referred to as one of it’s arch-enemies.
Much wealthier and, arguably, much more aesthetically appealing than the former, this country also has a much, much higher number of its citizens who do not want to blame the nation’s foreign-born population for problems in their homeland. (Some do but that is another story for another time.)
Moi
You are a genius, whoever you are. G-E-N-I-U-S!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Tom,
I’m Asian and I love this site. It would be awesome if this author is Asian because so many white people are agreeing with absolutely everything he says. And it’s not hard to run a demographic check on each of these points. Just walk into a Whole Foods and see for yourself.
I could go into a point to point rant about what you’ve said and how I love and hate my fellow Asian-Americans, but I don’t think I need to.
Are there some Asians who fit into what you said? Sure. But you said yourself that “NOT ALL ASIANS ARE LIKE WHAT I DESCRIBE ABOVE”. So doesn’t that just invalidate that entire tirade you just laid out? Or is that just your long-winded way of saying “I’m not a racist, but….” and “I have Asian friends, so trust me, I know”?
You need to check your spelling a bit better in this post.
To be sure, all white people love Miyazaki, but only REALLY GOOD white people have watched Miyazaki’s movie “Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko,” in which raccoon dogs kill humans with their testicles (in a nonviolent, nonsexual way).
All good points, but you forgot about Japanese women as a reason why at least white guys love Japan
“it is the most racist nation”
1. Russia
2. Ukraine
3. Switzerland
4. Belgium
5. US
@Tom Sawyer
That is lamest analysis I have ever seen, and lacks any kind of rigor. Grow up.
How bout we just change it to… Americans want to go to Japan?
Cause it’s Americans.. not just white people.
“However, I would like point out three points in the list of this blog that are dead giveaways that the author is Asian and not black or hispanice”
Why do you care so much whether this is author is Asian or not? You’re clearly white, and you clearly “must” be into the same neck-to-neck competition.
Honestly, this site and these comments are hilarious.
Tom Sawyer: kudos to you. That analysis was brilliant.
I’m a white, 20-something who grew up with a bunch of asians (and just about everything else [excluding Native Americans]) and know exactly what he’s talking about.
To the people who felt the need to hate on him and what he said: get over it and read something other than Marx or chicano/asian-american/[fill in the blank] studies lit. It wasn’t meant to be a “rigorous” analysis, where every side of the issue is debated ad nauseam. He was making a point. And his point, whether true or not, made a good deal of sense and was spot on in many of its observations.
After reading the site for 20 minutes or so, I was actually under the belief that the author was white. The observations the author makes are pretty accurate (although, everyone’s comments about their actualy target being wealthier, North American whites are obviously true), and, interestingly enough, I seem to be one of the few people one here who was not bothered by the fact that people are making observations about other races.
The only annoying shit on here was the Marxist crap, the dude who laid out his family pedigree, and the hapa who feels like white people “cram their culture” down other people’s throats (shit happens man, films get made, music gets disseminated – don’t create fictions of the evil white man forcing his world fown your throat just cuz you’ve had identity issues your whole life).
I’m still curious as to the identity of the author of this site, and I’d personally love to hang out with both him and Tom Sawyer and get all this shit out in the open.
Talking about all of this stuff openly — as people are doing on this site — is the only way America’s ever going to get overcome the issue of race.
[…] #58 Japan: 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. … 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.” […]
No no, some of us harbor plenty of ill will. Like Kokujin, we live here long enough to see that Japanese people are quite often rigidly stuck inside their culture and unable to think outside of it. Whoever wrote this blog doesn’t know much about Japan, clearly, just like the tourists who come here.
What’s the point of this blog? I read each one and follow up with a “and…?”
Lots of food for thought, both in this blog and the comments here. I have to say that while I think Tom Sawyer is probably 99% correct in his assessment of who is writing this thing and why and that I agree with him that said author probably has an ax to grind, I doubt he would have gone to such lengths to argue his point if he also didn’t have some kind of brooding resentment festering somewhere in his soul.
As a white person who comes with 2 Caucasian identities – one of my upbringing in a 98% white blue collar Midwestern mid-size town and one of my current “young urban professional” socio-economic status – I am slightly bothered by the title and theme of this blog being “white people”. Not that I mind racial stereotype-themed humor (far from it), but it’s more of the lack of accuracy of the target of the humor here. As it’s already been noted, the posts in this blog have next to nothing to do with a VERY LARGE part of the white population, and describes some people I know who belong to other races.
Look, when my Asian friend sent me a link to this site, I thought it was funny (and still do), but it was a weird moment because said Asian friend fits the stereotype that this blog pokes fun at a helluva a lot better than do my high school buddies back in the Midwest. Knowing them well, I only sent the link on to a select few of my Caucasian brethren (primarily the higher income coastal-residing friends), because most of them wouldn’t get the humor because, while very white, they would never touch herbal medicine, shop at whole foods, or have ever had any interest in studying abroad.
Call it what it is and you’ll get more people laughing at the site – “stuff yuppies like”. You probably get a little more traffic from the shock title of using a race in the title, but you’re off the mark.
As for where I stand: I hate Whole Foods, “natural” medicine, losers who stand still at concerts, and don’t see the point of co-ed sports. I am a big fan of Mos Def, I recycle, I love great sandwiches and don’t mind paying for them, and I friggin’ love Japan. I’m not an anime dork and I did teach English there for 2 years, but I did ruin it for everyone for learning Japanese. My bad.
So I’ll keep reading this thing because I like to make fun of yuppies (partly because I’m in denial about the fact that I sort of am one), and I hate pretentious people in general (again, though I admittedly lean in that direction from time to time), but the author here is still waaaaaay off mark.
Japan- Home of Lolicon
here’s norainu’s remarks boiled down:
“Hey, I like racial jokes, but not the ones that apply to me! Stooooop iiiiiiit!”
By the way, the blogger turned out to be a white guy, in case anybody had not yet found out.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rodriguez25feb25,0,1952462.column
My boyfriend is going to teach me japanese most definitely. Screw just liking the country half way. I love the culture for what it is, everything about it.
You are so right and dead on. I know 2 white people + 1 black guy That went to Japan.
#1 Whiteboy, went to teach english.
#2 Whitegirl shaved her head and went to teach english.
#3 Black guy but he is an Oreo, and he went.
All of them are so white they love to brag about them visiting Japan. I could give 2 shits!!!!!! Fuck e-m Japs.
Godzirra, Mothra, Rodan, Sony… What’s not to like?
@16 Cliffsnotes please.
Indeed. Give us money.
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I’m not white and I love Japan and have Japanese friends that are teaching me phrases in hopes that I get to use them in Japan (I actually knew what Kawaii was!). I like sushi too. Unlike everyone else, I just started to each sushi this month though.
i dunno if i LIKE japan, i mean its just a country i guess its okay
they built those fucking robots though
FUCK THOSE FUCKING ROBOTS
but wait they also make some okay cartoons and games and junk so whatev
You should have mentioned how white people love Japan to the point of obsession. This entire post could be shorted to “Weeboos, LOL”.
Also, white men who are good at failing with the opposite sex love Japan because of the Asian feminine ideal of submission. They figure they are too ugly/stupid/smelly to make it with an American woman (who are universally bitches for rejecting their clumsy advances) so Japanese women might take pity on them in their endless generosity and deep-seated desire to settle down with an obese computer dork who masturbates on his anime pillow in his mother’s basement. Little do they know that while Japanese women might be quieter than American women, and less likely to make fun of them, they are even less likely to sleep with them because of their love of hygiene and general apathy towards American men.
“I humbly submit a few points about this topic.
First, I’m a 36 year old W.A.S.P. without much money but, in comparison to the mean in respect to educational attainment, I’m well educated (almost finished with my Ph.D. in Philosophy in one of the very best departments for this discipline in the West) and definitely cultured enough to feel-at-ease in the company of elites from not only Anglo-American social circles but, in fact, the very best that any nation has to offer. ”
Hey, boring white guy. STFU already!
Seriously, navel-gaze a bit more while you listen to Belle and Sebastian, you tiresome p.o.s.!
That goes for the rest of you “this guy must be Asian” losers.
Hey, one more thing white people like – listening to themselves babble on about nothing!
I did find this amusing but was a little put of by the generalisations. I agree with many people who say that this can be true for a specific sub section of people but it is more likely they are defined by their income and background then by the colour of their skin. I wonder what the reaction would be if this blog was entitled “things asian people like” or black people. I could certainly think of many maxims that would be amusing but I think many people would find it distastful.
I was interested by some of the questions it raises about race and feelings towards others and Tom Sawyer had many good ideas in his long reply. However I don’t think anyone should get too offended by this or read it as being too true but just consider the points it raises.
Many people have written in agreement with this article say it is just like them, or just like “white people” and I’m sure it is just like many people but it is foolish to generalise any race or creed. I do not think this article applys to all white french people and equally parts of it applys to black, hispanic, and even asian americans.
You guys forgot Bukakke. White people love that shit. I’ve never had a person of color insist on making me watch 18 year olds get covered in ejaculate. And I watch a lot of porn with porn with my black friends!
How can you forget about the beautiful Japanese women who are just BEGGING for a big white gaijin to come in and take them away from those silent little Japanese men? Why, there are a great deal of white guys who go to Japan just for the sweet little darling women alone!
((If you can’t tell, that was sarcasm))
But seriously, Miharu up near the top has it right. When said white people go to Japan and expect the worship, they usually get a little, but then they have to remember that white privilege does not apply, and then they’re limited to being a shitty gaijin – and on the same levels as blacks, latinos and OTHER non-japanese people! WOW!
What’s with the personal attacks at the author on the comments page? Sheesh!
This isn’t a attack on “us white people”, because god knows we white people can’t have any stereotypes. It’s just a tongue in cheek blog that makes fun of the sillier parts of white culture.
The comments by “JB Cash” are right on the money. I have always thought it strange that some of the most one-world, socialistic left-wing types I knew in college absolutely idolized Japan, though the country is, compared to the USA, very insular, ethnocentric and socially conservative.
I think JB Cash is really onto something: Japan represents the escape to that future world envisioned in the popular imagination in the 40s and 50s – not the USA as it actually turned out, with rising crime, racial frictions, and decaying cities, but a gleaming chrome metropolis, free from wars (no military!), racial conflict (few non-Japanese, and no immigration is allowed!), and run-down urban areas (USA carpet bombed all Japanese cities in WWII, so they are largely modern). This escape is legitimated by the fact that the Japanese are not actually white, so one cannot be accused of rejecting diversity, though that is really the essential purpose.
I am sure this does not apply to all such cases (some guys may just like Asian women, for good reasons or bad), but if anyone else has any explanation for why such a homogeneous, conservative place is so revered by a portion of the left-wing crowd, I’d be interested to hear it.
Is this a good opportunity to hawk translation services ?
my website is http://www.japanesetranslated.com
I went to an international school full of rich people – whites, asians, africans.
So many of the generalizations made are true, i.e smoking in front of their girlfriends, wearing labels etc – and this made me laugh.
Also agreed a lot with the whole “eco-spiritual” consumer idea that was so perfectly identified in that book called “The Rebel Sell” (really, really reccomend it).
I studied Japanese at University for four years and then came to live in Japan.
I’ve now been her for 4 years, bilingual, married to an indiginous Japanese.
There’s nothing more annoying than white people in Japan,
not the anim-asturbators, not the military, not the sexpat bankers, but the
trendy hipsters.
They dress like they would never do at home, with pink flat caps,
“stressed” sneakers and drainpipe blue jeans.
They are usually “a writer, skateboarder, editor, teacher with my own blog” which is full of pictures taken with their digital SLR of temples and sunsets because they are also a “photographer”.
Since there is little or no competition, anyone can be whatever they say they are. And the internet is an ideal portal for their turgid prose and trenchant observations on “how crazy Japan is”, the typical blog including close up pictures of sushi, their sneakers, and an “about me” section which includes a little bit about “my girlfriend” who is so beautiful, but different from other Japanese girls. She speaks English, you see, and her grandfather was a Kamikaze bomber, making me an expert on everything to do with Japan.
This rage has been boiling up inside me for years like a vat of rotten bile infused with rat bones for stock, and finally this blog has given me a soap box on which to vent. Which I didn’t really need as lookng around me, I’m the tallest person by a long way.
and they like it when their penis looks big in a japanese girl’s hands.
Donald Keene who is said to be one leading authority on Japan said that it is “interesting but not likeable”.
Having studied Japanese and lived here and married a Japanese. I concur thoroughly. It is an interesting place. The food and onsens (hot springs) are amazing. As is the social code and courtesy. However, it is not likeable.
I stay here because it is interesting. but it is oppressive, parochial, thoroughly racist, institutionally racist, discriminatory, proud, concrete, inflexible, control-freaked, smug and fickle. People talk about the Japanese and loyalty in the same breath – but they’ll turn their back on you in no time.
The suicide rate (90 a day last year) is a constant reminder of how much even the Japanese hate it here.
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I grew up in Japan, am white and worked for a large Japanese company as a translator. I love Japan. My soon-to-be husband is Japanese, has lived in the US for the last 15 years and hates Japan. Go figure. We will live here and only speak English:o(
I can relate to all the kawaii things though. I loved going to the pen and pencil stores when I was younger and getting all the neat automatic pencils. I especially loved the ones with scented lead. Oh and the cool erasers. But I was a kid and all of my friends did the same thing.
I always thought it was so weird that everybody stared at me because I was a gaijin. Granted I was in a place where I never saw any other gaijin ever, but I was just like everybody else as far as I was concerned. I took the same classes and was even in the All Japan National Choir, as were ten other people from my high school. I thought it was so neat, but not because I was a gaijin. Apparently though that’s why everybody else thought it was so neat and my fellow choir members didn’t appreciate it. I was just the only white person and there was too much focus on me for the wrong reasons.
http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/02/26/stuff-white-people-like/
The dude who writes this blog is white. (Scroll down)
Ha ha ha! I LOVE this blog and this particular entry!
For the record (whatever that means) I’m white and have been to Japan with a group of musicians. Here are my observations:
1. Japan is very clean.
2. Japanese people love to photograph overweight Americans.
3. Japan is extremely clean.
4. I speak a few words in Japanese and find it a fascinating language. I wish I could speak it better and also write in Japanese characters.
5. Manners are very important in Japan.
6. Japanese trash trucks are spotless.
7. If you go into a karaoke place and you are a woman, the hostesses will treat you just like a man since women (especially white ones with fire-engine red hair dressed in black) don’t generally go into karaoke places.
8. If you are a white woman in a karaoke place and actually get up to sing and can actually sing pretty well, the audience is dumbfounded but still clap politely.
9. Japan must be the cleanest place on earth.
10. I’m a white girl who studies karate.
11. I love sushi. And sashimi.
12. Tokyo has a great subway system and even white girls with fire engine red hair who get lost can eventually find their way back to the hotel if they are clever.
13. Japanese department stores have entire floors devoted to kimono.
14. Very few things are printed in English in Japan, which I find refreshing. They actually expect you to have some brains and common sense. Not like here where everything is printed in three languages: English, Spanish and Vietnamese, depending on where you live.
15. I can cuss very well in Spanish and don’t know any Vietnamese although it would be interesting to learn.
16. Japan is spotlessly clean.
17. Japanese game shows on TV are like watching TV on Mars.
18. I love Japan but can’t afford to go there right now.
This is EXACTLY my white boyfriend.
Hahahahhahaa.
Related to that: “Toy Art”
i went out with a girl who was half japanese and pretty much worshipped japan, often saying how much she hated living here (the uk) and how much she wished she lived there. to be fair i’m a big fan of sushi, and i reckon tokyo would be pretty good for a night out, but there’s some pretty weird attitudes towards women and sex in general. all that weird hentai porn for example. the fact that there’s a whole (somewhat socially acceptable) subculture of buying used school girls clothing and underwear (refer to snopes for the story about vending machines dispensing used schoolgirls pants) and the fact that women-only underground carriages have been made because of problems with a ‘groping culture’. wouldnt mind a look round the country but does still sound a bit creepy
I’ve never been to Japan so I can’t say I like or dislike it, but I do hold a strong interest, and I blog about it to the best of my knowledge. This is what I think people should be aware of.
How can you say you love Japan so much when you’ve never been there for a decent amount of time and actually learn the language and interact with the natives? You don’t love Japan; you love sushi, anime, and cute toys. As a result you think you love Japan because it makes all those things. I’m learning Japanese in college and I plan to study abroad for a bit, and go to graduate school there. This is so I can actually see the true Japan and decide if it’s a place where I would want to work and raise a family. It’s always nice to view things from the surface, but you can’t say you understand or love a country just by looking at it. You need to penetrate into the heart of Japan and learn about the people and culture in a personal relationship. This applies to any place in the world. I can agree with any Japanese person who would get angry at a foreigner acting like they know everything Japanese. It’s insulting, really. You are basically showing that you have no respect for the people or the country that you so call “love.” How would you like someone coming up to you and saying that what you’re doing isn’t the American way. I would be extremely insulted and offended.
Hey, Tom Sawyer! Didja read the LAT op-ed linked above (and here, too, just in case)? Dontcha wish you could go back and destroy the evidence of your stupidity?
I think I’d be changing my nick about now, were I you. 😉
re: This post. Pretty danged funny, and pretty danged true, speaking as a white guy who lived in Japan (northern Hokkaido and Tokyo) off and on for a little over five years, beginning in 1968 and ending in ’77.
Whoops. These comments apparently don’t take “a hrefs.” Sorry about that…there’s obviously no link in my comment above… but there is @ #38.
So, the author is saying it’s poor form to spend 99 months in Japan and then be slightly disappointed in the quality of sushi in good ol Kansas?
HMM, not too darn interested in Japan at all, aside from their hilarious game shows. No desire to go there. Starting to think I’m not white despite all physical evidence to the contrary.
I laughed at this post, it is so true. I have visited Japan with my wife (which combines liking asian females with liking Japan). And let me tell you I don’t particularly wish I had taught English there, but do love the sushi. I embrace my whiteness …
I used to live in Japan! Loved it and everything about it! Man, I miss katsudon! That stuff is sooo good!
And I still love Totoro!
I’m technically white, but I don’t really fit what people think white should be. Hell, if some bastard Cossack didn’t rape one of my foremothers I’d be olive-skinned instead of white.
Case in point: I fucking hate Japan. A bunch of honor-obsessed, ritualistic, overly formal xenophobes: what’s to like? I have no idea why everyone around me seems to love the damn place. And there is absolutely no way I will ever memorize their goddamned honorifics.
Then again, it might have something to do with having my own country (because unborn is the son-of-a-bitch who stopped ISRAEL!) and culture to partake of. Lousy mongrelized, uncultured whites. Go lack your heritage somewhere else.
Lol, ok, I’m a black man born in Nigeria, raised in the states and Hong Kong, and living in Tokyo. I have a blog about being international, and this site’s comments are obviously split between
Supernationales – multicultural people who travel and have the presence of mind to see the quirks in all of us, &
Domestics, people who barely travel and have all their identity tied up with one nation/race/ethnicity thus making them wussy insecure whiners who dont even notice that
1) this site is half true half kidding, thus hilarious 🙂
2) the author is WHITE – look at his flickr pics dumba**es
3) the author is intelligent and subtle and makes sure that none of his comments are too offensive
4) if someone makes fun of one race they are probably OF that race, which was gives them the feeling that they have the right and the knowledge to make the jokes in the first place.
Get out, travel, and learn a few global truths people. And maybe watch some Carlos Mencia, so we can all learn to poke fun at the idiosyncracies of each other’s cultures without getting our egoes bruised.
Much Supernational Love,
TG, The Tokyogodfather
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I am SO trackbacking this…lol
This one made me laugh. I’m not white, but I lived in Japan for several years, and speak Japanese. Japan is not paradise. It’s just a nice place with it’s own share of problems like everywhere else. I never had a whole lot of trouble there, largely because I have been a minority my entire life. One of my favourite things about living there was when middle-class white people from North America, the UK or Australia upon encountering racism for the first time (and sadly, it’s quite pervasive in Japan), would come up to me and say things like: “Hey man, now I know how you must feel back home”.
Well, they actually didn’t, but it was still fun to watch people have their illusions of this “perfect” society shattered.
Just a note to any white people who are planning to move to Japan because they love anime, or had a Japanese girlfriend in college: Japanese people don’t care that you took 2nd year Japanese, study Aikido or can name all 47 prefectures. Upon arrival, you will be nothing more than “gaijin”. You’re not special and as much as people will bow and smile to your face, they don’t want you to stay too long.
Funny post. Those of you that took it so seriously need to run to the comedy store and buy a sense of humor. Quit being so easily offended. Grow some thicker skin. I live in Japan now and while there are some great things here there are some terrible things here as well. I guess that this would be true in just about 99.9 % of any place on Earth ‘cept Disneyland. Only the distance between rides and the long lines issue can be used as a good argument for that example, but still a small price to pay for awesome rides. BTW, buy and wear the hat even if you are not a kid. It puts even the grouchiest person in a good mood.
Gonna leave the haters in here to bawl and go have me some kuru-kuru- sushi. Some of you will know what that means and you are the ones that matter. The other ones… I don’t mind and they don’t matter.
All different types of Chanks stank!…and i hate ’em!
#16 Tom Sawyer,
Any comments on Hapas?
omg, i laughed so hard at this. thank you thank you for writing it.
hahah Entertaining website. For the record I am half filipino, half white. Heres a little tidbit about Japanese Culture and Food in Hawaii.
I have never been to Japan, but I am born and raised in Hawaii, which is home to a good percentage of Japanese people and culture. I would say that japanese culture is quite influencial here because we celebrate things like boys day/girls day in grade school, eat mochi/buy bamboo kadomatsu on New Years eve/day, and minimal amounts of japanese are implemented in some grade school programs. No one says soy sauce, its ALWAYS shoyu(unless you are from mainland USA). Most students in highschool will take japanese as their second language. Waikiki has a constant population of japanese tourists year round. Our University and (Kapiolani) community colleges also has a large population of National Japanese students. Nearly all my friends are japanese, some local, some national.
Anyways, point being is that i have some small experience with japanese people and culture and am not just totally talking out of my ass.
My main point is that Sushi is Expensive, and to eat it just by itself is not that great. It fills you up quickly, but still leaves you hungry because 80% of what you ate was rice. Sushi in my opinion is a nice COMPLIMENT to a meal, but to eat it by itself is just not that fufilling.
The most common place that i will buy sushi at, is at 7-11! Yes, 7-11’s in Hawaii sell sushi! I will argue that their sushi rolls are pretty good and decently priced. Most sushi rolls are around $1.20. For a while, 7-11 used to sell kim chee-avocado-tuna sushi rolls which i say were really tasty.
Some local connesseurs would disagree with me, believeing that you have to buy sushi at an establishment marked with kanji and employees shouting irrashaimase. Personally, coming from hawaii, anything with nori, rice, shoyu, and some vegetable or meat is tasty enough for me to eat. Whatever works for you I say…
Japanese food is generally expensive. It tastes great, but i can honestly say that i would only frequent a japanese restaurant maybe once a year, and not a sushi restaurant.
I define a sushi restaurant by the use of a rotating circular conveyor belt with the color coated plates which rank in price difference. If you are sucked into one of these establishments, grab as much chicken karaage plates as possible, because thats the closest thing to solid meat you’ll get. If any other meat substance exists, it will cost you an arm and a leg.
The best deal that me and my friends could get at a japanese restaurant in Hawaii, was at a Japanese restaurant called Sushi King. Despite the name, it was NOT a Sushi Restaurant, but a regular Japanese restaurant. At one point in time you could go and get their “special”. This could ONLY be purchased from 12 am to 2 am. A typical special would look something like the following:
Shrimp and Vegetable tempura(tenpura for you technical jackasses), rice, a small salad, and a 6 piece nigiri set for $6.50. you leave your tip and you come out to around 8 bucks. Pretty tasty and fills you up enough, but not to the point of being “stuffed.”
However if you are large white person from North America USA who eats meat and potatoes all day, this would not be sufficient for you.
This meal is now $9.50, and still must be bought within the time frame of 12 am – 2 am. This is still considered reasonable by some. This is just one example of how expensive japanese food is.
Don Quihote(Yes i know about the spelling – that is how they spell it) is a (national) Japanese owned supermarket franchise in Oahu that sells a lot of Asian Foods/products and is another place to buy decently priced bentos: mochiko, misoyaki butter fish, unagi, pickled vegetables, etc. Like i mentioned before, not the quality of a restaurant, but still good enough to get you your fix. Many other stores like this are Ranch 99 and Marukai market are also hot consumer areas.
Sushi is pretty good, but nothing to be widely celebrated over….and definitely not something you want to pay serious money for.
I always imagined the author of this blog as a white, semi-nerdy, slightly self-loathing caucasian
No way – I’m white and taught English in Japan!!! How weird?!?!
Kawaiiiii
I’m kinda busy writing a novella about my time there, otherwise I’d tell you ALL about it!
This site is interesting, but this addition to the list makes no sense. Most of my friends are white and not one of them gives a crap about Japan, unless the Phils are scouting some dude from the Dragons.
baseball john your a particular type of whitey: dork kind.
This post while good missed two key factors. For those who have traveled to Japan the two main loves, spoken or unspoken, appear to be; an undying love of the train system that causes never ending rants about public transit in North America; plus the, usually unspoken, admiration for the ethnic homogeneity of the Japanese population. Unspoken but true.
You forgot, those white males who teach english in Japan will always come back with a wife or girlfriend.
I think it has something to do with the Yellow Fever in your “‘# 11 – Asian Girls” entry.
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Hay guys, the author of this blog is Asian! It’s gotta be. Here is a racist tirade that thoroughly explains why it has to be one of them.
Oops, what I meant to write is that my name is Tom Sawyer and I like to eat my own feces, I mean words.
wow… i can’t believe a blog that’s written for fun is compelling people to respond with their doctoral thesis on race relations in America….jeez…lighten up people. don’t over-analyze stuff. take it for its humor. if you can’t laugh at yourself, then we will laugh at you for your own good.
only thing about japan white people I know like is their porn and their women and their electronics
and samurai!
No no no no no! You forgot the number ONE reason that people (read: I) like Japan – the fabulous potties! Check it out – it is a virtual Potty Wonderland.
http://dgsworldbybigd.blogspot.com/2008/02/art-of-japanese-potty.html
Yeah, look at yourself Joel Challender.
White guy loving Japan.
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You know who else like Japan….the Japanese.
so, my question is: what race is the author of the blog? if a website was built to systematically razz the author’s race (assuming in all likelihood that the author is now white), would that be cool?
oops… not white
yay!I leave for Japan on Saturday!! It’s gonna be spectacular.
whats up with you people, i thought this was a tongue-in-cheek humor blog, then i look at the comments and its full of piss-offed white guys writing master thesis’s on how asians got an inferiority complex. Lighten up you nerds!
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Hey Tom Sawyer, I need you to help me make some easy money. Just give me your sports predictions and I’ll place wagers on the opposite teams.
Your thesis back at #16 CLEARLY demonstrates your expertise. So much for your little claim that the blogger is Chinese or Korean.
I know I’m intruding, but did your girlfriend leave you for a Chinese or Korean? It sure sounds like that is where you’re coming from.
Right on the money!!!
in japan already…never felt so racially profiled.
this blogs hilarious
“If you know how to speak Japanese, you kind of ruin it for everyone else.”
This is so true. I hate telling people that I work in Japan because they then relay their “amazing experiences” in Tokyo and Kyoto and “how nice everyone is”.
Japan is not an easy place to live and work. Long crazy hours and almost no respect if you are a single white woman trying to do it on your own.
But, this is halarious and it just reminds me of all of those tourists that talk to me when they are lost.
Dear (a) disgruntled blogger(s) and some posters espousing the theory Nazi
It is really sad and quite tragic to see the posts blurting out such non-sense that gets us nowhere, but feeds passer-bys and keeps it going, by stigmatizing what they call “white” people and those non-whites who are taking sides with.
I have trouble with your random use of “white” people. Do you mean Caucasian (European-American) belonging to an upper-mid income/a high-end social class and/or those from the lower-middle and lower income bracket? What is the representation of ‘white people” in your definition? In what part of the region or country? Do you really think all Caucasians act, think, and behave in the same way (or similarly) no matter which class they belong to? I highly doubt it.
I also have trouble with the meaning of “acting like white” from some post above. If some non-whites(i.e., Asian/Asian-Americans, Hispanics, African/African-Americans) hang out with white people, does it suppose to mean they are betraying their ethnic identities for the consequence of their act? Does that really make non-whites feel guilty of acting/behaving like white? Is that really so?
Although I am an Asian- not Asian American, I really DON’T care how white people act and behave, because that has absolutely nothing to do with my life choices in the US. I agree with the notions that most white people in this country have serious problems in understanding the people of color and foreigners as well. It bothers me if they try to judge me by merely pushing the pre-conception or bias they have held through interactions with other Asians. But such moment occurs only if white peers ignore the cultural difference between me and other Asians (from my country, in particular).
I’m not privy of censoring who the blogger(s) is/are). But if the persons(s) is/are advocating anti-white sentiment as if she/he/they is/are representing the voices of non-whites, it goes nothing further than those of Nazism or Ku-Klux Klan. If you are representing the voice of Asian, you are unknowingly embarrassing yourself as a disgruntled Asian, just like some people living in my country despising Chinese and Korean as inferior ethnics.
Hmm, I love Japan, but that could be due to the fact that I am studying Japanese and getting a degree in Asian studies.
haha, Japan rocks and everyone knows it.
The irony is that sushi is really from California. Haha. The joke is on them!
Tom Sawyer, you are a complete asshole.
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New post topic idea: “Self-righteous white people who will laugh at every single post on this site until they come to one (Japan, Vegetarian/Vegan food, et cetera) that they have some ‘deep’ personal connection to and have to write eight paragraphs lambasting the blogger for ‘just going to far'”.
Keep up the good work – the only thing funnier than stuff white people like is white people upset when other people make fun of their activities/interests!
My friend sent me to this website and post — this is hilarious! I’m going to Tokyo this Friday! W00T Japanese love!
When I lived in Japan (it’s so awesome I can say that!), I knew a 16-year-old blond kid who looked like Leonardo (at least to the Japanese, cuz all white people look alike).
He grew up in Japan and made his parents proud by being bilingual.
He loved to tease the girls on the trains by listening while they talked about him and telling them “thank you for all of the nice things you said about me” (in Japanese slang) when he would get off (the train, that is).
I would tell you what he said in Japanese, but then you wouldn’t understand.
ugh…. japan..
I speak Japanese. Oops?
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Hilarious post, but the best part for me is that some would get offended enough by it to write a massive tirade against Asian Men! So random!! Some trigger word in there must have unlocked a deep mental block on some time an Asian dude cut Tom Sayer off. Or something.
Oh, perhaps wasting time on the internet and attempting to make funnies in blog comments should make the list.
So true. So true.
Hilarious! My white as salt manager LOVES all things japanese down to his japanese wife. Something about that place really turns the white folks on.
Orientalism is never ending.
I have no idea what gets people so riled up on here.. Take a joke…
For a very short time, I took karate classes at a very formal dojo in Manhattan. Most of the people there were white people who were just dying to be Japanese …
White people like Japanese cars a lot. Especially Nissan Skylines.
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Very funny! I lived in Japan from 1989 to 1995, leaving after the Kobe Earthquake. I must admit to being guilty of several ‘white people’ behaviours like sushi snobbery, but I can no longer impress people with my Japanese language ability as it gets rustier every year.
There should be a separate blog about white people living in Japan. The subtypes are:
1. The Expat–fat white non-Japanese-speaking Proctor and Gamble (or similar company) manager who spends all his free time porking the local girls
2. The Expat Wife–spouse of the above, who spends all her time shopping, taking aerobics classes, and whining to other expat wives.
3. The LBH–Loser Back Home. Nerdy white guy who couldn’t get a job or a girlfriend back home. Thinks he’s James Bond once he gets a shitty job at a shitty English school and beds a few undiscriminating Japanese girls.
4. The Academics–usually come in twos. Married university lecturers arrange a one-year visiting professorship bludge, cultivate an assortment of Japanese friends, learn twenty words of Japanese, and have a shitload of Japanese antiques shipped back to the U.S. One obnoxiously fashionable academic couple built an authentic Japanese house in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and filled it with all the stuff they’d bought. The female academic then wrote a self-advertising book.
5. The Blonde Bombshell–pretty blonde who can’t understand why all the foreign men are chasing after Japanese girls with bad breath, caked foundation, and no discernable waistline, when they could have HER! Spends her time with other Blonde Bombshells in foreigner-oriented clubs, groomed to the nines, making bitchy comments about the Japanese girls there and scoring the occasional hook-up.
Yeah, I was a Blonde Bombshell!
let me guess — you are east asian and male?
maybe whites adore japanese culture so much because it strokes their own ego, considering that most japanese pop culture is just white culture revisited with a brighter palate of colors. whites do, afterall love themselves almost as much as asians do, but in a more naive and secret way.
“They will immediately begin talking about how their trip to Japan, or their favorite stuff from Japan,”
I think you left out a word you were meaning to type there, maybe it’s “was”?
do you want to hire me as a proofreader?
#162 “Hey”–
Aren’t you essentially debating what the meaning of “was” was?
#109 Tokyogodfather: “Lol, ok, I’m a black man born in Nigeria, raised in the states and Hong Kong, and living in Tokyo.”
Run for president! Run for president! Obama is so February!
The funniest thing about “stuff white people like” is that it suffers nobody but the blogger(s) for her/his/their inability to acknowledge its idiocy in their pet-theory. Let me put it this way:
” I’m a rubber, and you are glue. Everything you say bounces off from me and sticks to you! And it never comes off! Wanna bleach?”
her/his/their pet theory
There are some things on this website that I can relate to, so I read it and laugh… but there are also things I have read that I don’t get and thus doesn’t apply to me.
I guess I am considered to be “white”, but I think getting offended by stuff like this only prooves a point and satisfies people that do hold a grudge, right?
This blog is for entertainment, and it does the trick for me! It sucks that lots of people are getting offended. 😦
Cheer up! Have a laugh! 🙂
P.S. TOTALLY going to Japan this summer!!!! *cheer*
…unless you’re a white person who went to live in Korea, in which case you’ll inexplicably hate Japan…
Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
http://www.garbarrassing.com
go for it.
I see no mention of Japanese Woman, that’s right up there with sushi OP.
I thought this blog was quite hilarious, and incredibly accurate. I’m a caucasian who has studied Japanese for 8 years, lived in Japan for nearly two for work, and can converse in Japanese with a fairly strong level of fluency. I felt it necessary to point out a few things that seem to not be captured entirely accurately here:
– As a white American male, you definitely put on a pedestal by a very large number of people. If you’re even moderately good-looking, or not overweight, it is an absolute certainty that there will be many many beautitful, fit, well-dressed, intelligent, funny, multi-dimensional, and simply wonderfully-smelling Japaense woman who will literally DREAM of you coming, sweeping them off their feet, and taking you back to the US. I was far from a loser in the US, but definitely nothing special, and I was constantly amazed how many truly drop-dead gorgeous, incredibly sexy Japanese woman wanted desperately to be with me. And yes many are a little submissive…but not in a way to be ridiculed or exploited. They actually combine this in a much more sexually liberated, agressive, and adventurous way.
As I white guy, though, you have to realize that you are truly nothing special because this stuff happens – the same thing happened to nearly every one of my white American friends. But honestly, it doesn’t make it any less spectacular. I mean, there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING like a night out in Tokyo. Great music, great drinks, and breathtaking women. Honestly, it nearly got overwhelming.
And any white guy thinking of going to Japan – don’t let that go to your head. Yes, appreciate it, have fun, and realize that you’ll only have one time in your life to do that. At 30 I realized it was time to settle down. But honestly, it’s still a challenge nothing thinking back to those days and wanting to go back.
Anyway, Japan is wonderful country, but with many faults, just like the US. But anyone on here underestimating how much Japanese women are into American white guys is kdding themselves. For slimy guys that take advantage of that fact, and exploit that – that’s too bad. But I personally think it’s a great thing.
you rike a fry a prane rike a airprane pirate?
I don’t agree and I’m the whitest person ever
Hahaha, its so true. Besides me hating sushi, Its all true. IM still not sure how a white person (such as myself) knowing how to talk and write Japaneses, ruins things for others. Or perhaps I have misread? Either way, I g2 get back to watching tv, WHO POOP RAST!! is on (seriously)
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Don’t forget about all the old white people that hate Japan because of WWII and stealing our auto market…
I hate the japanese what with their small eyes that look like they are all blind
Apparently, white people love Japan so much they’re consider “honorary whites”
http://youtube.com/user/shinnichiha
You know, many people are just fascinated by Japan because most of our fashion, media, and entertainment is about 3 years behind theirs. In terms of just being up on what’s cool, Japan somehow apes the stupid, lazy American markets that can’t produce anything original.
They began beating American companies in the 70’s and 80’s because our stuff was not quality or cheap, whereas they had low-cost, high-quality, durable goods. It’s different from Chinese stuff today, which tends to be cheap and low-quality. Hence people turn their nose up at Wal-Mart in search of something “better.”
If you actually are a scholar about Asia, you realize that the Japanese folks who are interested in say, France, are about on the same level as the American kids who like Japan.
And it’s not just a “white” thing here to like Japan.
Haha, sorry, had to laugh at myself because on my trip to Japan I actually went to Tsukiji Fish Market and waited 1.5 hours to eat sushi. Oh well.
Comment #62 is lying about his pedigree. His writing is atrocious and filled with spelling and grammatical errors. Plus no one with that pedigree would boast about it because that is just bad manners.
A tip about white people: when you have your past stripped away from you due to Marxism and political correctness, you have no other choice but to turn to other cultures that are acceptable to Marxism and not part of the “evil” Hegemony. That way you can be progressive and hip rather than old and Bourgeois.
I think Western European culture is the first culture that is trying to destroy itself! (Ooh, how Bourgeois of me!)
Other than the weird comments, I love this blog, keep it up!
By the way, stuff Asian American people like: tatooing their eyebrows in, and going to Asia to get cheap plastic surgery! Oh, and 24 karat gold and aunties who pop their gum every two minutes!
In the beginning I was not white…well not completely white. The we moved to California and suddenly I was really white. Now I live in my old neighborhood and i am not white anymore. Well I am not as white as I was in California but I am whiter than I was as a kid before i became white by going to California.
I went to Japan and I was really white there. I wasn’t crazy about all Japanese women but I was about one, so I married her and lived in Japan until I became less white again. Then I moved with my wife to Europe. In Italy I was white but she wasn’t. then we went to England and neither of us were white. I have three kids, they are tri-lingual. We didn’t plan it that way but it happened. They don’t really know if they are white or not but they don’t seem to gave a damn.
I don’t like 90% of what is on that list that white folks are supposed to like. I guess I am not white again but if you saw me on the street you’d think I was white. It’s all very confusing.
Hahaa! This blog is hilarious and so true. I know! I’m living in Japan! The yellow fever one was true too.
However, this guy should no that there are plenty of non-white westerners here teaching English too.
Everything in the blog is spot on, and made me laugh out loud a few times
But…
I’ve met my share of black and hispanic and other asians (chinese/korean, etc) people, and other ethnicities/nationalities who feel the same way as this certain type of ‘white’ person you’re talking about.
Just wanted to add that in there, so it’s not a ‘get whitey’ thing, i grew up in a white area hating on this behavior as well, but then my eyes opened up a little in college when i met plenty of asians, particularly korean and chinese, who take japanese courses, watch a ton of anime and japanese porn, and would like nothing better than to go to japan. i think asia-phile bashers should keep them in mind, just because you’re asian doesnt mean you’re immune to commodifying and fetishizing another culture…
it’s an equal opportunity thing, lol.
i lived in japan for a year for work. it’s a miserable place.
Japan is awesome. Sushi is alright. I’d like to bang a few Japanese girls mostly. I think that’s the main reason
Japan is an island with a very homogenous population. White people feel a deep seated sense of loss when they look at a country like Japan and wish there was a place left that white liberals had not given away to self destruction by less advanced people.
I knew a white liberal chick (of the northeast variety of course) who was studdying Inda’s history as a masters. She told a mutual friend (of India heritage) that she now knows more about India then her Indian friend who had never been to India and could give a poop about it. The problem was, she was totally serious in a way that only a stinking northeast white liberal can be.
You know that glossy almost empty kind of stare… You can almost spot a liberal based on that, I do not know if this is a symptom of mental problems or what. I can always spot a lib, escpecially the stinking northeast variety.
Hilarious! And please be sure to cross reference #20, Being an Expert in YOUR culture (Frank Johnson can relate).
being an afro-american who has lived in japan for many years. I find japanese women’s pussies to tight.
god bless america
seriously, and with a smile on my face.
it’s kind of awesome that there are two consistent and contradictory themes here:
1) how totally and completely lame white people are
and perhaps more importantly (as it ends every blog entry…)
2) how incredibly important it is to make friends with white people and/or gain their trust/approval
like i said: awesome
god bless america/japanese pussy
I lived in Japan for seven years (maybe they could make a movie about it “Seven Years in Saitama”). I really enjoyed it..shit I was there for seven years. I got a good education and had a lot of great adventures. But at that time I was there there were not many foreigners and fewer Westerners. Most of the Westerners lived in Tokyo and either worked on the local economy or were European hitch-hikers (today I think they are called “back-packers) with a few Aussies and Kiwis thrown in. Most of the Americans were older than me and many had been their since the occupation days and just stayed on when they got out of the service. Some have since become very famous like Donald Richie who became an expert on Japanese film. When I met him he was in his middle thirties back in the 60’s and guess what. he was an English teacher. Everyone was at one time or another if they stayed in Japan long enough.
Another “Don” Was Don Phillippi who translated many of the Japanese classics. He was also a pretty good amateur musician at the time (later he made it a profession). He’s the one responsible for me not becoming much of an English teacher. I went to him when I first got to Tokyo for some advice about Japanese language schools. There were only a few and the private ones were often run my religious missionary types or kooks. He sent me with a letter of recommendation to one of the official Japanese Language schools at the time. But in talking to him he asked me a lot of questions. It came out that i was a pretty good reed player so he suggested that after i was acclimated that I try to work as a musician and teach jazz. I did and it worked.
Over a period of 27 years I lived in three different countries all different from one another and I enjoyed every minute of it. If you don’t like where you are …go someplace else.
Even funnier than the blog itself are the comments posted that unintentionally prove the post’s point.
time to wake up, any self respecting white person doesn’t like the nips. Maybe ya’ll forgot about Pearl Harbor & Guadacanal. People always blast Hitler but nothing’s said about that Jap scumbag. He attacked us & we pay to rebuild their toiletbowl of a country.
hey wascalywabbit…. have you ever heard of hiroshima and nagasaki?
of my favorite Moments in Japan was standing at a crosswalk in Ropongi and hearing the distinct sound of a smallblock chevy come roaring up the street. The driver had restored the vehicle to it’s original ’91 specifications.
The fact that it wasn’t some 67 camaro or a Hemi Cuda some how made it cooler. I’ve also seen (though the fad is probably over) A TON of suped up Astro Vans in Japan. There’s even a magazine devoted to it. Granted there are plenty of Porsche, Lambo lovers in Japan but I like how they
found something to like in some of America’s junk cars.
If you are going to go back that far in hitory then as a “self repectful” white man then why not start at a more important place like Bull Run or Fredericksburg those places were more the beginning of the end for the American white man than any battle in WWII..
Care to clarify that statement Yakimeshi-CHAN?
The Northern white man by defeating the Southern white man and freeing the slaves begain his own down fall. Compared to the self-inflicted damage caused by the American civil war Pearl Harbor was just a bump in the road. Everyone should have bumper stickers that say “Remember Bull Run” or something like that.
That’s interesting but I don’t think the White man is really done yet. Maybe a 60 year slumber? There are more white boxing champs than blacks, a lot of those southern rednecks are getting the picture and going to ___A&M/Tech
and getting a useful engineering degree and there are enough white guys (making up the vast majority of combat MOS’s and Special Operations personnel) with some sack to actually take it to Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan even though AQ predicted they would cut and run as soon as they took some casualties. If they could ever put their collective noggins together and leave Iraq relatively secure we might have something to cheer about.
Come to think of it, many African economies are booming, the indigenous people of S. America have embraced political action and are making smart decisions, China is China and Japan continues to be the epicenter of Art and Design and the EU is coming together nicely.
Looks like we all have something to cheer about.
Actually White: I don’t know if we are supposed to be serious or not on this blog but your post was really good. My father was once asked about his “ethnicity” and i will never forget is answer which was “I am not for one moment ashamed of who I am and on the other had I am not excessively proud because it was not of my doing but an accident of birth.”
“since white people have spent so much time Sushi restaurants”
Just for the record, white people also really like correct spelling and grammar.
That is a “glittering generality” which is not true since most white people have as much trouble with spelling and grammar as do people of any other hue. The English may profess to that also the only truth that they speak is that the colonials butcher the language a hair more than to the Queen’s loyal subjects. BTW every year the top spellers in the US are Asians and the number is increasing.
It’s South Asians/Desis who have a long period of being a british colony and familiarity with English. Anyway, thanks to Spelling Bees getting more air time, many other American parents have been pushing their kids to join up. I believe 3 out of the last 5 have been white girls.
I never said that white people were necessarily better than any other race at spelling or grammar, simply that the love to be correct about it and inform others when they are using it incorrectly. They also love fonts. By the way, Yakimeshi, I hope your “glittering generality” comment is a joke, considering this page is dedicated to the very same.
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How racist are you? >_< I am white and I find this website offensive and I demand that you change the content!!!!
kippikari – I have to half way disagree with you. First the French then the English demand that you speak perfect French or Perfect English. It’s almost like they sit around waiting for you to screw up. Then they pounce. Call you an assassin of the language etc. On the other hand the Spanish and the Italians are happy if you speak their language even a little and only tend to say anything when they totally cannot understand what you said. It goes something like this. The Frenchman says “You speak miserable French.” And walks away. The English Mutters to himself sneers at you then walks away. However I must say that ONCE i was complimented by an old English lady. She said “You speak very good English …for a colonial.”
The Spanish or Italian will say “Oh you speak my language well we can have a conversation”. But the Japanese say (and this IS true) “Ah you speak Japanese…we’ll have to be careful of what we say around you,”
Yes the “glittering generality” comment was in quotes…it was meant to be taken seriously…well not completely.
I think India has caught up with Japan on the WP list.
Consider the following:
#2 Religions their parents don’t belong to
most of them started in India
#10 Wes Anderson Movies
the last one is on India
#11 Asian Girls
see scene in film above
#12 Non-Profit Organizations
Not too many of those in Japan, tons in India though
#13 Tea
Assam, Darjeeling, chai…
#15 Yoga
THAT’S A BIG ONE.
#15 Yoga
#18 Awareness
relates to #2
#32 Vegan/Vegetarianism
that’s ground zero…
Yeah but White People go to Japan and get the distinct feeling the Japanese are living in the future…not much, about 4 hours.
India on the other hand, is in a state of development, rapid but still in development. They have yet to turn their hand to consumer culture over analysis and nirvana the way the Japanese have. Have you seen the packaging some products from Japan come in? Some guy on a computer put as much thought into the plastic container as whatever the hell is inside of it.
I can sort of see why you say that the author might be Asian, although it’s also possible that the author might be similar to yourself – a non-Asian immersed in Asian culture. You’re uncommon but not completely unique. I am not Asian, I am a black female. However, I grew up around Asians (particularly Chinese, Koreans, and Filipinos) and was around them quite a bit in college due to my involvement in a predominantly Asian campus organization. I had Asian acquaintances in childhood and college, and a number of Asian friends. Curiously enough, the Asians that I truly can call my friends nowadays are all Korean or Korean-American (I can’t understand why blacks and Koreans don’t get along in California since in general the ones I meet are less racist than Chinese or Japanese). It seems that to a greater degree, both Chinese and Japanese Americans tend to be kind of clannish…they like being around their own almost exclusively, and they don’t like getting to know people different from themselves, especially if they’re not white.
I can concur when it comes to your assertions, particularly the view of non-Japanese Asians about Japan, as well as how many Asians see white culture. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the author is Asian, it just may mean that like you or I, they have been socialized with Asians.
or else what???
Btw, “sniffing glue” and “shooting heroin”…I thought that was a white people thing.
Anyway, this is weak. Get a clue.
Well, damn, I think you hit the nail on the head there. I didn’t grow up with Asian Americans, but from some unfortunate experiences I’ve had since college your description here definitely has a ring of truth. I’ve met a lot of terrific Asian American guys since who don’t think of life in terms of “black eyes” and “feathers in their caps” (or algorithms for getting inside a girl’s pants) though, so luckily we can’t take this stereotype to the bank.
this is so rasist.
replace the word white with black , japanese or jewish and u tell me if u still think it is funny.
just do it and then in your heart tell me if “what black african like” would fly as a web site.
the world theme is equality
shamefull
Fail. Japan is NOT cool.
I immediately assumed the author was a white person making fun of white people or making fun of wealthy North Americans to be more precise but less funny
I pooped my pants
i don’t believe that there is just one author, although one person may be submitting the writings the ideas and the direction each topic takes suggests to me that there are multiple people involved in this blog.
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So did I.
Hell YES!! But after a while plain macaroni doesn’t do it any more. You have to cut up bits of hot dog and mix them into the macaroni. That’s when you know that you have a serious processed cheese food addiction! 🙂
McCain hates sushi restaurant.
How can an entire country of 120 million people be “uncool” as a totality? Do you mean YOU don’t like Japan because you had an unpleasent experience? I can understand that but your statement doesn’t make any sense. You don’t like the Japanese? All 120 million of them or what?
Well, it’s obvious, once you remember that White people like themselves more than anyone else.
Agree.. it was weak. Unsubtle. Hysterical. It wasn’t white so white people didn’t like it.
Harajuku for the clothes, then go to Sinjuku or several other stops on the Yamanote for the bars.
I have a shirt that says “Looking for a Japanese girlfriend” and another that says “Im a nice Gaijen” 🙂
I bought them because I thought they are very funny! HAHA!
A quote by Britney Spears (for real):
“I like most of the places I’ve been to, but I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don’t like eating fish, and I know that’s very popular out there in Africa”.
The KKK often uses Japan’s homogeneous racial population as an excuse to show how a nation grows powerful by not “spoiling” their bloodline with other races/ethnic groups…so I guess in a way it IS true that white people do like Japan lol.
This entire blog – every single entry – pretty much describes Chapel Hill, North Carolina with ruthless accuracy. Amazing; very very funny. This woman’s book is a ubiquitous item in every used bookshop in town (I think we need an entry on this blog for ‘used bookshop,’ especially if it’s described as ‘secondhand,’ and while we’re at it, this blog really needs an entry for ‘Chapel Hill’ as well), so it must have burned up the bestseller lists.
Is Britiany Spears related to George W Bush?
dandan is so right.
“you know what white people really like?
to point out the inferiority that is supposedly felt by races other than themselves.”
it’s
so fucking ridiculous
Let’s not forget about Pearl Harbor here. Do not support the Japanese. Sushi is nothing but raw fish when you think about it, and I can’t stand looking at their slanted eyes.
Its not surprising you’re from the UK. White people over there have absolutely no sense of humor like us white people over here. Maybe its all the rain. This blog is intended to be lighthearted and a little poke-and-jab. I find it to be funny and so do a lot of other people. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you are pretty pitiful. Lighten up. It sounds like you were looking for a typical racist website and got off at the wrong exit. LOL.
Stop trolling Al Gore. Pearl Harbor was over 60 years ago and we nuked two cities (I would have just used those nifty bat bombs and tell oppenheimer einstein and the other jewish nuclear thugs to go to hell) full of women and children. We’ve made a lot of progress since then, and Japan is now an ally.
orchids? why is that japanese? they should have ‘bonsai’
and chrysanthemums! mah jong? well they play it a lot in japan, and it’s not any harder than canasta, but really,
after college and early 20s most japanese, well, i hate to
generalize…but couples playing it?
I’m not going to read everything here, but I know that there are some negative comments on here about Japanese people. I would like to kindly ask you to stfu and get on with your life. There’s no use hating Japanese people. We (well, not JA’s) did Pearl Harbor, you did internment. And there were a lot more people directly affected by the internment than by Pearl Harbor. Please be educated and follow the old preschool tradition: If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
But there is one thing we can say to everyone. If you haven’t read “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston you should. You’ll be a better person for it.
I’m Japanese and white people don’t like me. What gives?
Might not have anything to do at all with being Japanese 🙂
come on! this isn’t 1950, who psychoanalyzes authors anymore? yeesh, i cringe thinking about being in a literature class with you.
and by the way, the author’s white.
from:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4504557&page=1
“‘This is a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like. They are pretty predictable,’ wrote Lander, who is also white, on the site.”
[…] […]
When I went there earlier this year (AAM here), I pulled the Japanese girls away from the white guys kicking it to them because a) I could dance b) I wasn’t ogling them like a teenager waiting for the playboy channel to unscramble and c) I wasn’t Japanese nor White.
The big reason White folks (more specifically, White GUYS) like Japan is because they get to stand out. Outside of Japanese folks, all I saw were white folks. And yes, this was a lot of Americans….AND British, Australian, German, and other white GUYS. Don’t kid yourself and get all self-righteous…before I decide to footsweep that soapbox out from under you, “JOE”! WAH-TAH!!!
You bring other ethnicities besides white folks out there, and I guarantee you, the big pilgrimage back to Motherland Japan for a lot of white guys will end up culminating in Korea or something. North or South, it probably wouldn’t matter.
On the plus side, you can swap all your Grandpa-Fought-In-WWII-And-Japan-Is-So-Beautiful stories to Uncle-Fought-In-Korea-And-Decided-Its-Not-a-Poor-Mans-Japan-After-All.
Man…forget “JOE” in the earlier comments. I can’t wait to footsweep this ladder of a soapbox you’re standing on from under you!
Since you make such sweeping statements, let me make some of mine.
I was under the impression this was written by a white guy. Because, he’s sick of seeing some of the bullshit that happens among white folks. Not that Asian, Black, or Latinos have any less bullshit, but there’s MUCH MORE white people in this country, and so you can multiply that bullshit by about 200.
Second, white people LOVE to feel guilty for/about other ethnicities. Because, it’s a derivative of the White Man’s Burden. But in a more nurturing and mothering sense. How many times must we see Sally Struthers or that other old guy trying to “Save The Children!” It gives a chance for white folks to focus on problems in other countries when we as a nation have our own problems to handle. And, just as conviently step out of it because it IS another country. Luckily…you too can feel less guilty and more assuaged for the wrongdoings of your ancestors…for the price of a cup of coffee.
Basically it’s the extreme opposite of the what was happening 100 years ago in America. White folks love their guilt. Now I don’t know who wrote this, so this is all assumption. But I’ve said what I needed to, with about 200% less bullshit than yours.
I think we’re only talking about white people who live in Silver Lake, CA.
Korea. If that’s wrong, then that’s where you should be since that’s the country you’ve so perfectly described.
I fell asleep two sentences into your reply. I believe the author is a generic white dude. However, if he is Asian (and a he at that), then I’d have to agree – only a Korean would write this. No other group would care.
[…] any self-respecting white person, I enjoy anything from Japan. Thankfully, there’s the occasional Japanese act that lives up […]
You touch Asian boys? Well, just don’t piss off Thailand, in your quest to become persona non grata–it’s your last hope!
That’s very much bullshit. Pearl Harbor killed a lot of people, while the internments merely screwed up the lives of a lot of people. If you consider the fact that many families lost a son or bread winner, Pearl Harbor is a much graver event, it started a damn war!
They are just busting your balls, white people like Japanese folks. We aren’t fond of your porn, but meh there’s a lot of things you don’t like about us right?
I think you meant to say that only really good white people have watched Isao Takahata’s films.
I’m guessing you’ve never been to the uk, and what you know about white british people comes from watching american tv shows, like csi, that one with the ‘english’ woman who looks like she has a rod stuck up her butt.
This web site has some funny bits to it, but alot of the posts are plain rude, and on the whole it encourages racism.
Unlike the ‘what black people like’ site it comes from a really negative angle of white people.
Thst is BS. We locked up our own citizens who were born in the US. Any nation that looks up its own people out of loathing and fear has to answer for it as have had th Germans and the Soviets who, when they did this we consider inhuman acts. But because we are Americans its OK? The Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor were not Americans. You can also say that the crewmen of the B-17 and B-24s who were of German descent were not Germans they were in the US Air Corp but they were still of German origin. It’s no different. The other thing is one should be very clear on just why the Japanese attacked the US. A little non-revisionist history is in order here.
And have a twinkie for dessert!
one of my best experiences has been living in the international area of Tokyo. As a real white American (blond, too), I’ve had my first run in with white people from all over the world and they’re fairly similar! I’ve yet to study the Asian culture as I’m too busy partying in Roppongi with the Brits, Aussies, Kiwi’s and their pet Frogs.
Nope, I’d have to say it’s Aussies and Germans. Maybe a few Frogs here and there in Azabu Juban.
Did I mention there are Russians here too??? You’d be amazed! Not all the white folks speak English either.
You forgot to mention it’s also dirty.
The porn actually kind of sucks in Japan because they have to block out the parts that people watch porn to see. Kind of defeats the purpose if it’s digitized.
I’m white and I love Japan.
It’s full of hot asian girls in little school girl outfits.
I think you guys have run out of things to write about. Lots of white people like Japan. Lots of non-white people love Japan. Lots of White people have no special feelings about Japan. And ditto with lots of non-whites. The trick is, people who look at this sight are either asians enjoying a laugh at whites, or white people whose asian friends showed them this sight (like me). The white people who read this sight immediately agree with many things written, because it is true for them. But these are only the white people who already have a connection with asian cultures.
Just because White People like Japan doesn’t mean others DON”T like Japan. Don’t get so bent out of shape Waigouren. Have you read the concept for this site? I’m sure you’re one of the people who think this is a little racist too.
Ugh I like everything in Japan except for the porn. Something about it just revolts me, though not as bad as Sarah Silverman. If I’m going to watch japanese porn it’ll be really softcore with just big titties or something. What’s with the Japanese facination with Black men too? When I used to go through the video store in Osaka it was full of flabby, nerdy black guys gangbanging japanese chicks. I had to choose between that and the gross japanese porn and just went home 😦
this white girl would never go to japan, ever
Oh, God. Get over yourself.
Why is that?
Mahjong is definitely something old white ladyies like. Haven’t you seen Seinfeld?
*shiver* another Roppongi gaijin.
It’s funny, I defaulted to majoring in Japanese after the admin at my uni fired all the marxist econ profs.
Then, I lived in Japan for a year in bumblefuck.
Multicultural wasn’t really how I would describe it. Visiting Tokyo twice was a real relief, people wouldn’t stare at you like you were a zoo animal 24/7.
Had enough authentic experience to last me two lifetimes.
But, the sashimi was better than just about anywhere- two hours fresh. The sake was excellent.
Had the ultimate white experience: my gapanese (gay japanese) buddy was staying in one of the moonies hotels in nyc after I returned to amurica, I call the front desk and ask them if tanaka is there, etc. Talk in Japanese and English. Dude says in japanese, hey, your accent is really good. Thanks, I say, I studied for five years. He’s like, yeah, I can barely detect any Japanese accent. I’m like, dude, ahm an amurican! Like I said, the pinnacle of the white experience. I am the last samurai. Eat your heart out Tom Cruise.
Nowadays though, I drive a truck. Didn’t want to work for those nazi mfs (Japanese bosses- regular folk are okay).
what porn are you watching? i see nothing blocked out o_o
ok this is geeting kinda creepy.im from the inner city born and raised in a prodominatly black and hispanic nieghborhood so i considerer myself less prone to such whiteness such as starbucks,hybrid cars, and indie bands.(though i do love underground hiphop and find myself feeling superior to average hiphop heads,so it kinda translates)But eventualy i moved to our natural habitat “the burbs” and have become an expert on yuppie subculture.some of the entries don’t apply to me, but the ones that don’t fit typical whites i know absolutely perfectly!
the creepy part is alot of this stuff is so surprisingly accurate to me!though i never thought i could be pigeonholed a “typical white person” im starting to rethink this.i didn’t know we all threaten to move to canada, thought that was just me.i’ve always dreamed of going to japan(ever since seeing them recite everyword to rage and wu-tang live in concert on dvd and realizing theyve got great culture yet are similar to us), i love eternal sunshine of a spotless mind,huge fan of sushi,love asian chicks (infact theres a girl working nextdoor to me, even though shes fat and i despise large woman im thinking about goin at her cuz i know i could get it and just to say i tagged an asian. like charlie murphy said “thats an exclusive club”)and so on and so on.i feel like a typical white guy for the first time in my life because of this blogg. it is so on point!
hahaha!!
Well, how big is your penis? Don’t leave us hanging.
haha. that was great!
I’m not cool I watch too much anime and took Japanese in college. Sorry for spoiling it for all you cool white people who are commenting about how American sushi sucks!
I Like:
Japs
Nips
Mongols
Gay English dudes
Niggs
I kid, I kid
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….. idk
Whites and other non-Blacks love japan since they are treated like gods and get easy sex here. Blacks are treated like shit here and cannot get laid so they love it even more. Day by day my hatred of the opposition grows.
Oh for heaven’s sake. As an Irish person living in the UK (how European and multicultural…sort of!) I think the best way to describe this site is as “What white middle class/upper middle class urban professionals like” – seriously, I work in financial services and if I’ve found a post that doesn’t apply to me I just have to look up and it applies to at least 3 or 4 people in my immediate line of sight….
Only miserable people can find this negative. Fact. To echo a comment on a different entry, “Pipe down Oprah!”.
(As an aside, we are so white where I work that the gym everyone here goes to (in Soho! How media! How gritty!) has a Whole Foods Market *inside* it – perfection!)
MonkeyKing: “Blacks and Latinos don’t get divorced more – they just have more kids out of wedlock.”
Blacks do get divorced more. Hispanics get divorced less than whites, but only slightly. Asians get divorced a lot less than whites.
praxenakis: “The only white people who hate the French are Republicans.”
That’s only temporary and political, and it excludes hating French cheese or wine.
Moi: “You may guess correctly if I claim that it is the most racist nation, possibly, in the entire world…”
Yes, South Korea is amazing in a lot of ways, but its nationalism is so extreme and rabid, and full of mythologized history, it makes Israel and Palestine seem like havens of reasonableness. That said, there are other countries that are probably more racist. Living in the UK in the 21st century, I’ve often had the pleasure of listening to Eastern Europeans arguing among themselves about which of their nations is the more evil. I think I’ve come to the conclusion that ethnic Russians from outside Russia (e.g., Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine) are probably the most racist and ultra-nationalist people on the planet.
ViolentAJ: “Whites and other non-Blacks love japan since they are treated like gods and get easy sex here. Blacks are treated like shit here and cannot get laid so they love it even more.”
From what I’ve seen, white people in Japan often are dismayed to find that,far from being treated like gods, they’re more often like children. They’re frequently patronized and frequently excluded from things. I don’t think that Japanese people are particularly racist, though. Insular and parochial, yes, often. Racist, rarely. Is that a distinction without a difference? Well, it seems quite meaningful to me. Oh, and I know a black African guy in Kyoto who has a Japanese wife, so I think some Blacks in Japan do get laid. Probably not GIs, though.
Tom Sawyer: “the author of this blog is ASIAN.”
Could be, but I can tell you one other thing for sure: the author of this blog is American. Most of the behaviours written about here actually have nothing to do with race, but are about social class. A European, especially a Brit, would spot that instantly, but Americans are brought up to pretend that social class doesn’t exist, so they only notice it when it can be seen through an ethnic lens.
LOL@Japanese Translated.
You are a typical moaning expatriate gone native.
You arrived in the country as an adult, have learnt the language, and “gone native”.
It was all your choice, but you complain almost as if it was forced upon you. You complain about the natives with a certain venom, and you complain with even more venom about other foreigners (who’ve perhaps spent less time in the country than you) who have the cheek to think they understand the locals as well as yourself.
But you stay, either because you’re stuck, or because, despite all the moaning, you don’t really want to leave.
There are expatriates like you in every country of the globe.
NICELY PUT.
BUT…..You are dead wrong on the last bit.\
The author Mylosh is Definitely asian, his name is Myles Valentin and he’s taken a lot of heat for this blog entry. He’s also not American at all, he’s from Canada.
If anyone wants to dispute this, just search on the interview where they name him (Clander is Christian Lander the guy who writes almost all the other entries) and AngryAsianMale and Yellowworld got access to his Flickr account and show his pictures. He’s a slightly tanned hairy asian guy with heavy eyebrows and a slightly pudgy “moonface” but he doesn’t seem too different than your average white guy. Except for the fact that he seems to have a love/hate relationship with white folks.
Also the part where we’re told that social class doesn’t exist is hogwash, this is exactly what the site makes fun of (and in some entries celebrates) white middle or upper middle class liberals urban and suburban liberals. We don’t view class as strongly as some european cultures did, because we weren’t mostly ethnically homogeneous like Europe was, we had other delineations including race, ethnicity,language and religion.
TBH, it seems that Britain has a long, long way to go when it comes to treating class differently. I read about the Charlotte Downes and the grooming case, where “poor white trash girls”
were being groomed for sex with older, richer men and these guys even had the nerve to come to their houses late at night demanding the parents let her out for sex.
The COPS did NOTHING to stop this, because they were seen worth the effort. The girls body disappeared and it’s possible she was ground up into kebab meat.
I know it’s fashionable to beat on Americans, but from my travels I’d say Europe is just as foul–Asia too.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
it’s a joke – it’s obviously written for the average middle-to-upper-crust white American – a fun culture that likes to make fun of itself too. Just because you happen to be white and this blog is about white people (think about how serious the author is) doesn’t mean you have to get your panties in a knot. Or your “knickers in flap.” or something.
“Also the part where we’re told that social class doesn’t exist is hogwash”
I did not say Americans are told that it doesn’t exist. I said they are encouraged to pretend that it doesn’t exist. This entails acting on the assumption that differences in class background can trivially be ignored or surmounted.
Sometimes this assumption bumps up against reality.
There are big cultural differences between groups of people — differences in aspiration, values, and interests — that have nothing to do with ethnicity, but are all to do with type of occupation and level of income. If you grew up in surroundings where your parents and most of your friends’ parents were in professional or managerial occupations, you will often find that you have much more in common with other people from a similar social class background but different ethnicity, than with people of the same ethnicity but different social class background (e.g., their parents and all their friends’ parents were blue collar workers).
“this is exactly what the site makes fun of (and in some entries celebrates) white middle or upper middle class liberals urban and suburban liberals.”
It seems somehow I have failed to get my point across to you. This blog is called “stuff white people like”, whereas what it does is poke gentle fun at “stuff middle class people like”, or, to be extremely pendantic, “stuff people from a professional and managerial social class background like”. It confuses social class with race, and that is typically American. You’re doing the same thing, by the way.
If you drew up a checklist based on this blog, and surveyed a cross-section of people, I think you’d find that middle class people of all ethnicities (including non-white) would score quite high on the checklist, and working class people of all ethnicities (including white) would score relatively low.
That’s because this blog is about social class, but it advertises itself as being about race.
There are plenty of black middle class people who would score quite high on the checklist, and they would be accused by blue-collar black people of “acting white”. That’s just another case of conflating social class and race. What the high scoring blacks would be doing is “acting middle class”.
“I read about the Charlotte Downes and the grooming case, where “poor white trash girls”
were being groomed for sex with older, richer men”
I know nothing of the case you are speaking about, and it does rather seem pretty irrelevant. However, I notice that you choose to use the phrase “poor white trash”. Have you ever wondered why such a phrase exists? Why not just “poor trash”? Because Americans find it difficult to discuss social class without conflating it with race.
“I know it’s fashionable to beat on Americans, but from my travels I’d say Europe is just as foul–Asia too.”
I am not beating on Americans, and I am not implying that Europe or Asia are not “just as foul”. It just happens to be a fact that Americans downplay social class, and habitually conflate it with race, when talking about society. And it happens to be a fact that this blog is doing exactly that.
are u white
Man I have Ken Folk In Japan so back off son
im white and no does that
im white and i love my family just as much as me
now that is disrespectfull
so some girlsre hot
im am from America
what else
I have to disagree, lots of white people hate japanese shit.
Oh my god hilarious again.
They are still treated like humans though. It’s easy to get laid in japan unless you are Black. Japanese, like most non-Blacks despise us. I onl hope to the gods that you crackers, spics, and especially japs and jews aremade to suffer.
Shit in general, Japanese, or not isn’t cool to have lying around the house.
Another thing white people like: being “more Asian” than someone who is Asian, or Asian American….
Thank you for saying this. His post made me sick.
So the Koreans and the Russians (overseas ones was it? Certainly not Russian Jews) are the most nationalistic peoples in the world? Himmmmm do their presidents where little national flag pins on thier lapels and intimate that those who do not are not patriotic? Pot – Kettle – Black
Haha this shit is funny. Its so true.
I love—-
Dragonball
All Anime
Ramen Noodles
Sushi
Sake
Seafood
Dragons and shit
Japanese Steakhouse (holy shit)
the japanese meal type thing with a buch of little plates for everyone
Romanji (japanese words dumbed down for us since their language and alphabet is more complicated than flying a space shuttle)
Street Fighter 2
All video games
The Japanese mob the Yakuza and their sweet tattoos
Samurais, Ninjas, Martial Arts, Fuedal Japan, anything with swords. (so does Wu-Tang clan though)
Go and any other awesome Japanese board games
Hello Fucking Kitty
Yakisoba
bukakke
panty sniffing
beer in vending machines
cant forget karoke
last but not least, any thing that says Zen. It could be like “Magical Zen of my Butthole” and every white dude would have a copy in his bathroom. Like I have “Zen of the Guitar” in my bathroom which is actually a sweet book.
Shin Chan
dude, I could really go on for days…
hahahahahaha
Dude, my first best friend was half japanese. I would go over to his house and his japanese mom was APPAULED at my horrible table manners, my running around all sugared up on awesome american pop and fast food grabbing 200-year old ancient zen tea ceremony do hickys and throwing them around. My friend taught me about table manners, ramen noodles, and introduced me to my first bite of sushi. Also the manga he had was sweet, I couldn’t read a word, but it was super violent and weird and had boobies. So for the record this white dude loves Japan, hopes to go there one day, and apologizes for any misspelled words and awesomely bad grammarical errors. See, we love apologizing too. hahahaha Kakarrottttt!!!
Yay, we can be white together!!
Their power level is over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck you octopussy. I hope that you catch aids and die i you ever set foot in japan. Screw your half-breed friend too. I hope that his white daddy’s penis falls off and his mother gets raped by escaped AIDS-infected convicts.
REAL TALK.
did you mean “if” I ever step foot in Japan??? Hahahahahaha
Why? Why all the hate? Dontcha like tourists? Are you living in Japan right now?
REAL GAY. or should I say
RICE TALK.
or should I say
LICE TALK.
How about a good game of street fighter to settle it? You pick the generation.
I am a Black man living in japan. I hate non-Black foreigners because of how you are treated here and how you people treat My People all over the world.
I live in Japan, but still can’t tell the difference between good sushi and bad sushi. I’m sick and tired of ‘kawaiiiii!’ But, I do love it here.
thanks for the verbal diarrhea. much needed fix.
I really think some of these people are imature but, I totally agree with the message above!!!!!
Hey thanx sooooooo much for this info I really can’t decide if i should go to Japan or not!!!
Butch up, Sally!
Ditto… I didn’t realize that it was a social faux pas to actually know what I’m talking about when the subject comes up. I’ve just had a ball pointing out the true meanings of ridiculous phrases and words that people unknowingly sport on t-shirts and (shudder!) tattoos.
I’m white and I like things from Japan. You win this time, stuffwhitepeoplelike
I just came across this post…. I’m at my desk… I’m an English teacher… in Japan. I wore my NB shoes to work today (I always ride my bicycle to the high school). I have a graduate degree from an Ivy League, and one of the best parts of my job is teaching about grammar. …Yeah, all my ancestors came to the US from various European countries three generations ago…
(for the record, I’m not into sushi, anime, or asian girls)
I don’t disagree completely. But White people love Japan is because Japanese women are so popular and beautiful.
Thanks for sharing.
Jenny.
kind of sad that you wrote so much for something that is completely wrong, now that you can see mr. lander’s pic. in hindsight though, this post goes to show how far some white people are obsessed with japan; even their conspiracy theories and stereotypes against other asians are ingrained into them.
That is beautiful.
you idiot! living in asia and not being into the girls is like living in France and not being into wine!
free up your space for somebody who does appreciate them and move to Pittsburgh where you can justifiably be unattracted to the women.
FUCK U
I am an Indian living in India. What’s so funny about a certain section of whites love Prius, anything japanese, Cycles and expensive sandwiches? Every race has its own fixations which could be made fun of. Check out some videos of stand up comedian Russel Peters for example.
nigga please
Awesome- spot on! I was a teacher only doing it so I could snowboard the orgasm inducing powder of Hokkaido. You don’t really hear much about that.
This really has nothing to do with the post, but I wish people could know Japan outside of Tokyo. I taught English but had the sweetest lifestyle that ruined me for the rest of my life- snowboard the best powder in the world (Hokkaido) in the morning, show up at work around 4, and go partying after work at 9:30. In the summer, replace snowboarding with beachgoing/hiking/surfing. This really had nothing to do with Japan so much, as it did with having found a Utopian lifestyle which sadly had to come to an end. This is the Japan that I know- which most people will never know.
God, I’ve studied Japanese for 5 years, hosted exchange students, and absolutely can’t stand the culture. I’m never, ever going there. The language is linguistically fascinating, but nobody ever understands that I’m in it for the linguistics, not because I OMGZ LOVE JAPAN!!
You say bullshit, if you cannot say anything intelligent then dont put comments.
I love how the girls dress over there, their sense of style is different then your typical North American or European wears.
Violent AJ… you sound like you need to leave Japan and come on over to Hong Kong with the Chinese and everybody else. Hong Kong is very diverse and fast paced. I’ve been to Japan and loved it but don’t think I could give up Hong Kong for Japan.
Saying “konichiwa” or “arigato” to the waiter (even though he is Chinese) is very White.
I have some new theories as to why some people find Japan such an appealing fantasy).
Often the types of people who obsess about Japan are the self confessed odd balls, who can identify with the odd ball fantasy characters in Anima, partly because they LOOK western.
This gives them the sense that the Japanese would accept and befriend them purely on how they look (easy admiration! no work).
These “odd ball” people want both the sense of acceptance, and also to stand out (otherwise they would try NOT to be an oddball)
But Japan also has culture which would be unlikely to accept someone that stands out.
“The nail that sticks up gets hammered down”.
Japan is a country that is a kind of a midway between the exotic and the metropolitan, not “exotic” enough to be unpleasant (e.g. poverty, we don’t see people rushing to China), but exotic enough to have a quirky culture (e.g. bowing to people) so its the safest choice for people that want to latch on to a foreign, interesting place.
as a white guy who lived and worked in Japan for a few years (I working in IT, not teaching English) and spoke the language, I can tell you that most (if not all) of the white guys teaching English in Japan make total and complete asses of themselves. And on top of that most of them seem acquire only a superficial appreciation of Japan and its culture, if any at all.
Japan is also an anomaly. It is a non-Western country which was never conquered and has achieved a level of prosperity rivaling white countries on its own.
Well, I’m white and I not only lived in Japan and taught English but I also studied abroad there too! That means I fit the bill….PHEW….I can now rest assured I’m fitting into my role as a white person quite well.
Now that I’m certain I am fulfilling my duty as a white person I will continue to do so by stating the fact that there aren’t enough Kaiten Zushi places here in the States.
Oh and Ramen shops…I suppose I have to move to San Francisco.
I might actually be as white as Christian Lander.
Godzilla+Not enough cowbell.
hahah, well played sir.
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Been there. Dirty, crowded, congested, polluted. Shopping was good.
I’m Japanese living in Japan, and agree about these English teachers make total fool of themselves. (btw, learned my language through watching TV, not by them.)
“most (if not all) of the white guys teaching English in Japan make total and complete asses of themselves. And on top of that most of them seem acquire only a superficial appreciation of Japan and its culture, if any at all.”
I hate to say it, but most white guys make total and complete asses of themselves here! Just go to a Japanese restaurant and observe. All the posing and posturing……….doesn’t fool anyone except themselves.
been there too. crowded yes, but great food, great people. shopping for japanese stuff great. shopping european/american stuff insane, because you get the exact same stuff in new york for half the price.
I don’t know what it is about living and/or working in Japan that creates totally pretentious pricks out of white people. This thread is a prefect example of a) the gaijin girl that thinks all white guys are retards, b) the ‘too cool for school’ guy that wouldn’t be caught dead teaching ESL, c) the one that was too gifted to learn Nihongo from a teacher, rather from TV and/or daily conversation….etc, etc.
The ninety-nine months I spent in Tokyo were some of the best years I’ve ever had and I honestly miss the place……but don’t miss some of the attitudes of the ‘ultra-hip’ sophisticates that temporarily call it home.
Get over yourselves.
Never conquered? White people who like Japan should know some history,er like of WW2. Nagasaki & Hiroshima, unconditional surrender in August 1945, Shogun McArthur’s 9 year rule and US occupation, would all do for a start
Japan.
Small country with few natural resources gets very industrious to not only survive, but thrive after WW II. Education and productivity key. Helpful that no draconian Versailles-type post war rules applied to defeated country. Might the Nazi party have fizzled out if the victors in WW I hadn’t screwed Germany’s economy over?
China has every right to be incensed about what the Japanese did to Nanking (and other Chinese places they pillaged).
Never trust Nationalism or ethnocentric patriotism.
Nationalism = atrocities waiting to happen.
Cowboy Bebop is cool regardless of the amount of melanin in the viewers skin.
I’m half Japanese and I’ll tell you, white people love it when they find out. They try to show some understanding of Japanese culture and tell me how much they love sushi and anime and blah-blah-blah. That’s usually when I try to explain to them that I speak 6 words of Japanese, I was born in Canada, my father was born in Canada, my grandfather was born in Canada… It usually turns out that my family has been Canadian longer than theirs, but I’m still a novelty to them.
Ah well. It’s true white people love Japan, what are you gonna do?
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Stop commenting on this blog. Just because the book came out doesn’t mean you have something original to add. Just because you commented on a long list doesn’t make you special. Plus it’s really annoying because we can’t delete things from our “My Comments” trackers.
the author is white
bitches!
I’ve had the exact same experience! Anyways, I’ve met a lot of white people who get really excited when they learn I’m half Japanese, and they’re always a little disappointed when I tell them that I’ve never even been there and that the Japanese side of my family has been living in California since the 1800s. That doesn’t stop them from asking me where the best sushi restaurants in town are or if I ever dress up like a geisha (eww).
Well, reading this has been an eye-opener. Every emotion from anger to laughing out loud.
It seems to me it is natural to be fascinated by a different culture. This is part of simple human curiosity, and has been since time immemorial. Some of this is healthy curiosity and respect, and the thrill of discovering new ways to do things. Some of it is unhealthy exoticism and romantic pie-in-the-sky projections of fantasies, both dark and light. There is something both repulsive and very honestly human about such fascination.
Before people get too worked up about white Japanophilia, it’s important to remember that in Asia, the fascination with Euro-American culture is far deeper and more historically long-standing than white Japan-love has been to date. In the Meiji restoration Japan set itself to adopting western ways, and the rest of Asia has since followed to greater or lesser degrees. In Asian nations people have adapted western haircuts, grooming habits, clothing, forks-and-knives, French food, furnature, interior design, artistic modes, transportation, and every imaginable form of technological and scientific knowledge over the past century and a half.
How can one fault whites for being curious and interested in (what remains of) Asian culture when the Asian fascination with and adaption of Western culture, technology, and ways of life has been so much more intense for so long?
I don’t think you’re half Japanese…….I think you’re all Canadian…….EH! Sorry, had to add that last part. I’m not proud of it.
Don’t worry, soon people will catch-on that the Japanese population in L.A. is actually larger than in Japan itself. But “ew” to dressing like Geisha? Memoirs of a Geisha is the example I’ll always keep….Hottttt!
Japan has a population of 127 million jackass.
Oh Pout
Dosn’t make you special either. This site is for exchanging ideas and opinions. So I will coment if I damn well please, so suck it.
How do you pronounse your name retard.
Wow, this did hit it on the money. I am currently an English teacher (yep, a white one) in Yokohama.
Do I like it here. Yep.
Do I brag about it? Oh yeah.
Are my friends and family sick of me talking about it?
Most likely.
Not all parts of Japan are equally white. For those that have taught or lived or visited Japan everyone knows that those liberal arts studying, French speaking, organic food eating, indy rock listening people, when they are a bit older like to pretend to go to places like Shimokitazawa, but in reality you see them in Roppongi on the weekends.
are you retarded. if you hadn’t realized.. all the technological and scientific innovations are and have been coming from asia for quite a long time. it’s no secret that western technology has been looking to asia for ideas and inspiration. this also applies to art (i don’t know of any asian artist that is influenced by american culture, however american artists, fashion designers and musicians are VERY fascinated with Murakami and others as of late), transportation, food (japan is the home of the most michelin star restaurants in the world, the US holds maybe 3) interior design (the japanese modern aesthetic), hair (japanese straight perm is still the rage after all these years). you information needs an update.. you know, things have changed since the meiji era.
meh japan is awesome
and going out to clubs in tokyo
its not only white dudes u see trying to get that monkey
go to feria in pongi or any of the gaspanics anywhere in tokyo
but im guessing author has been here because tsukiji isnt too famous overseas
so maybe his observations are a bit self reflective…
i dont get the cynicism attached to having a dream of living in another country though
its not always about trying to score points over someone else bro
but otherwise its pretty accurate i guess
Remember December 7th!
Hell yeah teacher! I’m actually going there to help open a private bilingual school, and yeah man, I speaky me the Japanesey pretty damn well.
Jesus. This is definitely one of the few things on this list that I am guilty of.
I think Bikkuri here might be a ‘bot. I saw the exact same comment on another page. Who says we should sacrifice Bikkuri to our white-person gods?
I don’t think you should sacrifice Bikkuri to your white-person gods. Nor do I think I am a bot. I do however think that the threads here are filled with inanity. People have some need to come here and say nothing just because the book got published. The only reason it annoys me is that the WordPress comment tracker has no facility to stop tracking.
Good luck with your school. I’m sure you’ll do fine with your Japanese skills.
“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.”
I must correct your grammar it should be, “Sushi is pretty much the biggest one, since white people have spent so much time (in) Sushi restaurants…” also curiousity is spelled curiosity.
Coincidentally I found these errors after reading the Grammar posting. Oh by the way, I am a Black female with a private school education who likes to analyze, find errors and edit, enjoys facebook, scarves, music (piracy), study abroad, bicycles, sushi, netflix, 80s and so on. Not to mention interests that may fit into Stuff that Black people like. 🙂
The VCR was developed in the USA. The iPod = USA. (iPhone – ditto). The CD – Philips, USA. Some of the best speakers in the world are made by European companies. German cars still give the rest of the world a run for their money (though Japan does make great cars). Human genome project = USA. Mars lander = NASA. Hubble telescope = NASA. Windows OS (the most popular in the world, and widely used in Japan) = USA. DVD technologies have always been global partnerships between companies like Toshiba, Philips, Sony, IBM, etc.
So I’m not sure what, exactly, is part of this flood of science and tech you’re referring to, but I’d be interested in hearing about it. The Japanese are really great at improving and developing the hell out of technologies, but innovation and invention haven’t been their strong suit. It’s not what they do, and they don’t mind. These companies are great at taking other stuff and making it better.
(Disclosure: I’m another one of those white people living in Japan teaching English.)
Meanwhile, Japanese girls (and Koreans and Chinese) and guys often lighten/bleach their hair to make it brown, orange, blonde. My students do it as soon as any break of more than 4 days starts, and the teachers have to harrass them to get them to dye it back to “normal” black. In Kyoto, you can find French stuff EVERYWHERE, and they even play French music in McDonald’s. There’s English all over the place… literally. T-shirts are COVERED in English (most of it wonky) – and seriously, 25 out of 30 students the other day had t-shirts on that had some kind of English as the slogan, logo, or decoration. “Reggae” (dancehall/dub/pop stuff) is huge here. The Jamaican flag is all over pencil cases, towels, t-shirts, bracelets, etc. More than 75% of the movies in theaters in Japan are Hollywood or European films.
The poster “yes” was pretty right. And yeah, sure, there’s cultural exchange the other direction, too… but nothing in his/her post warranted the “retarded” response.
Looks like maybe “yes” isn’t the only one whose “information needs an update.”
BTW – this site is a great satire. Excellent work, good commentary, nice stirring of the pot to prod everyone out of their comfort zone.
I have been in Japan for almost 16 years: 1978-1984 and again from 1999-2008. I have lived in historic quaint areas such as Kamakura; and the big city of Tokyo, and other towns in between. I’ve taught English at English schools, corporate English at companies and taught privately. (The only way to go if you must teach English, by the way!)
I’ve had my own business here, and have worked for American companies here, as I am now. I have seen my fair share of jackass foreigners, and some really cool foreigners – the same with the local nationals as well.
Though I have seen many changes in Japan over the years, one thing has not changed – generally speaking, foreigners hate to see other foreigners here! Why do foreigners want to be the only foreigner that any Japanese here knows? Try smiling and saying hello to any foreigner – on the train, bus, walking down the sidewalk…they go out of their way to avoid even looking at you, much less responding to my greeting!! The exceptions are generally foreigners fresh of the boat who are lost! 😎
I’m a white male. I do not have much to add to other comments on food, shipping, crowds, culture, etc.
Living here while single back in the 80’s was a blast! Living here married with children is tough. When all there was in my life was focused on me, everynight was a party. In the 80’s, I made a pile of money and spent every yen of it! However, being here with a wife and kids, I make even more money, and it takes every yen I make just to maintain a comfortable lifestyle!
Now that my kids are teenagers, I realize that there are too many things my kids are deprived of; things that I had when I was young and growing up back in the US. Mostly the simple things in life: organized seasonal sports in jr high and high school, including the “Big Game” on Friday nights; the first car, racing with buddies out in the country; camping in isolation along a clear, quiet mountain stream; or just hopping in the car and driving somewhere to see where the road will lead – and never pay a toll!! (Trying to getting out of the Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama corridor on the weekends to go anywhere has lead to us just “staying home” now on the weekends, as it often takes over 2 hours just to go 5-6 km!!)
I will always be thankful for the my years here, the many wonderful memories and friends that I have. The education my kids got here that they could not have gotten back in the US, and they are completely bilingual in written and spoken Japanese now. But it time to leave.
i would really have tough skin before moving to Japan for teaching English. I’ve been there a billion times when i used to live in Korea and generally, there’s not always the best opinions of foreign teachers in Asian countries (particularly Korea and Japan) .
Lol yes, I am white and I like Japan. 😀 I wish to visit there someday.
awesome comment! i have lived here for 3yrs now (originally staying with a host family, now by myself…)
it seems that other 外国人 get irritated when you “ruin” their japan – always a laugh!!
Michael’s comment is spot on! To take it one step further, foreigners in Japan who can speak English tend to not want to associate with foreigners who are “mere” English teachers. It’s quite funny actually.
If you look into history, everything is about improvement. Where would our technology be today if the Persians hadn’t invented algebra. Or if the Chinese hadn’t invented paper or gunpowder. All depends on improvements and the state of the country making it. When the Persians developed basic algebra and the Chinese invented thing such as paper, gunpowder(first type of hand-cannons), the clock, or the compass, they were in their golden ages. Other nations just came along later and improved on it. Europeans took gunpowder, made muskets, and then began the start of their golden age(i guess) of imperialism. 🙂 So Japan takes things made in the US and makes them better, but they also do develop things on their own that you just probably don’t hear about. A man in Japan is making a fridge that can keep foods like milk and fish fresh for months. Even keep human organs fresh which can start a whole new era for organ transplants. Do so research and you will find it. Please don’t use availability heuristic. If you don’t know what that means look it up.
The part you mentioned about the girls dying their hair and listening to foreign music. It’s all about the media.
In the U.S. I see people wearing Japanese clothing products, hairstyles, etc. Girls do the same things in the U.S. and Europe as they do in Asia with their hair.
It’s all about the media. If all they showed were asian actors and models with their certain styles, it would be the same way. People are social animals that do what they think would be the most popular which is why they follow the media.
Except maybe the samurai hairdo.. that was pretty stupid
Why should it be an anomaly? Power always moves around. Egypt>Persians>Greeks>Romans>Chinese>Mongols>Turks>Spanish>Britain>USA>China(soon). Europe just had its golden age starting with the development of guns. In the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe was the backwater continent of the world up till the 1500s. While the European population was living in squalor, China and the Middle East were in its peaks. Now centuries later, it all comes back to China, although the US, EU, and Japan remain strong economic presences in the world.
yep and how white people say wasabi is very funny. It’s not like saying whats up.
Well if I want to die from the blacklung.. I would definately choose Hong Kong
What is wrong with you? Asians, especially asians girls, like the brothers. You must have problems like mental retardation or physical retardation.. meaning your ugly
Have you considered making a blog about pro wrestling? I’m sure white people LOVE pro wrestling a lot more in this country compared to other races. Plus, there are a lot of white wrestlers, ya know. Southern-style is sometimes called “rasslin”.
I do love Japan, too. Anime’s pretty sweet. I like the romantic and dramatic ones, though. I got started with ones like DBZ and Cowboy Bebop, but they don’t hold my interest. A 5-year-old could be interested in dbz for christ sake. The action gets boring after a while.
Hello Kitty is annoying, though.
Funny thing is Japan has the death penalty and executes around about the same number of people per capita as the USA: a fact that is rarely mentioned, largely because it doesn’t fit in with the quirky, fetished image of Japan that white people want to sell to the world. Is there any depths these people will not sink to in order to appear cool?
Get over it.
We’re white. Don’t get so offended.
the funny thing is… Japan as a nation hates white people. Trust me i’ve been there. To prove this, go to any watering hole(bar) and start a conversation with anyone. They’ll tell you all about it.
They hate alot of people…
Whites….
Chinese…
Blacks….
Yep yep, lota hate. Must be in the Sake
white likes japan
blacks love china
…I’m really starting to hate every life form with 1 pair of legs
Oh God, I’m White & I like Japan… I hate the fact that you have got me, this time!
While Stuff White People Like contributes on a massive scale to our invisibilization (really, it’s like the hipster flipside of Sarah Palin), I’m introducing a new blog called Bitter White Folks for Obama to explode this zero-sum game. My family were part of the 41 million who migrated from the Appalachian/Southern region to the Midwestern states in the postwar period: precisely the demographic from which support for Obama (and progressive politics as such) is supposed to be non-existent. But it was the economic policies of Reagan and the Clinton and Bush dynasties that produced such atrocities as the 2,200 square miles of strip-mining in Appalachia that have put thousands out of work, reduced the average income to the level of Mexico and forced migration to the North in search of jobs. So I actually completely agree with Obama’s sentiment: of course Appalachian and Midwestern communities are “bitter” – and it cannot be denied that more than a few have been mislead into believing that these elites somehow hear their voices. With the increasingly patronizing tone of the Republicans however (which Stuff White People Like only solidifies), many are rapidly becoming unconvinced – at least Obama speaks about the situation as it really is: as he put it in that same speech, “you can go into the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I’d be very strong and people will just be skeptical”. For more, check out my blog at http://bitterwhitefolksforobama.blogspot.comWhile Stuff White People Like contributes on a massive scale to our invisibilization (really, it’s like the hipster flipside of Sarah Palin), I’m introducing a new blog called Bitter White Folks for Obama to explode this zero-sum game. My family were part of the 41 million who migrated from the Appalachian/Southern region to the Midwestern states in the postwar period: precisely the demographic from which support for Obama (and progressive politics as such) is supposed to be non-existent. But it was the economic policies of Reagan and the Clinton and Bush dynasties that produced such atrocities as the 2,200 square miles of strip-mining in Appalachia that have put thousands out of work, reduced the average income to the level of Mexico and forced migration to the North in search of jobs. So I actually completely agree with Obama’s sentiment: of course Appalachian and Midwestern communities are “bitter” – and it cannot be denied that more than a few have been mislead into believing that these elites somehow hear their voices. With the increasingly patronizing tone of the Republicans however (which Stuff White People Like only solidifies), many are rapidly becoming unconvinced – at least Obama speaks about the situation as it really is: as he put it in that same speech, “you can go into the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I’d be very strong and people will just be skeptical”. For more, check out my blog at http://bitterwhitefolksforobama.blogspot.com
Nah, they don’t really hate white people. Just the ones that are obsessed about Japan or hold it in extremely high esteem (people who call themselves otakus in particular).
It’s like meeting someone who repeatedly professes their love for your country a million times over. It’s nice at first and makes you proud of your nation, but then after the first four times it gets incredibly annoying. Then you meet another 100 of them and you begin to feel as if death would be better than ever having to breathe near another one of them ever again.
Not so much irritated as embarrassed- “Oh crap, another Gaijin! What if they speak better Japanese than me? What if they figure out I learned Japanese from my girlfriend and now I talk just like her? What if they figure out I’m just another JET/ English-class Sweatshop Slave/military hick/ pick-your-stereotype-expat?”
My favorite scene in ‘Lost in Translation’ is when Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansen(sp?) make eye contact in the elevator. I remember that embarrassed look as sort of a “Greetings, fellow White Person. We’ll politely ignore each other so we can continue to enjoy our uniqueness in this non-White homogenous culture.” (Second favorite scene – the horrible translation Bill Murray gets when trying to listen to the commerical director.)
Plus, you don’t know if they’re American, Aussie, Russian, or whatever, so you can’t just say “Hi” – it might give your nationality away.
I know, I hate that he got me too… but the language is my favorite part and I ruin many a conversation by having no idea what some anime is about, but then correcting the speaker’s pronounciation of said anime.
What? I can’t even find that on a map. But it’s all so true about the vast majority of self indulgent pompous white people I’ve known. They dream of living in Japan.
That is true. My sister just moved there.
Ugh. William Gibson is a case of ‘let it slide–dude’s awesome’, but for everyone else, there is no immunity. It’s largely a white person-fueled interest on the part of Americans, who tried endlessly to colonize the Japanese; they’re like the one that got away, for these people, and are treated with the same wistfulness, condescending attitude (aren’t they adorable?) and…lust. Flat out lust.
A good (if obscure) example would be the pop culture crossover that was U2 posing before a gigantic promotional ad for Sailor Moon. It happened during the 90’s, when both were at their peak popularity–in the US. (Irish people is probably a thing white people like, too.)
Japan is a really boring place.In fact, the whole country is just a cheap copy of the western world. The people their are impolite and disrespectful to women. If you want real culture, get it in another Asian country like India or the Phillipines.
I like Japan. I like William Gibson. But he makes an embarrassingly large number of references to Things Japanese, often gratuitously. Who cares that the streets are lined with broken-down Japanese cars?
But he balances things out with plenty of gratuitous references to Russia.
I suppose it is all in perspective. Besides you have misspelled they’re.
The Japanese are incredibly racist. I lived there for 2 years. Guy jin.. Guy jin (that is the racist word for white people, meaning white devil). I got stared at basically every day, people refused to rent me apartments on the basis of my skin color (white), people often refused to sit next to me on trains because foreigners have diseases ect. Hmm, try doing that same racism reversed to a Japanese person living in NY. Would you get sued? Go figure!
Guy jin .. white devil, awful white people with trashy culture, fat white people with big bodies and small heads (they also say this) eating MacDonald’s hamburgers Whatever, get over it.
I lived in Japan for a year and a half, and I agree.
My grandparents call everyone that. 🙂
whaaa…poor baby. white man goes to a foreign country and gets treated the way whites have treated people of color for centuries. Only a white person can go to a foreign country and expect to be treated like a king. “Wait, I’m white and they don’t automatically love me? Does not compute.”
I guess I’m going to be the guy to ruin it, by actually speaking Japanese, but gaijin doesn’t mean white devil. Gai means outside, jin means person. Gaijin means foreigner. They use the same term for any non-Japanese person. To tie a bunch of threads together, I was the only white person to play on my Japanese college’s ultimate frisbee team, while studying abroad, and dating an asian girl. That’s #11, #19, #58, #71, and #110 for those scoring at home.
Kind of overusing that word “gratuitous” Grey. It’s impressive once, but twice is stupid.
This is the worst column on the site, did Landers write this?
lol you say disrespectful to woman and bring up india. when an indian girl is born it’s disliked from day one because the indian wants a male to be able to use in the family. the female is not seen as useful. Russia is also very disrespectful to woman and is top on the list of human trafficking. you couldn’t compare japan to either one of these countries in those terms. i’m sure if the japanese woman acts improper she’s mistreated but that’s because they have alot of pride. they don’t misuse woman though. japan also is very competitive auto manufacturer and tries to make the most reliable cars. most of Russia’s wealth comes from crime. in fact 50% of russia’s economy is crime of some sort like selling weapons on the black market, prostitution, even selling human slaves which is where human slave trade may have began. Japanese are not as bad as people try to make them out to be. the United States along with many other countries tried to take advantage of before wwii. that bred much hatred but the people stayed proud.
LOL, I completely agree with your comment, so very true!
I think Korea may be the new Japan.
Apologies! (it means “sorry”) A perfectly ordinary word, used twice in five sentences, is “overuse”? Come on, get an education. I’ll try using monosyllabic (one-syllable) words next time.
That’s because people of color misbehave themselves in America. When we go to foreign countries, we keep it classy. THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE.
When will this thread finally die? I’m tired of my tracker showing me these inane comments – most of which are totally off topic.
uh, Jer, have you seen or heard of girls gone wild(cancun, for example)? you call that class?besides, i live in the bahamas (white, by the way) and here we have EARNED a reputation for “misbehaving” especially in public. public intoxication & disorderly conduct, flashing, destruction of private property, littering, etc, etc, etc and we locals read about it every springbreak. by the way, my husband’s black and when we travel–about four times a year–he tends to “behave” particularly in america. either travel more, get a clue, or keep your ignorant comments to yourself (don’t bother with a rebuttle; school’s out;-)
okay your post only proves that people from the UK actually do have a rod stuck up there ass. im black an do not find this site racist in the least. its funny and meant to poke fun at stereotypes and generalizations. man this sites name should be change to “stuff white AMERICANS like to do” so you twats could leave us alone.
PS i know my comment sounds racist but if your gonna call this site racist for no reason i might as well give you one.
hardly anyone gets openly treated in a racist way but other races find it just find to treat white ppl like shit
I second that.
Irony.
hay!!!!!!
i am not pompous!!!!!!!!
i would like to live in many other countrys because i feall that if you just go their for a holliday you do not fully experence the joys and wonders of the country
i would like to live in japan for the following resions:
1. love the food
2. love the culter
3. love the seanry and landskape of japan
4. would like to say with pride i have traveled to japan
5. i love manga
6. i love anime
7. i think jap guys are hot
8. i want to travel
9. i could go on and on……
so there lol :3
Bwaaaahhaaaaaaaha!
“”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.” ”
Ok, get over it, it’s true. I’ve been going back to the USA from my home here in Japan for 20 years and every trip my Japanese wife and I try to find good Japanese food (we can afford, so LA cool sushi spots are obviously out). And it’s ALWAYS different and slightly not right.
We white folks stay here forever because of the food. It’s fantastic, of unlimited variety, and even the crappiest local sushi place or usual local eatery is head and shoulders over anything ‘Japanese’ we’ve had in the good old USA.
Arigatou ya’ll
lol… I’m the master of the “actually, I speak Japanese” conversation ruiner.
FYI, if you want to score with a Japanese guy, it’s probably best not to call him a “jap.” Anyone who calls me a “jap girl” is never going to see me naked.
BTW, I didn’t mean to imply that you’re racist – that word just makes me cringe.
On an unrelated note, my interests have corresponded so well with this list that I have developed a theory that growing up around the “wrong kind of white people” down here in the Bible Belt may actually erode a person’s multi-ethnic sensibilities and render them psychologically white (the right kind).
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This!
what nanking
what whaling, killing dolphinslol
I’m pretty white. More pinkish really. But I hate Japan. Worse still I have to live here.
Baka, baka, baka. Doshite ka? G-kun wa pansuke desu! 4 teh lulz!
i like japan…hell i like anyplace that has people
haha I know how to speak Japanese.. and it does ruin it for a lot of my white friends who are obsessed with Japan.. I just learned the language for my major.. but I do love Japan 😀
u are one of the dumbest muther fuckers i have eva heard of anotha white asshole who thinks he knows a lot about how the world works get the fuck outta here you crackerjack redneck and dont be surprised if the fat chick kicks your ass bastard hope u catch an std
Meh, it’s probably just a couple of Jews up in New York.
But, as usual, they NAILED it!
LOL!
“If you don’t like where you are …go someplace else.”
…and the collarary, if you’re not happy where you are, you probably won’t be happy somewhere else.
“…why not start at a more important place like Bull Run or Fredericksburg…”
Or…
“We didn’t kill enough Brits at Chalmette!”
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Hahaha… I am white… and my boyfriend is Chinese… and we’re both learning Japanese together! We went to Tsukiji earlier this year hahahahahaha
I am truly proud to inform everyone that although I am white, and thoroughly agree with above article, I am unique within my race as I fucking hate Japan and I hope it gets blown out of the water.
Nate is saying Japanese are disrespectful to women becasue upon comparison with America they appear to be very disrespectful to women. Basically if you compare almost any country to America that other country shows a much greater disrespect for women.
Maynardo, you are so right on. Those ARE the reasons whities like Japan – there was a time that the Japanese fawned all over them. I know the most ordinary (bordering on BORING) -looking white girl who was apparently highly desired in Japan in model. It was laughable. But maybe the Japanese are getting wise to this now…
South Asian chick…
Im white, and i really do wanna goto Japan.
Hooowever.. not on the count of there raw fish, but rather there culture(which is also mentioned white people are a big fan off)
Oh and I think theyr the smartest people around:)
Japanese women are whores, and they have no modesty or class
lol you are an idiot, aren’t you!
I’m a white guy, and yeah, I think Japan’s interesting, but not any more so than Spain, France, Australia or China (or a collection of other countries I’ve never been to).
I dated a girl from Tokyo for a little over a year and she was suprised that I wasn’t constantly peppering her with questions about Japan / continuosly displaying my knowledge of the country and its culture, and that I didn’t own any books about the country, or know much japanese (other than a few words) like most of the other white guys she’d met here.
Of course I’d ask her questions about Japan, and we’d talk about the culture / her life there, etc, because I wanted to find out about HER culture, but I’d have done the same no matter where she’d grown up.
Funnily enough, she’d sometimes get frustrated that I wasn’t as interested in Japan as some of the other white guys (most likely the creepy ones who are over-obsessed with all things Japan) she’d met. I’d try to explain that I was interested in her because of who she was, not because she was Japanese, and that I was mostly interested in Japan as it related directly to her life, but I’m not sure she ever really understood that.
Usually I’m game on this blog because the stuff talked about is semi-true enough to be funny but this one.
I have no idea what he’s talking about through about 90% of this post, for example, what is Hayao Miyazaki.
I dunno, most of the anime I watched was on Cartoon Network when I was kid. Dragonball Z anyone?
Maybe I just go back to The Simpsons.
wtf
scyo – Hayao Miyazaki is a very famous anime artist who has given us such movies as Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle (among my favorites of his). ^.^
I think that, even if I met a non-nerdy white yuppie who liked Japan for things like sushi, I’d still get an anime-nerd vibe from them.
That’s because Japan is awesome. They are crazy. Did you ever see a Japanese game show? I wish Americans did that kind of stuff, but we are ti scared. Like Ninja Warrior. No Americans could get past that stuff.
I feel like looking up Japanese Youtube videos.
thats because japanese people don’t believe in law suits! play at your own risk! pain is funny
I totaly diagree with this. One cannot compare women in america with the rest of the world. Women in america are the most disrespected by its own people. This fact that is known to all but is not know to americas own women folk. In america the women are seen as an object of pleasure and display. white people say women from japan are whore or women from any other country. But in fact the women in america are all prostitutes in the sense that they have sex with anyone they go out on a date (prostitution free of cost one can say ).
And this is bad why?
日本好きな変な白人きらい！
get out me 2!
aww did some pretty japanese girl dump ur sorry ass you piece of garbage.
Awsome!! LMAO
Kinda mean, but funny. ^^
But you are wrong for the last part about the language. I think most ppl would find it SO awsome that you actually speak japanese that they would just tell you that they thought about learning japanese.
And….
…. im not a nerd. v.v
XD lol
yah, me am wight too and me hates weird white ppl who luv nip-pan shit, ですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですですです
just another example of silly white ppl fukking it up for the rest of us
True, I lived in Japan and love Sushi. I can’t find any authentic place around here. So sad…Stop reading my mind!
No, dimwit. Guy-jin, which, by the way is ‘gai-jinn’, means foreigner. Obviously don’t know how to read chinese characters, and thereby shoul shut your know-nothing piehole.
Wow! If that was was the case with your relationship with that girl I kinda feel sorry for you.
That is a bit mean of her.
Guess she’s into all those white guys that obsess .
Pfft! That’s quite funny.
Whites don’t love Japan so much as they love J-pop culture. We must remember that Japan is an Asian country. And Whites in general, have an animosity towards the East. The love for Japan among Whites is not really any different than the love for Thailand and The Philippines. The only real difference is that Japan has a pop-culture attached to it’s female exploitation. Should the pendulum ever swing in the direction of Black women being the primary focus of ethnic fetishism among White males, an African nation will have it’s similar it’s ‘pop-trend’ version of Japan. Perhaps Nairobi will have it’s own “Roppongi District”. Perhaps an Ethiopian type of Anime will be produced.
Sorry, but white people (especially white americans) will NEVER develop an encompassing ethnic fetish for African women, or african american women for that matter, like they do for Japanese and J-pop culture…..whites have ‘issues’ with dark skin…
Unlike the Japanese culture, african nations have had ‘many experiences—good, but mostly bad’—with Europeans and americans……Europeans and americans have never infiltrated Japanese culture…..japanese filter and mold whatever ‘new’ fad that comes….and they make the fad ‘japanese’ for the time the fad is going on…..then, just as quickly the fad had come, it disappears…..and the next fad is quickly taken in and molded by japanese culture….
homogeneous cultures like Japan, are like this…
Jealous much?
I ruin it for J-pop/anime freaks because I have lived in Japan for a long time and ruin their illusions of Japan being some mystical magical place, and I also it for the Japanese, since I speak Japanese fluently and don’t need somebody to lead me around Japan, showing me off like a little pet.
I’m just a mean fellow, I guess.
Japan is not, and never has been, a homogeneous culture. That’s a popular, and laughably inaccurate, myth.
hey, come on. i happen to be american born and raised and i love all asian countries, though japanese culture captures my interest out of the others becasue of how much such a small country does for the rest of the world. please don’t get the idea that all americans are these shallow fat cows that love sushi and “kawaii” things. Frankly, most of the American people are much like any other people from any other country, hard working and just trying to get by. All the same, “whites” are just like any other group of people, and i hate when people steroeyotype us.
*stereotype*, sorry.
You fail to see the actual process that led so many Americans to become enamored with J-Pop culture/anime/etc. It wasn’t us being drawn to them initially, it was them being drawn to us. The Japanese love imitating Americans, or what they perceive us to be. And it is human nature that our vanity/ego would then in turn draw us to their imitations of us. After being drawn into something comfortable and familiar, it then makes the more exotic and unfamiliar aspects of Japanese pop culture more accessible (i.e., J-Rock, Gothic Lolitas, etc).
It’s for the same reason we are drawn to children… they are cute and they look at us with wide-eyed fascination… how on earth could you not respond to that?!
I like your sharp analysis. René Girard thinks along the same lines. He’s suggested that this kind of mimetic behaviour is at the very core of all human action. And behind that is nature’s favourite mechanism of creation: feedback loops.
Just to stay on topic: I’m as white as they come, I’ve lived in Japan (have also visited afterwards), and it’s fucking awesome.
I am both flattered and incredibly jealous. Want to get married? (In Japan?)
But the Japanese sure act like it is true.
sushi, saki, send them home
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We need an article on the white love of anime alone.
Getting married in Japan, the new getting married in Vegas.
How does next summer sound?
Sure! That is a great time to get hitched. I DO!!!!
Send them home? Maybe you should learn how to spell, sister. It’s sake, not saki.
Laura: Saki-to me! Saki-to me! Moron.
While some white people are still mad at Japan for Nanking, it is only fair to point out that many other countries have Nanked from time to time, and that Japan does not Nank at all any more.
Never been to America.
The concept of women being objects of “pleasure and display” is hardly unique to America. And most (if not all) women are, in fact, aware of this. It’s hard not to be.
Also, it’s rude – and incorrect – to assume that American women will have sex with anyone they date. It’s true that there are many American women who do have looser standards when it comes to sex, but that’s true of women who are not American, as well.
Your opinion of America is obviously skewed.
Funny stuff. I’ve taught Engrish in Japan and been that d-bag.
I love the Japanese sex. Thats Why Japan is awesome.
I second your comment, stranger.
There Food is good! All you can eat 5.99!
you NEVER been to japan. It is painfully obvious.
Hi Uh Huh,
I’m a Japanese-American who has spent some time in Japan (16 years). I can relate to much of what’s being said on this post. I think we all have different experiences and realities. One experience is not true and the other one, false. One experience is never better than the other — just different.
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They co-developed the CD format with Sony.
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Weeaboo! That’s what I thought when I first read this.
I do like Japan because of the reasons listed above but I’m not completely obsessed with it.
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Man, sure is gay how everyone has to give their analysis on these.
OK I am a WP, but there is no place more terrifying to me than Japan. First of all I hate the food. Second just the thought of so many people packed in tiny spaces everywhere makes me claustrophobic. Thirdly all the cutesy cartoony Pokemon Anime stuff gives me the creeps.
PS: I have 4 black roomates who are obsessed with Anime? Has anyone noticed this trend of black folks liking Anime?
you guys are so blind. white people like japan because our sick porn duh
They don’t really LIKE Japan in most cases. It’s just a pretend thing.
For real who the hell would like japan food sucks, over populated, they fuck robots, anime is the dumbest shit ever, everyone drives fucking scooters, and being 6’3 its a world that just isnt made for me. Only thing good about japan is those stupid shows that we take and make funny like MXC. haha i mean really how stupid are them people doing that shit.
You say that you can’t understand Japanese (日本語が分かりません) almost like you are PROUD of it! You are the equivalent of an “immigrant” in the USA who can’t speak English after living here for 10-years.
I mean, get real! I can speak Japanese, and I live in the USA! You’re pathetic…
Ive been living in Japan for years, and its pretty easy to see why a lot of white people (primarily white guys) love Japan.
1. The Japanese have a strong admiration for light skin, light features, and western culture. So, generally speaking, they (Japanese people in their 30s and younger) tend to treat white people really well because of their superficial interests in them. If you got treated like you were so unique and special, even though youre not, wouldnt you want to live in Japan?
2. Being white in Japan is basically a job skill as English schools primarily advertise/perpetuate this out-of-date depiction that if youre white, then your English is really good! So, pretty much any white dude that walks off the street who knows how to smile and wear a monkey suit can find easy money teaching god awful English lessons. Hey, if you could pay your bills and make a living getting paid to “teach” your native language, which tends to end up more like chatting than educational instruction, wouldnt you want to live in Japan!?
3. A lot of Japanese girls with infantile minds/personalities are curious about white guys and would love to show off a white boyfriend(especially tall ones with blond hair and blue eyes) to their other female friends, so they can be the envy of their social bubble. Ive seen white men of all types (obese, pudgy, skinny, bald, grey-haired, wrinkled, nerdy, trashy etc.) end up with some Japanese girlfriend that was far too easy of a catch for them. Confidence boosters are always empowering, no matter how false they are! Im sure more of you are starting to understand why its so advantageous for white guys to live in Japan, right!!?
So, lets sum this up for all the people out there who cant read more than a few sentences! Positive image, easy money, and easier women make Japan a virtual cornucopia of good times for white men to enjoy.
Also, take into consideration that many of the white guys that come here are…um…eh….well, lets just say theyre not the cream of the crop 🙂 hehe.
So, goddammit, if you still cant f4ckin understand why a white person (primarily white guys) wouldnt want to live here, then youre probably some sorry 4ss retarded vegetable whos been staring at this screen for the past few minutes because its…duh…really shiny and purty! A society of people who are socially detached from the rest of the world, not to mention pathetically easy to impress with superficial gimmicks and cheap parlor tricks, makes for a Utopian paradise fit for underachieving, unambitious white men. Now, with that said, maintain your strong immigration numbers my mediocre little friends and keep riding the caucasian coat tails of your cheap, knock-off designer suits!
I like Japan because I have an interest in MMA which is quite popular here. That`s about it. Granted, it`s bigger in the US but being married to a Japanese woman made it easier to come to Japan.
Being white did bring me some advantages. Like it got me alot of fighting opportunities that I wouldn`t have got if I had just been any other dude off the street. Unfortunately tho once I stepped in the ring tho there were no easy tricks to pull off.
“Pokemon”? Is that a Japanese Proctologist?
I do know what “Appleseed” is, though.
The anime your roomies are into might be the adult kind, about ronin samurai or Yakuza hit men. Not all of it is cute. Some can be creepy in other ways.
Cal,
You are correct on all counts. This site should also include teaching english in the Czech Republic (post Velvet Revolution). Average looking american white guys living beyond their looks. Just one more pathetic way to “get ahead.” Nome sayyiinn??
Sergeant Fury
i dont understand why everyone has to be so negative and arrogant about this. i do some day want to live in japan and i am in no way arrogant or a nerd or any of those things insinuated above. i just like culture and their way of life well most of it. honestly hate where i am now and from what ive learned from the world japan is one of the only places id like to go. i also know many people of all colors who would like to go to japan and for many reasons besides the ones mentioned. i came upon this site trying to find more info about living in japan make up my mind as to if i should try. and if i do reading the two articles above will remind me not to talk to any white people in japan. (by the way in white) at least if their as egotistical as the authors. i dont see why every one needs to be grouped you can just like something for the sake of liking it and every has a variety of things they like so isnt it wrong to group them in only one.
If youd like to come and live in Japan, then go for it. But, you should realize that unless youve lived in Japan or have talked to people who have spent a number of years here, your perception of Japan is most likely very skewed. I know most people get attracted to it because of the J-Pop culture crap, which is great if youre a child or teenager, but dig deeper as an adult and youll see that many aspects of its society are disturbing, lacking, and close-minded.
Honestly, I think the society is very sick and they are a very socially detached people, from the rest of the world and themselves. A lot of people start to hate this country after theyve spent some time here because they realize how differently they are treated, and also how they can never feel like part of the community here, no matter how well you speak the language or know the customs.
Also, Japan is more for guys, hehe. Im not trying to be discouraging or sexist here, just realistic. A lot of foreign women get disappointed because they often get shunned due to their more petite and feminine Japanese rivals.
If you end up coming here, I have a feeling your perception will greatly change of this country after a bit of time. Im not negative, Im just honest about it, and Im speaking from years of living here and a great deal of experiences with many other foreigners here as well. Just trying to give you a heads up, so you dont put this place up on a pedestal and think its some kind of heaven on Earth.
ooooo THIS IS LIKE A “NEGRO SITE” RIGHT….TO BUST ON THE CRACKERS? Yeah well guess what go back to Africa with all your knowledge about whitey!
Are you planning to return to Europe as well?
Actually, this site is written by a white guy.
LOL Infact this site was done by a white guy. The truth hurts don’t it.
Your comment about women goes against everything myself and the women I know have experienced in reality. Every non-Japanese girl I know, particularly if she’s of European descent, is swarmed by men from the day she steps foot off the plane. I have stories that would curl your hair. A lot of Japanese guys have an unhealthy fetish for white girls and will gladly ditch their Japanese gf’s/wives for them. I’ve watched it happen countless times. White women are considered more feminine because of their bodies. I’ve had Japanese guys tell me that their women look like little boys compared to me and I’m barely over 100lbs., myself. So I think you might be hallucinating. When I was there, I felt like I needed to buy a fly-swatter or mace. Some of them are great people, sure… but the attention that even a very plain (or even ugly in some cases) white girl gets is really over-the-top.
This post is like a bukkake of stoopid.
I have yet to meet a white person, or any person, who likes Japanese porn. Have you seen that shit? American porn sucks, but Japanese porn is even worse. I was conned into watching a bit of Japanese porn in college by some friends in my dorm- MISTAKE. Burned my retinas. Never again. I’m scarred. Even my Japanese friends think it’s horrible and they refuse to watch it.
I like Japan (and China, Korea, and Thailand), probably because many of my friends growing up had family there. I grew up with a lot of Americanized Japanese culture.
I’m a college student fascinated by all the annoying white nerds in my Japanese classes… My senior thesis is going to actually investigate the reasons why American teens will go through such lengths to obsess over Japan. Thank you for highlighting this phenomenon. This area of study is highly ignored.
Sounds like an interesting senior thesis. I, too, am mystified by this cultural trend… and I’m a white American nerd. Who is not obsessed with Japan.
Ugly, boyish-looking girls getting funk all over their faces from old, flabby men with penis sizes significantly smaller than any average man, asian or not?
NOT INTERESTED.
lol.
My Italian American friend and her sister went on vacation to Japan for a couple of weeks. They were constantly hit on and they were offered tens of thousands of dollars to have sex with men who were attractive, several were single and some were married. They also received multiple proposals and offers to have their own apartment in Tokyo, etc. It was insanity. I also know a couple girls who have mixi accounts to talk to some of their Japanese/Asian friends they met through exchange programs and they’re getting marriage and sex proposals on a daily basis. It’s so bad that they’ve contacted the management of the site. They get photos of men’s privates and all kinds of things.
Japanese men love white women. There is also a huge market for prostitutes from poor European countries there. A lot of men have white mistresses, etc. They’re definitely wanted. Maybe a little TOO wanted. I know a lot of parents who don’t want their white daughters going to east asia.
white power
your mum
I’m black and i love Japan ;D
I love Japan.
I did not like Japan at all…dont see what the fascination is…blah
“blsck power”? couldnt have said it any better lol
fuck why not, you’ll be better off
Joke’s on you.
Wrong.
Most white people have not only one, but several cultures that are a strong part of their heritage to choose from. Why would they bother with Japan’s culture? Most white people couldn’t care less about Japan… they think it’s a nice country, sure, but they honestly don’t care at all.
I’m white and I’ve been living in Japan for about 9 months now. Before I came here I liked Japan. The more time I spend here the less I come to like it.
I think white folk like Japan as an abstract or as a holiday destination, but it’s actually pretty white-unfriendly if you have to live here for an extended period.
Same… I’ve been here about 8 months, and I’m kind of stuck between like and dislike at the moment. I think once you get past all the tourist stuff, Japan is fairly foreigner-unfriendly as a whole
I myself am fascinated with Japan. I love the culture. I also don’t think of myself as a “white nerd” either– mainly because I pity, and try to avoid, the ugly pimple faced white nerds that LOVE Japanese kawaii things, as well as anime. My Grandfather was Japanese and a doctor that came to America for his internship and stayed to marry my German grandmother. My Japanese ancestry is also, as my grandfather told me before he died, “dates back centuries and is part of an honorable blood line of swordsmen and pike men.”– Samurai. I myself am 65%German, 15%Welsh, and 25% Japanese, but I am, as you can see, predominately white. Does this mean most Japanese would discriminate against me?
well, no but you’d be seen as part Japanese which in certain contexts could be worse than not at all, ie you could be mistaken for despised non-japanese asians.
do you look part asian?
japanese are big on purity. there was even a blood type fad in the 90s where you had to marry the same blood type!
stupid like a lot of japanese fads but they change quickly.
thanks for contributing to whiteness studies
I agree with all of this, accept for the Anime part. Nearly every white person I know is into anime, and nobody cares. But then again you guys said “too into”.
Also, even as an Anime/manga fan, I actually hadn’t heard of Hayao Miyazaki ’till now…
White people love Japan, because Japanese people are the whiter versions of white people. All things white are made more white in japan.
True. Europe and Asia ARE really Eurasia. There are 6 continents. 5 inhabited. I don’t really know about Miyazaki. I like both Takahashis.
The Japan thing was a trend that already died out a few years ago. No one cares about Japan outside of a week’s vacation, anymore. I actually thought this blog entry was outdated when I first read it.
Honestly, if your goal is to be treated decently, then you’re better off not mentioning that you’re mixed. Just tell them you’re white. It’s sad, but it’s true.
The guys who are obsessed with anime should really be heading to NE European countries, because those girls actually can somewhat resemble some of the anime chicks… unlike the Japanese girls who look nothing like them at all.
I always thought that was funny, tbh. That tall, leggy, thin woman with big hips, butt and breasts with a thin, long nose, small lips and wavy/straight hair that’s never black and eyes that are never brown? Yeah, she’s hot. So I’m going to go find girls who look like her… IN JAPAN.
Talk about failure of basic logic, ahahahahaha.
I’m guessing you don’t speak the language.
Apart from the fact you sound very pretentious… and exactly what this blog is about… I am happy for you being 105% of a person!
I lived and worked in Japan for a year. It was horrible – crowded, polluted, toxic, industrial and xenophobic. I got gawped at on trains in sushi bars and anywhere – I was the dreaded ‘Gaijin menace’ in their faces. Oops, I’m a middle class honky and I must love Japan and all things kawaii. I have to be adoring of those islands and getting all ‘genki’ about snowboarding in Hokkaido, joining a martial arts group over there and becoming hip to bushido. Fuck, what a crazy chaotic place it is and all the ones I worked with wanted to leave and live in the West – Seattle was a biggie and they loved holidays in Mexico. I was glad the day I left and it made me appreciate Australia for it’s clean air, open spaces, nature, less crowds and majority of whites. What a crappy country and they (Asians) want to come, en-masse to my beautiful country and make it crowded and dirty and who knows, Australia may yet come to have an Asian majority in a few short years. God help us. Multiculturalism is plain nasty and ‘against nature’. It is just wrong.
Sorry, mate. Who’s xenophobic?
This post is so accurate it makes me cringe! I lived there and of course enjoyed myself. I saw the sights, ate some good food and got drunk a lot. Nice. But my friends and I were certainly not anime nerds, indeed they were to be loathed and avoided! I found the Japanese put white people in Japan into two camps: Those like me, the ‘good time, not a long time’ type who are there to have a laugh, make some money and maybe treat our yellow fever symptoms before going back home; and the anime geeks who learn the language (yes, even going as far as to learn fucking kanji!) and try to be Japanese. The Japanese themselves don’t mind the first kind, but they fucking hate the second.
P.S. I apologise as an Australian for the xenophobic comments made by my compatriot, Mardi, below. This site should be a fun forum and not a soapbox for hate-fuelled rants, and I assure everyone we’re not all insecure bigots in Australia.
I’m a Japanese straight man and this is SO NOT TRUE! I’m sorry but 99% of us don’t dig white girls. Sorry again.
White women are not feminine, they are big. Talk like (and smell like) dudes and they are LOUD!
Japanese girls are feminine, quiet and nice to guys.
I know some white women here in Japan because I speak some English but all of them have hard time finding boyfriends. Many of them get white boyfriends and they talk shit about us Japanese all the time.
I lived in Japan as well, but I did take the trouble to learn the language — even the “fucking kanji”. What I found was that actually the Japanese around me really appreciated that I took the trouble to try to understand their culture and their language, just as they are generally quite interested in ours. Not once have I experienced anything negative in this sense. If they fucking hated me, I guess I misunderstood them grossly or they were faking it quite well.
Haha. The fucking kanji. I guess it’s good for laugh too, Japan. Having lived in Japan for 2 years as an mma fighter, I now live in London, where I only read fiction (often Western) in Japanese, and I only fuck Japanese girls. Of course I also had to learn a lot of kanji.
Great post dude, couldn’t have put it better…. The bottled water or kitchen gadget bits I don’t give a fuck about, but some of the other posts, like the one on Japan, do sting. But then I guess that’s why it’s interesting. Also from the UK.
I’m a Japanese guy and my friends and I all love white girls. A lot of Japanese and Asian dudes like them. Why wouldn’t they, white girls are fucking hot.
All the Japanese chicks I know are loud, maneaters who have a ton of sex. The white girls are much nicer.
White girls are treated like gold over there and you know it. Most of the models are white, most of the girls in Japan try to look white, there’s a white standard of beauty, all the lingerie ads have white girls, every white girl I know of who goes there comes back with 5 boyfriends.
Speak for yourself. I’m a Japanese man married to a beautiful white American woman. And all my friends are jealous!
Are you kidding? NO ONE likes our porn. Not even Japanese people like it. It sucks.
They’re coming around, slowly. More and more Japanese and east Asian guys are dating and marrying white women.
The last line is the gem! Sir, I think you are a genius!
“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.”
isn’t australia in the east? so it is kind of asian already? how did it become so full of so many white people? i always wondered how it’s so white when it’s so large a continent. it is as if china is all white with a few chinese only. australia is so far from europe. and why do they speak english and not an asian language?
Nah see i don’t really argee with any of theese stupid ass reasons to move to another country, the reason im considering moving to japan is because my life here in the states is fucked. Im the last living remember of my entire family with the exception to my brother who dipped and went to fucking mexico somewhere and the only thing i really own is my camaro so fuck it, im looking for a place to just start over. i think THATs a good reason to move to another country.
Oh and i forgot to mention that MY country is fucking falling through the cracks ecenomicly. I’m 20 years old and ive been LIAD OFF 4 fucking times.
If you know how to speak Japanese, you kind of ruin it for everyone else.
XD I like this.
I would love to visit Japan one day. Meanwhile i think it would be cool getting to know Japanese people, so as i’m wondering if there are Japanese people here in Belgium.
Slowly getting to know a little more about the music etc.
Little known fact white people crashed the U.S. economy because they wanted America to be more like Japan…
Honestly can’t wait until white people hate Japan again.
Cuz I’ll be all like, “I ALWAYS hated Japan.”
So funny when that chick from Heroes was crying about the dolphins getting killed in Japan!
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
I fuckin’ hate France. I think French is a horrid sounding language, French women are busted and ugly as fuck, France(from the looks of what I’ve seen) is a shit hole, French dudes are not romantic, nor are they suave(they’re mostly all potential rapists, being they think they can sweep any woman off their feet…wrong!) and I can’t comment on the food. Fuck France and fuck the French as a whole. I’m not Republic or Democratic or “neutral.” Fuck politics, too.
LOL..
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And the Japanes love hair bands: Bon Jovi, Nightranger, Scorpions, KISS, and others.
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their time and money by idolizing Japan.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
You are a real trailblazer as far as “White People Who Want To Blow Japan To Shit” go…
haha i’m mexican and my brother LOVES japan. he is always talking about how he’ll own a maid cafe when he moves there and stuff. xD
You might want to set up some easy ways for people to pay you then.
Whaling? Killing dolphins? Nanking? What about WW2? Did everyone forget that?
I lived in Japan about 400 miled north of Tokyo for 3 years while in the Air Force. I never had anything but great experiences. The hiking, camping, food, onsens, and skiing was awesome. The people were always gracious and helpful. You could travel anywhere by car or train without ever feeling uncomfortable like can happen in other countries or America’s lovely cities. Perhaps that is why white people love Japan so much, it is a non-white cultural experience, sufficiently exotic yet always safe.
I have to do the “white” thing, and point out that it’s japanese. Thank-you
I also lived in Japan for 3 years because my dad was in the Navy. I lived in Iwakuni. Since then, it has been my dream to go back. (and i resent that about the anime “nerds.” we are called otaku, thank you very much :P)
Oh for Christ’s sake, “otaku” is an INSULT. Having stayed in Japan for 3 years I would’ve believed you knew. Japanese referred to as otakus by other Japanese are typically people deemed socially inept by society. You will find no nerd in Japan calling him or herself an otaku.
Take it easy mira. I think brittany may have been making a little joke there. Obscure, but a joke none the less.
I’ve been there, visiting a friend who’s a Marine air traffic controller. It’s like a little America. Suburban style housing, wide roads, guns. We had a Cinco de Mayo party in little America in Iwakuni, Japan. It was fun. Plus the strip club outside the base had some hot Russian girls. Another thing white people like.
This is true. way to go mira. brittany is obv a tard. I’m sure it has less to do with education and more to do with exposure. It’s a little hard to pay attention to the world when you’re distracted by the glare of a DDR machine and playing with your chokawaii plushie neko ears/tail (either way you’re a furry)
I get the vibe that not just humor, but the kind of people that like all of these things are above-average wage earning white yuppies o.o
I’m 24, i’ve had only a vague interest in japan for many years until the last year when it has skyrocketed. It started on the old toonami lineup on cartoon network with their 90s anime, but I had no interest at all in even GOING there. In the past year and a half, though, with family stress reaching it’s peak i’ve been having this horrible urge to get as far away from here as possible. Not to mention being a nerd in a small rural town in michigan where the main activities are drinking and shopping for antiques doesn’t exactly mix with me as I neither drink or smoke.
I don’t even like manga, hell even literature for that matter (yet i’m a speed reader, figure that one out) and I can count the number of animes I’ve seen the whole series of on both hands while other friends I have can’t talk about anything but anime and stuff like that. Of my “crowd” i’m the least “otaku” among all of them. I am the one still talking about the greatness of 80s/90s american animation (it sucks nowadays, but back then you had greats like beetlejuice and C.O.P.S., etc.), I have never seen a miyazaki film before either.
Back on track, I’ve had the desire to leave this horrible place i’m in now, I don’t have really any money at all, my family (save grandparents) have never been rich, i spent 3/4 of my life sharing a room with my brother or my sister or even my dad and even once had to sleep in the living room for a few months because we had too many people in a 2 bedroom house. So I would like to think that i’m not the type the guy is talking about in these things (i liked less than 10% of the stuff he listed).
I look at japan now with curiousity and wonder. I will actually welcome the culture shock, i’m so sick of this conservative, rural drinking society i’m in, I want to experience something completely different. I want to go to the many different shinto and buddhist shrines and even pray. I want to see mt. fuji, I want to try stuff like okonomiyaki and takoyaki and yakisoba. I want to learn a radically different language as I believe learning a new language is enriching. I also see learning japanese as a dollar sign for some sort of future employment opportunity.
I don’t want to learn spanish… if I wanted to be customer service here in the states or border patrol it would be worthwhile, but I don’t. The family wants me to learn german due to our roots there, but why would I want to learn a language just because the family wants me to? I’m doing this for me, not for anyone else.
As for the women… well again I don’t think i’ll find miss right at a bar or one that shares my hobbies here =O
I’m not stupid, I know it’s not some paradise, I expect Japan to have it’s ups and downs, things I like and dislike just like anywhere else, and being “white” I will likely experience some form of racism, though probably from older generations rather than younger/current ones. All I feel is japan (or nippon/nihon) rather, has much more to offer me than my current situation. The only thing i’ll really miss is my cat and BBQ.
Side note: Funny with minimal effort I know more japanese than do my anime/manga obsessed friends now after just a few weeks after researching and asking my 2 chicks friends who are half japanese. Also, being white isn’t all THAT great as you are expected to be nothing BUT white and no matter what you do, you are considered evil :O If you only embrace white culture, you are considered ignorant of other cultures, if you embrace another culture, you are branded as a poser, wanna-be, or some slang like weeaboo or something.
In American white people circles, “Otaku” is a sign of endearment, being called an Otaku is sort of like a being part of an anime fraternity. Often white people will try to out Otaku each other. And be offended if they are called nerds instead of otaku
In Japan it’s a big insult, its like calling someone Urkel, but without the funny. A Japanese Otaku has no social life, is a pervert and is unliked by anyone by his manga and toys.
So in a way, you’re both right.
I thought white people wanna move to Canada… or France … or Quebec, why Japan out of all places? Move to Timbuktu, where the people are even darker skinned than the “yellow brown” Japanese race. The world’s biggest economy is in China (a communist country, ironically) and a more homogeneous South Korea, hardly a white person can be spotted. White people fall in love with different cultures, and STOP lusting for Japanese women! LOL! +
White people, esp. from California, seem to learn not to hate the Japanese anymore. Back in the 1920’s to before WWII broke out, a Japanese-American can’t move in a white residential area, can’t enter a public place (we don’t serve “Japs”), can’t own land they worked or build agribusiness on, have separate beaches like in Redondo said the city ordinance, have to prove to the health dept. on their shops are hygenic, their kids can’t go to a “white” public school and their parents are barred from citizenship.
Sorry for the semi-related rant, but the Japanese moved in this country and ended up treated differently because of their race. We came along way in our relationship with Japan from vicious hatred to a bizarre fetish-like philia. Also Cal. state law had an anti-miscegenation law until 1949 forbid a white person from marrying an Asian “of the Mongol and Malay races” said the state penal code law book. Another state law prohibited any Asian resident by selling fish! That was before sushi was all the rage.+
I have family history in Belgium though, many of them have my surname and “Michael” is a common first name there. Europe is into the Japan trend: Fran-anime cartoon shows, the clothes had Japanese sun-and-ray flag logos and Hotel Tokio pop-punk singing group. I visited several cemeteries where French and Belgian soldiers are buried with my Dad in his hometown St. Omer in Nord/pas-de-Calais, and came upon plots of tombstones had Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian names: yeah, east or Southeast Asians from Indochina came to build canals, trenches & roads during WWI (1914-19). +
Favorite anime at this time: “Ghost in the Shell”, being made into a live-action movie by director Steven Spielberg. The human-robot “cybernaut” police lieutenant is very hot looking, except I find it creepy she has a resemblance to my mother (she’s not Japanese) in her 20’s also was in the Indio, Cal. police force. Alike Makoto, she has long dark hair, anime-round blue eyes and the similar face composite. +
Oddly, I was mistaken for a “Nisei” by some east Asians, white bigots or Hispanics making fun of others. Both east Asian and American Indian peoples share many physical and genetic similarities, due to the Siberian-Bering land bridge migrations in the last ice age (20,000 years ago). But I am not Japanese or east Asian, I’m more European and half-French in ethnicity, and I’m definitely not “French” as much you’re an American first with Japanese family. +
Go pursue studies in Japan like any other Japanese: very hard, intense, full of pressure, low tolerance of errors and don’t dare to fail. The secret to success in public education there in east Asia is competition as a “group” but any one of the group fails is dishonorable to the student’s class. +
Japan is a very developed country, its’ economic strength and technology surpasses America’s in some ways. Asia is where civilization began over 6,000 years ago in the Yellow river of China at the same time it started in the Nile river in Egypt, the Indus and Ganges rivers of India, and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia. But go farther back in time of human history: we all began in southern Africa. +
Speaking of white chicks and Japan, this may be off the topic but who cares about dolphins’ lifes or IQ-levels, while viewing the Japanese like “human zoo exhibits”? Famous early 80s hit song “Japanese Boy” and what do you think?:
…and here’s another 80s song about Japan, when the white people love Japan because it’s exotically Oriental trend kicked in. “Turning Japanese” by the Vapors:
Wh…What? did you just say?
The reasons why white people won’t stop coming to Japan. SWPL forgot the way traditional gender roles are: women in pre-war Japanese society lived in a way to make a very chauvinistic male happy. Japan also has a history of being colonialist the same way Europeans have, therefore for a white racially-aware (forget culturally aware) man they love to conquer and divide, acquire “colored” slaves (the WWII treatment of Southeast Asians and New Guineans)…and the Japanese military officials’ “bride capture” of millions of “comfort women”, including wives of Caucasian colonial officials. I mean, what made white people love Japan? More like “hey, they are people too, just like the blacks.” +
I’m not a racist but..
…we white people patronize non-whites when we just chill out and getitoverwithit. Most of us have relatives in the US armed forces fight the Japanese (or fellow “white Aryan” Germans) during the war, then it’s part of the guilt over the fact we were at war with Japan. The US army has a rule: if anyone attacks us, we fight them back, and we don’t care who you are, what you believe in or where you’re from.+
To the girl who didn’t capitalize Japan (might as well keep on the uncapitalized Negro), you wanna live in a country because you like it? This is how many Japanese emigrated to America felt on our country, they liked it or find it an easy place to be in. People for ages migrated to where the grass is greener, the streets are made of gold or be with those of their color or ethnicity. I wonder there’s an “Americatown” in Tokyo for us Yanks, because we feel out of place in Japan. Makes me think of the movie “Lost in translation” about two American expats fall in love in a country where the cultural values of romance is somehow different. +
Daniel, don’t be hatin’ in here. We have enough hatin’ and we gotta be lovin’ Japan or the world. America isn’t the only country, we not our own planet (does it mean Mexico is our moon?) Tokyo is said to be like Istanbul to the European perspective: “so foreign, yet geographically close” though Japan is a developed country located in the “east” rather than the “west”. If you want the most unique traveling experience, go to Tanzania in BEAUTFIUL Africa. +
White people are always picking on Asian girls, Black guys and Mexican kids. Since when loving races while retaining a racist view of the world in large been so hip and accepted? To uh huh (one of the rudest regs): My Dad doesn’t chase African girls, Asian girls or American girls since he came to the US after meeting his first wife, and I been exposed to every known race, faith or lifestyle in mankind in 30 years on earth. I’m no “intellectual” but got myself an education. +
azo (the “az” stands for Aztlan right?), I never would feel at home in France despite half of my family lives there. To be an American exploring their ethnic roots in the “homeland” everyone considers you or me an “American” and the sense of “fitting right in” has a limit. In China, the government said all Chinese descendants will be treated like Chinese, unlike Japan with the traditional isolationism followed by pride in being homogenous and the xenophobia on other Asians (esp. Koreans known as Zainachi in Japan), they may want more ethnic Nikkeirin (overseas Japanese) to move in Japan, except after the foreign-born came in Japan, the host society regarded them as “foreigners”. +
Mary: Japanese or Jewish-American princess? You can’t tell on the internet, and I may be a Grey alien from Zeta reticuli studying the way humans act cruel toward each other. Take me to your leader (Obama) and I shall make peace with you humans…and then you all become our slaves, earthlings. +
Vegas is already booked tens of thousands of (get this): Japanese and more Chinese tourists in wedding chapels. MGM Grand had to redesign the lion scuplture in front of the hotel building to fit the “feng shui” for east Asian tourists. When in Japan, follow their cultural mores very carefully and don’t be like Tom Selleck’s character in “Mr. Baseball” like to end his meal by throwing his chopsticks inside the bowl and taking a bath instead of showering then relaxing in the baseball team spa. Talk about culture shock, LoL! +
On the Glenn Beck TV program, I seen a clip of Iranian-made propaganda anime of a suicide bombers. Cheaply done, but indicates the world is wrapped up in anime. The best anime is produced now in France anyway, where the French like this non-French item: Le Dejeuner de le Mac Grandes avec les cocas, et Anime en le tele en du matin. +
The Japanese have a culture developed in a homogeneous pattern for over 2000 years, the Imperial Shogunate self-isolated the country for about 500 of them. They began to trade with the outside world again in 1854 when the US Navy under Commodore Perry made an agreement with the Japanese, thus Japan began to get exposed with the West and a century later, Japan was adopting industrialization in a rapid pace like Mitsubishi warplanes known as “zeros”. +
If only I had Japanese calligraphy translator on my ‘puter to read what was said. Learn Japanese here: lesson 1 : “You ugly monkey, white people are devils, hail our divine race” and lesson 2: “We the Japanese never dishonor our elders. White kids do that. White people lazy. They never had kids. Our nation is crowded. why we’re polite. in subway trains. “
For those who didn’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. The Chinese and South Korean governments are condemning the deempahsizing of the Nanking massacre and Korean occupation period in Japanese public school history courses. As a result, protests, demonstrations, mass violence, vandalism of Japanese businesses and civilian invasion of consulates across the Asian continent. Japanese society still honors the WWII soldiers/veterans, even the former PM Junichiro Kaizumi visited his grandpa’s grave in a military cemetery, which was controversial to the world…as Japan continues to come in grip on their WWII-era predecessors’ war crimes. +
Anime cartoon characters seem to resemble white people or Caucasians: the exaggerated phsyical traits: large eyes, very light skin (compared to the light brown Japanese) and weird-colored hair. Plus the overemotional appearance, compared to the Japanese etiquette of total calmness when they are in strangers or in public. I mean, the anime shows are stereotyping us! Hey that’s “offensive” xD
In 1987, the US stock market crashed and took us 7 years to fully recover. In 1994, Japan’s stock market crashed but took 14 years (and counting) to recover. Japan and the US have one destiny together: they are economies in decline. The Japanese work ethic is less individualistic, but group-oriented, longer work hours with smaller hourly wages/pay and more authoritarian structure allow mega-corporations to make decisions like easily laying off people. I worry about the “Mexicanization” of the American economy with no labor unions, minimum-wage only and low-tech plants as the next trend of America “wants to be more like Mexico”. +
You’re correct on the fact Japanese men (esp. farmers, fishermen and white-collar bachelors) are marrying more foriegn-born women: the preferences for Korean, Filipina, Thai, Malay or Vietnamese come to a country once viewed them as “inferior”. The Japanese began by a merger of 4 ethnic groups from the Asian continent anyways, from the Ainu, then Koreans and Malayans, and finally Chinese but without the Mongolian occupation of the Japanese islands. +
Japanese people like other Asians and non-black/non-white people are “Brown”, though I always thought by popular myth in America: they’re the “Yellow” race. Japan is in a mid latitude or temperate climate, thus the average skin color is lighter than native peoples of SE Asia or Southern China, and tanner than natives in Manchuria (China) or the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan. +
Mail-order brides offer a selection of women from around the world: Russians, Ukrainians, Romanians, Turks (tanner shade of “white”), Hispanic/Latin Americans, South Asians (Indian or Pakistani) and of course, East Asians (the main source are the Philippines). I think it’s the worst way to find a woman other than the anonymity of the internet, yet the testimonals of white American men on finding the “perfect” wife being more loyal/obedient and mannered/educated than the female of the same race (white Americans)!+
But what if I’m Mexican and I love Japan? Is that still bad? *tilts head* ^_____^
lol michael…..I seriously hope ur a /b/tard or something. Cos thats the most stupid thing Ive ever read in my life………and I once read a kingsley Amis book!!!
There’s got to be reason for the fascination with Japan to white people, like why not with anywhere else? It’s a parody blog full of comical responses, like mine. +
your allegedly comical responses weren’t very funny. additionally, lol u mad. try again
I’m half white, half Japanese. Where do you think my love for and obsessions of Japan comes from…?
if one is mexican and loves japan, maybe they can blow and rake the leaves in the bonsai gardens?
Japanese culture is the most marketed amongst all culture. I suppose we just don’t have enough natural resources and Japan isn’t that developed in tourism. We just have our culture to sell. And ironically, our politic is completely nationalist. Foreigners can’t even buy an apartment.
Young Japanese never want to return once they’ve left home. Yet foreigners are dreaming of going there living there, without really knowing the social problems.
you people only love japan in order to kiss up to the atomic bombs. fucking retards.
lol, I’m white and love anime…I guess that’s normal? XD
Wow. What a load of stereotypical BULL SHIT..
I know about 1 person that likes Japan at all..
Everyone else I know is clueless about everything and some people think that Japan is a city in China.
Wow. Whoever wrote this is thick.
What if I’m black…
I think whoever wrote this soggy piece of shit excuse for an article is confusing white people with wapanese.
Interesting fact: Most people I’ve seen who’re obsessed with Japan/anime/gay stuff are black.
No.
Pokemon is Japan’s way at getting back at America for WW2 everyone knows that. Except you, because you’re an uneducated, insufferable cunt.
that says alot about your mother, wat. She’s obsessed with Japan AND she gave birth to a soggy piece of shit excuse for a human—Y-O-U.
At least she’s not an uneducated, insufferable gonorrhea dick like you are, wat.
Pokemon on that whiteboy.
PETA suck a dick you fucking fag!
LOL @ the fights on the comment section on like every topic.. shut up guys. lol.
Japan, sucks! I been there many times for work The food is horrible! The culture sucks – isolated & insular. It stinks, it’s hot, its poluted, everyone has bad breath & bad teeth.
ok? that has no argument against my statement. sounds like your mouth is the only part of you thats educated.
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LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!
Japan is definitely known for the latest in techno, but the song is the Japanese remake of a Finnish song “Levan’s Polka” and featuring Hatsune Minu, an anime character. It’s a jig to dance to, the jazz skat talk and has great rhythm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5kDcIJ9i_A
By the way, although Japan is definitely known for the latest in techno, my ass is known for easy entry. I can’t help opening my love buns for big sausages to squeeze in, especially on the dancefloor to the Finnish song “Levan’s Polka en Mi Assah”.
That song has great rhythm if the right one is behind me stroking, if you know what I mean.+
The article forgot to mention the white people who are asiaphiliacs. They are usually males with a strong desire to date oriental women.
That was already covered in #11: “Asian Girls”
Are you sure you weren’t in Gary, Indiana?
LOLSPAM!
el-Mikeo is just another name for El-Homo (aka Michael d.) That was covered in “asian girls” too. +
Ah ok, thanks.
[…] didn’t open any doors either, but just like every other pasty white person I fell in love with the place, and have been back three times […]
gross.
white people have more money to travel asia…
and whites are more welcome in japan…
im joking. not.
if anyone attacks us, we fight them back, and we don’t care who you are, what you believe in or where you’re from.+
then how about iraq shit???
I’m the one out of three people in my entire group of friends who don’t like anime…Besides us three, they’re all into it O__O
[…] didn’t open any doors either, but just like every other pasty white person I fell in love with the place, and have been back three times […]
Typical statement from a white guy that couldn’t get laid in Asia.
I have a half Japanese/Mexican cousin. We’ve been to Japan, and honestly, it wasn’t THAT great. Sorta boring. Humid for sure.
We had WAY more fun in Cancun.
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.
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.
Greg
Was your wife the least expensive? As always
He paid about 5USD for the little guy.
It’s not. This whole site talks about a very small and specific group of white and non-white people. It’s about class, not race. None of the white people I know have much of any interest in anime, Japanese people/things, etc.
And they’re right about loads of Japanese/East Asian men marrying white women, esp. in the US.
Then why does every white American chick I know who goes to Europe or east Asia for school, etc. come back with a serious bf or a husband? White American women are obviously desirable of they wouldn’t be bringing local men back to the US with them.
My mom is another example of this. Her husband is a Tokyo native. They’ve been married for 28 years.
Hahaha, tell this BS to my White American mom who left to Japan for school and came back with a husband who she’s been with for 28 years.
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:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksjllqLo6R1qzzh99o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1258222666&Signature=CXbQDbSksnZ8eAcliJFoC4k7MMI%3D
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.
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.
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.
I KNEW YOU WERE A BEASTIPHILE FREAK. You performed oral sex on a horse in Japan, a goat in Afghanistan, and a dog in Korea, and they were ALL good. Not only that, but you did it and as you said Greg…” I would eat ‘em all again”. Did they return the favor you fucking freak?
forget the love in your heart, you need white Jesus.
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bahumbug beeeotch
Memory flashback! For hardcore anime fans (mostly white weeaboo types), I got me a 1970s era Danguard Ace intro, back then when Japanese animation was cheap & not the best thing to watch (plus garbled audio). En.joy! ohayso.
I remember this show “the Big O” on adult swim a few years back. Japanese…very Japanese…definitely Japanese. The strong fascination with western culture (esp. of the American pop kind) really shows on the Big O season 1 intro.
Why does my keyboard always get sticky after I watch these cartoons. i wonder what it would be like to be with a real woman. Will anyone show me, I have no life and boys never kiss me after they have their way with me. I maybe autistic but I do have my dignity.+
A true standard in comedy blogging.
Another great site is http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
funny because it’s true :p
Cancun is geared toward tourists no wonder you had more fun there. I enjoyed Japan more myself. I built American style houses all over Japan and South Korea for 10 years.
There is so much to do there that most Americans would never imagine in their wildest dreams, that you only learn about by actually living there. It also helped a lot to marry a Japanese woman.
I love it. I especially love the epic stories like Ponyu. Great material for kids, far better than anything available here anymore.
Saturday moring cartoons used to be full of life lessons we got instilled in us everyweek. Since the 24\7 cycle started back in the nineties, its hard to get any media content anywhere in America that has any moral or ethical value to it. Most is just flat inappropriate for kids of any age, and chock full of fascist leftwingnut propaganda, relative morality crap, and is strongly biasesd towards deviance, and degenerate behaviors.
Fortunately for me, my kids are bilingual, thanks to their mother who is Japanese.
I look around at the difference in kids today, and have to say, liberalism is fucking disaster of biblical proportions.
NO! YOU SHUT UP!!!!
This post is fail. Pathetic post.
Ashtankin is reasonably right in his observation, however. I was one of the white people who was genuinely interested in the language going in and passed all four years of the course, so I saw this firsthand.
The first year was about 18 people. People scouting for easy credits, anime fans, linguistics majors picking up a course requirement, people there because friends/significant others/spouses from other groups were in the course too and one middle-aged businessman who was there to improve his resume. Middle-aged man was the first to go; he went within a week.
Second year we shed the “friends” category and most of the easy credit group, their respective obligations taken care of.
Third year was when the students who were serious began to shine; the professor noticed this, of course. Kanji began to weed out the less-dedicated. Most of the anime group had already left or left during this year as this is possibly the hardest aspect of the language.
Fourth year it was the dedicated; class size went from ~18 to 8, which dropped to 7 or maybe less. It’s been a while.
Tough language, good country; having passed the courses, some of my class ended up taking the exchange program and studying in Osaka or Wakayama (where we met our opposite numbers); of the ~18, 4 still pursue the language and country that I know of, I being one. Impressive losses if nothing else.
You have an admirable level of dedication my friend. I’m already grown and married myself, so the time commitment just didn’t and doesn’t make any sense for me. I got too many other priorities.
I would like to know, however, if the time investment ever actually paid real dividends for you, or if you would have been better served investing your time in other persuits?
Agreed, your post was fail. Good job.
This blog though, is awesome.
Two words: Gwen Stefani. She’s actually one of my favourite artists, T Kingdom, Return of Saturn, LAMB etc. all classics. But her Harajuku Girls sum up this entire post
Actually I think blacks are into the Japanese exports of anime, games, technology, motorcycles as much as or even more than whites.
There is a certain part of Japanania that is attractive to parts of all demographics.
Dudes, this one fails in the stuff only white people like. Check out ‘All Japanese All the Time’, ‘GaijinSmash’, ‘Jamaipanese’ just for a taster.
Also check out gaijin tarento lists – it’s a pretty fair split between white and black. Zomahoun would yell at your asses for this inaccuracy, while Jero would sing you a beautiful song about it.
Dudes, you must be a whites.
Name dropping a name like “JERO” when you know most people here don’t know who he is. Are you proud of yourself for that? I guess you must be some sort of “cultured” person since your able to name drop a gimmick singer who only had 1 hit song.
*cough *cough obsessed much? we got it you like Asia, you married an Asian girl, did your own culture kick u out or were you just not good enough for it?
Have to travel to Japan a lot for work. Maybe it’s not my thing but I don’t think it’s anything special. I still can’t tell asians apart, is that bad?
Asians there see a white person and its like they see god, at least they treat them as much. That’s probably why all the losers from America keep going back. The women basically throw themselves at white guys. It’s really rather pathetic.
That’s why all the guys that talk about classy Asian gals are really laughable.
Im sure Asians cant tell us whites apart either, when your
from another race your not used to seeing something different and they end up looking the same. I disagree with your “when asians see whites its like they see god” Thats something a white man whos never been to Japan would say, its a nice stereotype but isn’t true lol as a Employee of Nayko Engines in Tokyo, and living with these japs for 6 years any Americans whos lived in Japan will tell you how racist and indifferent them japs are to us, theres even books and articles online by whites who come here thinking there the shit and are shock to find out, whites make less pay then japs, most spa and bath and some restaurant ands hotels dont accept Europeans and the women there are very xenophobic to any non jap including other asians and whites.Unless your in a tourist spot, they actual act like there better then us and the funny thing is like Americans the japanese also think they invented everything. They also smile and talk behind your back and look at you cuz your white as in something weird and strange not because they like you. You have never been to Japan buddy I can tell by your comment hahaha
I only dates whites but the majority of the Supposed “asian” women throwing them selves at whites is laughable, most are either the reject ones,gold diggers, or from a third world country like thailand the decent asians ones are always with another chink. Theres a reason theres over a billion of them chinks so stop living in a white fantasy you make us look bad.
Racism and xenophobia in Japan agianst whites and non Japanese. Thoughs who say the japs love us are delusional
haha we get treated and stared at like how blacks did in the 50s….
Lazt time i went there, I tried to talk to dis japanese chick and she turned around and looked at me and was like “oh Gai’jin(white man) and walked away…I got barred at Cafe Shohei because I wasnt Japanese. They have a habit of smiling but talk behind ya bak thats tru, its racist as fuk.
Visitin is great, but staying there as an american its horrible
they like really dont like europeans..there very western in culture just not into “westerners” the funny thing is we think
they love us white men but staying there made me doubt that, I got more love in South korea.
I’ve heard of Jero… and I’m an American… I don’t even watch anime.
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Comment response to Seph:
First of all, we do not see white people as a god, but as an outsider. Second of all, asian girls do not throw themselves at white guys, the only reason why we do so is because that’s our only chance of coming to America.
Piss off.
Comment response to Seph:
Oh and when you think we’re “treating” you like a god, we’re actually pointing and laughing at your face and probably talking a bunch of smack behind your back. Its just that you’re too stupid to understand what we’re saying. So for any of you who tell us to “Speak English” in America, I would like to see you speak our language and see how difficult it is when you’re visiting OUR country.
which is why there are so many white men and asian girls living and staying IN JAPAN as a couple. right. OK. LOL
to quote the blog
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.
So Speak English!
most japanese people only eat sushi 3 or 4 times a year.
the only japanese people who are FULL INTO anime are kids or freaks.
most white people are only in japan for 3 years and leave without learning anything about the language or human relationships here.
they go home and talk about japanese pottery, flower arranging, and zen.
what 30yr old Japanese dude actually does any of that stuff???
its what old japanese ladies and white guys do.
the girls that think white people are gods are limited to roppongi and a few other trashy areas.
japanese culture is to put the other person above yourself; not just white people.
this is especially true of guests (ie: foreigners here on business)
thats why if someone holds the door open for you, gives you a present, etc you say excuse me(sorry); sorry for making you open the door open for me, sorry for you going out of your way to buy me a present.
but it also implies thank you in this situation as well.
Oh, I don’t know. My friends and family used to have sushi pretty often, although usually kaitenzushi or maybe takeout trays from the grocery store. More like a snack than a real meal most of the time, I guess. But we did eat it more than 3 times a year. I lived in Osaka for a while though, and I got the feeling that Kansaijin don’t eat sushi as much as we did.
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Hahaha. Though a lot of people would like to argue otherwise for the sake of political correctness, what you say is very true. Hilarious too. Also, it is far from limited to Japan alone, ALL asian girls do it, they probably see Americans (“White” people in general really) as superior or at least that is the impression i get. It is a bit pathetic watching them lavishing attention on some fat loser, but entertaining nonetheless.
*Only urban, “westernised” asian girls do this, the less exposed they are, the less likely they are to venerate white people.
[…] is not to say that we knew much else about the culture. Indeed, aging Gen Xers have been plenty made fun of for their Japan obsession. Perhaps this is because it was silly. Or perhaps this is because, in […]
I think (some) whites dream of japan of old and think when they travel to Japan they will see something like that ,but it dosent exist anymore they love the concepts of the samurai and Geishas,Sushi ,Anime deffinetly depicts this dream some white people live in, One must remember thereis still to this day lots of animosity towards america over world war II and I think many white people forget that, Ive practiced my Kenjutsu in Japan and lived there for a short while I found acting like a complete indefferent asshole towards the Japanese got me further then acting like some white dillusional clown..They laughed at me a few times so I would swear at them you want to see a jap retreat back into his shell lol like I said there not samurai anymore there a buntch of corporate suits with no desire for confrontation…I always find when travelling act Indefferent and you get further with other cultures, they seem to never figure out why you seem to not give a shit about them….Its all in the swager gentlemen act like you dont give a fuck and they will leave you be, try to hard and they make a joke of you…
On another note you want cute asian girls and some genuine respect not like thailand or the phillipines where there looking for walking ATM machines try KOREA I absolutely love south korea its where I live right now & besides the Silla Warriors of Korea kicked the shit out of the Japanese anyway so much for the mighty Samurai lol just kidding but seriously its a better experience or atleast for me its been
Classic “patriotic” but racist WWII-era propaganda about the Japanese. After all, the US was at war with Japan and what the Japanese imperial government preached was world conquest, brutality & sinister abuse towards non-Japanese throughout east Asia and the Pacific islands.
The Japanese make the best video games hands down without them we wouldn’t have games like Resident Evil or Tekken if you don’t like anything else about Japan you have to give them there props for that
My name is Thomas Briollet. I must admit I am homosexual. The only woman I fantasize about sexually is my mother. She is so fucking sexy. I dream of bending her over and pounding her pussy in front of our gay French relatives. Then I will come on her face and she will lick it off and say “Oh Thomas,you are just like your father who beat the shit out of you and me and was a pathetic alcoholic, and now you just work for some stupid French wine distribution company because you are too stupid to see beyond cliches about French people!” The best thing the French have is the Eiffel Tower, but it is completely useless, like me Thomas. It is just an ugly heap of metal that serves no purpose. Big deal.
I think the French people are so great, but the French have done fucking nothing for the world. If French is so great, why does the whole world speak English? I hate English speakers, but it was the Americans who saved the French from the Germans during World War 2. I am a typical worthless French guy. I need to wax down my extremely thick eyebrows because they take up half my face. I live in China because I think I can be hedonistic and an international playboy, but only the trash of the world lives in Beijing because it is a shitty communist hole. The Chinese would kill someone to move out of Beijing. I moved here to make money to send to my pathetic French family who can’t find jobs to support themselves, because they live in a ghetto called Reims. I thought in China I would be an important white man, but really the Chinese wish I would leave their country, and stop sleeping with many prostitutes and sluts in their country both Asian and white. Take my laowai trash out, and also my horrible French wine.
I grew up in a housing project because my father was too busy beating me up and drinking because he was an unemployed alcoholic and he never loved me. But I still am playboy like he is. He fucked lots of women and had lots of ugly offspring like me. My father used to beat me up because I deserved it for being a shtihead bastard, and asshole. So I fantasized about fucking my mother like he did. Now I dominate women because I am scared of being controlled and powerless. I like to beat them up and be an S&m Master because I’m scared of being weak and beaten up like when my papa used to hit me. I like only sexy innocent white girls who are models and who are stupid enough to be submissive to me. They make me feel important and strong, but I am boring and an ugly French cliche.
I am secretly gay, but I never told my papa cause he would hit me hard and make my ass bleed. I like partying partying and drinking and dancing because I am so original! I am such a party animal! Too bad I am getting fatter and uglier as I grow older. Too bad I have a small small penis and I will never satisfy a woman; and they are faking their orgasms by going ah ah ah. But many sexy girls make me feel important. I am scared of being alone so I must be surrounded by lots of friends and distractions because in my retard brain I know that my papa hated me and he abandoned me. Sincerely, Thomas Briollet.
This interesting film should demonstrate more Chinese and Allied Force torture, rape, and murder during World War II by barbaric Japanese, claiming they are the superior race. History and culture, in no way, can defend them.
Germans have been given credit for torture and mass murder; however, the Japanese might have been worse. So little has been said about Japan. The Chinese surely remember 23 million murdered by the Japanese.
See “The Knights of Bushido, A Short History of Japanese War Crimes,” by Lord Russell of Liverpool. Written in 1958. Reprinted in 2002, it can be purchased on Amazon.com.
We think these things can never happen again. History repeats itself.
yeah that happened like 50 something years ago. get over it.
nobody ever mentions that the original idea of eliminating inferior races to get a better human came from AMERICAN SCIENTISTS.
nobody also never mentions that scientists begged and pleaded for the 2 atom bombs to NOT be dropped on Japan because of the consequences. yeah those japanese soldiers raped the people of nanking, i read the book. but it is also war, anything goes. not to mention that the after effects of radiation is still effecting japanese today.
as far as history repeating itself, its always going to happen. look how many “depressions” america has had so far.
so japs screwed up then karma bit them in the butt.
lets leave it there okay? if you’re gonna try and put japanese people on blast then acknowledge the faults of others involved too.
thank you white guy in asia, japan is lame. white people glorify it like some sacred land, but the country runs on materialism. and they suspiciously love poop.
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Lemme guess. You’re not actually Asian, but just another piece of filipino mexitrash.
Fuck Japan. Fuck their misogyny, fuck their xenophobia, fuck their sexual repression and resulting bizarre neuroses, and fuck their shitty-ass cartoons. That is all.
sexual repression? you can’t be joking
white people DO NOT like Japan.
ummm… remember Pearl Harbor???
we hate japs
remember Atomic bombs
damn jap killers
In fact, sooooo many people think that Japan is cool. I havent been there but my friends always tells me that they cant explain how awesome Japan is. well I love it cause everuthing is high-tech over there….
Was this written by an eight-year-old? What happened to #99? I thought white people liked grammar.
I live in Japan. yeah. I am white too. All my white friends have come to visit me too. This seems to be a pretty true stereo type as well. Out of the 150 non Japanese English teachers I have worked with we have only had 6 black people. 4 from Jamaica, Trinidad and South Africa. 1 is only half black, the other is a super nerd, basically a white washed black dude. We only have one Latino from the USA. The rest are all white. Everything is NOT so high tech over here. Not at all. Some aspects of Japan are way ahead of the USA. I have a personal t-1 connection for the same price you pay for cable internet. Other aspects are 50 years behind the USA. But yeah, overall Japan is awesome in a way that cant be explained. I love it here WAY better than the USA.
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well, the sex with pretty japanese girls doesn’t hurt
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ive been to japan twice. honestly, its A LOT better than my country canada, and every stuff is high tech.
most cities are safe and clean.. people are really nice.. wow.
too bad i have no money to live there again ;-(
Japan is all right, but why do they have to kill and eat everything in our oceans?
Actually, they’re a bit perverted.
well, i’m not obsessed with Japan, but it does interest me quite a bit (and yes i am white
). I enjoy speaking it and watching some anime, but i wouldn’t say i was a nerd, and i don’t think the people around me would say that either. Things shouldn’t be based on stereotype (that includes colour as well). The culture interests me and the country is beatiful.
however, there are also lots of other countries i’d like to visit.
Japanese metla band Deathgaze’s song “Genocide” and I fear the song title won’t sell in the USA, it may attract the wrong crowd like white power skins or neo-Nazis into the black metal genre. I mean, do white people expect the Japanese into this stuff? Well, you hadn’t been watching “Death Note” which the adult-themed anime has plenty of metal references. Enjoy, you white yankee devils.
[…] riesling, that I made friends with a fellow Nippon-addict. The following is an excerpt from #58 in Stuff White People Like – Japan If you find yourself in an awkward silence with white people, just mention how you […]
For the most part, I don’t know anything about white people, especially white Americans. But man it’s like you googled Japan and made a list here. Since this post is about something I actually know about, I can see that it’s all wrong.
It goes to show any human society’s ability to develop into an empire without interference (on the most part) from white Europeans. Alot of Japan’s economic success story since the end of WWII began from a tradition of honor and work ethic, but it was the U.S. industrial companies placed the factories when Japan paid cheap at the first place.
日本发展的的确十分迅速，但对于日本，中国人大部分还是处于“反日”的消极心理的
White guys that are TOO into Japan to the point of learning Nihongo are just a little creepy. What are you guys running from?
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I fucking hate Japan. It’s so so so so CREEPY.
Man, this website is pretty lame and like, inaccurate. Ick.
Ahahaha. I’m half Japanese and joined the Japanese club at my university to meet other Japanese Canadians, since I only knew a few in high school. Turns out I was their first actual (part) Japanese member. Everyone was white or another East Asian ethnicity. Go figure.
What about learning Chinese or Russian? White people should only learn other “white” languages? My boyfriend can’t learn Arabic because that would be “creepy?” What about the Japanese foreign exchange students that are all over our school learning English? Or wearing the Engrish shirts that they think are so awesome?
The article is funny, and the whole site has some very amusing/stereotypically accurate articles. Don’t treat it so seriously, and if you do, don’t be such an idiot.
Right on Shleee
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Being a white, 29-year-old male with cherry blossom tattoos and a love of everything Asian I can assure you this is in fact a trend.
For me it has to do with the reverance and respect in their culture. And the women are not catty and anorexic and actually take pleasure in making a guy feel good.
i fucking hate japan but i love to fuck japanese girl
wow i agree with u haha i like fucking japanese girl also,,,,,
I believe that asians are far too superior to interbreed will any trash
You are so conceited. you can’t get any even with your own race much less a japanese women.
I…love anime… and Miyuzaki! AH! I’m white!!
Couldn’t make it with women from your own country Ryan-san?
No kidding. I lived in Japan for more than 2 years and I would NEVER date a guy who lived in Japan and dated Japanese girls. Gaijin men have such a Tom Cruise complex….
I dont really like Japan that much now. They are so greedy. During world war 2 they attacked korea, china, europe and bombed america. Japanese ppl r drunk and they have no life. They scream for no reason. Thats not it though.
seriously, there are more drunk americans
and ww2 is over. i guess you want some type of
restitution for something
The author is WHITE CANADIAN–
hate to spoil it for you. But he did live in Chinatown. So he could probably see and live from the perspective of upper-middle class Asian-Americans.
But yes, as you alluded, a lot of upper-middle class East Asian American can relate to majority of the list on SWPL. Because they were educated with postmodern, multicultural, left-leaning, liberal values.
see the author of this blog’s talk at Google—
Tokyo Disneyland was great. We visited our in-laws once when the kids were young. Japanese schools were still in session, so they got to go on all the rides, no waiting.
I am everything this post stereotypes, before it became popular- stationed there, learned the language, taught English, married a Japanese girl. Everyone isn’t like me (lucky for them, luckier for me.)
There’s things I love about Japan and things I hate. Almost forty years later, I know a lot, and very little about Japan. Overall, it’s better for us here in the US, but there is a lot we miss and we visit when we can afford to (which might be never again, with the dollar cratering.)
Tammy, what is a Tom Cruise complex?
There’s much truth in these comments, but in the end, people are individuals and everything is what you make of it.
Clander,
You are the textbook definition of a racist white american. And the sad thing is that you may not even realize it. 99% of all White Americans are racist. You are the perfect example of White Priviledge and institutionalized racism. You’ve probably never heard of it. White people couldn’t see racism if it hit them in the side of the head. So don’t feel guilty or anything. Just keep profiting and writing more racist books for all the racist white americans out there.
The white man’s struggle is a superficial one. He doesn’t need to fight racism or poverty or anything any other minorities in america do. So he just makes lists of things he likes for his own amusement at the expense of other minorities. Your blog is clearly racist. White people can’t see racism because they’ve never experienced it but every other minority in america can see how much of a racist you and everyone who reads it is. You are exposing the true racism in america today.
Hey J Anderson, calm down man. The guy who writes this blog is clearly sarcastic about all of this. He’s not a racist. I’m white, and I laugh about all this stuff he writes.
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LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit it’s just as funny!!!
I find it funny that you’re condemning racism while being racist, and at the same time contradicting your own point.
Japan is so passe- them toyota’s they make them in the Philipines now and china. Cheers to the falling sun and sinking stars and stripes!
I really hate it. I’m korean and a lot of white people think I’m japanese, when they find out that I’m not, its like they’re disapointed or something. Nothing is worse than when you get that one guy who comes up speaking japanese. Just because I have slanted eyes doesn’t make me japanese or chinese. Korea does exist too, eventhough many white people know nothing of it except there was ‘some war there’ or the infamous north that gives us a bad name…
Thank you!
Finallyy someone who I can agree with.
Seriously, people need to stop giving Japan shit about WW2, it’s not like Japanese ppl complain everyday about the atom bomb and getting two of their cities completely smashed, or the tokyo raids. Japanese people did do some pretty bad things but so did everyone; it’s war. Yes Japanese people killed us Americans in pearl harbor. but my grandpa as a soldier in WW2 also killed lots of Japanese ppl. It’s not the people that do the horrible things during war but the atmosphere of war itself.
People here are talking about how the Japanese people are too conceited or wtv but seriously, they don’t have enough pride for their own culture, what with their own government acting as if they are still a terrible country because of their past deeds.
Everyone should just move the fuck forward and stop living in the past….sheesh.
you made me poop my pants! hahaha! whites are so much fun to tease. they never laugh, just turn red!
this site really is getting a lot of comments.
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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Dude, just want to say one thing. If you are running away from a drinking society, I would argue Japan drinks more than America in some regards. Just a heads up.
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I’m sorry for people’s ignorance. Personally I would be thrilled at my mistake (if I happened to be an idiot and assumed someone’s ethnicity), Korean food is way better than Japanese food hands down….
I think what people need to realize about this blog and especially about this particular post is how white people see themselves and their standing in this world. But how and where do white people see themsleves in this world? ON TOP OF COURSE. But there are exceptions: Europeans, especialy Anglo-Saxon Europeans, and maybe China, and of course Japan! They love to visit these countries or be friends with these peole because they see these people as equals if not more superior. Whereas, when they visit third world countries like Thaliand, Philippines or Central America…they don’t look at these people the same way as the other people mentioned above.
To put it bluntly, when going to a cocktail party a white person would probably invite a Japanese over a Filipino.
actually this blog was meant to point out the elitist, condescending, snobs who think they are superior because they don’t do what other people are doing. they see themsleves as special.
I lived and worked all over Japan and S.Korea for 10 years. I loved both countries, and even married a Japanese woman. Korean food is way better, but Korea itself, is still too primitive.. going to Japan was like going back to civilization again.
Hands down, Asian women of any flavor are superior in every way to western women. There can be exceptions to the rule, but they are almost unheard of, and don’t affect the rule at all.
If it wasn’t for states like Texas, I might just move back to Japan and stay there.
Desirae?
WHATT???
you thought Korea was primitive?
I lived in Korea for five years because my dad was stationed in DongDuCheon.
When I moved back to Atlanta, I thought Atlanta
was primitive.
America doesn’t have a subway that goes all the way around the country. If you use public transportation in Georgia, people look at you funny. Like, they think you are poor.
Plus, the internet is fucking god damn slow..
Korea primitive??? Did you go in the 1980’s before the subway system was built Gregalicious? I’ve been to Tokyo, Japan as well and the subway system in Seoul, South Korea beats Tokyo hands down as well as with anything else that concerns technology. Japan maybe a bit more ahead than S. Korea as far as knowing about the rest of the world (I’m Indian-American and Koreans had a hard time believing that I’m American, whereas I had less difficulty explaining this to Japanese folk) but to say S. Korea is primitive is like saying that white people hate Glee.
@Michelle, actually I built houses all over S.Korea and Japan from ’88’ through ’98’ when the Asian economy collapsed. You are grossly mistaken if you think Skorea was anything more than a third world country emerging into a second world country at that time..
Besides food, Korea doesn’t beat out Japan at anything. Period. Don’t get me wrong, I liked both countries very much. and considering our current 24/7 surveillance just about everywhere here, and the current fascist leftwingnut political climate in the U.S. I currently prefer either over the U.S. hands down..
As a white person, I have to tell you that although I’ve heard of a show called “Glee”, I’ve never seen it.. I’ve also never seen an episode of American Idol either.. so it may be a generational thing. 😉
@Desirae>> yes, S.Korea is primitive… I’ve also been to Atlanta and nowhere in Atlanta does traffic on a 4 lane freeway turn into 7 or 8 lanes because traffic laws aren’t just suggestions in the U.S. I never had to shit in a hole in the ground in Atlanta, and was never served water that wasn’t fit to wash in let alone drink. I never had to wash my clothes by hand, because that is still the way its done almost everywhere.. I did pay $25 bucks one time to get a load of clothes washed in a washing machine at a luandromat in Soeul one time, just so I could get them to fit again.
I’m thinking you must be a liberal or very close to it to equate public transportation in a country smaller than the State of Washington, with more than 55,000,000 people, to a state in the most advanced country in the world that has less than 10% of that population…
In addition, I’ve ridden public transportation in S.Korea and it was no picnic… Summers are hot and humid similar to Atlanta but at no point in Atlanta did I have to miss my stop because I was so crammed into the space with human bodies I couldn’t move…
Never was I forced to brush my teeth with bottled orange juice because there was no bottled water to be had, and tap water put you down for a week simply because its so damn nasty…
You can pretend whatever you want with people that have never been to S.Korea, but to those of us who have, you should just keep your silly little mouth shut and move on…
@Desirae>> Thank your dad for his service to our country, I’ve been to Afghanistan and Iraq and without rough men like him standing on the wall between us and the crazies on the other side, none of us would sleep at night…
sorry for my somewhat mean tone in my last post.. I got caught up reliving some of the time I spent in S.Korea. It wasn’t all bad.. I felt like Indiana Jones most of the time and had a hell of a good time and the most amazing adventures.. I wasn’t military when I was there, and didn’t get to live on base, I lived with the common folk as a contractor to S.Korean companies.
The only time I got to speak English for sometimes 10 mos. at a time was when I took a day or two off and went to the towns that surround every American military base.
you lived in your own little slice of America, in a country whose majority of the population don’t have even the basics of what we take for granted.
I was a military brat myself, mostly stationed in Europe. A fine experience indeed, but still far far from being able to see the reality of the culture of the countries I lived in and visited..
Dude,
you were in Korea in 90s.
Duh, of course it’s gonna feel primitive.
I was in Korea from 2004-2009.
Although I lived on the base, I traveled a lot, and I went to Seoul almost everyday. You sound reall ignorant when you call South Korea “a third world country”
did you know that Obama asked Korea for help on economic matters and S korea actually rejected him?
Dude, when I lived on the based in DongDuCheon, my dad and I used to talk about how Americans come to Korea, thinking that they are like the celebrities because they are from “America” and then when they actually arrive, they don’t even fucking know how to use the subway system?
You are so full of shit.
do you know LG? their washing machines are the most popular in US and you had to wash your clothes with your hand in Korea? the country that produces it?
Dude, I am American, but after living in KOrea for 5 years, I came to love that country and your ignorance is pissing me off.
I hope you do yourself a favor and do some research on economy in Asia. Look up Miracle of the Han River?
In 1990s, Korea was going though IMF, you dumb fuckin ass.
the size doesn’t matter, actually it does. It’s amazing how a country smaller than a state of US became a first world nation. Of course, people like you who are so full of shit don’t get it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_second_third_worlds_map.svg
@Desirae, chuckle, I have kids like you who think their narrow view of anything is the end all beat all authority on any subject. lol..
just because washing machines are made in korea how many people there actually own one? few, dumbass, very fucking few..
why don’t they have dryers?? because they don’t have the resources to make the element, and to import it makes it prohibitively expensive.. of course having seen a dryer in korea is going to convince you I’m full of shit because you have your head so far up your ass..
face it kid, you don’t know enough about anything to be an authority.. only in American or the kids of Americans are so willing to give their superiors the full benefit of their inexperience..
just because you have a mouth, doesn’t mean you know a damn thing about what your talking about, and certainly doesn’t guarantee anybody outside your age group thinks anything you have to say is worth listening too.
So… Good luck with that! 😀
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Just when I have read all the stupid post, this gem pops up. Let us read what this (true)voice of authority had to say about why Korea has NO washing machines….
“just because washing machines are made in korea how many people there actually own one? few, dumbass, very fucking few..”
Ok, that’s his opinion, he should have left well enough alone, but NOOOOO, this is the all wise Gregalicious!! He goes on to say…….
“why don’t they have dryers?? because they don’t have the resources to make the element, and to import it makes it prohibitively expensive.. of course having seen a dryer in korea is going to convince you I’m full of shit because you have your head so far up your ass..”
WTF!!!!!!!!! Did ya’ll catch that????
“why don’t they have dryers?? because they don’t have the resources to make the element, and to import it makes it prohibitively expensive..”
If you MAKE a product, why would you be concerned about INPORTING it?????? You would be too busy EXPORTING it!!!
DUH!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, if they don’t have the resources to to make the element, then how do they make the items (dryers) to export to other countries????
It is so easy to shut down Blowhard Greg in an arugment, just use logic and common sense and he will go down for the count every time.
Good luck with that!!!
😉
Last Friday in northern Japan: Sendai area/Miyagi region, a very large earthquake (M9.0) lead to tsunamis and a nuclear plant meltdown in the Fukushima-Daiichi facility.
Honk for Japan! How really cool (and warm) of him, Youtube star Nigahiga responds to the recent disaster, by creating a charity donation effort. Honk your car horn and donate some cash. (to the Int’l. Red Cross). Make a difference in the world.
His idea is catching on. Someone else yesterday done the same in the Indian Wells Tennis cup event down here on the intersection of Washington St./Miles Ave. in Indian Wells, Cal.
The charity groups are legit, held by schools, churches, community centers, celebrities and our emergency relief agencies currently send their volunteers in Japan.
Go ahead: make some noise and $20 goes to the Red Cross.
Reasons to love Japan: They’re not stuck in the Animation Age Ghetto, leading to more and better fantasy and sci-fi.
im white and i fuckin hate japan
Please don’t judge all young Americans based on idiots like that guy. There are some of us who are well educated and well aware of how stupid some of our peers are. We are don’t like them either. By only listening to the stupid ones, you look like an embittered old asshole. Have a little faith in the young.
Nobody unless you’re very white is fascinated in another Asian country. How about Indonesia, located off Southeast Asia, is a large island chain. 150 million people, largest Islamic country outside of Asia and the Middle East, being Pakistan and Iran.
The island of Java itself is crowded with over half the national population. The world knows them by its coffee and namesake on computer programs. Indonesia is not classified a developed country like Japan is. however it is a big fascinating place.
@Dude>> I’ve never been to any of those countries you mentioned other than Japan and S.Korea, so I don’t know anything about them.. I’ll take your word for it and put it on my agenda to visit one of these days.. I’m currently planning a trip to either Cambodia, Portugal, or Thailand in the early fall. I’ll do a bit more research on all three before I choose.
Having been to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Dubai, and Kuwait, and going back to Iraq for work pretty soon, I’m not that interested in muslims anymore.
Don’t think I’ll be vacationing anywhere they are anytime soon. 😉
I got relatives in Japan so I’ll be seeing them again this year as well. Japan is always a good place to be.
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@young person>>
Its kinda hard to have any faith in the young when they are so inexplicably stupid about everything, yet still ignore their elders and those knowlegeable people that are in every one of their lives to insist on proclaiming an opinion they pulled out of their ass and expect everybody else to pretend that building your self-esteem for you, is more important than trying to get your head out of your ass.
while I may be an old asshole, I still know far more, and everything a lot better than you do, and you would do well to squash your petty and pretentious ego, you aren’t that great, and never will be unless you start doing more listening, and less talking, you don’t know nearly as much as you would like to think you do about anything…. dumbass.
I guess age doesn’t bring maturity.
You know, the other day someone told me how into Japanese culture they were, and anime, and learning Japanese… That I *nearly* rolled my eyes and said,”THAT IS SO 2002!! You know, back when it was actually COOL to be into japanese culture. Now it’s just weird and identifies you as a total nerd and dork.”
I love anime and manga. I like other cartoons and read books, yes, but anime and manga are different. They CAN be drawn “cartoony” in a way, but still hold a dignified and serious plot. Some people don’t get it, but others do. I mean cartoons aren’t all about hilarity and whatnot. Animes like Monster (which is one of the greatest animes of its type I’ve ever see) delve into the darkest recesses of the human mind and what evil truly is. Is it something supernatural, or can it be found within a normal-looking human being?
Fucking Japs ha
Japan has produced alot of great artwork and good music.
For example :”Just be friends” by another Vocaloid Luka.
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uhh… what?
I’ve lived in Korea for 11 years, pretty much grew up there, and never been to a house where they didn’t have a washing machine… except those university students who use the laundromat… In fact, many apartments come EQUIPPED with most of the household electronics, including, yes, you guessed it, a washing machine. A dryer is also frequently provided, or is a function of the washing machine.
I’m guessing the last time you’ve been to Korea was like ten years ago??
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[…] didn’t open any doors either, but just like every other pasty white person I fell in love with the place, and have been back three times […]
It really sucks that the weebos and other freaks come to Japan just for anime and sushi, it’s time for them to grow up. I’m going there because I love the COUNTRY, not for any other childish reason.
yeah right. you love just the dirt that sticks out of the water?
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The thing about Korea is they’re incredibly racist against anyone who isn’t either Korean or white. Genocide against black and brown people is a popular, completely PC opinion to hold in the country.
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FOAD
I think more because of the girls… Especially with white otakus and middle-aged men. Asian girls are nearly the most sexually exploited in all media next to Blacks. They always being stereotyped by white foreigners as cute, meek, petite, family-oriented, anti-feminist, sexually-hungered and always loving their man (especially if he’s white)… And something I’ve personally think they go out with Asian because of the lack of confident (socially and sexually) in domestic women (especially Asian) and prefer them to be “Off the boat”… Less they know…The more they need you, Amirite? Why you think most White guy’s Asian wife barely speaks English and always giggling like a twit.
The popularity is in part likely due to the import filter: if it’s terrible, it won’t make it over the pacific. It’s also more foreign than England while still being geographically and economically accessible. Lastly, there’s a lot of cultural trade between the US and Japan despite the two having very different traditions and modes of logic, leading to a lot of Through the Looking Glass moments.
Moshi moshi :3
Kawaii desu ne uguu~♥ n_n;
I’m a huge weaboo and I love it.
It’s so weird how I’m black and a lot of these posts relate to me… -_-
India should really be the highest-rated country on this site’s list. It checks off so many items here, including:
#62 Knowing What’s Best for Poor People (no other country has as many poor people!)
#61 Bicycles
#59 Natural Medicine (they’ve practically invented it)
#32 Vegan/Vegetarianism (ditto)
#28 Not having a TV
#18 Awareness
#15 Yoga
#13 Tea (Darjeeling to Ceylan…)
#10 Wes Anderson Movies (Darjeeling express…)
#7 Diversity
#2 Religions their parents don’t belong to
oh. my. god. I love you. It’s so true. I can’t even go out to sushi anymore with some of my friends….because then I get the whole “It’s not AUTHENTIC” b.s.
gag.
[…] occasionally China or Japan is substituted for the European nation […]
Who writes this shit? Surely this is intended as some kinda of weird-ass joke… do any of you actually KNOW any white people?
[…] one dude who is obsessed with Asia, and that probably means they’re obsessed with Asian women (and the country they obsess over in particular is probably (definitely) Japan). And I’m just saying, if they are then be suss about them. So, Asian women huh? Which ones? All? […]
Japan is a lot like America. Face the fact. The things Americans get to do in Japanese restaurants in America are the same things they get to do in Japanese restaurants in Japan, without their fellow white folk staring at them. They can learn the names of Japanese beer, wines (hey no Budweiser or Busch light!) and cute little Japanese customs like press the sushi down with your thumb (which is will be filled with EEEWWW and GROSS!!! in America) and promise themselves that this is how they will eat sushi with their white friends back home at the sushi bar.
Japanese people are not threatening to white Americans. Americans want to be the center of attention in every country and every city. Japanese mild manners and lack of loud speech is the perfect place for them to say HEY GUYS I’M AMERICAN, HOW YA DOIN?
Japan is America on crack. White Americans love the weirdness of Japan. The weirdness they themselves call weird is what they will call a part of Japanese culture in Japan and behave all normal about it, like no big deal. They will even buy some weird stuff and showcase it in their dorm rooms or living rooms.
Pictures! Nothing beats white guys being quirky and “cool” with Japanese people they befriended in Japan and would immediately start calling them FRIENDS. This will undoubtedly show up on Facebook. The white guy will be wearing his hair loose, carrying a travel pouch and both arms wrapped around Japanese friends like they were his brothers.
The fact is, Japan is the perfect escape for the white American. It’s got everything you want and then some. It’s the perfect facebook post and the perfect place to show off your nothingness and call it something.
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