The Top Ten Observations Foreigners Living in Japan make about the Japanese.

[andrijzip]

This is a funny and, for the most part, accurate list. Check it out:

The Top Ten Observations Foreigners Living in Japan make about the Japanese.

[Adhesive]

This is a funny and, for the most part, accurate list.

Not quite sure it's either, really.

[Captain Japan]

Not quite sure it's either, really.

Sounds like he's been in Japan for 7 days, not 7 years.

[Kuang_Grade]

God forbid they should eat something other than Japanese food!

Yeah, Pizza hut, KFC and mcdonalds as well as french and italian cooking are completely unknown in Japan but j folks seem to be starting like this thing called coffee.

[canman]

I felt when reading it, it was more like what do foreigners who haven't lived in Japan feel about Japan. But yes I agree it doesn't sound like somebody who has lived here for seven years.

[FG Lurker]

Yeah, Pizza hut, KFC and mcdonalds as well as french and italian cooking are completely unknown in Japan but j folks seem to be starting like this thing called coffee.

Never seen an Indian restaurant here and Japanese hate Korean-style BBQ restaurants. Oh, and no one here ever eats Chinese.

Maybe this thread should be moved to the Another newbie reporter "discovers" Japan forum.

[Taro Toporific]

The Top Ten Observations Foreigners Living in Japan make about the Japanese.

10. The Japanese are some of the coolest, kindest and most hospitable people on the planet.

Having spent every workday standing on crutches in front of the "Courtesy Seat" for the past 20 odd years of commuting...



Sheesh, those "kindest and most hospitable people on the planet" ought to know that those are reserved for aliens.

[gomichild]

Yeah, Pizza hut, KFC and mcdonalds as well as french and italian cooking are completely unknown in Japan but j folks seem to be starting like this thing called coffee.

Heh.

ALso of late I am really starting to empathize with all the hassle you have regarding those damn courtesy seats Taro. You pretty much have to demand one. Not enough to have crutches or a huge preggo belly apparently.

[Greji]

Not enough to have crutches or a huge preggo belly apparently.

Preggo belly? Where does it say that? Those are courtesy seats for men who are either elderly, or have had a hard day at the office.

Why would you think that they would let a woman sit down in a samurai country. That borders on blasphemy! Wait'll you download! If you have a boy, someone will offer him a seat and you will be able to stand right in front of him to insure that he is comfortable.

[Catoneinutica]

Heh.

ALso of late I am really starting to empathize with all the hassle you have regarding those damn courtesy seats Taro. You pretty much have to demand one. Not enough to have crutches or a huge preggo belly apparently.

This old curmudgeon I used to work with in Seattle said he never offered his seat to pregnant women or obese people because both types were in their positions "voluntarily."

[American Oyaji]

obese I can understand. Preggo, well, thats just honorably (or in some cases dishonorably) continuing the species and should be given a special spot since men cant do it.

[Tsuru]

Fuck elaborate Darwinian theories about whether you should or should not stand up for someone for continuing the species: if you are in a courtesy seat and a pregnant woman turn or a guy on crutches turn up YOU FUCKING STAND UP. Never mind travellers who've just been on a plane for 500 hours and have to endure a little of the Japanese subway system in rush hour with 15 million pounds of luggage before they can get on your shinkansen. Fuckers.

[American Oyaji]

Fuck elaborate Darwinian theories about whether you should or should not stand up for someone for continuing the species: if you are in a courtesy seat and a pregnant woman turn or a guy on crutches turn up YOU FUCKING STAND UP. Never mind travellers who've just been on a plane for 500 hours and have to endure a little of the Japanese subway system in rush hour with 15 million pounds of luggage before they can get on your shinkansen. Fuckers.

Who said anything about Darwin? He was an asshole as well as a homosexual.

[Iraira]

Who said anything about Darwin? He was an asshole as well as a homosexual.

How was he an asshole? I'm not gonna touch the homosexual remark as it clearly has no bearing on anything.

[Tsuru]

Who said anything about Darwin? He was an asshole as well as a homosexual.

Oh shut up AO.

[Takechanpoo]

[Taro Toporific]

Sorry, normally I barf first, and ask questions later.

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[andrijzip]

I think you all are missing the point of the list - these are all things that everyone who has ever washed up on these shores has said or at least heard from other foreigners. Whether they are accurate or not, they are all things I have heard repeatedly in the seven plus years I have been here.

[FG Lurker]

I think you all are missing the point of the list - these are all things that everyone who has ever washed up on these shores has said or at least heard from other foreigners. Whether they are accurate or not, they are all things I have heard repeatedly in the seven plus years I have been here.

Perhaps you have...I fail to see how that makes the list "funny and, for the most part, accurate" though.

[Mike Oxlong]

Japundit has snapped up the list in their routine scouring of FG for content. Let 'em have this one!

[Mulboyne]

I'll give andrijzip a pass on this. When I first saw the list, it seemed like it was supposed to be a list of "newbie foreigner" observations about Japan. Looking again, though, it isn't so much a list of first impressions but more a sort of handed-down gaijin "wisdom" which is largely rubbish but I've certainly heard similar statements before - except maybe for the food one.

[GomiGirl]

I think you all are missing the point of the list - these are all things that everyone who has ever washed up on these shores has said or at least heard from other foreigners. Whether they are accurate or not, they are all things I have heard repeatedly in the seven plus years I have been here.

Meh - maybe. But all a bit too generalised and stereotyped for me.

Anyhoo - welcome to the board.

[Jack]

I can't say I disagree except for the food part but if you have been living there a long time and have heard this sort of thing bfore I can see that it may sound cliche. But overall, correct description of the impression visitors to Japan may have.

[james]

Who said anything about Darwin? He was an asshole as well as a homosexual.

are you in there?

[Behan]

Preggo belly? Where does it say that? Those are courtesy seats for men who are either elderly, or have had a hard day at the office.

Why would you think that they would let a woman sit down in a samurai country. That borders on blasphemy! Wait'll you download! If you have a boy, someone will offer him a seat and you will be able to stand right in front of him to insure that he is comfortable.

Had a good laugh reading this.

[FG Lurker]

are you in there?

I think you might mean, "It's okay to come out."

[unkosando]

are you in there?

I think it's more like he is trapped in the closet.

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[American Oyaji]

You guys obviously don't know much about Darwin. He was against homosexuality.

Anyway, my comment was a non-sequiter based on a response to me.

Nevermind you guys didnt get the joke.

[james]

You guys obviously don't know much about Darwin. He was against homosexuality.

did you read that on some lowbrow tripe-laden rightwing neo-con xtian site like theconservativevoice.com or renewamerica.us?

at most, darwin ignored homosexual behaviour. sure the man was a visionary, but he was also born almost 200 years ago and he came of age in the victorian era - that was bound to have some constraining effect on his thought patterns.

anyway, far from abnormal, homosexual behaviour is very common in many species. it's been observed in over 450 vertebrates and in some even exceeds heterosexual behaviour. humans are in fact remarkably hetero by comparison.

[Iraira]

You guys obviously don't know much about Darwin. He was against homosexuality.

Anyway, my comment was a non-sequiter based on a response to me.

Nevermind you guys didnt get the joke.

Yeah, keep in mind the times Darwin grew up in. It wasn't really that kosher to walk around saying, "Descent with modification and by the way, can I suck on your schlong?"