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chokonen888 wrote:... (Yesterday I was subjected to Sakana-kun eating fish and saying "I'm so happy to have been born Japanese!") Let it go...let it go....
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Sort of like the idea that American is uniquely free, fair, and wealthy among all the nations.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Sort of like the idea that America is uniquely free, fair, and wealthy among all the nations.
Yokohammer wrote:chokonen888 wrote:... (Yesterday I was subjected to Sakana-kun eating fish and saying "I'm so happy to have been born Japanese!") Let it go...let it go....
Because no other countries have fish ... or seasons, don't forget the seasons ... which of course means that you can't possibly have fish in season. Totally.
Actually, Sakana-kun really is lucky to have been born Japanese, because if he acted like that anywhere else he'd probably be joining the fish wearing concrete boots.
But really, there seems to be a huge multi-tentacled (sorry Yanps) "Japan is best country in world!" propaganda campaign going on right now, with all the "Gaijin are amazed at Japan!" and "Only a Japanese could pay this much attention to detail" and "Japan is the only country with 'omotenashi'" and all the other stomach churning flavours of self-praise that completely negate the fundamental myth of Japanese self-effacement and modesty. It is one huge cultural contradiction that has me wondering where the foundation went, but I also realise that all of that swagger is a veneer as thin as Japanese westernisation.
Yokohammer wrote:Unfortunately it hides the really good stuff, which really is there, but is being overwhelmed by trivia like anime and manga and cosplay and all the vacuous reasons the media seem to come up with to validate Japan as a unique culture.
I don't get it. Japan has plenty of really old, deep culture that it can be truly proud of, and yet people keep coming up with all this utter tosh. And to bring this post back to the original subject, I can't see any reason why a Japanese-born "half" can't be a part of that.
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Wage Slave wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Sort of like the idea that America is uniquely free, fair, and wealthy among all the nations.
They tend not to use the world unique though - exceptionally free, fair and wealthy. Comes to more or less the same thing - unique and exceptional - compare and contrast.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Wage Slave wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Sort of like the idea that America is uniquely free, fair, and wealthy among all the nations.
They tend not to use the world unique though - exceptionally free, fair and wealthy. Comes to more or less the same thing - unique and exceptional - compare and contrast.
But they do use superlatives like "freest" and "best" a lot.
chokonen888 wrote:The whole "unique" thing I'm just treating like you would humor a child. You can't watch any TV here without being reminded how unique, sugoi, and lucky they are to be Japanese. (Yesterday I was subjected to Sakana-kun eating fish and saying "I'm so happy to have been born Japanese!") Let it go...let it go....
wagyl wrote:Taiji is not really on the tourist circuit. And what is more, when I last went through, I felt extremely uncomfortable mainly because I didn't want to be mistaken for an associate of the botherers/protesters/self-proclaimed pirates. It has all created an incredibly poisoned atmosphere.
wagyl wrote:Taiji is not really on the tourist circuit. And what is more, when I last went through, I felt extremely uncomfortable mainly because I didn't want to be mistaken for an associate of the botherers/protesters/self-proclaimed pirates. It has all created an incredibly poisoned atmosphere.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles) – It looked like a scene from the reality TV show, ‘The Apprentice.’ Donald Trump basically told the Miss Universe franchise holders of Japan and the Philippines : ‘You’re fired!’
Trump, the owner of the Miss Universe organization announced that he has decided to disqualify Miss Japan, Ariana Miyamoto, and the newly-crowned Miss Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, from participating in this year’s Miss Universe Pageant.
The reason? Both beauty queens are ‘half and half,’ meaning Miss Japan is only half Japanese and Miss Philippines is half Filipina.
Twenty-year-old Miss Japan Ariana Miyamoto was born to a Japanese mother and an African-American father in Sasebo, Nagasaki, the location of a major American naval base.
Twenty six-year-old Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is a Filipino-German actress and model. She competed in the Binibining Pilipinas (Miss Philippines) pageant three times, winning on her third attempt. (It pays to try and try again.)
In making his decision to disqualify the Asian candidates, Trump said, “the goal of Miss Universe is to choose a world beauty that represents her country to the fullest extent. Having a half and half candidate from any participating country is not in keeping with the Miss Universe ideals.”
on the outside, but on the inside, her soul is replete with Japaneseness,
chokonen888 wrote:
Sidenote: By the way she was bouncing around and talking about her "ameeeeerican dream" I'm pretty sure the wife passed the non-lesbian test, even without checking how juicy she was.
Coligny wrote:Still better than Detroit...
American Oyaji wrote:I don't mean a lot of weight, just normal weight that maturity puts on a woman after 20 or so
Divided from the Asian and Russian land masses by fierce currents, many Japanese have long believed in a myth of racial purity, although the islands' inhabitants are a result of a hodge-podge of different migrations mainly from Korea, China and the south seas.
The only 'native Japanese' are the Caucasian-looking Ainu people, pushed to near-extinction to Japan's northernmost reaches.
chokonen888 wrote:SJ's probably right but I don't see over hyped racism in this case being a bad thing....it forces the average J-person out of the SOP "racism doesn't exist in Japan" mindset.Divided from the Asian and Russian land masses by fierce currents, many Japanese have long believed in a myth of racial purity, although the islands' inhabitants are a result of a hodge-podge of different migrations mainly from Korea, China and the south seas.
The only 'native Japanese' are the Caucasian-looking Ainu people, pushed to near-extinction to Japan's northernmost reaches.
Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrns
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Anyway, she's growing on me with every photo.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I wonder how many people are actually upset by her win. With stories like this there are always going to be jerk offs online who write racist shit even if they don't really mean it. Twitter comments and the like are an easy way for lazy reporters to make it look like there's serious controversy where there isn't.
Coligny wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:I wonder how many people are actually upset by her win. With stories like this there are always going to be jerk offs online who write racist shit even if they don't really mean it. Twitter comments and the like are an easy way for lazy reporters to make it look like there's serious controversy where there isn't.
If i could throw trash with twitter, my life would be much more simple...
What day is twitter gomi ?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Anyway, she's growing on me with every photo.
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