legion wrote:Takechanpoo wrote:
"stop that gaijin!"
save me the trouble of sitting thru that video and please tell me if there was a point to it.
Was there a point to posting it to Youtube, was there a point to you posting it here?
Whilst exploring an exotic, foreign land in a typically Foreign Way I was introduced to practices we don't have in Germany.
Like Wuchan said, though, I thought the cop was a bit gruff at first. Maybe they're instructing them to speak like that to foreigners because it avoids the Keigo problem but I have been noticing a lot of Tokyo pigs speaking to me in unacceptable langauge again. In Kyoto they don't do it very often; they use at least normal polite level. In Asakusa I was ordered to show my card. I almost felt bad for the guy when I told him I didn't respond to vulgar language and that if he didn't want tourists to go home with a bad impression of Japan they had better speak like civil servants are supposed to. He apologised by saying: "I didn't think you were a tourist"..................which isn't really an apology, is it?