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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:56 am Post subject: Koreans aren't the only ignorant ones |
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http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1835
I'll think about this the next time I want to complain about Koreans' ignorance about other countries.
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Japanese Students Shocked By Ignorant American Highschoolers
Japanese �news� portal Ameba has published an article by a reporter who interviewed Japanese highschool students who had recently returned from short term exchange programs in the American Midwest. There was some shock that despite the fact that news over here is always talking about the popularity of various Japanese things in America (anime, sushi, Ichiro, etc), many Americans they encountered didn�t seem to know anything about Japan. While having homestay families that have no clue about Japan might be bad, it got even worse at school, where the Japanese students were subjected to the following:
Japan? What part of China is that?
Is your father a NINJA?
Was your father a SAMURAI?
Is your mother a GEISHA?
Can you do KARATE? [note: �karate� is pronounced �Kura-ri-� in America]
Sony is an American company! [said when the Japanese student brought up the famous Japanese company]
If you are shamed, don�t you have to commit HARAKIRI?
Do they have McDonald�s in Japan?
On the Japanese practice of eating seaweed and raw fish: I can�t believe it.
On the day before a student returned to Japan: I feel sorry for you. Starting tomorrow, you won�t be able to eat pizza anymore, and you�ll be eating seaweed again.
One reportedly was told the following: I heard Japanese girls have sideways vaginas. I want to see it just once!
Some of the Japanese students said that the fact that they were in small Midwestern towns without any other Asians was probably a factor in what happened. Perhaps if they�d have visited a more populated area, they would have encountered less ignorance? |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| Now that's stuff right out of 'Talking to Americans'. I wonder if those Americans were just messing with their heads?? Is anyone honestly that ignorant?? |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: Re: Koreans aren't the only ignorant ones |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
Japan? What part of China is that?
Is your mother a GEISHA?
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I don't buy it. How can someone know what a geisha is and not know that Japan and China are different? It doesn't make sense. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:03 am Post subject: Re: Koreans aren't the only ignorant ones |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| Troll_Bait wrote: |
Japan? What part of China is that?
Is your mother a GEISHA?
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I don't buy it. How can someone know what a geisha is and not know that Japan and China are different? It doesn't make sense. |
Those questions could be from two different students. Or the student might think that geishas are from China. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| The sideways vagina thing is just a joke passed around on the Internet. Probably not a particularly funny one if you're the butt of it. |
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Chris Kwon
Joined: 23 Jan 2008
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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"note: �karate� is pronounced �Kura-ri-� in America"
says who??? |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| The sideways vagina thing is just a joke passed around on the Internet. Probably not a particularly funny one if you're the butt of it. |
I think this urban myth pre-dates the Internet.
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"note: �karate� is pronounced �Kura-ri-� in America"
says who??? |
I think what they mean is that, in American English (as opposed to English English), a "t" between vowels is pronounced more like a soft "d". |
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Chicoloco
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Location: In the ring.
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| Chris Kwon wrote: |
"note: �karate� is pronounced �Kura-ri-� in America"
says who??? |
I think what they mean is that, in American English (as opposed to English English), a "t" between vowels is pronounced more like a soft "d". |
Ah, that makes perfect sense. |
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mgafunnell
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| we're all ignorant...just on different topics, |
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aarontendo
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
Location: Daegu-ish
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:40 am Post subject: |
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I've been asked how many guns I have, by both Koreans as well as my old Japanese roommate. If you look hard enough you can find ignorant comments everywhere.
And trust me, America is my home and I know you don't have to look *that* hard for the comments! |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:00 am Post subject: |
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karate - kurari? soft d? lol
anyway, the "are you a ninja?" "are you a samurai" - i wouldn't say that's ignorance about japan. it's more like (soft) racist name-calling.
akin to a korean asking "are you a cowboy?" to an american. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| also, i remember reading a book called "the mcdonaldization of the world." a group of japanese students go to america and are shocked to see mcdonalds, thinking it was a japanese company and ronald mcdonald a japanese character. |
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fortysixyou
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Christ, another ignorant Americans thread? |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:47 am Post subject: |
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ANOTHER funny thing about this article...American midwest? Now, that might mean Chicago..but that might also mean Fargo. hahaha.
"Mooooom!!! I just came back from Jinju, South Korea - and they didn't know what a taco was!" |
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