My Japan Stories
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After living in Japan for over 10 years, I've gathered up a bunch of stories. Life has been... adventurous, I guess you could say.
Like I tried to say several times in the video, these events aren't like every day things, and most people are fine. But its the weirdos that kinda stand out in your mind, you know?
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So my boyfriend and his brother went to Japan a few years ago, and being two white guys they had foreigners say random English words to them all the damn time.
His most memorable is when two Japanese guys ran up to them, one yelled "rockstar!" and the other one jumped off a small set of stairs, did a spin and yelled "superstar!" as he pointed at them with finger guns.
They cracked up laughing, gave thumbs up and went on their way.
okay thats kinda cute 😂 😫💕
Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
I am confused
translation, the two japanese people got a sudden unstopable case of chuuni upon seeing a foreigner.
That's fuckin hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
"Why do they need 50 flavors of Pringles?!"
Says the man from the country with over 200 flavors of Kit Kats
sake is a good flavor if your 21....
or can sneak a bite.
i legitimately forgot japan did that
I've had the green tea kitkats. They are okay.
Abby Wolffe but the thing is...almost every one of those 200 flavors of Kit Kats are actually good whereas most of those 50 flavors of Pringle’s are really gross
Well, he actually spent his childhood in the country with 50 different pringle flavors and deep fried butter/ice-cream/oreos/everything, so he can say this.
"You've passed Rumpelstiltskin's test. Here's a bag of gold, a potion of youth and a slide whistle.” I can't stop laughing at that part
That's honestly my favourite part I'm dyin
Rumpelstilzchen*
I nearly spat water I was drinking all over my screen at that part XD
Favourite part
Favourite part
Black person in Asia: “They must be a music artist”
Does that really happen?
Squidward Tentacles yes
Squidward Tentacles Alot of modern rappers are weebs
I'm a black person in Asia. Not rapper or music artist either. 🙄
Yeah they usually assume you're an entertainer; they also have some serious problematic views of black people :|
"standing 5 ft apart cause were not gay"
That part had me crying lol
Hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! *X,D*
tWo bRoS sItTiNg iN a HoT tUb
5 fEeT aPaRt CaUsE tHeY’rE
nOt GaY
You copied lol
With the urinal thing you haven't had it bad until somebody comes in and then tries to use the same one you are using because people were using all the other ones, i'm not kidding.
OHMYGOD! haha unbelievable
wtf
This actually never happened to me
Sword fight
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!!!
Wtf seriously?? People actually do that? :-\
THREE BROS, CHILLIN IN THE BATHROOM, FIVE FEET APART ‘CAUSE THEY’RE NOT GAY
Maddie Hansen im.really surprised I had to scroll this far down to finally find the vine reference lol.
Google Account same
XD
SMOOOOOOOOOSH
isn't it bath tub?
"everyone wants to talk to me and be my friend, life sux." 😂😂
Well, it sucks when it is obvious that they do not actually really want to be your friend, but just want to "get something" out of you... (as he explains in the video)
"Being a visible foreigner, people just kinda see you as a walking free English lesson"
Couldn't have said it better myself. It can become quite a conflict when you treat them as a walking free Japanese lesson too😂
MuserNumberOne Do you need to know Japanese?
@@KaoticReach1999 Yup. I do. Why are you asking?
@@M_JackOfAllTrades i meant if you thought its a requirement, i was just curious
@@KaoticReach1999 Oh. I don't know why you're asking me specifically, but very well. It is a requirement for most jobs in Japan and in my case, my studies as well.
@@M_JackOfAllTrades Im gonna be going during the Olympics, what about in terms of a short stay, do you need it to live, shop etc?
*OOOOOH DADDYYY*
FBI open up
We have you surr
We have you surrounded
W h e e z e
I really died 🤣🤣💀
I lived in a japan for a short time and men, is so tiring to have these types of conversation with someone almost every day or so:
Me: *using literally the most basic japanese*
Japanese person: Eeeeeee?! Nihongo jozu desu ne! (Your japanese is good!)
Me: E? Mada mada desu kedo... (Not quite...)
Japanese person: *keeps complimenting my poor japanese*
Me: *keeps denying the compliment because japanese etiquette*
*none of us get anything done*
or
Japanese person: *trying to speak in english because I look foreign but end up not making any sense*
Me ( in japanese ): Uh... You can speak in japanese and I'll try to understand it, is that ok?
Japanese person: YOU SPEAK JAPANESE?? Oh thank god *starts to talk in lightspeed japanese*
Me: Oh no
or
Me (in japanese): Hello, I'd like to order this dish and--
Japanese staff: *looks confused at me, makes hand sign to wait, brings another japanese staff*
Both japanese staff: *stare at me with confusion in their eyes*
Me (in japanese): Uhhhhh, I was saying I'd like a---
The other staff: NO ENGLISH SORRY
If I had a penny for every time one of those 3 happened while I was studying abroad, oh my lord lol.
Thats hilarious. Im sorry.😂😂😂
Me
This is hilarious
Lmao that last one happened to me at Mcdonalds in Korea.
I was ordering a cheese burger in koean and that in Korean is literally “cheeze buggo” and the girl couldn’t understand. I had to point at the menu.. 🤦🏻♀️
random japanese person: "Konnichiwa"
You: "Konnichiwa."
random japanese person: "NANI?!"
The Rumpelstiltskin bit killed me omg
Lemon Ste
the flute😂
I love how non-germans spell Rumpelstilzchen 😂
Same lol
The guy who yelled "Oh daddy" is probably called Johnny.
Chim Taejeo 😂😂
But Johnny's American
It was probably Yuta
melxdiq peaches maybe they were on tour in Japan that time 😂
NCTZEN’S RISEEEEEEEE
Omg nctzens are everywhere lol
When I was in Japan I would get the random Japanese who has learned Arabic try to talk to me. I actually didn’t mind I thought it was nice like they finally found a native Arabic speaker to practice 😅 I specially enjoyed talking with the older Japanese man who spoke in an Arabic Egyptian accent.
interesting fellow brown person
That's so cool that you found Japanese people who speak Arabic! Don't get me wrong here... it's just that based on my very limited knowledge, Japanese people are not that open to foreign cultures...correct me if I'm wrong :) Also I'm trying to learn Arabic too!
Z Well I spent almost a month and a half in Japan and mainly in Tokyo for an internship. I’m assuming that Tokyo is used to more foreigners and tourists in Japan. In general I found the Japanese people to be friendly and even with some of them speaking limited English they were willing to give me directions or assistance when lost. As long as your respectful and follow the basic rules I found my limited experience in Japan enjoyable. I also tried to learn a few basic Japanese phrases to get by such as good morning, excuse me, thank you, etc. In the end they are people and like people every where there’s the good and there’s the bad, but in my experience the bad was limited to nonexistent.
I think I met three Japanese individuals that spoke Arabic on varying levels of fluency, now that I remember it was mainly in coffee shops when I was talking with my friend and they would stare 😂 and then suddenly say oh I speak Arabic 😂.
Also good on you for trying to learn Arabic. It’s not an easy language 😅 but a very interesting one.
interesting. wonder where did they learn arabic 🤔🤔
Cool! Even though I've been living in Saudi for 5 years(in an international school like BISJ), I still suck at English though we have about 4 hours of Arabic every week!
I'm a foreigner in Canada I moved to Vancouver to study animation :D
and the most interesting differences with The netherlands I've seen till now are
- They organise alot of pre-christmas parties where you're expected to get drunk basically.
- Lightswitches are at the outsides of rooms instead of the insides
- The use half of the voltage Europe uses so it takes way longer for example for your phone to charge
- Every road/terrain is way steeper I mean what did I expect honestly the Netherlands litterally means flat land I not used to an uneven surface.
- The money is partly made out of plastic instead of paper. And the numbers on the coins are way smaller then on euro's
- The Canadians I have met till now didn't realise Santa was invented by Coca cola and was based around the Sint Nicolaas from Europe.
- Shop personal doesn't only ask you if you are seeking something in their shop but ask how your day was, what you think of the weather, News, Politics, how their dog is doing bla bla blah etc.
- I couldn't find a can of mustard soup or a pack of frozen spinach anywhere yet.
But I did find Bacon fat soup, Potato soup, Honey soup, Sunflowerseedsoup, Butternutsquash and kale soup, Onion beer soup, Mussel chowdersoup, Citrus red lentil soup, Lobster cornchowder soup and Sauerkraut duck soup.
- There was a walmart inside a shoppingcenter and inside that Walmart was a Macdonalds.
- Ironically enough the food at wallmart was cheaper then at a supermarket that literally calls itself SAVE ON FOODS.
- I'm a little bit below average sized where I'm from. But I'm the tallest of all people I've met till now in this country.
- Also I saw a lot of things that I only saw in American/Canadian movies when I grew up till now.
If you've read till this far thanks feel free to comment if you have simliar or toally different experiences as foreigner.
thinthle I am a foreigner on Earth. Greetings Earthling.
Okay, I'm Dutch too, still living in the Netherlands. And I cannot get over that shopping center Walmart with a McDonalds in it. xD I actually have family over in Canada, I just have to ask them if they have that over in Ontario too. I can get that you're the tallest one of the people you've met, average Dutch height is kind of crazy when you compare it to a lot of other countries. I'm 1.67 metres, a little below the current average, but the perfect average last time I was measured. I mean, we're not giants, but pretty tall by comparison.
That's cool! I'm from Spain and I'll be moving to The Netherlands in September to study (3rd year of Law School). I'm sure the first thing I will notice are the flat surfaces you mentioned since Spain is basically super steep and the roads and streets are so uneven! 😂
thinthle Lightswitches is the only thing that would bother me. ON THE OUTSIDE? I mean, why? :/
Jay Canadian here: I've very rarely seen lightswitches on the outside, most of them are on the inside. I don't know where OP is staying though, but I'd say it's not the most common thing to put them on the outside.
Standing 5 feet apart cuz we’re not gay 😂I died at that
emmi mich it’s from a vine
@@music-books-films
Now we all stand six feet apart everywhere we go. So we don't die...
Angela Mapule yea lmaoooo
Been living in Korea for two years so I can totally relate except the urinal, cause I'm a girl. I have had moms come and interrupt me while I'm eating to try and get there kids to talk to me... Mid bite. I also had people follow me just to ask to be my "friend" and I had to do the whole... I don't mean to be rude but hell no! and then explain to him why it's not cool to stalk people. Then there's a lot of, I get paid to teach English I'm not going to do it for you for free... Someone might read this and think I'm rude but I'm reasonable... These ones are the more extreme.
"These ones are the more extreme." Do you really teach English?
lol yeah my moms korean and when im eating she just takes her friends kid and is like "do u want to be friends?"
Let me ask you, why don’t you have a profile picture, you are like a troll.
telilah85... you sure are a rude person. Its kind of cool to make friend everywhere and talk to people and respect their culture 🙂
China is exactly the same!
Can we appreciate how much his animation skills has evolved since this video.
lived in Japan for several years too, and you explained the "celebrity" syndrome perfectly.
And whenever I'm in Japan I'd be like "this place is so weeeeeeird why are there 100 flavors of kitkats
Exactly
Kit Kats > Pringles
That's exactly the first thing I thought of. I mean, I love KitKats, but no.
can you speak korean im trying to learn >.>
Am I'm like shit why I never try out any other flavors but one lol
"Wha....YOU CAN USE CHOPSTICKS?!" ROFLMAO
james stark
Every single time I go to a Chinese restaurant and I ask the waiter/waitress for chopsticks l always see them looking from a distance at me while I use them ...but if I look back there'll look away or look at there notepad.
If you don't know Jun and Rachel(youtubers) they told a story about how they were biking one day and two Japanese girls, who were also on bikes, saw Rachel.
They were SO baffled at the sight that the two girls crashed into each other.
Quoting GlaDos: that would be funny, if it weren't so sad.
As a German living in Spain there's some similarities here. However, I've come to the conclusion that, instead of getting annoyed by these things you mention, it's better to embrace them and like go with the flow. I also keep telling myself that I'm like an ambassador of my country, taking the opportunity to show the good sides, correct missconceptions or confirm stereotypes, when they're true... like having fun with the whole thing...
nein ja krankenwagen schön schnitzels
¿¿Que piensas de los españoles ??
Generalmente muy buena gente... me siento muy a gusto y bien acogido aquí en España... me imagino que debe ser algo más fácil aquí que en Japón. Esto sí, lo de la puntualidad (o mejor dicho, la falta de la misma) me costó un poco acostumbrarme :-)
Alexander Nöthlich si los españoles somos conocidos por llegar tarde a todo
I visited japan a few times and trust me, as an Asian who doesn't speak a single word of japanese is even more mind blowing for them. I only spoke English and since english is my first language over my native language I wasn't speaking broken english and japanese people will be like "WHAAAT!? You speak good english! Are you japanese?" "No, I'm american." And they'll just give me that "huh" look.
When you speak one word in Japanese then they all KNOW that your Japanese level is over 9001
You think 50 flavoures of Pringles is weird, but lives in a country that has probably the same amount of flavoures of Kit Kat. Thats not weird? 😂
Orange flavored Kit Kats are amazing.
schokigirl exactly what I was thinking...
Not just kit kat but also coke, pepsi, drinks lol
You get used to it I guess
not to mention they release seasonal flavors of chips (using Hokkaido potato!!) every season, and they're never the same year to year. idk where they come up with some of these flavors... like honey corn? ok, sure. the steak and shio ramen ones are some of my favorite ever. and there are always those pizza potato chips that are really just cheese chips with vague pizza flavor powder sometimes. they also had a bunch of different flavor Pringles in Japan a year or 2 ago; flavor representations from different countries... I specifically remember Brasil (Brasilian barbecue), Thailand (something spicy), and the US.
I have been to Japan and it was one of my best trips ever! But one thing that really stands out for me is how clean everything is! For example Tokyo, there is like no trash or anything, there may be some cigarettes, but that’s all! I was also shocked of how organized this country is. In the subway everyone goes in a line when they are going from or to the train! They are also standing in a line when they are waiting for the train! The food is also fan-ta-stic!
LOL Yeah, I've never been to Japan, but when living in China, I used to hear from the other foreigners how completely opposite it was from China. Everything in China is dirty/nasty - I even got to where I'd wipe my groceries off when I bought them and after just two or three packages the wipe would be black! And if you see something wet on the ground, don't step in it, it's probably pee (even in elevators or hallways). People might be right outside of their building and the kid says they need to poo and they'd just squat right down on the sidewalk and go. And no one queues, it's a free for all. If you try to wait patiently for your turn, someone will push in front of you because obviously you don't want a turn.
@@AdeleiTeillana what province where you in??
WAIT. Why DID buzz act like a toy? Was he lying the whole time?? WaS mY cHiLdHoOd A Lie!?!?
We must figure this out!
Best advice for those who want to learn how to use chopsticks: watch tutorials on how to use them, then buy some stainless steel ones and eat everything with them for a month (I.e: ice cream, salad, cereal, burgers, etc) and despite weird looks from others, by the end of the month, you will have officially have mastered the art of eating with them.
I learnt it from shinchan
@@David12754 Lol and burgers are finger food
@@David12754 I guess you eat the cereal bits and drink the milk afterwards but how doesn't the ice melt between the chopstics?
My aunt lived in Japan (Specifically Okinawa) for 13 years, and I used to spend my summers there. Literally my favorite place ever. I have been learning Japanese and I want to spend my next summer before college there.
whattttt you can use chopsticks. Nahhhhh
あなたは箸を使うことができます。 ノーオ
it's not that hard. I live in Finland, but thanks to my little weeaboo teen years, I use chopsticks better than a fork and a knife xD
I wished he said "Nani?"
It's not that hard just use chopsticks for a week and you'll be good at it
Choyn Guy my dad was the only American when he was in Korea other then elder folk who could use chop sticks
I relate to this so hard! Except the bathroom thing. I think as a woman starting a conversation in the bathroom it's semi acceptable. Especially at an establishment with alcohol :)
I do live in Japan xD didn't think I'd made that clear xD
Iwyth yeah but like, we have walls at least when we’re talking
Sharpay Evans yeah xD but I meant more like at the sink or waiting
But yeah...I don't think people care so much even if they're peeing if they're drunk
Ah yes, making drunk best friends with a girl at the sink of a bathroom.... it's the most wholesome part of being female
I don't live in Japan, but I go to SE Asia all the time and I usually find it really cute and endearing, especially because people are obviously overcoming an *extreme* amount of shyness to speak English to me. For me (especially in the Philippines) it's mostly like I'll hear giggling and see a group of people trying to hide around the corning and maybe sneak a picture of me. It does get really weird when I'm with my husband or his brothers though, like... 14 year old girls will go up to them and say something like "hi, daddy" and walk away, with obvious flirty intention.
Yeah, and most of those people are racist too.(Southeast Asian here, just making a joke. But seriously you don't want to live anywhere in Southeast Asia except for Singapore but immigration to Singapore is hard.) Also for some reason, Southeast Asians like to write in broken languages on the Internet. For example: broken Malay, broken English, broken Chinese, broken Spanish, broken Filipino, broken Vietnamese, broken Tamil etc.
POINTLESS - I'm actually planning on moving to Singapore in two years... Funny you mention that. I loved Singapore, and have always wanted to live abroad
well i'm from singapore soo..
I'm surprised you think everyone else doesn't already write in broken English on the internet.
I really fell you, im currenlty living in Philippines. At least in the capital they speak good English. Im latina and young, even though people are usually very friendly, sometimes it gets out of control, I've caught people trying to take pictures of me. Every time I go out different people try to talk to me, they even ask for my phone number. Go party alone? no way xD
about the random english speaking thing when a foreigner is around.. sometimes i do it just in case theyre looking for something and they dont know who to ask since most people here cant even understand english accents.
The way he said "the second coming of Jesus " at 5:25 had me rollling
OOHHHH DADDY
oh
Mawkish daddy
kyawas OOOOOO XD
😂😂😂
oh no i get it now
Please keep talking about Japan!
Animation was on point my dude.
broooo his voice's vibe just changes when he spoke that single "konichiwa"
While not Japan, this happened to one of my friends from college when he went to Italy on Spring Break with his family last year.
My friend went to Italy with his family and let’s just say that the Spring Break trip could have gone better. At some point in his trip, my friend told me how they went to a museum and he was guiding his mom through the crowd of people (standing behind his mom with his hands on her shoulders) and apparently some guy went, “ooh Playboy!” as he was walking past my friend and his mom. And my friend like freaked out and just yelled out, “this is my mom!”
Love these animations!! I’m getting major Swoozie vibes but in your own kind of way ❤️
that artist there
They didn't say there aren't. Just getting swoozie vibes
Ah nah man you just compared two people
I live in the south, so you would expect me to know that people deep fry butter but... HOLY CRAP WHY WOULD YOU DEEP FRY BUTTER???? Do you want a heart attack??? I can’t. I just can’t
Saaaaammmmmeeeeee XD I dont understand those of my own state lol
It sounds like a great way to end up in the hospital over time 😂 it’s like putting butter on bacon and/or bacon fat... you don’t live long 😂😂😂
No one deep fries butter in my state, so when he said that I was like "lol what?"
how do you even do that?
I actually felt like I gained weight just from hearing about that for the first time.
I do live in Korea and at the chopstick thing I actually had to laugh out. It's the same thing here. Like "holy shit, foreigners can do THAT?? How long did you practise, can your mom do it?" . Like dude, calm down...but I mean, I think for most of them it's just nice curiosity. Way more I'm confused by the staring, ooh the staring, like i'm an alien, especially old people and the worst part, they don't stop when you start staring back. Is it the same in Japan?
Hanna Ma As a korean, sorry about that.. Like I don't know why some Koreans do that.. like way to long! Like I'm sitting right next to the staring person and I literally want to say STOP!
They usually look away whenever you look back at them in Japan, at least in my experience.
2:42 honestly this applies to pretty much any non-english speaking country
As a foreigner who lived in Japan for 3 years, I just have to say.... the chopstick thing is so true xD.
OMG IF I EVER GOT A JAPANESE DUDE SPEAK TO ME AT A URINAL IN ENGLISH I WOULD BE SPEECHLESS 😶😂😂 so I’m mixed (half white half black) and my favorite scenario I get is the question “where are you from?” So I say America. Then they ask what is my ethnicity. So i say mixed. Then they ask what my parents are. My dads black and my moms white. Then they ask if my dads from Africa 😂😂😂😂 yet I said I’m American lol idk why but many Japanese people think all black people are from Africa 🤣 GREAT VIDEO MAN 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Katrine Petersen that's been disproven. The oldest human skull was found in Europe somewhere or something like that. Look it up.
You mean 'Merica
Kel Preston Same lol. And I get that question all the time too. It’s like all mixed kids just get accustomed to having somebody ask you the classic “where are you from?/what race are you?” question. That or at least for me: have someone randomly come up to me speaking Spanish...only to realize I’m not hispanic in any way lol
Doodle Munchkin oh my gosh, im mixed and ive gotten talked to in so many languages and its pretty awkward.. damn my awkwardness
Kitty Don't worry. I'm 100% White and it still happens to me all the time. Even in languages I have No chance of knowing like arabic or japanese. For some reason all tourists Think that whereever They go, anyone Will understand the. I've had french people coming up to to me and start talking french, while being here in Denmark. Then They act all surprised that I don't speak french.
Buzz light-year thought Andy was an alien creature and the only way not to be found out was to act like the local population did when Andy was around
This needs more likes!
Yeah I'm Korean and when I went to a very small town in Switzerland, I was the only Asian in the whole restaurant and a little boy just couldn't stop staring at me 😂😂😂 It was cute but also a bit scary 😂😂
maybe you are good looking and he was horny.
Eh, I'd say little kids get a pass. It's instinct for children to study new faces and sights. I'll even get that because of my glasses with some kids. I also recall staring at people myself as a little kid...
I understand. I am an immigrant in the US, but because I am white, nobody bats an eye. Until I open my accent filled mouth... Then it becomes a stare down of the alien.
Any kid just staring at you is scary.
If there's a lot of them... RUN.
5:17 the voices XD has me dying it's too funny
When my husband and I visited Japan for 2 weeks we used google translate and the way their face lit up when it translated what we wrote to Japanese was priceless 😅
My family moved to Japan for career reasons when I was 6 and my brother was 3. You're right about the "foreigners are celebrities" thing. Me and my brother both have bright *FLAMING RED* hair. People would literally come up to us and touch us like we were some kind of petting zoo. Somewhere there's a picture of me at the Tokyo Disneyland entrance surrounded by like 20 strangers all astounded by my hair while I'm just smiling uncomfortably. You always feel kinda alienated.
BTW Quick question - so I was kinda young and I moved back to the states in the middle of 4th grade but I remember in the train stations there were these posters telling foreigners what not to do and it always showed some old Japanese couple being annoyed by a bunch of partying white people. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Do those even exist anymore? (I lived in Urayasu)
I think I just chocked on my own laughter.
Woooo!
Loving these man! You're on absolute fire with this stuff.
Keep it up!!
2:00 lot of you might know this
it is because Japanese people have a rule or manner or whatever you call it.........like, you don't talk in a language that other people in the scenario can't understand, so like they don't think you are being rude or planning there murder or whatever... ( I have family in Japan, one of my cousins told me this)
Nah in this case I think the mom wanted him to be impressed because she was teaching her daughter English my dads side is Chinese and I have this chinese cousin who has been learning English for 9 years since he was 10 online he mostly did it because he wants to move to America one day but also because it is thought of as to make you considered very smart
The pride they have in their culture is amazing
Japanese people: YOU KNOW SOME JAPANESE WHAAA!?!
Me: yeah I learned it from anime WHATS UP 😂
あなたはどんなアニメを見ますか
東京喰種を観る
いいじゃん
OHAYOU GOSAIMASU
Uh, waruina
Demo boku wa totemo waratta
Aaaaand I used Google Translate for the last sentence.
NANI?!?!
TH-cam put this in my dash. Best thing it's ever done.
I know you did this two years ago but it's the most accurate description of living in Japan that I've ever heard. Very fair as well and not being a butthurt gaijin but also like "Yeah...we get tired of getting complimented on basic things like using chopsticks and saying one word in Japanese."
OMG you made me laugh so much ! As a foreigner living in South Korea I can relate to everything you said... Quite same vibes here
As a Pacific Islander who's lived in New York and visited Japan, I related to this completely. Lol, I once introduced myself with a little bit of Japanese and minds were blown. Then I said I watched anime and they were like, "Oh, ok I get it". And they were less impressed.
The celebrity thing, I understand that. I'm very pale, 5' 2" at age 30, people actually think I have a fake if because I look 16 (I've been told and have asked). I also get this weird skin rash that worries people because they figure "what is that? I might get infected ahhhhhh." No, not infectious, and despite it looking like my face was ripped off and in the middle of regenerating, it doesn't hurt. I'm also disabled and when you see a 15 year old looking guy using a cane or walker, who stutters, is tiny, and doesn't look at all like ANYONE where I live, yep, you get looks. I don't really care, but not, I gave great hearing since I'm legally blind. I hear whispers, and some of them are downright insulting, so I won't repeat them. I'm a positive guy, though, so I never let other people get me down. Oh, I'm a ginger as well, and in elementary, that was a big deal being the only red haired boy. People reallly ought to drop appearances and recognize personality first. That pretty girl, could be a stalker. That slow guy might just be bad at speaking but a genius.
Yeah, outer appearances can be deceiving.
Okay.
Wait just a question (Hope I don't sound insensitive) how do you type of you're legally blind? (I'm probably just stupid and haven't thought how)
@@BethanHoole being legally blind , doesn't always mean that you are completely blind. It just means you have poor eye sight
@@MisfRocket oh ok thanks for letting me know 👍
I really like this type of video for you. I think it fits better with your personality. With those video essays you did before I thought you didn't really have that much to say, while your comedic talent clearly shines when you do animated videos. So keep it up!
I miss Japan. Was stationed in Iwakuni, Japan for a couple years and had a great time.
As an Indian who lived in Hawaii for 3 years. I gotta say knowing Aloha and Mahalo is pretty much enough to make you blend in quite comfortably
I really want to live in Japan for like a year or two
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Hey Alex, great video I'm not Japanese but I am Asian and living in the UK is sort of a similar experience for me as for you living in Japan (minus the celebrity part). I grew up in super non-diverse and quite isolated areas, and pretty much received them same things you mention in the video , 'people mentioning something vaguely asian in front of me' , people being impressed by my English (even though English is my first language haha) and the golden rule of total strangers coming up to me and wanting to practise ANY asian language with me or talk about their summer or work place abroad in Asian, it's interesting actually and got me thinking that like you said it might even just be due to being a minroty in a large majority :P
Lived in Japan for a similar amount of time, and yep. Can absolutely relate. Loved it, though.
"some people act like it's the second coming of jesus" why did that one line make me laugh so hard omg
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Just speak to them in Japanese and pretend you don't speak English xD
LoveNathasha doesn't work if you have an English accent then
Not effective, if you look foreign they'll just assume you speak english.
LoveNathasha There used to be a TH-camr named Texan in Tokyo who got tired of being approached for the sole purpose of learning English. She started to pretend she didn't speak English by replying in Japanese or another language. Russia is pretty close to Japan so I believe she pretended to be Russian, perhaps.
But here's my thing: how far do they really expect to go with learning a language when the person teaching it can't clarify things in their own language? If my Spanish teacher in high school only spoke Spanish with no English to clarify what's being taught, I'd have learned even less than I already did (I know it's important to learn it for America, but I have no desire to learn Spanish. I'd rather have a Japanese or German teacher).
Speaking with only one language and learning based on that works if it's the first language you're learning and if everyone around you is speaking it. When you already have a language ingrained, having only a single person speak that language with zero of your native tongue makes it less likely things will stick. And if someone wants to learn English from a person that can barely clarify their English teachings in Japanese, it seems like a tutoring that's destined to fail.
yeah that won't work. i'm my parents are black brazilian and i born and lived in japan all my life yet many times some people would try to speak english to me a language that i didn't understand untill i was 17+.
but it has advantages .i already faked being american a few times to hit girls on the club asking me things about america :D
Fluffymiyster I miss Texan in tokyo!
Can you make a video listing the negative aspects of living in Japan because I sincerely want to move there great video btw I like your recent animations more
John Johnson none. There are none. Japan is freaking amazing.
Okay, so maybe the only place worth living (in my opinion) is Tokyo, and that might be a tad bit expensive but seriously, besides that it’s like heaven on earth.
Warning: may be completely bias
I remember reading all this somewhere, but don't really know where I read all this stuff.
1.Foreigners are the always the first to be suspected of a crime.
2.Also, if you're not asian and a foreigner, you will always be preceived as an outsider no matter how long you've lived in Japan and be treated as one.
3. You are expected to be a workaholic and work your ass off no matter what. related article: finance.yahoo.com/news/working-towards-death-in-japan-140758364.html
Ashwin Warren not to mention that they have a guilty until proven innocent type of court.
Rent is SUPER high
That last part is really their worse traits, next to their low birthrate.
I was a missionary in the Philippines for 2 years and what you said about how people react to you is exactly my experience, although It did make it a lot easier to talk to people because they were mildly curious about an american who could speak Tagalog.
We were stationed at Misawa Air Station for four years. Lived off base as well. We mostly found everyone to be very helpful and tolerant in the local area. I think because the locals saw and interacted with foreigners so frequently, it wasn't that big a deal. Always happy to help out even if you had your English-Japanese dictionary and pantomimed. Sure, they'd laugh, but it was a fun laugh.
The Japan Day and America Day gigs were always fun. The locals loved the Air Shows and we loved the great array of local food stalls. We had a JSDF unit on the base as well, so it was cool to see how they did things. I tell ya wut, the Japanese are still a bit weird when it comes to their JSDF. Sometimes local folks look at them as if the JSDF personnel are ready to go Rambo or something.
If we went on tour to other parts of the islands, we'd get some of the behavior in the video.
That being said, I loved it there. Everyone was very friendly, helpful, and pretty open-minded if you were respectful.
I'm a Lithuanian-American my grandparents came over to the U.S. so I look a bit different from others and my name is foreign sounding the most common thing I have happen is someone shouting at me like I'm hard of hearing "You speak English good!" Really slowly it's annoying.
Hobo Girl aren't Lithuanian somewhat Nordic in appearance. I would have thought that anyone from the Baltics would look fairly average for an American.
No, americans basically just look like potato heads, they have their own look.
I think it's just an Asian thing, even in my country, people try to impress foreigners for no reason at all lol.
I can promise you it is (unfortunately) not just an Asian thing.
@@batteringram4822 i think that's what he meant
Why do we have so many flavours of Pringles? Why do you have so many flavours of Kit-Kat?
Native_Beats _2016 And soda, like wtf squid flavor????
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I was thinking of that
Ah man this video had me crying. I'm learning Japanese right now (wanted to do that for a long time but I'm super lazy) and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. I kind of don't believe I would ever live in Japan (I'd love to try though) but visiting Japan would be enough to make me happy. ☺
Last year I was 12. There was this big school trip to japan, I was hella excited. (It wasn't really a "School" trip it was just like 20 odd kids going on a trip through the school.) We went and visited this elementary school for a couple days with our homestay families. We went to the elementary school, on the first day it was pretty chill, lots of people were saying hi to us and being really sweet and respectful. The second day. Oh god the second day. We arrived at the school, my homestay sister took my upstairs to the room. There was a full crowd outside of the room we were in. Everyone had books and pens begging for autographs. My hand was cramping for the whole day. Anywayyy... that was a great trip and I wanna go back in the future.
I can relate to almost all of those buuut.. I'm Mexican.. And I live in.. Mexico. I'm just blonde. It's actually super fun when they try to speak English to me and I answer in Spanish and they look really surprised. Or when I walk in the subway and people just stare like I'm a unicorn or something. It used to make me really sad because, even though it's my country, I feel like a foreign wherever I go. It's like they make you feel like you just don't belong there. But oh.. Well I guess you just get used to it.
Nanda Valim bruh most of my family deals with the same thing. And my other half deals with the whole brown thing. I’ve dealt with both sides of it as a Latino who can tan and also turn very pale. People need to stop assuming things lol
Plastic Tree I know. People should learn to be more open with things they don’t know. Sad part is most of this actions are actually unconscious, like they don’t even notice they do it and that it makes you uncomfortable. But I mean.. I guess in the end you do get used to it. I guess if they suddenly started treating me normally it would feel extremely weird hahaha
Kayla Can You Rot actually it can be quite funny as well. Once someone came and started speaking Russian to me and he looked very excited talking about something until he saw my very confused face and realised I wasn’t understanding a thing 😂
puubutt Mexicans aren’t white.. I mean the vast majority have indigenous features. There’s a big mixture between indigenous and Spanish that colonised Mexico.. I don’t know how to say it in English but in Spanish we say “moreno”.
I mean, of course there are lots of people like me, who are white and Mexican, but I don’t think there’s many of us.
Kayla Can You Rot some sort of parallel universe 😂
If I ever visit Japan, I would like to "accidently" bump into you
Can’t believe he is divorced now 😔
Really??
Paulene Pitao yep he made a live about it and people noticed the dog is gone and he only showed his hand...
And she took Charlie 💔
I thought it was just his girlfriend, not his wife. Still, sorry to hear they broke up.
Fluffymiyster no, they got married a couple years ago I think. But yeah, I guess it just didn’t work :(
Man, I have only been in Japan like a little more than two years and this is amazingly accurate. Good to know that it won't really change over time.
I am Asian, was born in japan, but basically lived in Brazil my whole life. I don't even know japanese, but sometimes strangers (mostly kids) would yell japanese/asian sounding stuff at me
I love how the mom’s dialogue is the Presidential Pacer test. 😂
The “oh daddy” animation made me laugh so hard
3:13 is dis an odd1sout reference I see?
The reason why they speak English while you're there is because it's a sign of respect. You are used to people speaking Japanese in front of you, but most people don't like listening to languages they're not familiar with. Basically, they don't want you to think they're talking about you, so they speak English, so you understand what's happening.
The truck story reminded me so much of all the men that think its okay to scream at women and girls and feel entitled to say whatever they want to them making us feel scared and uncomfortable...
"woww your japanese is sooo gooood"
meanwhile in english speaking countries...
"wowww your english is so good"
god the parallels 😂
In America, I think it's usually the opposite "If you're going to live here you need to learn the language! What's wrong with you?" I never did like that attitude.
@@AdeleiTeillana i get what you mean, but just because you didnt do it, doesnt mean other people arent doing it either.
Your voice seriously reminds me of ALAirbander's Sokka's voice. :D well Almost!
"They know they need it for work and for travelling, but everyone hate it."
Yeah, that's pretty much the same in France XD
5:25 Ahh, yes. The classic “日本語上手” (Nihongo jouzu). No matter how long a foreigner stays in Japan, even if they’re fluent in Japanese, they can’t escape that phrase. 💀
I'm Japanese American and almost 50 years old. I can speak Japanese cuz I had to go to Japan language school every Saturday for 11 years. Everyone I talk to my older relatives and their friends, everything I speak to them in Japanese, I still get , "Wow, your Japanese is really good."
I was also temporary stained in Atsugi, the locals would be totally surprised that I can understand the language.
Same, I'm Korean American and native Koreans would be surprised by how fluent I am in it. They expect that I would not know much, which is understandable, since I don't live where it's spoken much.
4:14 the way he said it I’m weak I’ve been SCREAMING for about 20 minutes now 💀🤣
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@@TurtleGamers1 just noticed thanks
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I lived in Taiwan for two years, and things were surprisingly similar to Alex's experiences here XD. I also speak Chinese, and it never ceased to make me giggle when someone would walk up to me and start talking to me in english and I respond in Chinese and they get super taken aback. Asian people are awesome!
I grew up in Japan and currently live here. I don't know if it's just me, but most people don't care to meet new people I guess. They just want to stay in their own tiny stupid circle. So when I meet the better people, I want to cherish them.