It’s not his appearance or the way he speaks Japanese. It’s his body language that gives away he’s a foreigner. By being born and raised in the West, he completely gives himself away when he goes to Japan.
It's all the unspoken communication. His body language, facial gestures, and eye contact look American. Japanese and Americans don't even cross a room in the same ways. People usually can't see this directly, but they'll pick up on it intuitively, in the way that we see someone as important or intimidating.
He probably forgot the magic word, 'sumimasen' which means 'excuse me', I think 99.9% of Japanese will never forget or left that out when asking help from strangers.
Japanese people base language skill completely based on peoples faces. I couldn’t count the number of times I’m speaking to someone in Japanese and they answer to my Chinese wife.
I should clarify. If you are somewhere foreigners don’t often go then it’s much less of an issue. My favourite is when you are three exchanges in before they look at you, and do the does not compute pause.
Exactly, it's not because his Japanese sucks. If you look Japanese they will ask you instead of your foreign friends even if you can't speak Japanese at all.
It’s crazy because us Americans don’t treat people any differently based on some mannerisms. We respond in English unless the person doesn’t know a lick of English.
@@TRUMPmyOSHI nope it screams self centrism. we are not talking about america in the first place; americans are even full of people with indentity crisis they cant even differentiate between japanese or chinese let alone labeling filipinos as pacific islanders
I have a limited knowledge of Japanese, but I found that his sentence is weird, "basu-tei wa doko ni arimasuka?" It's like asking "where do you have a bus stop?" I think it should be "basu-tei wa doko desu-ka?" meaning "where is the bus-stop?" The weird sentence along with his aura(body language, mannerism, intonation etc) probably gave him away. Don't you think so Mister Japan? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Clearly he didn't consider his manners and subtle subconscious behaviors. He calls Japan his home turf, even though he says he wasn't born and raised there. He's nationally English, and has the subtle behaviors of an Englishman. I'm broadly European with a number of mixed ethnicities, but, I was born and raised in America, therefore I have subtle subconscious American behaviors. It doesn't matter what I look like (I'm a ginger), how well I speak Japanese (failing to), or observe societal courtesies that people in Japan engage in like proper bowing and the like, I natively have American behaviors from growing up in that environment.
I'm "full-blooded" Japanese, 3rd generation American, but nobody from Japan would ever think I'm Japanese from Japan. When asking where I'm from, some Japanese from Japan have said that I don’t look Japanese at all.. A couple of Japanese once thought I might be "Japanese mixed with Brazilian/Portuguese." My family's higher than average Jomon appearance makes me look mixed to many non-Asians, and many Asians can't tell what I am. And in the States, many assume I'm an immigrant. So I'm often seen as a foreigner in my own country. I generally keep to myself anyway, so I honestly don't care what strangers might think. If you were born in the West, especially if you are generations removed from a particular country and culture, you are very different and are no longer of that country and culture, even if you have the DNA of that country. This guy has way more of what people think of "Japanese" appearance than I do.
I don't know what kind of japanese you imagine. Google 'Ken Hirai' or 'Hiroshi Abe', they are pure Japanese too. Japanese faces are more diverse than people think.
Im Japanese heritage, born and raised in the US. I consider my upbringing "American" because my parents were also born Americans. Other asian people that are children of immigrants carry themselves differently in body language and mannerisms compared to people from families with at least two generations in the US.
It's weird. When I was in Japan, like 10 years ago as a tourist, having learned Japanese as weeb, people spoke Japanese back to me if I spoke to them in Japanese. And I definitely look European, not Asian at all. And maybe my pronunciation is better than the average foreigner, but I definitely don't consider myself fluent. But if I started out speaking to them in English, their English was usually worse than my Japanese, and then it was absolutely impossible to get them to switch to Japanese, even when their English was more or less useless. So eventually I just started speaking in Japanese, and then that's what we stuck with (unless when ran into actually English fluent Japanese).
6:41 - It is actually true that your genetics open up and change when you live in a new or different environment, but that's not visible to the naked eye. As others have already pointed out, what people are probably picking up on are his mannerisms being a bit different than people who have been there much longer.
Almost never happen to me in Japan, I'm from French West Indies btw. I saw so many you tube video like that, that I convinced myself I must learn proper English before coming to Japan. I never speak English here, I can't even practice. For exemple I discovered that one friend was fluent in English more than one year after meeting him for the first time... You have to adapt to the local body language, people spoke to me in their own language either it was in France, Portugal or Japan. But in English when I was in Korea I never try to blam them for that. It was just my lack of skill.
Interesting because that's me. I'm chinese, but I'm asked if I'm pure chinese. Both my parents are chinese. I'm well aware my body language and mannerisms, language give me away as a foreign chinese person. I was with a group of native chinese speakers and was easily picked out as a foreigner. Just by my mannerisms. I would stare at things others would not. In a chinese language class, I was asked if I was hispanic. Even though I look like my mother, I have atypical features for a common chinese person. Angular face, high nose bridge, curly hair when grown, unusually tall for my family. I was bizarrely called Elon Musk by some friendly strangers. Too add more confusion to my identity, I visited my grandfather's grave for the first time in Hong Kong and he was buried with a latina women who was not my grandmother.
@@s2oop436Which goes to show that the Japanese people that think there’s a certain phenotype that can only be “true” Japanese is even more backwards, lol. Yes, Japanese is both an ethnicity and a culture (sometimes some Japanese will accept you if you gain nationality status) but the true meaning of being Japanese (as it is any) is the CULTURE & NATIONALITY (which foreigners can obtain). If one fully assimilates, and I mean FULLY, then they should be considered as such as they embody what it truly means to be (x); and not just because happenstance put certain DNA in a spot and didn’t move them for millennia, lmao.
Is it weird that I had the opposite experience? After landing at Narita airport I was expected to fill out all my Japanese info in full detail meanwhile my friend who didn't look Japanese just walked by without being asked. I'm not Japanese by the way
well he obviously coming from the uk so he is not japanese enough… sorry to say he is not japanese enough by the looks of it. and the fact that he speaking in uk english so 🤷🤦🏻🤷♂️.
obviously you havent been into japan; many japanese looks like him especially in kyushu and okinawa region. even celebrities looks like him. tehre is no such thing as 100% japanese
@@s2oop436 No, i mean it doesn't look like stereotypical japanese. It seems obvious to me that there are many different traits in different areas of Japan, but people's perception exists and exactly like me, as an italian, if i see a person 1.95 tall, blonde and with blue eyes I DO NOT first think that they could be italian , despite the fact that italians with those characteristics actually exist. I hope i have explained myself.
@@valeriodallara5928 you said 100% which is implying that his face is not common. like what i saidthe stereotypical jaapnese is only from foreigner POV in Japan they can differntiate each other
@@s2oop436 He says it himself that many japanese are not sure where he comes from when they meet him, have you seen the video? Then for goodness' sake, if you want to be right, i'll leave it to you, i don't care.
Thank you for watching 🥰 I envy him..... I look too Japanese 🥲
@MJapan0 i said it before and say it again. You look like a hipster journalist who worked for vice magazine during its early years.
It’s not his appearance or the way he speaks Japanese. It’s his body language that gives away he’s a foreigner. By being born and raised in the West, he completely gives himself away when he goes to Japan.
Agree, his movements are too organic, Japanese follow a pattern.
It is so interesting🤔
Its something invisible but you feel the energy or vibe of a person.
Yes, doesn't feel like a robot
Probably because he raises his eyebrows like a westerner when he asks questions. Japanese people don't do that often.
It's all the unspoken communication. His body language, facial gestures, and eye contact look American. Japanese and Americans don't even cross a room in the same ways. People usually can't see this directly, but they'll pick up on it intuitively, in the way that we see someone as important or intimidating.
yeah you can spot an American a mile away lol. Even just the volume of their voice.
Us Americans speak to everyone the same, it doesn’t matter how they act, unless they’re rude.
@@TRUMPmyOSHIstop capping
He probably forgot the magic word, 'sumimasen' which means 'excuse me', I think 99.9% of Japanese will never forget or left that out when asking help from strangers.
Japanese people base language skill completely based on peoples faces. I couldn’t count the number of times I’m speaking to someone in Japanese and they answer to my Chinese wife.
I should clarify. If you are somewhere foreigners don’t often go then it’s much less of an issue. My favourite is when you are three exchanges in before they look at you, and do the does not compute pause.
Exactly, it's not because his Japanese sucks. If you look Japanese they will ask you instead of your foreign friends even if you can't speak Japanese at all.
They see east asian face and assume they speak Japanese
@@whiterabbit8243even thought the voice sounds like a man's instead of a woman's?
I suspect there is more to a language than just the words and sounds; people who have this issue probably have physical mannerisms that feel foreign.
It’s crazy because us Americans don’t treat people any differently based on some mannerisms. We respond in English unless the person doesn’t know a lick of English.
@@TRUMPmyOSHI Americans always speak English because that's the only language they know.
@@TRUMPmyOSHI we are talking about japan not america; americans really has this manner to insert themselves to be the main character in every scenario
@ Comparative analysis is only fair, bringing up how Americans just don’t care how you look or sound.
@@TRUMPmyOSHI nope it screams self centrism. we are not talking about america in the first place; americans are even full of people with indentity crisis they cant even differentiate between japanese or chinese let alone labeling filipinos as pacific islanders
He look mixed Filipino.
may japanese looks filipino
He moves and has the vibe of a western because he grew up abroad. Nothing about his face or anything.
so interesting...
Yeah, that was my thinking too, his body language and personality seem more Western than Japanese.
I have a limited knowledge of Japanese, but I found that his sentence is weird, "basu-tei wa doko ni arimasuka?"
It's like asking "where do you have a bus stop?"
I think it should be "basu-tei wa doko desu-ka?" meaning "where is the bus-stop?"
The weird sentence along with his aura(body language, mannerism, intonation etc) probably gave him away.
Don't you think so Mister Japan?
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
That make sense.
his parents are fully japanese, his parent's parents were japanese...his parent's^30 were...Chinese
They lived in what we now call China, but they weren't "Chinese", per se.
Clearly he didn't consider his manners and subtle subconscious behaviors. He calls Japan his home turf, even though he says he wasn't born and raised there. He's nationally English, and has the subtle behaviors of an Englishman.
I'm broadly European with a number of mixed ethnicities, but, I was born and raised in America, therefore I have subtle subconscious American behaviors. It doesn't matter what I look like (I'm a ginger), how well I speak Japanese (failing to), or observe societal courtesies that people in Japan engage in like proper bowing and the like, I natively have American behaviors from growing up in that environment.
I'm "full-blooded" Japanese, 3rd generation American, but nobody from Japan would ever think I'm Japanese from Japan. When asking where I'm from, some Japanese from Japan have said that I don’t look Japanese at all.. A couple of Japanese once thought I might be "Japanese mixed with Brazilian/Portuguese." My family's higher than average Jomon appearance makes me look mixed to many non-Asians, and many Asians can't tell what I am. And in the States, many assume I'm an immigrant. So I'm often seen as a foreigner in my own country. I generally keep to myself anyway, so I honestly don't care what strangers might think.
If you were born in the West, especially if you are generations removed from a particular country and culture, you are very different and are no longer of that country and culture, even if you have the DNA of that country.
This guy has way more of what people think of "Japanese" appearance than I do.
he looks mixed to me, in my opinion. but definitely asian
You could pass as american. So it shocks me it doesnt happen to you
that ninja don't look japanese to me lol
he looks vietnamese
I don't know what kind of japanese you imagine. Google 'Ken Hirai' or 'Hiroshi Abe', they are pure Japanese too.
Japanese faces are more diverse than people think.
maybe🤔
To quote a Japanese employee who I worked with, who came from Japan when asked about Japanese born/raided overseas. "They just look like us."
Im Japanese heritage, born and raised in the US. I consider my upbringing "American" because my parents were also born Americans. Other asian people that are children of immigrants carry themselves differently in body language and mannerisms compared to people from families with at least two generations in the US.
wow this dude is jumping through hoops and doing mental gymnastics, "the ability to trick people into thinking I'm a foreigner", this is fascinating!
Everyone thinks I am Japanese.... why??😂
@@MJapan0 because you don't want to interact with anyone and also... U are japanese genetically 🤔
It's weird. When I was in Japan, like 10 years ago as a tourist, having learned Japanese as weeb, people spoke Japanese back to me if I spoke to them in Japanese. And I definitely look European, not Asian at all. And maybe my pronunciation is better than the average foreigner, but I definitely don't consider myself fluent. But if I started out speaking to them in English, their English was usually worse than my Japanese, and then it was absolutely impossible to get them to switch to Japanese, even when their English was more or less useless. So eventually I just started speaking in Japanese, and then that's what we stuck with (unless when ran into actually English fluent Japanese).
6:41 - It is actually true that your genetics open up and change when you live in a new or different environment, but that's not visible to the naked eye.
As others have already pointed out, what people are probably picking up on are his mannerisms being a bit different than people who have been there much longer.
Almost never happen to me in Japan, I'm from French West Indies btw. I saw so many you tube video like that, that I convinced myself I must learn proper English before coming to Japan. I never speak English here, I can't even practice. For exemple I discovered that one friend was fluent in English more than one year after meeting him for the first time...
You have to adapt to the local body language, people spoke to me in their own language either it was in France, Portugal or Japan. But in English when I was in Korea I never try to blam them for that. It was just my lack of skill.
Interesting because that's me. I'm chinese, but I'm asked if I'm pure chinese. Both my parents are chinese. I'm well aware my body language and mannerisms, language give me away as a foreign chinese person. I was with a group of native chinese speakers and was easily picked out as a foreigner. Just by my mannerisms. I would stare at things others would not.
In a chinese language class, I was asked if I was hispanic. Even though I look like my mother, I have atypical features for a common chinese person. Angular face, high nose bridge, curly hair when grown, unusually tall for my family. I was bizarrely called Elon Musk by some friendly strangers. Too add more confusion to my identity, I visited my grandfather's grave for the first time in Hong Kong and he was buried with a latina women who was not my grandmother.
lol that’s Japan for ya!
He sticks out like a sore thumb
He doesn't look Japanese. If I had to guess, I would have said Cambodian.
many japanese look like that. you only knew the stereotype looks but almost 30% of japanese people look like him
@@s2oop436Which goes to show that the Japanese people that think there’s a certain phenotype that can only be “true” Japanese is even more backwards, lol.
Yes, Japanese is both an ethnicity and a culture (sometimes some Japanese will accept you if you gain nationality status) but the true meaning of being Japanese (as it is any) is the CULTURE & NATIONALITY (which foreigners can obtain).
If one fully assimilates, and I mean FULLY, then they should be considered as such as they embody what it truly means to be (x); and not just because happenstance put certain DNA in a spot and didn’t move them for millennia, lmao.
I've a similar experience living in Sweden. I am white, blue-eyed yet my body language gives me away. I, too, wanted to be invisible.
Is it weird that I had the opposite experience? After landing at Narita airport I was expected to fill out all my Japanese info in full detail meanwhile my friend who didn't look Japanese just walked by without being asked. I'm not Japanese by the way
That is kinda weird....
bruh, it's cause his family was in those Japanese internment camps, some generations ago and the result is...!
possibly
I'm white and when i speak Japanese nobody speaks English ever. cmon man!!! Also maybe he doesn't dress in japanese style. He looks ハフ😂
Maybe because your Japanese is ベラベラ. I asked a direction in tokyo once to a random dude in Japanese and he replied in the most broken English instead.
no he doesnt look hafu. many japanese looks like him
All Japanese look different . His eyes look a bit bigger than average , like mackenyu.
well he obviously coming from the uk so he is not japanese enough… sorry to say he is not japanese enough by the looks of it. and the fact that he speaking in uk english so 🤷🤦🏻🤷♂️.
He looks japanese but a bit bigger eye japanese i guess ?
many japanese looks like him
@s2oop436 yes maybe some japanese just lack common sense to not figure out his Japanese lol or they just have bad eyesight or something
@@STOICTH-camR-g8h1234 it is more of his manner or japanese pronounciation
Maybe
But some japanese do have super small eyes maybe they think most japanese with bigger eyes are foreigners?
It honestly doesn't look 100% Japanese, not even close.
obviously you havent been into japan; many japanese looks like him especially in kyushu and okinawa region. even celebrities looks like him. tehre is no such thing as 100% japanese
@@s2oop436 No, i mean it doesn't look like stereotypical japanese. It seems obvious to me that there are many different traits in different areas of Japan, but people's perception exists and exactly like me, as an italian, if i see a person 1.95 tall, blonde and with blue eyes I DO NOT first think that they could be italian , despite the fact that italians with those characteristics actually exist. I hope i have explained myself.
@@valeriodallara5928 you said 100% which is implying that his face is not common. like what i saidthe stereotypical jaapnese is only from foreigner POV in Japan they can differntiate each other
@@s2oop436 He says it himself that many japanese are not sure where he comes from when they meet him, have you seen the video? Then for goodness' sake, if you want to be right, i'll leave it to you, i don't care.
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Because his soul was completely gone,... he looked like he still has his soul...Japanese souls are dead.
Hes NOT JAPANESE. He is American.