That Japanese Man Reacts to WEEABOOS by FilthyFrank
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WEEABOOS
• WEEABOOS
This one just had to be done.
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Id love to learn atleast the basics needed to travel there and not be disrespectful.
Please do a "What do Japanese think of Joji" next
attack on titan, a masterpiece
Weeb is only "casual" because insulting people has become casual
also, you wanted example of xenophobia in japan:
th-cam.com/video/uACGSiN3ZkI/w-d-xo.html
"Filthy Frank is actually making a lot of sense here"
Not a sentence I thought I'd ever hear.
Actually he used to do it a lot back in the time just that people pay so more attention to the "hey b0os", the guy actually made some valid points, just hear dumplings, and the another pink omega songs, thank God he leaved filthy frank character behind and with him he's edgy fandom.
he always makes sense
As a casual viewer, Filthy Frank is _far_ more intelligent than his fans let on. It's really amazing how much they miss the point as he's spelling it out to them in plain English.
He delivered a lot of social commentary while being super offensive.
@@PinkPortraitDesu ^^ I came to comment this. ^^ this is the final form of enjoying filthy frank. Offensiveness with a purpose.
"Looks like he's done a lot of research..." 🤣🤣🤣
That got me
LOL I fukin died
Read this comment exactly when he said it! 🤣
I cracked loud at that one hahahahahaha.
Filthy Frank is still relevant to this day even after Joji started pursuing his music career. He left a legacy.
Dude I just wanna say, I love your profile picture, that's a dope ass album. You have good taste in music.
he was just a different breed
Franku come back! 😭
Whoa, don't dox my boi in any normie spaces. Filthy Frank and Joji have nothing to do with each other wink wink.
@@UmamiPapi They're just different nicknames for the same person.
Re: Xenophobic stuff - I only encountered it one time on a late night train ride with a British co-worker (guy) when we were in Tokyo. The Japanese guy was drunk and he was yelling at us to get out of Japan (in Japanese). And he also called my colleague stinky, lol. The other people in the train actually called us over to get us away from the drunk guy and apologized in behalf of his behavior, so it was all good.
Wow an actual relevant comment
@@josephjoestar324 shush
I mean a lot of people are like that underneath the surface, the alcohol just brings it out in any country. America and mexico too.
Sounds like global issue
"They also call Japanese people 'weebs' nowadays" poor ol Sora the Troll
He already accepted his fate just look at his rencently videos lmao.
i swear the guy is godly
"a lot of you have anime avatars"
me:.....uhhh
Guess the anime character in my pfp
@@kermit2206 Kazuma?
@@kermit2206 Kazuma
Kazuma des
Thank god mine has nothing to do with anime. At all... nuh uh
He skipped the part where Frank spoke Japanese. I'm pretty sure it's because what he said there was offensive and the subtitles were wrong (it was deliberate).
THATS WHY I CLICKED THIS VIDEO! DAMN IT >____
Subs in the intro are correct up to the last two sentences. There's one word I can't quite grab. Subs are: "Are you ready to have some fun?" / "I sure am." What he says: "I have two (?fat? it's not the right word...) people in my closet." / "They're both already dead."
"This is my house" is the correct sub.
"We have to run" isn't the right sub, but I can't quite get the right words there either.
Non-subbed section where he's being attacked by Weeaboo Jones is "Stop! Stop! You're hurting me!"
As far as I can tell, Pinkman and Weeboo Jones don't speak Japanese.
@@sutematsu "I have two dead jews in my closet"
@@herp_derpingson Thank you, damn, that threw me off.
@@sutematsu Ore ga manko sukinanda "I like pussy" is the correct translation in thr "I have to run" subs. Are you Japanese by the way?
Them: "Don't judge a book by its cover"
Yuta-san: "Don't judge a weeb by their avatar"
The joke is that if the sister can outrun the brothers then they can't do adult things with her (phrasing to make it sfw and not get auto deleted), as that is a stereotype of a lot of southern states in the US.
In France, the exact same joke exists, but instead of white girl it would be Algerian girl
@@monopanda9546 yo, what ?
I'm algerian living in France for like 7 years and i never heard about it 🧐
@@nazomezu731 HHAHAHAHA
@@monopanda9546 frr tu raconte de la merde en France ça serais avec une fille du Nord
@@RoseMaeWS It's not a saying. More just a joke around the stereotype of incest in the Deep South.
Florida is usually not included in the Deep South
Kids these days have it so easy, with their streaming services and online marketplaces to buy anime on DVDs and whatnot.
Back in MY day, you had your go-to streaming site that mostly played in 270p, where sometimes you could barely read the subs through the pixelation, and you had to click through like 5 different players to get the one that would actually load. Or if you're lucky, you find a decent quality upload on TH-cam that was split into 3 to 7 parts depending on how badly the channel wanted to avoid copyright strikes. Those were the GOOD OLD DAYS.
Bah, back in my day you had to send money to random addresses in the Philippines and pray to god that the guy honored his word and sends you home subbed VHS tapes within a few months of your money landing.
I remember watching clannad on youtube and that's the first time I'm into anime
My first anime was attack on titan and I wasn’t aware of Crunchyroll or Funimation at the time (2015 or so) so I used to watch all the episodes on TH-cam. Most episodes were uploaded as a tiny box in the corner, with most of the screen being taken up by a random wallpaper 😅occasionally you would find an episode that took up the whole screen tho and that was the best
what
That's where pirated anime comes in
I'd love to hear your thoughts on Japan and it's relationship to xenophobia - as a British person I've heard a lot of mixed things, the impression I've gotten has is that Japan is a bit like England in that it really depends where in the country you are and how you visit them as a foreigner as to whether you will experience any significant xenophobia or not but beyond that I really don't know much. Would love to see a video on it from a native Japanese person for sure.
Every single country in the world is xenophobic, it's human nature to react bad to what we find not common, it all depends more who you're talking with regardlees the country really.
@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr I do agree every country will have xenophobic people and this isn't exclusive to any culture, it is definitely disingenuous to pretend that it is just an individual thing or that there won't be trends of it in specific cultures in specific regions/countries etc.
For example, West Yorkshire where I lived for 11 years there's a massive problem with racism towards mostly Pakistani people despite this region being voted the friendliest in England. I didn't see a fraction of the hatred/segregation/tension for Pakistani people in London comparatively.
When I brought some Singaporean friends to come visit, everyone they met were lovely and curious because they perceived them as tourists so wanted to show off the positives of Yorkshire culture to them, comparing that to the chinese people who lived and worked locally the treatment was night and day, with theie Chinese takeout having been vandalised with racial hate words and broken windows a few times.
I found more casual and overt racism towards local immigrants in that region than any other I've lived in, though there's plenty where I live now but the dynamic is very different (more focussed on eastern Europeans and a lot less aggressive than what I witnessed in Yorkshire).
What I'm asking Yuta is what he knows/has experienced in Japan because I've not heard anything from native Japanese people on it, only foreigners who have had very mixed experiences and it's hard to build a good picture from a few anecdotes from many different regions. I could just as easily take what they have said and chalk it up to individuals, but that ignores some of the history I know of Japan at least legally but laws often fail to show the real situation either. I'd like to hear from someone who has a native's perspective on it.
TL;DR - no country has a monopoly on racism/xenophobia, nor is any completely free of it, but some cultures have more pronounced and overt trends of specific types of it depending on their culture/history etc. than others and you need to study each individually to really get a good picture of it.
@RacheyBabes
My comment in the same video does hint at some answers on this specific topic.
I feel like more than xenophobic they're countries uninterested on foreign countries and cultures other than anecdotic information.
I think Japan violated the Geneva convention when they released body pillows onto the world.
The irony of this comment 🤣
Of course no. It was exported on hygienic conditions. It was you who polluted it with BOW.
Always be a weeb, never a weaboo.
Agreed
weeb is just a short form of weeaboo lol
@@Monamona_207 wrong, its not
Weeb= you like anime
Weeaboo= you are a filthy disgusting person who watches anime and has a body pillow and has a katana collection for some reason
Filthyfrank said he is an anime fan aswell but that does not make him a weeaboo
@@Circleglide there's no term for a normal anime watcher. Weeb = weeaboo, just shortened, where do you think the word weeb even derived from? if you look it up, weeb = weeaboo and there's no term for a person who likes anime, they're just referred to as "a normal anime watcher"
@@Monamona_207 not even the same watch FilthyFranks video about weeaboos
One of the things I love most about these videos, it adds some laughs while trying to learn real Japanese! I just want to be able to travel and communicate, nothing crazy. I really love the cultural topics. First hearing about "Honne" and "Tatemae," it wasn't explained to me very well. I thought it was this super mysterious way of communicating... Nope. It's literally in every culture for the most part to varying degrees. From what I understand as a foreigner, there is a significant emphasis on it in Japan. Here in America, we call it "Telling white lies," little lies meant to not hurt people's feelings. However, we don't care as much about the group, and it's more about the individual. So we, as Americans (not everyone, obviously), are way more comfortable breaking the collective harmony for our desires or needs. I really enjoy getting to see other cultures! Thank you for your videos, time, and knowledge! I grew up watching anime. So to me, anime was just more fantastic stories to digest. I never really cared where they came from. It's one of the reasons I started writing and making comics in the first place.
Japanese people: Boy's Love
English-speaking people: Yaoi
...something feels off here...
Well, at least both say fujoshi
In all my trips to Japan I've never found it xenophobic. Sometimes I have sensed what I call ''the look of dread''. What I mean by that is, for example, I walk into a restaurant, cafe or convenience store and I can tell right away the staff have this look of dread or worry because they might have to speak English. I'm not surprised by this as I've seen many tourists just start speaking their language and not using any Japanese at all (which is rude!). I always enter a place and use some basic Japanese and ''the look'' goes away 😉
Well to each his own I guess. To me your comment sounds alot like the I have never experienced racism so it doesnt exist in a way. Im half african and half japanese but i look like a light skin black guy and I was born and raised in japan and moved to europe at the age of 19 and I experinced alot of xenophobia growing up not saying it was all bad but people glorify japan to much imo. It has its problem like every country and its positives. Also many times when i used to leave my neighbourhood and people didnt know me they would say fucked up shit thinking i was a foreigner ;-; but all in all its still my home country but just try to see the while picture and do not undermine other peoples expericence cause of a shallow understanding, since there is a difference growing up there and visiting.
"I don't know anything, you're the one who knows "
Top notch monogatari reference right there 13:55
Ougi
I missed Filthy Frank already, now he's singing songs of depression which his songs make me break down. I miss him so much
We can miss him together. He left a vacuum which can never be filled.
We got so close to seeing Yuta say "motherfucker".
We were so close to greatness.
I think people say Japan is xenophobic, but what they really mean by that is that Japan is very homogeneous, as in it's not particularly multi-racial and has cultural uniformity. I know that personally when I think about foreigners who go to live in Japan or get a Japanese citizenship, the perception is that they still aren't Japanese, even if they live there for years or have kids who grew up there. Whereas if a foreigner moves to some place in Europe or to America, it's easy to think of that person as being American or European even if they weren't born there because we are multi-racial, multi-cultural and in many places multi-lingual cultures. It's a perception thing, mainly. Some of this has to do with anime too, honestly, where there will be characters that are called foreigners by native Japanese characters because they have blonde hair or something like that, even if that supposed foreigner had a Japanese parent and lived in Japan for their whole lives
What about you? Do you consider a foreigner who gets Japanese citizenship to be Japanese? Or what about the children of foreigners who are born in Japan? In America, we have something called birth right citizenship, where as long as you are born on American land, you have American citizenship, and based on some limited research, Japan is very different when it comes to that.
It's probably because Europeans Americans, and maybe even indians look similar so they are more accepted. The only real way to exclude is accent. I think it's more of a racial issue east Asians look different and Chinese and Japanese are extremely complicated languages. So it's seems to be easy to be prejudice towards the obviously different person in place where they're easily noticeable likewise for any other people's.
Maybe in Europe, in America we still like to view people based off the color of their skin. :D
In Europe they basically cancel you if you don't think a Syrian automatically becomes German after living here for a few years
Its interesting that the Japanese word for an unemployed person is nito - in England people sometimes use the word neet. Theres no relationship with the Japanese word; in England neet was originally a governmnt acronym meaning Not in Employment, Education or Training.
It's a loanword, that's exactly what it's referring to.
I'm pretty sure that is exactly where it comes from
I lost it when Frank said, "Rosetta Stone!" I don't know why, but it cracked me up. And I really enjoyed your commentary on his video! It's refreshing to hear someone being reasonable towards things that can be considered "cringy," like anime avatars and cosplay. Your sarcastic rehearsals of weird stuff people say to you about being Japanese were great! Also, "...a dog."
As a half white half japanese man in Sendai, I definitely get some weird looks and some off hand questions at a bar. A lot of people seem to get excited if they have been learning english and want to practice it. They seemed disappointed when I respond back in Japanese, but if they are nice about it I will gladly have a conversation. I was born here and lived here in two stints for a total of 20 years....so it does feel weird to get side eyes in your hometown. I don't think I would call Japan the MOST xeniphobic country, but it has problems. I notice I don't get as much looks in Tokyo or Osaka since foreigners and tourists are a lot more common than Sendai. Being half japanese made it a decent bit harder to get a job in my field even with a degree from a Japanese university. Its an important topic
Wait, that word "nito", is that just the acronym NEET as a loanword from English?
Yes.
My man Yuta drops that video like how he spawns in like a GMod Object.
Bruh
I learned a few years of Japanese, but it wasn't for anime. It was for video games.
Hell yeah bruh
Yeah, you oughta learn it right. Which one is save, which one is load, or you funked your precious hours of gameplay.
I guess filthy frank is still getting that sweet youtube money.
yeah, he's still pretty great to watch. sucks people couldnt seperate the character from the artist.
And he deserves every penny.
Comedic genius.
I highly doubt anything on his channel is monetized nowadays lol you can't even use swear words anymore lol but he makes a lot of money and makes great music as Joji and that was always his dream so i'm happy for him though Frank is sorely missed on the internet.
@@liquidsnake6879 Funny thing i found out. You can still buy Francis of the Filth in hardcover on amazon. I hope he's getting some profit off that to this day.
I used to read Attack on Titan. Stopped around where the final anime season starts and now I've started going through the anime instead.
Buckle up, dude. The first 2 episodes of current season dropped so many foreshadowing of what's to come.
Wow, it's the inverse of me. I watched everything until season 3 part 2 through anime, and then followed the manga until the current chapters. Of course I'm also watching the final season
@@joaovitordemelo8209 Caught up to the current season the other day. I liked the anime more than the manga. The upgraded (and moving) visuals made such a difference and paired with all the sounds, voices and music...simply fantastic.
@@Morecado Yeah, that's always my point when someone says, in general, that manga is better than anime. if it's well adapted (like Shingeki was), with the music, animation and colors the anime has, it's impossible that the experience reading a black and white manga is better. At least for me.
me too I read the manga too both anime and mnga its really really hood and intense the final season is soo hype for me
@17:45 "Yea, these girls can just be enjoying cosplay" oh Yuta, you innocent man
Yuta, please bring on Cowboy田中さん!
Am I the oniy one who wish to see Yuta bring his cowboy hat wearing friend onto the channel sometime? 😁
@@Alexeon "Harro! Mai Namu Isu Cowboy Tanaka!"
Where my filthy weeaboos at?!?
Hai~~
はい
'sup
こんにちは!
Tag
In Mexico the term "nini" would be used alot for a while
"Ni trabajo, ni estudia"
Translated too
"Neither works, nor study"
Quien?
Confundes neet con weeb era un insulto a los japofilicos, neet era el equivalente de nini en español.
A
Cory in the house... That anime brings back so many memories.
The guy licking the body pillow is Melonpan. He does anime themed comedy on youtube. He regularly appears on youtube weeboo cringe videos, but he's not cringe he is just doing over the top comedy.
I'm so glad you looked like you were having fun watching the video. Especiall the whole Dark Flame Master part lol.
20:23 love that reflective reaction
18:46
thats melonpan
hes a youtuber you should definitely react to him lel
11:32 is this a Chūnibyō reference? :D
Yup
Oh.. no.. he’s speaking like and anime character his chunni dark past will be revealed
Oregairu is my favourite anime. It helps me experience the school life that I never properly got to.
Could you react to the Ghost Stories dub?
16:52 This is so me. Every time I see someone post their bookshelf full of LN or manga im like: lets this guy's taste
Big love from japanese youtuber🇯🇵
I love when weeaboo Jones says "Rosetta stone"
My ugly face: *exist*
Anime avatar: let me introduce myself
Oregairu was finished in 2020 and it feels weird it’s been 7 years I’ve watched it from the beginning
Hearing Filthy Frank in 2021 has healed my soul. The world has been so child proofed in the last few years so that nobody gets offended that you can't even speak anymore.
-1000000000 Credit Score
Bruh, your name and profile pic. Lmfao
Does ni-to come from the abbrevation NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) or does it have another root?
The former.
That singing voice hit different
i loved filthy frank back in the day
I would like to see a Video of Yuta speaking like an anime character 😂😂 awesome
Yuta's Ara ara~
11:32
I don't laugh often during TH-cam videos but the "Onega-Darko Flame Masta!" (Would type it in proper Japanese but my options are either Google translate or struggle for 15 minutes so nah) really got me because I know what anime it's from and I love the reference but I hate that I got it.
As someone with a lot of fujyoshi friends (including mangaka etc) and even me creating BL content myself, I still use the word Yaoi a lot but also BL it's just that Yaoi has been used so much in the west that it's stuck with me now haha.
I wouldn't say it's fair to call Japan "xenophobic". From what I've learned it seems to be more about many Japanese people not wanting to step out of their comfort zone, and a preference for familiarity combined with a strong desire to not embarass themselves or embarass the person they're talking to.
English speaking skills are not that widespread in Japan it seems, so striking up a conversation with a foreigner who can't speak Japanese must seem like a minefield of embarassment for many Japanese people who can't hold a conversation in english.
Personally I'd be understanding of this sentiment. But a few foreigners might consider it offensive and even think it's due to xenophobia.
I find the notion to be ludicrous though. Just looking at modern Japanese society it's pretty clear that many Japanese people are very curious and appreciative of foreign cultures, perspectives and inventions.
They're not generally flippant or dismissive of things foreign. Learning english and being a profficient english speaker seems to be held in high regard, and clothes with english words (sometimes nonsensical) can be seen frequently.
Cinema, video games and pop culture is also entertaining a big Japanese audience.
So, like I said, unfair to label it as xenophobic.
That's why he said "Irony" because Americans can be equally xenophobic.
@@doyoulikedags3534 Nah, that's not it.
The joke is that FOREIGNERS (the weebs) are praising and idolizing the Japanese culture, which has a reputation for being isolationist and xenophobic (admittedly a bit undeserved)
Americans are generally far more multicultural than mainstream Japanese are.
@@sevenproxies4255 Ah, I thought he was referring to himself calling Japan xenophobic when he lives in New York which can have some pretty xenophobic people.
The cowboy thing reminds me of that Super Sentai Kakuranger character Jaraiya (Spelling?). The first time you see him, he's dressed like a cowboy because he's supposed to be from the USA lol. I think he is actually a Japanese-American. But it's funny how he learns Japanese so quickly and easily.
Never got really into anime, but I love Tokusatsu stuff.
You could win the small plastic swords in an arcade or get one from a seller during certain street parades when I was younger. I bet you still can.
9:30 I think he probably knows the right way cause he’s Japanese but he’s using the English pronunciation to be more casual
Being an otaku is a massive step above being a weeaboo, at least otakus still have their morals and dignity
I kinda think of weeb and weaboo as two different things
Yeah, weebs are the ones that like anime with passion, and weaboos are the ones that are obseessed, at least in my meaningless opinion lol
When i was learning Japanese back in high school i found myself on the line between the otaku and kimoota stage but was fortunate enough to never reach the kimoota stage because our japanese teacher taught us japanese the proper way as in speaking how a japanese person would and our teacher would always get us to do speaking exercises and im honestly glad to have learned japanese the proper way in high school and not a site like rosetta stone
Holy crap your singing voice is really good. Also this video is so hilarious and very informational 😎✨
I don't know if I mentioned this on another video, but an old coworker of mine said the Japanese were very racist because he encountered a Japanese-only bar when he visited... I didn't really think that was a very good reason, but it did stick with me. On the other hand, before the lockdown, I saw a lot of ads trying to get Americans to come live and work in Japan, so that seems to completely contradict that it's a xenophobic country. Which is not to say it doesn't have its issues, but I think it's more nuanced than the way Filthy Frank put it...
I was today years old when I found out weeaboo started as “whapanese” on the basis of a term for white rap fans from the nineties I’m not comfortable repeating. That probably makes it a baby talk version of “weeb”
I like to change my profile picture to my favorite characters of whatever shows I'm watching
11:30
I love this reference.
@That Japanese Man Yuta, Hey Yuta, thanks for the free Japanese lessons, and thanks for your anime suggestion (Asobi Asobase).
Anime is basically so normal these days in that US that it's almost weird if somebody doesn't watch it.
I'm 31 and live in a very rural part of the US, and most of my peers who I would have never expected to like anime are very into it.
My friends that are now police officers, mechanics, hunting enthusiasts, in the military, normal looking dads, or just general "rednecks" that love lifted trucks and fishing...
All watch anime in some form or another. I know a guy that was in the Army and is now super into weight lifting and he has a My Hero Academia tattoo and a noface sticker on his truck.
11:35 I loved your impressions! xD
As if the original video wasn't hilarious enough, your commentary adds more to it :)
Thank you!
We are living in the Filthy Frank Renaissance.
NOT YUTA REMEMBERING THE LYRICS 😭😂
Yuta catching himself almost saying mofo
🤣🤣🤣🤣
13:55 I don’t know everything, I only know what I know
I had a track teammate (I ran track in LA) who was from japan and literally wanted to be a cowboy. He ended up moving to texas and finding a ranch to work on seasonally. I honestly just respected the hell out of him. Didn't understand it but he was actually awesome af.
オタクであろうがなかろうが、他人に迷惑をかけない限りどんな中毒性があっても良い
Yuta, is there any difference between Japanese spoken in Anime and say Kamen Rider or dramas of that type? I ask because there are references to it being somehow different than normal spoken Japanese.
I love how he skipped the intro because of the joke where Filthy Frank says he has two dead Jewish people in his closet
tfw you make the connection between "nito" and "NEET"
17:01 Yuta you missed the perfect chance to say "おい、これは僕の家だ！" 😂
Oh what reference is this??
@@kavinyudhitia It's what Frank says to the pigeon on his windowsill in the video that Yuta is reviewing in this very video 😂 ちゃんと聞けよ！
@@icanwatchthevideos i see... thanks for enlightment 😁😁😁
18:45 This guy is actually a TH-camr Similar to Filthy Frank. (Much more extreme though)
I think thats were the picture is from:
th-cam.com/video/zwpzvZMK2lk/w-d-xo.html
He said "good old rasengan" not "girl on rasengan"
The white girl faster than her brothers joke has been explained already
( Hangs head in shame) I guess I'm a Weeaboo (?). I am Japanese-Scottish. But the way I live and speak, etc, is Scottish. I am now learning Japanese. And I'm drowning in books covering anything to do with Japan circa 1980's to...well, today! politics; literature; music; society in-general. Even things covering employment; unemployment; the law; criminals, too!! So I am not sure if I am classed as a Japanophile or as a weeaboo. All i know is that I don't care about current affairs in Britain/ Europe. But I do when it comes to Japan. I'm consumed by my Homeland.
I always say, you can't be a weeb if you're actually Japanese
I relate to the girl on whatsapp. It's annoying when random creepy folk start following you and talking to when they don't even have similar interests I do, so I don't put my real face out.
Haha I didn't think I'd ever see you react to this. Love it tho. It's still really weird that FilthyFrank is Joji.
Yuta can you share some of your viewer statistics? i am curious about which countries watch your channel the most.
very fun to see Mr. Yuta analyze a Filthy Frank video in such a calm, thoughtful way, lmao.
Yuta, could you want the "Your first day in japanese class" from Mattias Pilhede, would be really interesting see the view of a native speaker
XDDD dark flame master, 中二病でも恋がしたい reference loool
I do not think it is a fact "weeb" has come to mean "otaku".
Oh, and I do no think either FilthyFrank was referring to current Japan and Japanese people as xenophobic (in my opinion, they're pretty much a modern westernized non-descript non-culture shell of a country, as is pretty most of the first world). But there is indeed some irony in the notion of a large-scale cult fantasizing about traditional Japan (usually Sengoku-era, for some reason), "gaijin samurai litterature" such as Shogun, wanking over and over again on semi-historical figures such as Kuru-san or Jules Brunet, while actual samurai of the Sengoku era were on the whole a tyrannical, callous, brutish, racist and crual institution. An institution for which whole segments of the (local!) population were deemed too impure to even touch, an institution who would sometimes kill peasants for fun, an institution who had so little regard for neighbouring countries (koreans especially) that their population was seen as little better than animals in many many cases.
Fear not, no one's saying modern-age Japan is anything than a soulless mall, gotten too bland and acculturated to even retain the possibility of racism. But looking at Japan's interactions with other races and countries throughout its History does make a strong case for traditional Japan being a rather xenophobic country as a whole. I am willing to agree Ishii Shiro's unit 731, the rape of Nankin, the korean sex slaves' march, are isolated events that fail to characterize a culture entirely, and which could find some equivalents in some countries, especially European (looking at you, Germany, Spain, Belgium, France).
But Japan never had the "redeeming qualities" of such European countries either to balance off their horrors : no Christiniaty, no universalism, no original laws against slavery, no stance against kids working in awful conditions, etc. European countries, through colonization, martyred a lot of nations, but also brought them a lot. Japan, when it colonized Korea or China, was as vicious as most European countries were in the XIX century, without any of their redeeming qualities, again.
So, making the case that what we globally refer to as "Historical Japan" was hardcore racist, more so than many many countries around the world, is pretty easy, and I can't believe you fail to understand where it's coming from. High-ranking Japanese officers not a century ago referred to some human beings as "marutas". For their fate was to be burned after experimentation, like any other wooden logs. Even nazi Germany at its worst did not exemplify such sick humor on human life. And in that regard, of course, Japan is quite peculiar, whether you like it or not.
All that being said, I dig Japanese culture. I have Japanese friends. I went to Japan twice (at my own expense not a company's, and out of curiosity for its culture). So i have no problem with Japan. I think it's a great and fascinating country. But it was always an island (and thus, with an island mindset). It always had trouble interacting with other countries and often chose to close its borders pretty much entirely throughout its History. It was always feared and hated (and partially still is to this day) by most of its neighbour states in a way Germany and communist Russia simply are not. And there is good reason for that. To pretend otherwise, to toy with the notion that Japan up to 1945 had the same diplomacy, war tactics and doctrine, nationalist politics and overall take on the value of human life as any other country is, simply put, historically invalid. Can we at least agree on that?
Edit: I now understand what you (or some algorithm) took issue with and have amended the text to remove curse words. I trust this comment as it is formulated now complies with both YT and your channel's policies and will ne be deleted. Take care.
Please do a "What do Japanese think of Joji"
Like so this can be noticed or copy paste
12:44 The immigration policies are a good example. Also historically, Japan has attacked and raided a lot of Far East Asia. Modern Japanese are pretty chill though.
Cute avatars are life
Ahh yes Yuta speaking Yuuta's Dark Flame Master line. ❤️
I mean I like katana because how friggin cool they look tooo!!!!
I like his voice, when it's natural, not that raspy thingie he does, it makes my throat itch!!!!!!!! Thanks Mr. Aoi
7:38 funny how that caricature is now replaced by kpop stans
funny how things changed, just say "kpop bad" and you will get a comment like "you should be in jail" in a MILISECOND
Luckily even when i was a weeaboo as a teenager i wasnt so bad because i respect japanese people ive met in real life first of all, i even have a friend from high school who is japanese, also even if i can pass as a japanese and many people ask me if im japanese i proudly tell them im a filipino chinese. Aside from that even if i love japanese food i still crave for other food and western food
11:26 never thought Id get to hear Yuta-san saying this
Rasengan is said the same in English and Japanese, I understand what you mean about context and the way it's pronounced but in rasengan's case there's very little difference between them.
11:26 didn't expect that Ara ara from Yuta.