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How true is this on the first trip visiting Japan? (retrofed.com)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Tip: NEVER use google translate for Japanese! (Even for travel) It's so bad!

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[–] 40 points 5 days ago (5 children)

There was someone local in a state furry chat who kept talking about his Japan was the best, talked a lot of anime quotes, and no amount of people who know what Japan is actually like could convince him otherwise.

He's apparently stuck there now and drinks most of the time because he didn't and still doesn't realize how goddamn racist his assumptions were and how it got him nowhere.

  • he assumed everyone would like him cause he's American and
  • he thought most people would speak English
  • for some fucking reason he thought most of it was like Tokyo or specifically Akihabara(sp?)

So I'm cackling at this like how fucking appropriate

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  • [–] 16 points 5 days ago

    I might've met him or at least someone similar, he wore a kimono to a bar and was disappointed that not every Japanese person asked him about it. He would try to use it as a conversation starter; eventually he drank himself into a stupor and passed out outside of the bar.

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