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Hating on Americans (pg. 14)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
haha so true: I also had it a couple of times that i couldn't understand their english... Of course since my japanese was no doubt as terrible i couldn't really complain... :stongue:
Keep calm and carry on eh :p |
I was actually quite lucky. With very few exceptions, the people who insisted and spoke in English with me could do it quite well... and some of them actually had some fun with this moonspeaking gaijin that came from afar :p |
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| WittyHandle |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
how incredibly racist of you yourself to just Connect with some random (who could have been a psychotic killer) just because he has the same skin tone as you |
He walked toward me at the same time I did him. Does that mean he was as racist as I (apparently) was? Our "connection" was a brief conversation, and to suppose that he was any more likely to be a "psychotic killer" than anyone else I might bump into on the street is a strange suggestion. |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I was actually quite lucky. With very few exceptions, the people who insisted and spoke in English with me could do it quite well... and some of them actually had some fun with this moonspeaking gaijin that came from afar :p |
The funniest experience I had was with an old lady on a train... we both got by speaking tiny bits of each others language, was really cool hehe
Also she helped me find outi was on entirely the wrong train and had been for an hour... lucky she talked to me LOL |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
The funniest experience I had was with an old lady on a train... we both got by speaking tiny bits of each others language, was really cool hehe
Also she helped me find outi was on entirely the wrong train and had been for an hour... lucky she talked to me LOL |
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Where was it? |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
He walked toward me at the same time I did him. Does that mean he was as racist as I (apparently) was? Our "connection" was a brief conversation, and to suppose that he was any more likely to be a "psychotic killer" than anyone else I might bump into on the street is a strange suggestion. |
why would you assume he wasn't? |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
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Where was it? |
Coming from kyoto or osaka I was trying to head to hikone which is the small town on the east side of biwako (does ko mean lake?) Where I was staying... I somehow wound up on the west side of biwako.... the biggest lake in japan, so had to backtrack erghhhh.... :p |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
It's no wonder that no interesting idea ever come out from the archipelago: the influx of new ways of thinking from outsiders is very limited. |
I don't know too much about Japanese culture, but I think Wabi Sabi is a very interesting philosophy. |
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| Lira |
Wabi Sabi, the way I see it, is a direct development of the Buddhist tradition and its exaltation of the concept of impermanence. Like I said, they're very skilled at taking an idea to its logical extreme, in this case, Buddhist aesthetics. Imagine a European country influenced by Heraclitus and then sticking to it. For ever.
I can't think of a single rebel until after the Meiji Restoration, when Euro-American thought ravaged the archipelago.
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
Coming from kyoto or osaka I was trying to head to hikone which is the small town on the east side of biwako (does ko mean lake?) Where I was staying... I somehow wound up on the west side of biwako.... the biggest lake in japan, so had to backtrack erghhhh.... :p |
Ooops :stongue:
And, yeah, -ko is actually a suffix that means lake. The proper word is mizuumi. |
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| WittyHandle |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
why would you assume he wasn't? |
Good luck meeting new people in life if you assume everyone is a "psychotic killer". |
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| EgosXII |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
:wtf: |
hahaha i just read that and it makes no sense even to me :wtf:
i resign my position :gsmile: |
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