58% Of World’s Japanese Speakers White 23-Year-Old American Males

[nahadef]

I'm totally not surprised.
Report: 58% Of World's Japanese Speakers White 23-Year-Old American Males | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Following a comprehensive two-year linguistic survey, a report published Wednesday in the academic journal Language revealed that 58 percent of Japanese speakers worldwide are 23-year-old white men from the United States. "Our findings indicate that a majority of individuals who can fluently speak and comprehend Japanese are actually Caucasian post-collegiate American males, many of whom order in Japanese at sushi restaurants and were one of the few white members of their universities' Japanese clubs," read the report in part, which noted that American-born 23-year-old men who taught English for a year in Kobe or Sapporo after graduation currently outnumber all other speakers of the Japanese language, including the entire population of the East Asian island nation and its millions of emigrants living throughout the world. "Though the Japanese dialect was spoken almost exclusively by individuals of Japanese origin until the mid-18th century, it is now largely a vernacular utilized by young white men who decorate their apartments with traditional Japanese prints and are devoted fans of manga artist Hayao Miyazaki. In fact, if present trends continue, we predict that within several decades the Japanese language will be spoken almost exclusively by fair-skinned twentysomething U.S. citizens who regularly purchase packaged seaweed snacks from small Asian markets and watch Akira Kurosawa films several times per month." The report further confirmed that virtually 100 percent of this demographic is either currently dating or recently broke up with a woman named Miku.

 

[FinancialWar]

Where is the reference to the report mentioned in the article?

 

[nahadef]

You'll have to Google it.

 

[FinancialWar]

Yes I will, but I can't Google it if I don't know the title of the report, which is like the minimum reference requirement by any standard.

Once I know the title then I can search for it and read the report myself. Things i'll be looking for are but limited to

Which institution conducted the report?
What was the survey methodology?
How big was the survey size?
Is language a reputable journal.
Is the author s qualified?
Etc.

Until than, I can not decide if the claim is a fact or fiction.

I mean do you even know the title of the report the article is talking about? Have you read the report? Surely you have read it since you weren't surprised by the facts in the report.

 

[FinancialWar]

Lol, just realised it's written by theonion, you troll, that's not even funny.

I hope you do know it's a joke, which means you posting in the wrong section.

 

[Dotanbatan]

Wooooooosh

 

[FinancialWar]

It's the internet, either trolled or get trolled.

But nahadef is't a troll type, so maybe he's just gullible.

 

[nahadef]

What's this about trolling? It's just a really really funny article. Though I admit I laughed almost as much at the FW replies.

Did you believe the part of the article where it stated "The report further confirmed that virtually 100 percent of this demographic is either currently dating or recently broke up with a woman named Miku."

 

[FinancialWar]

I almost did actually. I don't what kind of stuff white people are into these days.