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I'm not trying to refute you, here, but rather point out a possibility:BlackenedEyes said:...then why can't some one who is actualy Japanese play a Japanese charactor in a movie about Japan?
I think you need to get away from base more often and head to Tokyo or Yokohama once in a while. ;-)Fattyaddy said:well, I've lived in Yokosuka for seven months and I wouldn't say that I have seen hot sexy Japanese females. But I have seen attractive ladies in Japan.
Gaijin translates to "foreign person", saying "jap" is something more akin to referring to black people with the "N" word from what I have gathered.
nice gaijin said:I have many Asian and Asian-American friends, and the only place I hear or see the word "jap" used is on forums like this.
ghettocities said:I have no friends but my grandpa would say the term "Jap" often until he googled my full name, found my website, spent 30 to 40 hours on it and sent me a letter saying he'd no longer send me birthday or christmas cards.
Josh
A few things... I rewrote this... I can't figure out how to put all this.Spyder93090 said:Here's Miki again, her friend Chika (not hot) and my other friend Kazumi. Kazumi is the most beautiful Japanese girl I know ... and me in the back lol.
There is a scene in the movie, Brother, with Kiteshi Kitano, where there is an English conversation going on in front of Kitano where one o f the antagonists uses the word jap in a derogatory way, and the end of that scene is Kitano shooting that person saying back in English, "[...] I understand `dirty Jap'. "blade_bltz said:I don't know how 'jap' works into actual Japanese society.
yukio_michael said:Maybe that's a statement being made about the word right there?
yukio_michael said:What does this say about Japanese society?
Possibly. One of my friends from Japan was commenting how she was "too chubby" to wear a short skirt in Japan, but here in the U.S., it's alright. Now, this girl weighs maybe 115 maximum, and is just over 5'4". And I always thought women in America were overly self-conscious about their appearance!Ewok85 said:That Japanese society sets standards and benchmarks that make normal people feel inadequite and impossible leading in some cases to serious mental problems regarding body image, diet and a number of other things?
I don't know. I say so many negative things sometimes, I didn't want to come out and say it, but I think so. I've met a lot of Japanese girls who felt that they weren't "pretty", or "cute like normal Japanese", or good enough... ones who were made to feel very bad about themselves when they were young because they were heavier...Ewok85 said:That Japanese society sets standards and benchmarks that make normal people feel inadequite and impossible leading in some cases to serious mental problems regarding body image, diet and a number of other things?