Gaijinian
Sempai
- 3 Jun 2005
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Shibuyaexpat said:
It is always charming to see people stereotype ten of hundreds of thousands of people after MAYBE, what 50 examples or less (how that equates to "most" teenagers in the US, I have no idea)?
Your just jealous because you going to die soon.
Oh, and from your profile: you like "Modern culture," right? In general, what age group do you associate with "Modern culture?" ....maybe it is because you having a mid-life crisis (of which the people effected are MUCH worse than teenagers).
Anyway, it is not my generation that is ruining the world, the economy (quite the contrary, do you know what the economy would be like without teenagers? We buy A.LOT), and voted Bush into office...
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As far as this thread is concerned, I was only there for two weeks, so I tried to make the best of it as I could.
THINGS I LIKED:
1.) Being a serious chic magnet.
2.) In general, the food (BUT--heh, sometimes this could go either way).
3.) Using/hearing the Japanese language (I don't know why, but I love studying the language soooo much).
4.) Watching 80 year olds climb hundreds of stairs to put a few coins in a bucket at some shrine (it was inspirational).
5.) The trains (especially the shinkansen, I loved being able to rotate my chair).
6.) Seeing people bow while talking on a 携帯.
7.) Toilets (the cool ones).
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Things I didn't/don't like:
1.) Yasukuni jinja.
2.) 白い目で見られる事。 I felt like I was a criminal.
3.) Even if I spoke Japanese, people would reply in English (or in not English, some thing like: Nihongo Joooo~zu!!! Sunngoi!, and if in a group, they'll often talk amongst them selves: Sono GAIJIN, nihongo shabereru'nda!, as if it is too unreal to believe).
5.) In general, the people are pretty ignorant of politics and other cultures.
6.) So HOT! No AC!! I'm going to go crazy!
7.) The toilets (the not cool ones, the "Japanese" style ones).