What Generalizations do the Japanese Have On Americans ?

[Patchy]

I find this all too hilarious XD
Especially since my household happens to have 2 handguns O___o My mother is a detective, and my step father just retired from the military, thus we got guns XD
No one else I know owns a gun, so this is definitely a misconception
(except in my family XD).

 

[blossom]

Well I haven't really posted in a while, but I had to post after reading some comments in here. Yes America is violent, but sometimes I think people blow the whole issue out of proportion, its not like I'll walk out my house and get shot. I've lived in " the ghetto or the slums " for almost all my life, and the majority of the people who are invovled in heavy violence are people who actually look for trouble, like people who join gangs who know how dangerous it can be, don't get me wrong innocent people get killed too, and that's really sad. But I'm sure that there is no place in the world that has absoultely no crime, if not I would like to hear about it.

About the whole gun issue, I don't know anyone who owns a gun just so they can hurt people for their enjoyment. The few I know keep guns to protect themselves and their families. So yeah...

 

[Maciamo]

But I'm sure that there is no place in the world that has absoultely no crime, if not I would like to hear about it.

It depends if "place" means country or region/city. If it's the latter, then there are many very safe places. Those almost uninhabited spring to mind.

 

[Furono]

Medical

They somehow got it in their heads that the medical care in the U.S. terrible. Having been through both systems and having babies in each I've found Japan to be way worse.

 

[Mike Cash]

This is the anecdote I normally relate when expressing my disgust with the American medical system.

 

[Godrina]

Egads.

I LOVE. This Thread. (I'm replying to various things through what I've read so far, so bear with me, please.)

Yes yes, America has a higher obesity rate than anywhere else in the world, but I'm a stick.

Actually, I'm trilingual though, and most of my friends are at least bilingual, but then, I'm coming out of high school, and I keep on taking more and more classes for more and more languages. Otherwise, actually, most Americans that I know though, don't know anything besides their first language, English. So I guess you can say the only knowing one language thing is based off of a generally true fact.

Oh yeah, and Bush can go die under a rock, I don't know. *shot* I don't know ANYONE who supports our current president.

The KFC thing, I think I've read that somewhere before. I actually think that's kinda cool!

The cops by me, I think the niceness of the guys depends on where you are really. The ones here are real, well, buttfarts, the ones in another town I've been to were WORSE, but I've met some nice ones too.

Come to think of it, the way I see it, the US is diverse, odd, and kinda sad, all at the same time.

Then again, the generailzations that some people I know have on Japan are scary...with the whole "everyone wears kimonos in the streets and they have really slanty eyes" thing.