ShadowTiger
12-01-2005, 12:49 PM
If you are, but have no idea where to start, but are also too lazy to get off of your computer, then This page (http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html) is for you. Read up on the stories in there. I found This one (http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher17.html) particularly revealing.
A few things I thought were interesting:
- It would be shameful for a Japanese person to directly complain about something to you. But they sure can comment on how big your foreign dick/boobs are. Personally, I'd think something like "Hey, would you mind turning your stereo down?" would be slightly less embarrassing than "Hey, you've got a huge dick, huh?" but I guess this is one of those cultural differences I have yet to understand.
-- How is it that this country can make cell phones more advanced than some of your personal computers, cameras the size of Kit Kat bars, and GPS systems in every car, yet they've failed to grasp the miraculous wonder that is the drying machine, or a centralized ventillation system?
Especially the vent system thing, that really kills me. The Japanese have a thing called a kotatsu, which is a table with a small heater underneath. You can put a large blanket over the kotatsu, so everyone can sit around it, put their legs under the blanket, and share the warmth. Well, that's nice, right? Families spending time together and bonding around the kotatsu? You'd think, wouldn't you? But I can guaran-damn-tee you, the only conversation around that kotatsu is "It's really cold today, isn't it?" In America, sure, we'd all be in separate rooms watching our own separate TV, but at least we'd be warm. And later on, we may actually talk about what we saw on TV to the other members of our family.
everyone here has nice TV's. But the television here absolutely sucks. Save a few good shows, I'd much rather watch evolution - literally stare at a monkey and wait for it to start becoming human (here come the anti-Darwin emails...) than watch Japanese TV. I can promise you, the monkey would be 100x more entertaining. Even if it were dead.
Oh, and This one (http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher27.html) is just so horribly funny. XD
A few things I thought were interesting:
- It would be shameful for a Japanese person to directly complain about something to you. But they sure can comment on how big your foreign dick/boobs are. Personally, I'd think something like "Hey, would you mind turning your stereo down?" would be slightly less embarrassing than "Hey, you've got a huge dick, huh?" but I guess this is one of those cultural differences I have yet to understand.
-- How is it that this country can make cell phones more advanced than some of your personal computers, cameras the size of Kit Kat bars, and GPS systems in every car, yet they've failed to grasp the miraculous wonder that is the drying machine, or a centralized ventillation system?
Especially the vent system thing, that really kills me. The Japanese have a thing called a kotatsu, which is a table with a small heater underneath. You can put a large blanket over the kotatsu, so everyone can sit around it, put their legs under the blanket, and share the warmth. Well, that's nice, right? Families spending time together and bonding around the kotatsu? You'd think, wouldn't you? But I can guaran-damn-tee you, the only conversation around that kotatsu is "It's really cold today, isn't it?" In America, sure, we'd all be in separate rooms watching our own separate TV, but at least we'd be warm. And later on, we may actually talk about what we saw on TV to the other members of our family.
everyone here has nice TV's. But the television here absolutely sucks. Save a few good shows, I'd much rather watch evolution - literally stare at a monkey and wait for it to start becoming human (here come the anti-Darwin emails...) than watch Japanese TV. I can promise you, the monkey would be 100x more entertaining. Even if it were dead.
Oh, and This one (http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher27.html) is just so horribly funny. XD