Japanese Students Shocked By Ignorant American Highschoolers

[Mikey]

Japanese Students Shocked By Ignorant American Highschoolers
May 27, 2007 by James

Japanese “news” portal Ameba has published an article by a reporter who interviewed Japanese highschool students who had recently returned from short term exchange programs in the American Midwest. There was some shock that despite the fact that news over here is always talking about the popularity of various Japanese things in America (anime, sushi, Ichiro, etc), many Americans they encountered didn’t seem to know anything about Japan. While having homestay families that have no clue about Japan might be bad, it got even worse at school, where the Japanese students were subjected to the following:

* Japan? What part of China is that?
* Is your father a NINJA?
* Was your father a SAMURAI?
* Is your mother a GEISHA?
* Can you do KARATE? [note: “karate” is pronounced “Kura-ri-” in America]
* Sony is an American company! [said when the Japanese student brought up the famous Japanese company]
* If you are shamed, don’t you have to commit HARAKIRI?
* Do they have McDonald’s in Japan?
* On the Japanese practice of eating seaweed and raw fish: I can’t believe it.
* On the day before a student returned to Japan: I feel sorry for you. Starting tomorrow, you won’t be able to eat pizza anymore, and you’ll be eating seaweed again.
* One reportedly was told the following: I heard Japanese girls have sideways vajinas . I want to see it just once!

Some of the Japanese students said that the fact that they were in small Midwestern towns without any other Asians was probably a factor in what happened. Perhaps if they’d have visited a more populated area, they would have encountered less ignorance?

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Kinda funny and sad.

[Fer!]

Racial stereotypes and whatnot.

* Was your father a SAMURAI?

Ehh...I don't know, I would ask the same to SAMURAIBLADE son.

Also, those guys FAIL HARD. No one asked about tentacle rape, geez.

[b1gwi11]

would've been funnier had there been a massacre there involving ninja stars....

[Cosmic]

I'd have requested they turn super-saiyan for me. Just once.

[Mikey]

I'd have requested they turn super-saiyan for me. Just once.

I'm sure that kind of reaction was to be expected from any mid-western town that has any kind of huge minority.

[Evans]

The fact the Jap took it seriously kinda makes me wonder who's the ignorant, here.

Anyway, it's funny 'cause it sounds like this:

While here, they get

LOL Jap LOL

and when they get back home, they go

HAHA Amelicans HAHA.

[Kazekage Gaara]

OMG!!!

I haven't laughed this much in such a long time

Edit: I would've gone..."OMG...its a jap dude....dude...show me the Sharingan "

Edit II: +rep

[Gare]

Well, either they asked these questions on purpose because they thought it'd be funny, or they're really just dumbasses. Whatever the case, they failed, so it doesn't really matter.

[kupo]

What!?! Is Japan not a state of southern Taiwan?

[polokitty]

OMG!!!

I haven't laughed this much in such a long time

Edit: I would've gone..."OMG...its a jap dude....dude...show me the Sharingan "

Edit II: +rep

Link GIVE ME YOUR RUPEES OR ELSE

[Kazuya Mishima]

The title it self was funny.
Also the type of questions are asked sounds like some really dum people were asking them. :X

[Jetsetlemming]

They should have responded with "How many guns do you own?" or "How many women have you raped?" or "Are you a cowboy?" or "Why are you all so far and lazy?" or "Do you have beer in America?" or "*grabs penises* BIGGURU DICKU!"

[Ahkei]

Most of the questions/comments sound like they were made just said for a laugh. I'm with Evans that the Japenese were they ignorant ones here.

[Sprung]

I think it's funnier that these Japanese students took it seriously enough to make news out of it. Besides, they were just after or corn.

[Jackhammer]

* One reportedly was told the following: I heard Japanese girls have sideways vajinas . I want to see it just once!

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