iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

First days in Japan Them: Would you like some natto? Me: What’s na.. oh, wow. Um, no thank you. けっこです。 A few years later… Them: Would you like some natto? Me: いただきます! BTW do you have 大粒？Also, how about a raw egg, negi, kimchi, wasabi, and からし? WAIT! WTF I just say?!?!?😲

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Them: Check out my latest video about Japan! Here’s the link! Me: That’s pretty cool. It’s interesting though, there’s you, scenery, and food but you hardly talk to Japanese people. If you do, you’re making silly comments that only you would understand. Them: But it’s a video of MY Japan. Me: 😬

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Feel free to throw my account in there. Thanks!

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マジで適当だね😅

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へ〜知らなかった。鬼も妖怪なのか？でもキツネは妖怪でしょう？

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FYI demons are Oni which are pretty nasty looking guys. Youkai like the kitsune etc. are more like ghosts or phantoms.

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💯 That post looks like a bot

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Them: Japanese people aren’t happy. I read a survey. Me: Do you think that it’s possible that being an isolated island nation that was closed off from the rest of the word for most of it’s history that “happiness” is thought of in a very different way? Them: Here’s the link to the survey Me: 🤣

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While it does give you a bit of an ego bump, if a Japanese person in Japan says you speak good Japanese, take it with a mountain of salt. 😄

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You should see some of the other things Japanese T’s have predicted! 🤣

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As someone who’s done both for 40 years, the only things that are similar are sliding on a board sideways. Other than that, totally different.

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Do you really love Japan and want to live here forever or are you just running away from something? Not judging but knowing the difference is gonna help a lot in the future.

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Them: I love Japan! It’s so clean and pretty! Me: Why did you leave that bottle by the stop sign? Them: Theres no garbage cans anywhere. Me: 🤨 FYI: Konbinis have garbage cans. Carry your trash and throw it away. wheninrome

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Them: I could never live in Japan long term Me: Oh really? Why? Them: Japanese people are weird. Me: Really? How much Japanese do you speak again? Them: None, why? Me: 🤣

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She’s talking like it’s never actually happened to us 😄

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It’s a bit disturbing to see the support he’s gotten through SNS

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It is. We have decent education and literacy is very high. Critical thinking… not so much.

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Education is def a major problem in he USA. Here in Japan it is getting worrying as people are starting to doubt mass media and go with social media.

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Foreigners in Japan have this weird tendency to think because our culture is unique, that it needs to be fixed.

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