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Originally Posted by artcika
um...isn't Timmy fluent in Japanese though?lol and um also shouldn't they scream "go learn the song" instead of "go learn japanese" ? these people are dumb lol
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No Timmy's Japanese is not fluent, his basics are very good and he really improved a lot compared to before though. That made it so awesome!
And even in the talk he used gestures for words he didn't know which actually made it a lot of fun not only to listen to but also to see
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Originally Posted by jean-baptiste
Culturally speaking, I always thought stuff like that was outright distasteful in Japan. If it was one person yelling it I would have just assumed it was one jerk, but if it was more than one person, that surprises me. What's the demographic at these concerts? Is it mostly young people, 18-30?
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Actually it's pretty common in Japan. I've been living in Japan for almost 5 years now and even if my Japanese is really fluent I have people talking about me in the same train, or talk back to me in bad English (English is not even my native tongue) or when you say your opinion they tell me "oh yeah you are not Japanese that's why you think different" and that all just because I'm blond with blue eyes... Especially when I worked in a department store, everywhere I passed I heard my coworkers "Omg, what's with this foreigner?he can't work here!" And the person who gave instructions just refused to talk with me and instead asked a coworker to tell me what to do.
I once in a supermaket even had someone tell me they couldn't understand English even though I clearly spoke in normal Japanese.
In Japan they have this belief that there are almost only real "Japanese people" and I guess that's one big problem. There are many people who just hate other Asians just because they are different.
Ayu was different too right? And I think somewhere she mentioned she was bullied too. It's kind of Japanese culture to exclude things that are different. You have to fit in..