Same thing happened to me when I went to Japan. This was when FF12 was being promoted and they had those potion bottles. So I went to a store that had an ad for them and went inside and realized I didn't know how to ask specifically about the potions so I'm saying "Final Fantasy" and making like weird gestures with my hands and this goes on for about a minute until the guy goes "Oh those, yeah, they're over there we just got a new shipment" and I'm looking at him and said "You could of told me you spoke English" and he just laughed and said he liked watching me struggle. He was just visiting his grand parents who owned the store for spring break, he lived in Hawaii.
I went to Switzerland's Airport for a flight change for a school trip. I went to this empty tourist shop but there was no price on an item and I went up to the desk. Dude did not wanna be there. So I asked in English, he spoke in French, so I responded back in French. He tisked and switched to Italian, so I did too. He looked determined and changed to German. I cussed him out in Greek and left. JOKE'S ON HIM, I NOW LEARNED GERMAN AND WILL BE BACK SOMEDAY FOR REVENGE.
I remembered working in a Japanese company and didn't speak a word in Japanese because it is allowed to speak in English then in the meeting of my last day at work I talked in Japanese and everyone's face was like "wtf this guy understands us when we are speaking Japanese all this time" lol
I work at a dollar store with a lot of Spanish-speaking customers, I speak both English and Spanish but while at work I always just assume English until corrected and then swap. The amount of times before I switch that I hear the customer make a comment about me not speaking Spanish, in Spanish and then I start speaking in Spanish and they look super embarrassed makes my fucking day. I don't even mention what they said before I just do the transaction like normal and let them sit in the awkwardness :)
Dude, me and you have similar experiences lol I worked at a sports store that was heavy on customer service. Due to a situation where a customer got mad at me for speaking to him in spanish. I only spoke English till they asked if I spoke Spanish. Due to that, it led to some situations like you mentioned lol
@@Cpach27 ye the only time I mess up is if I get like 3 spanish customers in a row then I just auto the next one. IDK why people get so pissed if you accidently open the conversation in spanish but ye you gotta watch out for it lol
The polite way for a customer to do is to ask if the attendant speaks Spanish. Conversely, if the attendant is speaking in Spanish, just ask if they speak English. I don't understand why people forget these basic manners. It's more annoying when entitled customers start proclaiming "this is America and you must speak English" when the US does not have any official language at the Federal level (although some states do recognize English as an official language, but even some have other languages on top of English as their official language).
@@TeppiaxD what happened to me is that a couple walked in together. The lady was on her phone talking in Spanish so I greeted them in Spanish. They didnt reply back so I just let them be. They both then walked to our clearance shoe tables. Since she was still on her phone, I decided to ask the guy if I could help them in Spanish. He was like "wtf are you saying to me?" And got freakin upset. Turns out he was Indian and they weren't a couple. They just happened to walk in at the same time and also happened to walk to the same place in the store. After that situation, I started to just talk to customers in English till they asked
@@Cpach27 lol, if that gets him upset he needs to grow tf up . People have such fragile long toes nowadays. Why would someone get upset over a mistake that has no consquences what-so-ever?
I love Trash Taste, but I gotta be honest, I'm not a podcast person, I don't have any good opportunities to sit down and watch/listen for an hour and a half. Thank fuck for the highlights channel, giving me that Trash Taste goodness in digestible bites!
I had a Chinese girlfriend. I know. Different country and culture. She took me to a restaurant, said it had good food. I was the only whitey there. The whole time everyone was gossiping about us. She was translating. They were saying things like, "Why is she with him? Can't she find a good Chinese man?" We didn't care. The food was mid. Ate and left. Never went back.
Sorry you had to experience that. A lot of mainland Chinese have this mentality, possibly due to the male:female ratio skew they have, they have 120 dudes for every 100 girls.
I don't mind being stared at or the attention of being a black guy in Japan. I have seen some people turn it into this big "JAPAN IS RACIST" nonsense but it makes total sense. The country is 98% one race. Yes they might have seen a black person on TV, but I've seen Unicorns on TV. Doesn't mean if one moved in next door I wouldn't be like, "The hell!?!?" As for if it happens in the States not as much since the country is so varied in its people. You wouldn't really be able to tell if someone was foreign or lives there unless they spoke. Even then there are people here who just don't have strong English.
Yeah I agree. Plus just because you might get looked/glanced at or have some attention focused on yourself for a bit (especially when you're like walking down the street for example), if/when it does happen, doesn't mean the attention is only negative/hate-fueled, if at all.
I don't know if i catch a lot of attention. Like i'm normal heighted for my age and don't have a particularly distinct face. But i do have some nasty expressions when i'm distressed. Anyway i don't think i would be stared at thankfully, hopefully.
The same is true in my country, Bangladesh. We just cant help staring at White, East Asian or Black people cause they're damn rare here. Doesnt matter that we consume a lot of Hollywood. If you're a foreigner here you'll definitely get a lot of curious stares
I'm a 6'8" Black guy. This is my life EVERYWHERE outside of the US. ALL the time.. It gets even crazier when I start speaking the language of the country I'm in.
@@sneedmando186 I always get the biggest reactions in developing countries. I used to live in eastern Europe (Albania) and my friends there liked just walking around with me to see people break their necks to look at me. It's always fun everywhere though, but it gets old after a while. Sometimes I just want to exist and not be gawked at, you know?
Yeah you'd be alright in Canada or England probably, but any other country you'd definitely get looked at. Its the combination lol. In my country or Iceland tall people aren't rare but black people are rare but in another country where black people are not as rare, tall people might be so you always have some sort of a characteristic to make you stand out :D
When I was in the Japanese countryside, we would get a lot of stares being the only white people. It became my favorite game to look directly at them when I knew they were staring. The reactions of grown adults knowing they got caught were priceless
I'm just imagining you being in a conversation with someone and you see a guy staring at you out the corner of your eye and mid conversation you just suddenly turn and stare him directly in the eye with a really serious look for like 5 seconds before turning back and continuing your conversation like nothing happened.
I didn't really have this experience with adults (or at least didn't notice), but one time in an area remote enough to only have one lone konbini there was a group of kids that stared at us as we entered like we were ghosts lol. I can't blame em, it was the type of village where people would notice even a car that doesn't belong there. I responded by looking back at them and wishing them a good day in japanese.
_"I get it, I would stare too."_ When I was 7 yo, I had to use a gastric probe to feed myself, so I was wearing this tube on my nose for months. People were naturally staring at me. It was hard at first, I almost got angry at people for doing that, but soon I decided to not give a f*** and things goes well after that. But it's only 10 years later I understood why they did that. I was waiting in line to pay at the grocery shop, and I saw a young man in a wheel chair. It wasn't a standard wheelchair but an electronic one with a stick "controller". I stared at him for like 2 seconds before I realized I was doing exactly what people did to me back then. It's not malicious or anything, it's just natural curiosity of seeing something unknown for the first time. So please, if you're in the same kind of situation, don't feel bad, just accept it, that's the best you can do anyway.
I’d say that’s a good philosophy to have the other way round, too. Just decide not to give a fuck, and then you can stare at the wheelchair for as long as you’d like!
I lived in Korea as a foreigner for a year and I never really got strangers pointing out amongst themselves that I was a foreigner. But when I met locals, I got a lot of invasive but very innocent and genuinely interested questions about what it's like to be a foreigner, and constantly going out of their way to make me feel welcome. Kinda the opposite feeling to being a foreigner in Japan, which is nutty considering how close geographically Korea is to Japan.
The "openness" of Korea and "closedness" of Japan show up in a lot of different ways as well. As mentioned, the level of English spoken by the population. Koreans tend to emigrate to Western countries moreso than the Japanese. They also study abroad more. I'd say even K-Pop is more global facing than anime (yes, anime is global, but it doesn't actively try to penetrate into western media). Not sure about the reason since Korea and Japan both have had isolationist periods, and Japan has been trading with the West longer in addition to having gotten wealthy nearly a century before Korea.
@@damiendiem japan, after meiji and after ww2 always tried to avoid assimilation by foreigners and was successful doing so in a lot of aspects But Korea was completely destroyed after the Korean war, and their history/religion/culture was extremely impacted and changed Probably that is an important factor
When I work at a store. I was one of two spanish speakers there. Our community has quite of bit of Spanish only speakers so I usually helped them. But due to an awkward misunderstanding that lead to a customer getting pissed off. (Unless if I knew them) I only greeted/spoke to people in English till they asked if I spoke Spanish. There has been few times where some of them will talk shit in front of me and then I'll go up to them ask if they need help in Spanish. If only yall could see there faces lol
Why is this such a problem in other countries? Are they just not used to being multi-culti or is it really racism thats backed into their every daty lives? Here in the netherlands we dont expect you to speak dutch, ofc we try dutch first but if you can't speak it, no harm no faul. The language is quite hard and some of our language rules arent even taught in the school books ( like pronouns for things, not people, isnt even taught in our schools but is somehting you are just meant to pick up as you go). Esp for people coming over for a vacation or something. meh, maybe its because were decendants of merchants and traders that we are used to and accepting of diffrent cultures and languages in communication :)
@@StMargorach I have no idea why it's a problem. I've seen many videos of people getting really upset and confrontal over hearing different languages being spoken. It's pretty dumb cause America is suppose to be a melting pot of many cultures. Btw, I also stopped cause alot of people I greeted in Spanish would just either ignore me, look at me confused or just reply to me in English. It was so awkward cause at times they would look offended. I was full time and out off all the customers that came in. I would help like 10 Spanish speakers a month on average
@@Cpach27 Old comment, but to your point it, even in the days of Ellis Island you had the "little Italy", "Chinatown", "little Seoul", or whatever ethnic enclave type neighborhoods. Most people would prefer to stick with what they know best and what they've grown up with, it's just an evolutionary trait of human nature. I ended up not using Spanish in my retail job unless it was painfully clear that the person could not speak any English whatsoever and they were struggling just to complete the transaction, but it did help somewhat that I look Mexican. Some people, usually the younger generations, are better at venturing outside of that bubble.
My family is Ukrainian and I’m one of the only ones from the “younger” generations who was not taught to speak it but I can say “I don’t speak English” in Ukrainian which has gotten me out of some uncomfortable situations, I usually then just start sputtering out all the curse words I know too. (I learned how to say, I don’t speak Ukrainian, because sometimes I go to functions at the Ukrainian church and I feel like it’s polite to point out where I’m lacking in the first language someone speaks to me in). I am sad I can’t speak it though and I suck at languages so it’s hard for me as an adult to learn it but I’d like to give it a real go sometime.
@@1nt9rn9t-dudewillheim2 I think op meant that they're a native English speaker, but to get out of uncomfortable situations involving English speakers they learned how to say 'I don't speak English' in Ukrainian (the language op's family speaks fluently but not op) to make it look like they don't understand what the English speaker is saying and can leave
I was born in Soviet ucraine, so i don't really speak ucrainian, instead i speak russian. I'm an italian citizen btw, and have lived here most of my life. Working in retail, the one thing i do, is to just listen to what russian/ucrainian speaking customers say behind my back. I only reveal that i speak russian if a person really neads help and does not speak italian. Sometimes it's just useful to speak different languages, but be quiet about it.
@@ALMONHOE Ai is just like a universal slang/casual way to call someone, its like saying you/they/them just more casual way, Al falang would mean like 'that falang'. Its not 100 the real translation, but close enough.
I remembered this one Japanese ad (idk I just saw it) where this Japanese waiter always kept on asking this Asian looking dude who can't speak a word of Japanese, while ignoring this American dude speaking flawless Japanese.
I was sitting here thinking that situations like these haven't happened to me, then I remembered a time when I was in elementary school (I studied in the US) and my mom took me w/ my aunts to some ranches in Mexico, well a foreigner needed help translating since the person giving him a horse ride spoke little English. Lo and behold my aunts all point to me (they're Mexican and spoke little to no English at the time) to translate for this person when they came up to us lol
My Greek cousin who is 10 years younger then me, visited me ones in Germany. He only knew his small town where he was from. Its a very isolated town, nobody goes there. No tourists. Even other Greeks usually dont visit this city. Its on the border to Albania and has a lot of mountains sorounding it. Back then it was a pain the ass to travel there, because you had to go through the mountain routes. So he visited me and was baffled by all this people on the streets. The sheer crowds. He had never seen so many people at once. I noticed then that he was starring at some black dudes. And I told him not to stare, but he was just fascinated by them. So I grabbed him, and I explained to the dudes the situation. They were very cool about it. They shook hands and we talked for while where they are from and where we are from. Its just that simple. It wasnt that my cousin looked down on them. He was just young, curious and had never seen anything like it in real life (only in TV maybe, I dont know). I believe a lot of people have anxiety of speaking to foreigners or to foreign looking persons. So my approach was to confront everybody and it was a cool experience.
I live in France but i speak korean and english with my dad, note that he's whitepassing (blonde with blue eyes), and we went to this one restaurant that had asian food (everything else around was closed) we heard the waitress speak to the cashier in korean and me and my dad looked at each other with the "let's troll tf out of them" eyes lol They were trashtalking their boss because they needed more employees, the waitress is one of the cooks but the boss didnt want to hire anyone else so she had to be a waitress for a month (RIP) The waitress comes with really poor French, my dad also speaks very poor french but he still managed to fake a pretty good french accent So we order in french we eat and the waitress comes back asking if we want a dessert then my dad tells me in perfect korean: "are you still hungry" and the waitress' face went O_O the cashier burst out laughing, us too We left a pretty big tip with "힘내" written on a napkin
I work in a museum in Ireland, English speaking country. We get a lot of French and Spanish tourists. I'm fluent in French and I can fluently speak (but not read) Spanish (and I can also speak Creole but never had a Haitian tourist to talk to). I speak in English about 99.8% of the time, it's my first language and the majority language in my country so why shouldn't I, but nothing gives me greater satisfaction than switching when a tourist is talking shit about me or one of my colleagues.
8:30 - "It's not about racism... they just don''t like people who don't act and look like them." lolololololol Come on guys... As a Korean person, Asian's tend to be very racist, especially toward other Asians. Korean people in general feel some kind of way about Japanese people cause of our history. Just tell it how it is.
I think he was talking about how Japanese people react to non Asians by staring etc. People think that's racism while it's just someone who has never seen a white person in their entire life. Though I perfectly understand why koreans would dislike Japanese people.
I've heard that southeast asia are just chillin and vibin with each other. It's only us northeast asia hates each other to death lmao. idk I could be wrong
@@Num2OuO as a southeast asain, yes. But that's probably because we do not have history of war between each other. But instead we share and bond over the history of our colonization by white ppl 😅
they're just trying not to get demonitized bro, but nah yeah i see ur point since i live in asia too and see the amount of racism going on around with other races and the natives
I do something like this to fuck around a new classmate or a newly met person, since my family is a descendant from a foreign country(long ago, the genes just recently came out of me and some of my cousins), I was born not looking like a local(Filipino) despite being born and raised in the Philippines… so whenever a person approaches I see them talking in the most broken English and I would just quietly nod but deep down I’m laughing in the inside, even my friends know of this running gag of mine and let it happen instead of helping that person
Where I live in the US, you would NEVER experience anything like Connor's "gaijin" experience. If you really stand out, people will stare a little bit, but they'd never say something like that right next to you.
The thing about Japanese society is that it's homogeneous and there aren't much diversity except for other Japanese so if you're a foreigner you pretty much stand up like a sore thumb
it kinda pains me to say this but if they had this same experience (being rejected for being a large group of foreigners)in america, people would be comfortable calling it discrimination. it honestly makes me sad that americans arent given the benefit of the doubt.
this month me and my family went to mexico, we are brazillians, so even though just I could properly speak spanish, we could easily comunicate speaking portuguese. We wanted so much to try the actual mexican food that after 3 days eating "americanized mexican food" we went to a local establishment, and the people around were confused and found funny/interesting that foreigners were there, the waiter almost couldn't understand what my parents were talking, but it was the best food we've eaten the whole trip, and everything was clean and professional
Just 1 day? I pretended to not speak my native language for an entire semester and never did a formal reveal to my classmates. I went to school for 10 years abroad, then moved back home for uni. People in an elective kept working hard to speak to me in English (it was a class instructed in English) and another lingua franca for the whole semester. I never did tell them that i spoke the local language natively...
Back in November when Japan just open borders, me and my family went to Osaka. We went to Kuromon Market, went to a food souvenirs store to buy some gifts. My brother looking for a specific item and starts talking broken Japanese to the store owner. The store owner is a very nice person and also tries to speak broken English back to us. After several hard-to-communicate moments, basically he told us to come back in 2 days later as he will try to pre-order the stock for my brother. 2 days later we went back there and the store owner was busy talking to another customer, we decided to wait for him. Then we realized he's speaking Chinese. Me and my family are Malaysian Chinese, so... After he's done, my brother come up to him and starts speaking Chinese xD Didn't get the item in the end but it was kind of funny haha.
I'm not gonna lie, in my country, if you're from a big city and go to a really small and far away town, ppl are already gonna stare at you regardless of nationality, race, or whatever, just cuz you dress differently and you talk differently it's already gonna cause some shock even when you're from the same country
one of the funniest things that happened to me in japan was when i was in a supermarket with my dad whose a white guy, my step mum who is black/indian, and then theres me whos half white half pakistani and seeing peoples reactions was hilarious, they looked so confused and this one dude just kept staring at us at the checkout the whole time even tho i made eye contact with him
I took my Korean friend to country nsw in Australia, he had about 6 waifu hangers and a your name phone case doing gotcha and all the white people in this grocers were pogging, like they’ve never seen an Asian before it was quite funny
@@Shadow-fb2ec I guess nsw is built different lol but even then I haven't actually seen someone who has 6 waifu hangers and there's plenty of variety everytime I go to the city. The most shocking I've seen was a homeless Aboriginal woman naked I think she was showering herself but I didn't want to look at her direction to be considerate if she even cared. Probably went to Sydney or smth
Lots of Chinese families in the Goldfields from the 1850s here in VIC, to the point we have some of the largest collections of pre-Cultural Revolution stuff in the world in the museum in Bendigo, because Mao purged all the stuff in China.
I just got back from Peru after spending 10 weeks there, and as a white dude who speaks Spanish, literally anywhere I went people would look at me and say something to themselves or their friends. It was very rarely a negative thing and honestly, most people were excited to see me, but it was a little jarring at first.
@@MRCOLOURfilld There aren't many in southern Peru, but Arequipa did see a lot more white tourists than the city I stayed at, at least in the center. I didn't see any in Tíabaya but I was only in that district for two nights. I imagine Cusco probably sees even more but I didn't get the opportunity to visit this time. I'll also mention that the reactions I saw were much more subtle than the absurdity that these guys experience.
We have 30+ languages spoken across India. There is one thing that never fails to get a reaction out of people. Speak a South Indian language anywhere outside South India. You'll instantly have people staring at you.
6:20 I’m Canadian-Chinese. I went back to China and met a British-Chinese friend there. We both look very much like every other person in China, but we speak English to each other and the reactions you get in public are pretty priceless.
11:32 my uncle is a pretty big dude with like blond/red-ish hair and a beard and he was talking about going on like a hike or something when he was on vacation with his family and multiple japanese people asked to take a picture with him because they were all like "holy shit, haven't seen this before"
to be fair, in korea, every child will point and say Weigookin! their term for foreigner in every city and situation i've been in outside seoul and busan.
I have a friend that was with his parents when they were going shopping (this was like 7 years ago), and they were really thirsty, but there was no water around. They found this luxury bag/purse shop, where they had free bottled water. They went inside to get the water, and looked around politely, but my friend got annoyed and said in Chinglish (mix of chinese and english), "why are we looking around? i thought we came here for the water?" The employees there were mainly chinese, but there were several english too, so everyone understood everything. They started laughing, and his parents bought a $2000 bag out of embarrassment, so that's a fun story
Actually, “gringo” only refers to foreigners from the U.S. and maybe Canada. You wouldn’t get called a gringo if you were a foreigner from somewhere else, like Asia. The actual word for any foreigner in latin america is “extranjero”
@@rashotcake6945 Yes that correct for foreigners we use extrangero and gringo for people in USA or CA, but here in brasil gringo means everyone that comes from abroad. I was born in Honduras but live in brasil so I'm the gringo here hahaha.
And by the way, in Mex gringo includes American born Latinos that don’t or barely speak Spanish. Doesn’t matter if your parents are from Mexico, you born and raised American, you’re a Gringo. I learned this when all my cousins called me such.
That reminds me of my first time going to Colombia Literally my first experience with my extended family was a girl (4th cousin) talking about me my brother and my first cousin right in front of us. The dude she was talking to pointed out that we were literally right there and she replied “don’t worry these gringos don’t know anything” Holding back laughs my cousin in perfect Spanish tells them that all 3 of us understand Spanish and her face goes flush with embarrassment.
I work at the register of a hardware store and a lot of the time I can't hear shit the customers say to me because they don't speak loud enough Plus foreign customers often commit the crime of saying their greetings in Finnish A lot of foreigners have cards that don't require PIN codes so we're required to ID them and I usually give my whole spiel of "may I have your ID card - a driver's license will do - because we're required to check that the names on the cards match to avoid misuse" and they're *stunned* because I just spat out a bunch of sentences in rapid fire because I thought they speak Finnish They usually go "uhhhhhhhhh" and after that I switch to English. I have a certification to teach English in Finland.
I mean, that's something I would do. Every country in Europe I've ever been to I've learned a handful of survival phrases, greetings being one of them. I'm of the opinion that when you're in someone else's country, you do your best (with what time you have to learn) to communicate in their own language first. It's just good manners.
@@MrNikolidas I agree that learning a couple of survival phrases is polite, but usually those customers don't say anything else so there's a very high chance I just assume they speak Finnish, which in turn leads to some very awkward scenarios. Plus oftentimes I can't even hear what they say! I have a walkie-talkie connected to a singular earbud, there's plexi glass between me and the customer, and it being a hardware store there's a lot of background noise. It's made even worse by the fact that sometimes Finnish people also use "hello" as a greeting
3:49 referring to Connor's experience & his question about whether scenarios like that happen in the U.S. or elsewhere, I think it does happen occasionally, though I've rarely experienced it myself. I will say however there are some very ignorant & arrogant idiots who aren't afraid to verbally speak their thoughts out loud, even if you're standing right next to them. Recently, I was out in public in a local restaurant to pick up some food to go. The weather outside was chilly, though not freezing cold, & as I'm someone who hates cold weather & loves warmer weather, I was wearing a heavy puffy jacket as I normally do. I remember there were two middle aged white women who were leaving the restaurant as I was waiting on the food order. As they walked right past me, one of the women commented in a very clear, easy to hear volume "are you cold?" followed by both the women laughing to themselves. I knew immediately that she was referring to me & mocking my jacket to her friend because the tone that she used was very sarcastic, condescending, & snarky. Scenarios like that are quite common here compared to the "gaijin" scenario of Japan so I don't let it bother me one bit. I wish I could've given my own witty reply to the woman though. I would've absolutely LOVED to respond to her snide remark by saying something like "you look like you've put on some weight there, you sure you should be laughing & eating out at a restaurant in your condition?" but I'm not rude enough to say that to another human being.
The most annoying part about being mocked is it makes you rude too. Expecting everything to be sarcastic or mocking. I’m trying to get away from that since i was bullied as a kid. But trying to be a better person is quite hard.
I am a French Egyptian guy living in Egypt. And since I am quite used to cold weather, I usually just wear shirts. in turn, I get so many looks and sarcastic comments like "aren't you hot wearing that?", like damn, I even got a bus driver worrying about me now. Some people are just too nosy, they can't keep to themselves, they can't accept anything that's slightly different than them, they either interpret it as you having a problem or that you see yourself as mightier than them. You could be in a classroom minding your own business, and people come up to you saying "Do you think you are better than us?". Here in Egypt, most middle aged 40+ women are quite heavy, bowling bowl shapped, and every time they see someone healthy and at a decent weight, they start with the "Why are you so skinny? Do they not feed you at home?, you should eat and fatten up".
@@dagnom9071 honestly this. I grew up getting bullied a lot and have a family that regulary just kinda shittalks each other where everyone is just walking on eggshells. Any criticism towards this lands you with the gaslighting of them trying to justify it or throw it back in your face. Yet my parents wonder why i can be rude at all in the first place, the type to believe respect is owed by default and not earned. And likewise, calling a family member out for being rude is scrutinized as well. I’m a jack ass when i’m rude and a pussy/white knight/wet blanket/jack ass when i’m nice You literally can’t win. Had a teacher say directly to my face, that she thought i never had friends and the whole reason my best friend hung out with me was to just eventually date my other friend. 💀 Shits so insanely soul crushing i wanted to say some shit like *”i’m not gonna take this from someone who got pregnant at 16”* And Ik negativity is rewarded on the internet and going apeshit is encouraged, so some people find that based as hell. But honestly? Shitting on assholes is fun, but this isn’t family guy y’know? These are real people. My teacher was being an ass but she wasn’t a monster either, she was genuinely nice and helpful to me most of the time. She didn’t understand what was a step too far. She almost was homeless due to her pregnancy or something when she was kid. So the idea of saying something so cartoonishly shitty and personal back at someone like that, just for some quick “zinger” just makes me sick to my stomach. Like I honestly can’t believe i ever considered saying something like that at all. Shit hurts and its ok to stand up for yourself sometimes, but people can find ways to do that without defaulting to cruelty every single. We deal with so much shit on the daily anyways. does this world and its people really need MORE of it? Its honestly how even feel towards OP’s thought of jabbing at someones weight too. Like??? “Why you gotta go there?” Yknow?
@@theradionicrevival8068 That sounds horrible, where are you from? I myself sometimes face the skinny comment from overweight people myself but mostly brush it off.
@@yassinekhaled5320 Kind of had a similar experience as a Canadian going down to vacation in Florida during the winter months. I remember my whole family was wearing shorts and T-shirts and there were some people walking around in coats. To us it was great weather, but I guess it was cold for Florida. 10/10 It was pretty funny.
When i worked in a nursing home for elders from asian countries, the ladies from thailand loved to gossip about us. And u just knew they were talking about you. It didn't really bother me that much but if i was out in public i would probably not enjoy it to much.
Reminds me of a time when I worked at my local DSW and there were these little Russian kids in the store by themselves just talking to each other in Russian (I’m not fluent at all, only know greetings and stuff) and I said “Hi! How are you? Where’s your mom?” And they stared at me in horror before running off to their mom lol idk what they were saying but apparently they were talking shit 😆
Super random but that "We're a long way from texas" reminded me of Resident evil 4's final boss speech before the final battle "You're a long way from home cowboy." lol
I am going to learn every language now so When someone insults me in their native tongue I can turn my head towards them and say “so you’ve summoned me…” or something ominous to freak them out
I kinda get what they mean when some people at restaurants have that look of panic because maybe they're afraid they won't be able to communicate and serve well. I have worked in fast food for years and there's always a sense of panic I get when I'm trying to help a customer with something and they hit me with that "I don't speak English" stare. A lot of the time workers at restaurants have to work quickly and so anything that could slow them down or complicate things can panic them.
Korean people are so friendly toward foreigners especially Americans, it's because of korean war veterans and the American army bases in Korea, like my uncle who is a Korean veteran loves American people and he is always nice to me and any friend I bring with me when I come to visit.
In China this happens to me all the time. There are two terms, one being standard (外国人(waiguoren)), the other being more of a negative Connotation(老外(laowai)). The elderly use the more negative one.
I got a story. So, I'm sudanese but I moved to the UK for university, one day I came to the international college early (international students like me need to do that class for one year instead of an actual uni year) so I was sitting there in the lobby while wearing one of those cat ears headsets that I bought because it was funny. An Egyptian man sets opposite of me and I could tell he was very interest in my headset. And soon after another Egyptian guy comes and sits next to me but I know this guy well as we have talked before. After a bit the guy opposite of me looks to the guy next to me and says in Arabic "look at those. Aren't they weird" and I heard him. So I just looked to my friend and smiled and he did the same then he turned back to him and said "you know he speaks Arabic right?" And they guy looked at me in shock and asked if that's true to which I confirmed and he apologied. His face was incredible.
I have lived in China so long that I actually starting doing that "gaijin" thing too. I'll get on a plane back to the US and be all, "damn...f-lot of foreigners on this plane..." lol
even in tokyo, big shout outs to the homies that help other foreigners around train stations, in restaurants, etc. They helped me, so I passed it on multiple
Imagine what the scotsmen on their way home from the pub or whatever being picked up by a pretty lady driving past in a van felt. when they found out that it was, in fact, not-even-disguised Scarlett Johansson (Under The Skin, if you haven't watched it) since they stunt filmed many parts of it.
4:10 We do that in Hawaii. We have the word 'haole' pronounced 'ha-oh-leh' and locally it means 'white person' though direct translation it means someone that isnt from here.
The whole Foreigner conversation reminded me of some of my friends who went on a trip to China and all the locals were taking photos of them because they were black
i speak fluent japanese, but i like to pretend like i cant understand a word, one time when these 2 schoolgirls were talking about my height in japanese (im 7'7") and they kept commenting how annoying it is tourists cant speak japanese because they didnt speak english and wanted to talk to me, so i turned round and said "i agree, i hate it when people dont learn the language of the country they visit regularly" they got such a fright hearing a literal giant talk japanese in a bass voice that they squealed and ran out the cafe
@@sausageman4086 i think of it more as a challenge, which is why i have been several times and actually miss travelling there (had a heart attack 5 years ago and hearts to frail now to fly)
It happens in any country where a language is either hardly spoken by foreigners, or they use 'slang' that cant easily be understood. Dutch, french, german, i've heard em all. Even my trip around Asia (singapore, malaysia, etc) i was already informed the 'local' word for 'white person' or 'foreigner'. We had a greek student who showed pictures of restaurants in Greece where even it was written on the menu's those prices are for foreigners and 'locals' get a heavy discount. Gues some people dont understand technology by now can do translating realtime on a camera :P
6:15 definitely the asian speaking perfect english causing that... Once I was in tokyo and my friend (white guy) was describing something or other -- in person and not on the phone... and nobody batted an eye but the moment i replied, instantly like 3 people who just walked past us did like a double take.
I've once pulled the gaijin card in my own country where I was born and raised. My accent is British-passable for most non-brits. I was on the bicycle in a pedestrian street which is *technically* not allowed - an older man stopped me and said I wasn't allowed. I responded with "Sorry I don't speak Danish" because I had to hurry to the train station lmfao.
bruhhhh i feel being called out as a lao/thai my familly (mostly relatives who lived there) keep saying that as a conversation and at somepoint they said to me since i wasn't speaking really well and they are saying like "falang ki nook" i felt that and i was like yes a fellow thai person. if you don't what "falang ki nook" it means and a way like you are a foreigner that can't speak properly. IDK if it's accurate but yeah that hit home for me.
Interestingly enough, falang comes from the Arabic Faranj, which is just the word for French, but it became the term for Europeans during the Crusades and then spread eastward into India and Southeast Asia.
@Admiral Kipper Most likely some North Indian language, because as far as I know, Indian languages and culture had influenced South East Asian countries for centuries.
I remember my wife went into a restaurant that was in the country side to reserve for 12 of us and 10 of us was foreigners. And she also negotiated a price for the meal then we walked in and afterwards they wanted additional money for serving foreigners. This was in China countryside. But I do remember everyone who walked in would gasp in shock and a couple of people walked out then back in😂
It's because Emiru looks like the majority Korea so in Japan they would expect her to speak japanese as many people from the Korean penuencelor in the last 1000 years migrated to the austronisian Islands of Japan.
The reason English is much more widely spoken in South Korea than the rest of Asia is because of the US military. They've had a very long and involved presence in South Korea so English speakers have been a pretty common part of their country and culture since the '50s. South Korea is by far the strongest ally of the US and other Western countries so western culture has had a much bigger influence on South Korea than the other East Asian nations.
Yeah for the most part, at least for me, it's not really discrimination but instead it's about "Will they like the service here?" or "Will they be disappointed with their time here?"
Trolling the locals as a tourist, when you speak multiple languages, including the local one, was basically one of the daily highlights of myself, my sister and brother when we were visiting relatives in Canada. We learned quickly enough that people in the age group of our grandparents were a bit more tricky, because so many Dutch people emigrated to Canada after WW2. But with people our own age. Yeah no issues there. We could just talk Dutch amongst ourselves and people wouldn't understand a word. If they seemed to understand it, we'd switch to our local dialect, just to mess with them. The best part is that in high school we had to take Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish. So yeah it's pretty funny as a bunch of teenagers to just confuse the hell out of the locals by randomly switching languages. These days my English and Spanish are a bit rusty, but I've learned Afrikaans. It's even funnier these days when our three families go on vacation together, because we all speak different languages, with the common ones being Dutch and English. Between the three of us and our spouses I think we speak something like 10 or 12 languages.
“Even just dance doesn’t tell you to just dance” nearly made me spit out my food
Actually true lmao
Connor should have watched Thunder from Downunder before attending the strip club.
Joey is a true Karen now, he has expertly gaslit, gatekept, and girlbossed
i understand one of those words
well said lmao!
Can Karen mansplain?
All those words are not in the Bible.
@@shiv7978 I only know gatekeeping what are these words 😭
Same thing happened to me when I went to Japan. This was when FF12 was being promoted and they had those potion bottles. So I went to a store that had an ad for them and went inside and realized I didn't know how to ask specifically about the potions so I'm saying "Final Fantasy" and making like weird gestures with my hands and this goes on for about a minute until the guy goes "Oh those, yeah, they're over there we just got a new shipment" and I'm looking at him and said "You could of told me you spoke English" and he just laughed and said he liked watching me struggle. He was just visiting his grand parents who owned the store for spring break, he lived in Hawaii.
I went to Switzerland's Airport for a flight change for a school trip. I went to this empty tourist shop but there was no price on an item and I went up to the desk. Dude did not wanna be there. So I asked in English, he spoke in French, so I responded back in French. He tisked and switched to Italian, so I did too. He looked determined and changed to German. I cussed him out in Greek and left.
JOKE'S ON HIM, I NOW LEARNED GERMAN AND WILL BE BACK SOMEDAY FOR REVENGE.
NOW THATS AN ANIME ARC XD revenge of shonen protag Diana
We do a little swistrolling here 😎
lol hahaha, you got your villain origin story there. Imagine if he starts speaking Romansh next time.
@@irissupercoolsy Joke's on you, all the this time he was Japanese.
Language Simp literally does this skit for his shorts
I remembered working in a Japanese company and didn't speak a word in Japanese because it is allowed to speak in English then in the meeting of my last day at work I talked in Japanese and everyone's face was like "wtf this guy understands us when we are speaking Japanese all this time" lol
that moment where they need to mentally re-run everytime they've ever spoken japanese infront of you thinking you couldn't understand it xD
did they ever say anything rude/make fun of you thinking you couldn't understand?
@@gayassReal No htey are professional. They just talk about work
I work at a dollar store with a lot of Spanish-speaking customers, I speak both English and Spanish but while at work I always just assume English until corrected and then swap. The amount of times before I switch that I hear the customer make a comment about me not speaking Spanish, in Spanish and then I start speaking in Spanish and they look super embarrassed makes my fucking day. I don't even mention what they said before I just do the transaction like normal and let them sit in the awkwardness :)
Dude, me and you have similar experiences lol I worked at a sports store that was heavy on customer service. Due to a situation where a customer got mad at me for speaking to him in spanish. I only spoke English till they asked if I spoke Spanish. Due to that, it led to some situations like you mentioned lol
@@Cpach27 ye the only time I mess up is if I get like 3 spanish customers in a row then I just auto the next one. IDK why people get so pissed if you accidently open the conversation in spanish but ye you gotta watch out for it lol
The polite way for a customer to do is to ask if the attendant speaks Spanish. Conversely, if the attendant is speaking in Spanish, just ask if they speak English. I don't understand why people forget these basic manners.
It's more annoying when entitled customers start proclaiming "this is America and you must speak English" when the US does not have any official language at the Federal level (although some states do recognize English as an official language, but even some have other languages on top of English as their official language).
@@TeppiaxD what happened to me is that a couple walked in together. The lady was on her phone talking in Spanish so I greeted them in Spanish. They didnt reply back so I just let them be. They both then walked to our clearance shoe tables. Since she was still on her phone, I decided to ask the guy if I could help them in Spanish. He was like "wtf are you saying to me?" And got freakin upset. Turns out he was Indian and they weren't a couple. They just happened to walk in at the same time and also happened to walk to the same place in the store. After that situation, I started to just talk to customers in English till they asked
@@Cpach27 lol, if that gets him upset he needs to grow tf up . People have such fragile long toes nowadays. Why would someone get upset over a mistake that has no consquences what-so-ever?
I love Trash Taste, but I gotta be honest, I'm not a podcast person, I don't have any good opportunities to sit down and watch/listen for an hour and a half. Thank fuck for the highlights channel, giving me that Trash Taste goodness in digestible bites!
same
Who sits down like a complete idiot to listen to a podcast? Normal people listen while doing other things.
I feel ya bro
same
Basically me. I don't have time/just don't like to sit for an hour doing the same stuff unless it's the most fun shit ever.
I had a Chinese girlfriend. I know. Different country and culture. She took me to a restaurant, said it had good food. I was the only whitey there. The whole time everyone was gossiping about us. She was translating. They were saying things like, "Why is she with him? Can't she find a good Chinese man?" We didn't care. The food was mid. Ate and left. Never went back.
bruh that’s fucked up, I’m sorry u had to go through that
Sorry you had to experience that. A lot of mainland Chinese have this mentality, possibly due to the male:female ratio skew they have, they have 120 dudes for every 100 girls.
Come to Singapore, well love you
"The food was mid."
What an absolute BURN. XD
Their food probably was too.
@@Absent_keebs wow this vibe is like one of those "come to brazil" memes
I don't mind being stared at or the attention of being a black guy in Japan. I have seen some people turn it into this big "JAPAN IS RACIST" nonsense but it makes total sense. The country is 98% one race. Yes they might have seen a black person on TV, but I've seen Unicorns on TV. Doesn't mean if one moved in next door I wouldn't be like, "The hell!?!?" As for if it happens in the States not as much since the country is so varied in its people. You wouldn't really be able to tell if someone was foreign or lives there unless they spoke. Even then there are people here who just don't have strong English.
yeah i get it but if something lighter happened in a western country it'd be instantly racism
Yeah I agree. Plus just because you might get looked/glanced at or have some attention focused on yourself for a bit (especially when you're like walking down the street for example), if/when it does happen, doesn't mean the attention is only negative/hate-fueled, if at all.
I don't know if i catch a lot of attention. Like i'm normal heighted for my age and don't have a particularly distinct face. But i do have some nasty expressions when i'm distressed. Anyway i don't think i would be stared at thankfully, hopefully.
My friend said they literally don’t have enough of us to know about or hate us, we’re more a curiosity than strange I was told
The same is true in my country, Bangladesh. We just cant help staring at White, East Asian or Black people cause they're damn rare here. Doesnt matter that we consume a lot of Hollywood. If you're a foreigner here you'll definitely get a lot of curious stares
I'm a 6'8" Black guy. This is my life EVERYWHERE outside of the US. ALL the time.. It gets even crazier when I start speaking the language of the country I'm in.
Where is your favorite place to see People’s reactions?
I couldn’t imagine being 6’8” as well, I’m sure it’s an interesting experience
@@sneedmando186 I always get the biggest reactions in developing countries. I used to live in eastern Europe (Albania) and my friends there liked just walking around with me to see people break their necks to look at me. It's always fun everywhere though, but it gets old after a while. Sometimes I just want to exist and not be gawked at, you know?
@@kinglowtier as someone from Croatia I feel like this got better as there's a lot more black tourists recently
@@Cream12345Ice good to hear! I'll have to come back over once the end times are gone. Hahaha.
Yeah you'd be alright in Canada or England probably, but any other country you'd definitely get looked at. Its the combination lol. In my country or Iceland tall people aren't rare but black people are rare but in another country where black people are not as rare, tall people might be so you always have some sort of a characteristic to make you stand out :D
When I was in the Japanese countryside, we would get a lot of stares being the only white people. It became my favorite game to look directly at them when I knew they were staring. The reactions of grown adults knowing they got caught were priceless
I'm just imagining you being in a conversation with someone and you see a guy staring at you out the corner of your eye and mid conversation you just suddenly turn and stare him directly in the eye with a really serious look for like 5 seconds before turning back and continuing your conversation like nothing happened.
@@joeyflat1452 Sigma mindset.
I didn't really have this experience with adults (or at least didn't notice), but one time in an area remote enough to only have one lone konbini there was a group of kids that stared at us as we entered like we were ghosts lol. I can't blame em, it was the type of village where people would notice even a car that doesn't belong there. I responded by looking back at them and wishing them a good day in japanese.
I gleefully await the video where Garnt and Joey pretend not to know Japanese and Connor acts as translator as they troll.
Now *that's* a bit I wanna see
_"I get it, I would stare too."_
When I was 7 yo, I had to use a gastric probe to feed myself, so I was wearing this tube on my nose for months. People were naturally staring at me. It was hard at first, I almost got angry at people for doing that, but soon I decided to not give a f*** and things goes well after that.
But it's only 10 years later I understood why they did that. I was waiting in line to pay at the grocery shop, and I saw a young man in a wheel chair. It wasn't a standard wheelchair but an electronic one with a stick "controller". I stared at him for like 2 seconds before I realized I was doing exactly what people did to me back then. It's not malicious or anything, it's just natural curiosity of seeing something unknown for the first time. So please, if you're in the same kind of situation, don't feel bad, just accept it, that's the best you can do anyway.
I’d say that’s a good philosophy to have the other way round, too. Just decide not to give a fuck, and then you can stare at the wheelchair for as long as you’d like!
I lived in Korea as a foreigner for a year and I never really got strangers pointing out amongst themselves that I was a foreigner. But when I met locals, I got a lot of invasive but very innocent and genuinely interested questions about what it's like to be a foreigner, and constantly going out of their way to make me feel welcome. Kinda the opposite feeling to being a foreigner in Japan, which is nutty considering how close geographically Korea is to Japan.
The "openness" of Korea and "closedness" of Japan show up in a lot of different ways as well.
As mentioned, the level of English spoken by the population. Koreans tend to emigrate to Western countries moreso than the Japanese. They also study abroad more. I'd say even K-Pop is more global facing than anime (yes, anime is global, but it doesn't actively try to penetrate into western media).
Not sure about the reason since Korea and Japan both have had isolationist periods, and Japan has been trading with the West longer in addition to having gotten wealthy nearly a century before Korea.
Nah, I got the same in Japan, they just feel a lot more shy
What's it like to be a foreigner? Dunno, what's it like to be a native Korean? Pretty cool isn't it? 😊
@@damiendiem japan, after meiji and after ww2 always tried to avoid assimilation by foreigners and was successful doing so in a lot of aspects
But Korea was completely destroyed after the Korean war, and their history/religion/culture was extremely impacted and changed
Probably that is an important factor
Well, when I visited 2 taxi drivers refused to take me and that never happened in Japan, so I wouldn't say there isn't discrimination in Korea either
When I work at a store. I was one of two spanish speakers there. Our community has quite of bit of Spanish only speakers so I usually helped them. But due to an awkward misunderstanding that lead to a customer getting pissed off. (Unless if I knew them) I only greeted/spoke to people in English till they asked if I spoke Spanish.
There has been few times where some of them will talk shit in front of me and then I'll go up to them ask if they need help in Spanish. If only yall could see there faces lol
Why is this such a problem in other countries?
Are they just not used to being multi-culti or is it really racism thats backed into their every daty lives?
Here in the netherlands we dont expect you to speak dutch, ofc we try dutch first but if you can't speak it, no harm no faul. The language is quite hard and some of our language rules arent even taught in the school books ( like pronouns for things, not people, isnt even taught in our schools but is somehting you are just meant to pick up as you go).
Esp for people coming over for a vacation or something.
meh, maybe its because were decendants of merchants and traders that we are used to and accepting of diffrent cultures and languages in communication :)
@@StMargorach I have no idea why it's a problem. I've seen many videos of people getting really upset and confrontal over hearing different languages being spoken. It's pretty dumb cause America is suppose to be a melting pot of many cultures.
Btw, I also stopped cause alot of people I greeted in Spanish would just either ignore me, look at me confused or just reply to me in English. It was so awkward cause at times they would look offended. I was full time and out off all the customers that came in. I would help like 10 Spanish speakers a month on average
@@Cpach27 Old comment, but to your point it, even in the days of Ellis Island you had the "little Italy", "Chinatown", "little Seoul", or whatever ethnic enclave type neighborhoods. Most people would prefer to stick with what they know best and what they've grown up with, it's just an evolutionary trait of human nature. I ended up not using Spanish in my retail job unless it was painfully clear that the person could not speak any English whatsoever and they were struggling just to complete the transaction, but it did help somewhat that I look Mexican. Some people, usually the younger generations, are better at venturing outside of that bubble.
My family is Ukrainian and I’m one of the only ones from the “younger” generations who was not taught to speak it but I can say “I don’t speak English” in Ukrainian which has gotten me out of some uncomfortable situations, I usually then just start sputtering out all the curse words I know too. (I learned how to say, I don’t speak Ukrainian, because sometimes I go to functions at the Ukrainian church and I feel like it’s polite to point out where I’m lacking in the first language someone speaks to me in). I am sad I can’t speak it though and I suck at languages so it’s hard for me as an adult to learn it but I’d like to give it a real go sometime.
If you can’t speak English then how did you make this entire comment in English?
@@1nt9rn9t-dudewillheim2 google translate??? Probably. Or someone wrote it for them
@@1nt9rn9t-dudewillheim2 im pretty sure she mistyped it, she meant she can't speak ukrainian
@@1nt9rn9t-dudewillheim2 I think op meant that they're a native English speaker, but to get out of uncomfortable situations involving English speakers they learned how to say 'I don't speak English' in Ukrainian (the language op's family speaks fluently but not op) to make it look like they don't understand what the English speaker is saying and can leave
I was born in Soviet ucraine, so i don't really speak ucrainian, instead i speak russian. I'm an italian citizen btw, and have lived here most of my life. Working in retail, the one thing i do, is to just listen to what russian/ucrainian speaking customers say behind my back. I only reveal that i speak russian if a person really neads help and does not speak italian. Sometimes it's just useful to speak different languages, but be quiet about it.
As a thai in germany my mom still calls german people falang when she talks to me.
wan to ask the falang is for Western foreign?
@@ALMONHOE it’s for white people
@@ALMONHOE basically yeah, anyone white
@@panhem7149
i also heard another
Ai falang...
@@ALMONHOE Ai is just like a universal slang/casual way to call someone, its like saying you/they/them just more casual way, Al falang would mean like 'that falang'. Its not 100 the real translation, but close enough.
I remembered this one Japanese ad (idk I just saw it) where this Japanese waiter always kept on asking this Asian looking dude who can't speak a word of Japanese, while ignoring this American dude speaking flawless Japanese.
I was sitting here thinking that situations like these haven't happened to me, then I remembered a time when I was in elementary school (I studied in the US) and my mom took me w/ my aunts to some ranches in Mexico, well a foreigner needed help translating since the person giving him a horse ride spoke little English.
Lo and behold my aunts all point to me (they're Mexican and spoke little to no English at the time) to translate for this person when they came up to us lol
it's not racism, they just think we're loud and obnoxious because we're foreigners. 10/10 logic
My Greek cousin who is 10 years younger then me, visited me ones in Germany. He only knew his small town where he was from. Its a very isolated town, nobody goes there. No tourists. Even other Greeks usually dont visit this city. Its on the border to Albania and has a lot of mountains sorounding it. Back then it was a pain the ass to travel there, because you had to go through the mountain routes. So he visited me and was baffled by all this people on the streets. The sheer crowds. He had never seen so many people at once.
I noticed then that he was starring at some black dudes. And I told him not to stare, but he was just fascinated by them. So I grabbed him, and I explained to the dudes the situation. They were very cool about it. They shook hands and we talked for while where they are from and where we are from.
Its just that simple. It wasnt that my cousin looked down on them. He was just young, curious and had never seen anything like it in real life (only in TV maybe, I dont know).
I believe a lot of people have anxiety of speaking to foreigners or to foreign looking persons. So my approach was to confront everybody and it was a cool experience.
Sometimes, you forgot you can speak other language
It happened to me before
"I don't want anyone in England to stop their conversation on hearing me speak, and say, 'Ah-ah! A foreigner'!" - Count Dracula, Transylvania, 1897.
I live in France but i speak korean and english with my dad, note that he's whitepassing (blonde with blue eyes), and we went to this one restaurant that had asian food (everything else around was closed) we heard the waitress speak to the cashier in korean and me and my dad looked at each other with the "let's troll tf out of them" eyes lol
They were trashtalking their boss because they needed more employees, the waitress is one of the cooks but the boss didnt want to hire anyone else so she had to be a waitress for a month (RIP)
The waitress comes with really poor French, my dad also speaks very poor french but he still managed to fake a pretty good french accent
So we order in french we eat and the waitress comes back asking if we want a dessert then my dad tells me in perfect korean: "are you still hungry" and the waitress' face went O_O
the cashier burst out laughing, us too
We left a pretty big tip with "힘내" written on a napkin
Haha. Can't believe you write that on the napkin!hahaha
What did you write on the napkin?
@@Django0324 They said something along the way like "good luck" or "hang in there" lol
@@WhatTheFlo ah... Thanks a lot.
That male stripper messing with Connor the entire night is hella based.
I work in a museum in Ireland, English speaking country. We get a lot of French and Spanish tourists. I'm fluent in French and I can fluently speak (but not read) Spanish (and I can also speak Creole but never had a Haitian tourist to talk to). I speak in English about 99.8% of the time, it's my first language and the majority language in my country so why shouldn't I, but nothing gives me greater satisfaction than switching when a tourist is talking shit about me or one of my colleagues.
i love how you all grab the mic and move it around when you talk. good thing you all have strong boom arms
8:30 - "It's not about racism... they just don''t like people who don't act and look like them." lolololololol Come on guys... As a Korean person, Asian's tend to be very racist, especially toward other Asians. Korean people in general feel some kind of way about Japanese people cause of our history. Just tell it how it is.
I think he was talking about how Japanese people react to non Asians by staring etc. People think that's racism while it's just someone who has never seen a white person in their entire life. Though I perfectly understand why koreans would dislike Japanese people.
I've heard that southeast asia are just chillin and vibin with each other. It's only us northeast asia hates each other to death lmao. idk I could be wrong
@@Num2OuO as a southeast asain, yes. But that's probably because we do not have history of war between each other. But instead we share and bond over the history of our colonization by white ppl 😅
they're just trying not to get demonitized bro, but nah yeah i see ur point since i live in asia too and see the amount of racism going on around with other races and the natives
@@Zen-zt4uk Very valid point about the moneys.
I do something like this to fuck around a new classmate or a newly met person, since my family is a descendant from a foreign country(long ago, the genes just recently came out of me and some of my cousins), I was born not looking like a local(Filipino) despite being born and raised in the Philippines… so whenever a person approaches I see them talking in the most broken English and I would just quietly nod but deep down I’m laughing in the inside, even my friends know of this running gag of mine and let it happen instead of helping that person
finally, I can see Emily's face when she laughs out loud
Where I live in the US, you would NEVER experience anything like Connor's "gaijin" experience. If you really stand out, people will stare a little bit, but they'd never say something like that right next to you.
The thing about Japanese society is that it's homogeneous and there aren't much diversity except for other Japanese so if you're a foreigner you pretty much stand up like a sore thumb
it kinda pains me to say this but if they had this same experience (being rejected for being a large group of foreigners)in america, people would be comfortable calling it discrimination. it honestly makes me sad that americans arent given the benefit of the doubt.
@@X3nophiliac america oversold that idea and now facing the dumb consequence of it
@@lyq232 you should look up our old laws, you couldn’t eat inside of you weren’t English
@@sneedmando186 it's almost like every country has been racist but America is the most progressive country in the whole world when it comes to race.
I pretend I can’t understand Japanese time to time when I travel with people, I am too selfish to volunteer to be emergency translator…
Too lazy and selfish for this shit
lol, i commend you for that. being the interpreter can be a burden
To be fair, he was having a good time bruh.
One time I pretended to not speak English. By not speaking at all. Being a kid was funny stuff.
this month me and my family went to mexico, we are brazillians, so even though just I could properly speak spanish, we could easily comunicate speaking portuguese.
We wanted so much to try the actual mexican food that after 3 days eating "americanized mexican food" we went to a local establishment, and the people around were confused and found funny/interesting that foreigners were there, the waiter almost couldn't understand what my parents were talking, but it was the best food we've eaten the whole trip, and everything was clean and professional
I love her laugh
Simp but also fucking true
Her laugh makes me laugh 🤝
Just 1 day? I pretended to not speak my native language for an entire semester and never did a formal reveal to my classmates. I went to school for 10 years abroad, then moved back home for uni. People in an elective kept working hard to speak to me in English (it was a class instructed in English) and another lingua franca for the whole semester. I never did tell them that i spoke the local language natively...
Back in November when Japan just open borders, me and my family went to Osaka.
We went to Kuromon Market, went to a food souvenirs store to buy some gifts. My brother looking for a specific item and starts talking broken Japanese to the store owner. The store owner is a very nice person and also tries to speak broken English back to us. After several hard-to-communicate moments, basically he told us to come back in 2 days later as he will try to pre-order the stock for my brother.
2 days later we went back there and the store owner was busy talking to another customer, we decided to wait for him. Then we realized he's speaking Chinese. Me and my family are Malaysian Chinese, so...
After he's done, my brother come up to him and starts speaking Chinese xD
Didn't get the item in the end but it was kind of funny haha.
I'm not gonna lie, in my country, if you're from a big city and go to a really small and far away town, ppl are already gonna stare at you regardless of nationality, race, or whatever, just cuz you dress differently and you talk differently it's already gonna cause some shock even when you're from the same country
Which country are you from, friend?
one of the funniest things that happened to me in japan was when i was in a supermarket with my dad whose a white guy, my step mum who is black/indian, and then theres me whos half white half pakistani and seeing peoples reactions was hilarious, they looked so confused and this one dude just kept staring at us at the checkout the whole time even tho i made eye contact with him
I took my Korean friend to country nsw in Australia, he had about 6 waifu hangers and a your name phone case doing gotcha and all the white people in this grocers were pogging, like they’ve never seen an Asian before it was quite funny
Thats odd cus im Australian and where i live is multicultural as fuck
@@Shadow-fb2ec I guess nsw is built different lol but even then I haven't actually seen someone who has 6 waifu hangers and there's plenty of variety everytime I go to the city. The most shocking I've seen was a homeless Aboriginal woman naked I think she was showering herself but I didn't want to look at her direction to be considerate if she even cared. Probably went to Sydney or smth
And they probably think your friends is Japanese
Hm my mum grew up in regional NSW, and apparently there are plenty of Chinese families that settled in the 19th century?
Lots of Chinese families in the Goldfields from the 1850s here in VIC, to the point we have some of the largest collections of pre-Cultural Revolution stuff in the world in the museum in Bendigo, because Mao purged all the stuff in China.
I just got back from Peru after spending 10 weeks there, and as a white dude who speaks Spanish, literally anywhere I went people would look at me and say something to themselves or their friends. It was very rarely a negative thing and honestly, most people were excited to see me, but it was a little jarring at first.
Thats kinda odd there are a lot of white people in South and Central America. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
@@MRCOLOURfilld There aren't many in southern Peru, but Arequipa did see a lot more white tourists than the city I stayed at, at least in the center. I didn't see any in Tíabaya but I was only in that district for two nights. I imagine Cusco probably sees even more but I didn't get the opportunity to visit this time.
I'll also mention that the reactions I saw were much more subtle than the absurdity that these guys experience.
@@clarenceyax8117 just meant native white people not tourists
@@MRCOLOURfilld my understanding is that that is not very common in Peru. I can't say for other countries.
We have 30+ languages spoken across India. There is one thing that never fails to get a reaction out of people. Speak a South Indian language anywhere outside South India. You'll instantly have people staring at you.
Is it like a class divide like Northern vs Southern Italians?
So you from south india?
@@valletas maybe 🙂
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I’m Canadian-Chinese. I went back to China and met a British-Chinese friend there. We both look very much like every other person in China, but we speak English to each other and the reactions you get in public are pretty priceless.
The Shiny Wurmple-comparison goes hard fr 🤣
11:32 my uncle is a pretty big dude with like blond/red-ish hair and a beard and he was talking about going on like a hike or something when he was on vacation with his family and multiple japanese people asked to take a picture with him because they were all like "holy shit, haven't seen this before"
to be fair, in korea, every child will point and say Weigookin! their term for foreigner in every city and situation i've been in outside seoul and busan.
Being a foreigner in rural japan is like being a shiny pokemon while also exuding final boss energy, it's a very weird feeling
I have a friend that was with his parents when they were going shopping (this was like 7 years ago), and they were really thirsty, but there was no water around. They found this luxury bag/purse shop, where they had free bottled water. They went inside to get the water, and looked around politely, but my friend got annoyed and said in Chinglish (mix of chinese and english), "why are we looking around? i thought we came here for the water?" The employees there were mainly chinese, but there were several english too, so everyone understood everything. They started laughing, and his parents bought a $2000 bag out of embarrassment, so that's a fun story
9:03 In America we just call that racism. Granted, there are many forms of racism but this is definitely one of them.
Latinos and Brasileiros have the word "gringos" for Foreigners.
Actually, “gringo” only refers to foreigners from the U.S. and maybe Canada. You wouldn’t get called a gringo if you were a foreigner from somewhere else, like Asia. The actual word for any foreigner in latin america is “extranjero”
@@rashotcake6945 Yes that correct for foreigners we use extrangero and gringo for people in USA or CA, but here in brasil gringo means everyone that comes from abroad.
I was born in Honduras but live in brasil so I'm the gringo here hahaha.
And by the way, in Mex gringo includes American born Latinos that don’t or barely speak Spanish. Doesn’t matter if your parents are from Mexico, you born and raised American, you’re a Gringo. I learned this when all my cousins called me such.
@@sasshiro Being ethnically from a place but culturally American will do that to you
That reminds me of my first time going to Colombia Literally my first experience with my extended family was a girl (4th cousin) talking about me my brother and my first cousin right in front of us. The dude she was talking to pointed out that we were literally right there and she replied “don’t worry these gringos don’t know anything” Holding back laughs my cousin in perfect Spanish tells them that all 3 of us understand Spanish and her face goes flush with embarrassment.
“Like a shiny wurmple in Pokemon“😂😂
I work at the register of a hardware store and a lot of the time I can't hear shit the customers say to me because they don't speak loud enough
Plus foreign customers often commit the crime of saying their greetings in Finnish
A lot of foreigners have cards that don't require PIN codes so we're required to ID them and I usually give my whole spiel of "may I have your ID card - a driver's license will do - because we're required to check that the names on the cards match to avoid misuse" and they're *stunned* because I just spat out a bunch of sentences in rapid fire because I thought they speak Finnish
They usually go "uhhhhhhhhh" and after that I switch to English. I have a certification to teach English in Finland.
I mean, that's something I would do. Every country in Europe I've ever been to I've learned a handful of survival phrases, greetings being one of them. I'm of the opinion that when you're in someone else's country, you do your best (with what time you have to learn) to communicate in their own language first. It's just good manners.
@@MrNikolidas I agree that learning a couple of survival phrases is polite, but usually those customers don't say anything else so there's a very high chance I just assume they speak Finnish, which in turn leads to some very awkward scenarios. Plus oftentimes I can't even hear what they say! I have a walkie-talkie connected to a singular earbud, there's plexi glass between me and the customer, and it being a hardware store there's a lot of background noise. It's made even worse by the fact that sometimes Finnish people also use "hello" as a greeting
@@saikyouiku Ah, I see. Not being able to hear an accent throws a wrench in my logic. But saying “hello” in English, that’s just confusing!
"I don't really wanna put you on my team, but wow that's something" LMAO trooo
3:49 referring to Connor's experience & his question about whether scenarios like that happen in the U.S. or elsewhere, I think it does happen occasionally, though I've rarely experienced it myself. I will say however there are some very ignorant & arrogant idiots who aren't afraid to verbally speak their thoughts out loud, even if you're standing right next to them.
Recently, I was out in public in a local restaurant to pick up some food to go. The weather outside was chilly, though not freezing cold, & as I'm someone who hates cold weather & loves warmer weather, I was wearing a heavy puffy jacket as I normally do. I remember there were two middle aged white women who were leaving the restaurant as I was waiting on the food order. As they walked right past me, one of the women commented in a very clear, easy to hear volume "are you cold?" followed by both the women laughing to themselves. I knew immediately that she was referring to me & mocking my jacket to her friend because the tone that she used was very sarcastic, condescending, & snarky.
Scenarios like that are quite common here compared to the "gaijin" scenario of Japan so I don't let it bother me one bit. I wish I could've given my own witty reply to the woman though. I would've absolutely LOVED to respond to her snide remark by saying something like "you look like you've put on some weight there, you sure you should be laughing & eating out at a restaurant in your condition?" but I'm not rude enough to say that to another human being.
The most annoying part about being mocked is it makes you rude too. Expecting everything to be sarcastic or mocking.
I’m trying to get away from that since i was bullied as a kid.
But trying to be a better person is quite hard.
I am a French Egyptian guy living in Egypt. And since I am quite used to cold weather, I usually just wear shirts. in turn, I get so many looks and sarcastic comments like "aren't you hot wearing that?", like damn, I even got a bus driver worrying about me now.
Some people are just too nosy, they can't keep to themselves, they can't accept anything that's slightly different than them, they either interpret it as you having a problem or that you see yourself as mightier than them. You could be in a classroom minding your own business, and people come up to you saying "Do you think you are better than us?".
Here in Egypt, most middle aged 40+ women are quite heavy, bowling bowl shapped, and every time they see someone healthy and at a decent weight, they start with the "Why are you so skinny? Do they not feed you at home?, you should eat and fatten up".
@@dagnom9071 honestly this.
I grew up getting bullied a lot and have a family that regulary just kinda shittalks each other where everyone is just walking on eggshells. Any criticism towards this lands you with the gaslighting of them trying to justify it or throw it back in your face.
Yet my parents wonder why i can be rude at all in the first place, the type to believe respect is owed by default and not earned. And likewise, calling a family member out for being rude is scrutinized as well.
I’m a jack ass when i’m rude and a pussy/white knight/wet blanket/jack ass when i’m nice
You literally can’t win.
Had a teacher say directly to my face, that she thought i never had friends and the whole reason my best friend hung out with me was to just eventually date my other friend. 💀
Shits so insanely soul crushing i wanted to say some shit like *”i’m not gonna take this from someone who got pregnant at 16”*
And Ik negativity is rewarded on the internet and going apeshit is encouraged, so some people find that based as hell. But honestly? Shitting on assholes is fun, but this isn’t family guy y’know? These are real people.
My teacher was being an ass but she wasn’t a monster either, she was genuinely nice and helpful to me most of the time. She didn’t understand what was a step too far. She almost was homeless due to her pregnancy or something when she was kid.
So the idea of saying something so cartoonishly shitty and personal back at someone like that, just for some quick “zinger” just makes me sick to my stomach.
Like I honestly can’t believe i ever considered saying something like that at all.
Shit hurts and its ok to stand up for yourself sometimes, but people can find ways to do that without defaulting to cruelty every single.
We deal with so much shit on the daily anyways. does this world and its people really need MORE of it?
Its honestly how even feel towards OP’s thought of jabbing at someones weight too.
Like???
“Why you gotta go there?” Yknow?
@@theradionicrevival8068 That sounds horrible, where are you from? I myself sometimes face the skinny comment from overweight people myself but mostly brush it off.
@@yassinekhaled5320 Kind of had a similar experience as a Canadian going down to vacation in Florida during the winter months.
I remember my whole family was wearing shorts and T-shirts and there were some people walking around in coats.
To us it was great weather, but I guess it was cold for Florida.
10/10 It was pretty funny.
When i worked in a nursing home for elders from asian countries, the ladies from thailand loved to gossip about us. And u just knew they were talking about you. It didn't really bother me that much but if i was out in public i would probably not enjoy it to much.
Reminds me of a time when I worked at my local DSW and there were these little Russian kids in the store by themselves just talking to each other in Russian (I’m not fluent at all, only know greetings and stuff) and I said “Hi! How are you? Where’s your mom?” And they stared at me in horror before running off to their mom lol idk what they were saying but apparently they were talking shit 😆
"Even the game Just Dance, doesn't tell you to just dance" killed me 😆
Super random but that "We're a long way from texas" reminded me of Resident evil 4's final boss speech before the final battle
"You're a long way from home cowboy." lol
I am going to learn every language now so When someone insults me in their native tongue I can turn my head towards them and say “so you’ve summoned me…” or something ominous to freak them out
I kinda get what they mean when some people at restaurants have that look of panic because maybe they're afraid they won't be able to communicate and serve well.
I have worked in fast food for years and there's always a sense of panic I get when I'm trying to help a customer with something and they hit me with that "I don't speak English" stare. A lot of the time workers at restaurants have to work quickly and so anything that could slow them down or complicate things can panic them.
9:14 - I suddenly understand the opening cutscene of Resident Evil 5 now...
I feel like Joey has already told this story sometime in the past
Korean people are so friendly toward foreigners especially Americans, it's because of korean war veterans and the American army bases in Korea, like my uncle who is a Korean veteran loves American people and he is always nice to me and any friend I bring with me when I come to visit.
In China this happens to me all the time. There are two terms, one being standard (外国人(waiguoren)), the other being more of a negative Connotation(老外(laowai)). The elderly use the more negative one.
I got a story. So, I'm sudanese but I moved to the UK for university, one day I came to the international college early (international students like me need to do that class for one year instead of an actual uni year) so I was sitting there in the lobby while wearing one of those cat ears headsets that I bought because it was funny. An Egyptian man sets opposite of me and I could tell he was very interest in my headset. And soon after another Egyptian guy comes and sits next to me but I know this guy well as we have talked before. After a bit the guy opposite of me looks to the guy next to me and says in Arabic "look at those. Aren't they weird" and I heard him. So I just looked to my friend and smiled and he did the same then he turned back to him and said "you know he speaks Arabic right?" And they guy looked at me in shock and asked if that's true to which I confirmed and he apologied. His face was incredible.
I love how he says it’s not racism or discrimination and then perfectly explains how it is exactly racism. xD
8:49 btw
I was just thinking the exact same thing, was about to comment it and sorted newest comments first and there you are :D good im not the only one
I have lived in China so long that I actually starting doing that "gaijin" thing too. I'll get on a plane back to the US and be all, "damn...f-lot of foreigners on this plane..." lol
For a "oh gaijin desu" you can just say "oh, nihonjin desu"
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joey:"All the time"
also joey:starts talking about when he was 10 or 20 years old
Heh, I'll keep a count of every 'gaijin' referring to me during my trip 😂
even in tokyo, big shout outs to the homies that help other foreigners around train stations, in restaurants, etc. They helped me, so I passed it on multiple
small towns you'll get that, specially if there are those lucky ones that have been aboard and start asking you 25 questions lol in either language.
Imagine what the scotsmen on their way home from the pub or whatever being picked up by a pretty lady driving past in a van felt. when they found out that it was, in fact, not-even-disguised Scarlett Johansson (Under The Skin, if you haven't watched it) since they stunt filmed many parts of it.
4:10 We do that in Hawaii. We have the word 'haole' pronounced 'ha-oh-leh' and locally it means 'white person' though direct translation it means someone that isnt from here.
I feel there's a certain irony to a person from Japan having lived in Ohio
Wait its all ohio?
Always has been
I literally only clicked on this video to say that this is a Edward Richtofen Cod Zombies moment
The whole Foreigner conversation reminded me of some of my friends who went on a trip to China and all the locals were taking photos of them because they were black
His story at 9 changed lfmao.
i speak fluent japanese, but i like to pretend like i cant understand a word, one time when these 2 schoolgirls were talking about my height in japanese (im 7'7") and they kept commenting how annoying it is tourists cant speak japanese because they didnt speak english and wanted to talk to me, so i turned round and said "i agree, i hate it when people dont learn the language of the country they visit regularly" they got such a fright hearing a literal giant talk japanese in a bass voice that they squealed and ran out the cafe
7'7? Japan must be a nightmare.
@@sausageman4086 i think of it more as a challenge, which is why i have been several times and actually miss travelling there (had a heart attack 5 years ago and hearts to frail now to fly)
7'7" wtf that's a mf titan lmao
@@harishpatil5055 you wont hear the ladies complain
You are 2.3m?
It happens in any country where a language is either hardly spoken by foreigners, or they use 'slang' that cant easily be understood. Dutch, french, german, i've heard em all. Even my trip around Asia (singapore, malaysia, etc) i was already informed the 'local' word for 'white person' or 'foreigner'. We had a greek student who showed pictures of restaurants in Greece where even it was written on the menu's those prices are for foreigners and 'locals' get a heavy discount. Gues some people dont understand technology by now can do translating realtime on a camera :P
The way Emily laughs is so funny lmfao
6:15 definitely the asian speaking perfect english causing that... Once I was in tokyo and my friend (white guy) was describing something or other -- in person and not on the phone... and nobody batted an eye but the moment i replied, instantly like 3 people who just walked past us did like a double take.
I've once pulled the gaijin card in my own country where I was born and raised. My accent is British-passable for most non-brits. I was on the bicycle in a pedestrian street which is *technically* not allowed - an older man stopped me and said I wasn't allowed. I responded with "Sorry I don't speak Danish" because I had to hurry to the train station lmfao.
Damn that bald spot on Connars head
I feel like Joey tells this story every other episode lol
bruhhhh
i feel being called out as a lao/thai my familly (mostly relatives who lived there) keep saying that as a conversation and at somepoint they said to me since i wasn't speaking really well and they are saying like "falang ki nook" i felt that and i was like yes a fellow thai person.
if you don't what "falang ki nook" it means and a way like you are a foreigner that can't speak properly. IDK if it's accurate but yeah that hit home for me.
In a 12 minute clip the guest spoke for 42 seconds.
Interestingly enough, falang comes from the Arabic Faranj, which is just the word for French, but it became the term for Europeans during the Crusades and then spread eastward into India and Southeast Asia.
4:36 In Thai the word is Falang and there is a similar word used for foreigners in North India, Firang.
@Admiral Kipper Most likely some North Indian language, because as far as I know, Indian languages and culture had influenced South East Asian countries for centuries.
I remember my wife went into a restaurant that was in the country side to reserve for 12 of us and 10 of us was foreigners. And she also negotiated a price for the meal then we walked in and afterwards they wanted additional money for serving foreigners. This was in China countryside. But I do remember everyone who walked in would gasp in shock and a couple of people walked out then back in😂
It's because Emiru looks like the majority Korea so in Japan they would expect her to speak japanese as many people from the Korean penuencelor in the last 1000 years migrated to the austronisian Islands of Japan.
absolutely also happens in Korea no matter where you're from as long as you don't look Korean.
The reason English is much more widely spoken in South Korea than the rest of Asia is because of the US military. They've had a very long and involved presence in South Korea so English speakers have been a pretty common part of their country and culture since the '50s. South Korea is by far the strongest ally of the US and other Western countries so western culture has had a much bigger influence on South Korea than the other East Asian nations.
really love connors attitude about this
Greek gods… is that a reference to small part?
Top-notch stuff!
Yeah for the most part, at least for me, it's not really discrimination but instead it's about "Will they like the service here?" or "Will they be disappointed with their time here?"
In Korean Youth like in 80s Japan. English is seen as Cool. A lot of their rappers and singers do it bilingually
Is it me or did joey mention this story back then
Feels like i have a deja vu
Yesss he told that store kids' story before
Btw i like ur name, luv Nao
He even mentioned that he already said this on the past podcasts.
It’s on the clip called “ do you use the Gaijan card “
Trolling the locals as a tourist, when you speak multiple languages, including the local one, was basically one of the daily highlights of myself, my sister and brother when we were visiting relatives in Canada.
We learned quickly enough that people in the age group of our grandparents were a bit more tricky, because so many Dutch people emigrated to Canada after WW2. But with people our own age. Yeah no issues there. We could just talk Dutch amongst ourselves and people wouldn't understand a word. If they seemed to understand it, we'd switch to our local dialect, just to mess with them.
The best part is that in high school we had to take Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish. So yeah it's pretty funny as a bunch of teenagers to just confuse the hell out of the locals by randomly switching languages. These days my English and Spanish are a bit rusty, but I've learned Afrikaans.
It's even funnier these days when our three families go on vacation together, because we all speak different languages, with the common ones being Dutch and English. Between the three of us and our spouses I think we speak something like 10 or 12 languages.