Everyone's Favorite Foreigner
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"I'm not Japanese and I don't accept you either."
SAVAGE
Lolol way too funny 😂😂😂
There's a lot of truth to this, because the people who are always complaining about not being accepted in Japan are generally not accepted outside of Japan either
Dogen flexing that he does infact sleep in the same bed as his wife.
underrated comment
umm....what, is that a thing? lol
@@holliswilliams8426it sometimes isnt
@@holliswilliams8426 お気の毒に
but does he sleep in a racecar?
"I'm so sorry for your loss" LMAO
I’m yet to meet a Japanese married couple that sleeps in separate beds. Where are these couples who can afford two beds?
"I'm not Japanese and I don't accept you either."
It's almost like.... Japanese culture isn't the main problem here...
Such a good quote
"Are you listening to me?"
*Unfortunetly*
xD
The saying goes like this : I (can) hear you but I'm not listening. You're welcome.
This is definitely coming from a recent personal experience lol
Recent, medium-term and long-term I suspect haha
It’s quite common in expats communities in Asia I am afraid. But I LOVED how Dogen smashed him. “Goofing around teaching English 😂”…
Not just one. These guys are everywhere now. I've had countless such experiences and these guys are exactly like portrayed here. Guaranteed you're gonna find some in these comments too
Nahhh not recent. There are tens of thousands of these dudes online. Hell, if it's exhausting for me to deal with them on the Internet, I can't imagine what it's like to endure them in real life.
Of course people like this have existed for decades. I just meant that it felt like there was a recent specific example that sparked him to make this video now (probably not even true).
Also since I happened to see the video in the first couple minutes of going live I was curious what would happen if I left one of those unoriginal comments like a quote from the video or a surface-level observation. Always amazes me how those always get so many likes
My Japanese is really improving, I understood almost every spoken word!
日本語上手！
Me too! It practically sounded like English to me!
@@borismuller86rather getting that than, 英語上手.
he harnessed the power of not caring
It was super effective! ;)
Born in it, molded by it
Dogen is very Japanese in Nature... so much so that he also disdains the foreigners now.
They may not get accepted by the people there, but their nihongo be jouzu 🔥
This time, it’s that someone’s ability to read the mood isn’t jouzu
Kinda love/hate the fact that I can understand this comment
I recently had an Indian guy working in a combini complement my Japanese and I wanted to hug him and say “it’s ok, you don’t have to do that”.
@@Jesse-Karn Nihongo jouzuu! 💪🔥
@@borismuller86 As an Indian, nihongo jouzu desu ne!
I think the lesson is that everywhere in the world, people dont accept assholes.
It's a weird thing how people either worship Japan or outright call it backward minded...when it's just a normal country with its own good and bad...just like most other countries. If anything, it has more good than most, and less bad than most too...just have to understand which is relevant to you before you move there and...be a nice person? Idk.
@souvikmitra6161 For real yea. The idea that someone can move to Japan and not want to learn everything about their culture and language is insane to me.
It's a small number, but there's a loud vocal minority of foreigners who complain about problems they make for themselves by not wanting to learn about the new country they live in and to live as a Japanese citizen by learning and partaking in their culture.
@@souvikmitra6161 It happens with everything idolised. A group of people have an unhealthy positive view of something they shove down people throats, annoyed people retaliate with all the unspoken negative things. Both sides dig in their heels becoming more extreme and unrealistic over time.
also Japan isn't "more good than most, and less bad than most" It is a normal country no better or worse than any other first world democracy.
If you honestly believe Japan is just like "one of the boys", you are either in denial or delusional.
There is not a single western country even approaching the xenophobia of Japan or other Asian countries.
The west is the anomaly. Xenophobia and xenohate is the norm.
Tolerance? Most places (Japan included) don't know what you are even talking about. Intolerance is not a choice, it's a way of life in most places. Especially Asia.
@@DavidCruickshank Even amongst first world democracies, people are allowed to think certain countries are more pleasant to live in than others.
You won't have the same experience living in the US and living in Finland just because they're "first world democracies", there's _so_ many other differences than just that.
Obviously different people will think different countries are better, because "better" is subjective, not objective. The person you replied to clearly has the *subjective* opnion that Japan is better than most other countries. Others might think Japan is worse than other countries, and some people like you will think "It's about the same". You're allowed to think that, but you almost seemed perplexed at the fact that other people will disagree with you on that. There's no reason to be confused, people are allowed to think certain things are better than others.
"I'm not Japanese and I don't accept you either."
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!
My brain immediately chimed up with "FATALITY" at that part.
Happened with my husband when he was deployed to Japan. All of the locals were nice to my husband and always were welcoming because he was genuinely curious and loved being there. A lot of his American coworkers were like the annoying guy and had no sense of adventure.
My husband hates them too lol
Vagina!!
Bruh my younger sister got to live in Okinawa with her deployed husband for 3 years. I wanted to visit her but of course Covid hit so it was impossible. Then i find out the entire time she's there she didn't care to learn the language ;_; Said they "say so much just to say so little" and i was like WTF? You can say the same thing about english lmfao, some things are shorter in Japanese.
she did make friends sort of with some of her Japanese coworkers at a coffee shop apparently but yeah.. I'm jealous. I doubt I'll ever get to do more than visit japan, I have 3 pets that will probably be in my life until I'm 40 so I can't just up and move there like a college student might. And after that, I'll probably be too old lmao
r/japanlife in a video
This - is too accurate. That is the worst subreddit possible. Luckily these people don't represent the average person living in Japan
@@HerrMustermann And yet they portray it like they are the ONLY ones. It's frustrating to cling to the idea that there are in fact normal fucking people living in Japan but I just gotta believe it's true!! Cause the alternative scares me...
@@HerrMustermann We must be grateful to them, so the willing ones go to japan and crying ppl stay home. I see this as a massive W
Oh my god I’ve never seen a better video description in my life 😂
Omg hahahahha true
I've found that the people complaining about Japan not accepting them oddly enough seem to have issues with their home countries not accepting them either! Unrelated I'm sure.
That’s probably, why they moved to Japan, in the first place 😅.
Meh, as someone who has lived in a few countries, the one thing doesn't really have anything to do with the other. Different countries have different cultures and just because you fit in well with one doesn't mean you universally fit in. Yeah, a lot of people leave their home country because they don't fit in. It's not a bad thing to look for a place you can belong.
And if it is as you say, making fun of someone who can't belong to any country is just cruel.
So true 😂
Yup! Especially the ones that are like "wow I'm super weird and inappropriate let me go to Japan where they'll accept me". Uh...NO fam, that's not going to fly ANYWHERE in the world.
Anyone can go to America and say they're American. No one can go to Japan and say they're Japanese.
Of all the things Sam could be insecure about in a gym, he chose this.
Breast!!
When you live in any country for a length of time, you romanticize where you came from. This is human nature. Two things happen:
1) That place we came from gets frozen in time
2) Our bad memories fade and positive experiences tend to stick.
1. You'll see it a lot when people start talking about the "old country" and how this [insert something here] would never happen back in the old country
2. Fading bad memories are a coping mechanism. Imagine if the trauma that you went through as a teenager (and we all had some traumatic experience) didn't fade? Nope... it fades. We laugh at our mistakes as a teenager and forget about the angst and difficulties. We don't tend to re-live those moments. But the good memories... those can stick around. So, we have a bias towards a positive past and a negative present. It's life.
I genuinely think this is a lot of what people see in Japan.
ファンタスティック！😂👏
Sometimes it's liberating to transition to American ways of responding to obnoxious strangers :)
😌 I feel like it's a lesson to keep in our hearts
Would've been funnier if Dogen pretended to not be an American and just used Japanese to that Sam character..💀
Is your duty as an American to respond to all hostile threats that way. 😂😂😂
lol love this video. These guys are all over the Japanese subreddits too.
Oh dude those people are so toxic!
@@msinc Reality is toxic. Quick! Get under Dogen's wing lest reality pluck you away, you sweet summer child in a bubble. No way am I not untrolling you on a backwards Thor's day.
Why spend time on subreddits?
That sounded a bit personal, Dogen. Who pissed you off enough to get a video? :D
This is every second gaijin in Japan
@@strongbad4216 or half the people on the Japanese subreddits on reddit lol
@@strongbad4216 Where is Johnny Somali now?
YO I HAD THIS EXACT THING HAPPEN TO ME. I met this drunk american guy after getting some food with my roomates, dude told us his whole life story about how he came to Japan like 20 years ago to do street performing. Dude compared Japanese people to nazis, talked all sorts of shit on them, doesn't speak the language, tried to teach us "how to scam these uptight r****ds."
Sad dude.
It's typical as these kinds of far lefties are the ones that come out of universities, are into arts/entertainment and into traveling
It's the same kind of people that immigrate here but waste every day complaining about Japan and how it "has to change"
What makes these people stay in their host countries for so long, if they don't like it?
These are the foreigners my friends and I have been calling "Bruces" for years (it's also a verb, "Brucing").
A Bruce hates his dead-end job, but knows if he returned to his home country, his only option is probably janitorial work. Bruce is sick of his Japanese wife (who likewise wishes Bruce would contribute more to the family, either money or time) but he can't divorce her or he may not see his kids again. Bruce, however, struggles to relate to his now teenage son and daughter, partly because he never learned Japanese and his children don't feel as comfortable expressing themselves in English. Bruce spends a lot of time at the local HUB, trawling for English-speaking newcomers he can painstakingly vent his frustrations at, but he'll settle for cornering an American-looking stranger on the train.
Luckily I speak Japanese so I don't need to rely on foreign friends for social interaction, but over the years I've developed a keen sixth sense for identifying and steering clear of Bruces.
I swear I recently met a Bruce, except his name was Neil, or something. He’s in his 60s and “never got around to learning the lingo”.
They're all over Taiwan, too. I love especially when they recommend a place by saying "the servers speak really good English", and speak negatively of a place if the servers don't. Very classy !
awww crikey bruce!!
the equivalent in New Zealand is old brits who come here for the good proper life (ie to get away from brown people) then are shocked that here they are foreign ! whinging poms . - and sometimes south africans do similar
christ that's depressing to just read.
Oh god. Thank you Dogen for making this. I've only been here for a few months but I am so sick of this kind of person. It's like "have you tried... fitting in?"
It is even more simple than that - have you tried trying? With anything you have to put effort in. That is why they 'aren't accepted' anywhere, because they haven't tried or done anything about their situation.
It's ridiculous. Going to another country and feeling so entitled for people to like you... That's not how it works anywhere. If you want to be liked, go find someone who will. Not saying it'd be easy, but what, did you just expect to emigrate to another country and expect handouts?
@@spaghetti1641 Nah, they don't even accept Japanese people when they change to another city they weren't born in. And they are open about it
People that never been to Japan confuse that as "racism" or "never being accepted as japanese", but they fail to see that it's the default that everyone will deal with like anywhere else in the world. People should just try to fit in and that's it
Other people aren't forced to accept them, and pointing it out as an excuse doesn't help them out either
I’ve never been to another country where the people are as enthusiastic about helping you learn their language. I used to sit next to a guy at work who gave me exercise books and would help me learn kanji. Tajiro, you da real MVP.
@@user-xl5kd6il6cI've heard in Greece you are "foreign" if you're from 5 miles away lol
Yep, the classic "teach english, get a boring job and don't level up, get entangled with gaijin hunters and rush into a relationship" package. Seen too much of it 😅
That's really sad...
This video made me so happy. I resubed I feel like every one tells me “Japan is this japan is that Japan is this Japan is that.” I’m just happy to chart my own path. And enjoy it how I want to! Thank you Dogen!
孤独で寂しいからDogenに友達になってほしい系外人かもしれん
"That's okay, I'm not looking for acceptance."
When I first started listening to Japanese music, I noticed this thing called 当て字 (ateji), which is basically like writing down one word, but singing a different one. I guess we would call it "poetic license" in English. At first, it used to annoy me. I'd be like, "Man, this makes it really hard to read along in real time," but after a while, it became so normal that I don't even notice it anymore. I actually think it's kinda cute sometimes.
Is it like using certain kanji but using different pronunciations of it or something?
first stumbled upon this in the lyrics of the opening song of Super Sentai Liveman where そら, as in sky, is written like 宇宙
@@hikageniko That's the kanji for 宇宙（うちゅう）"Space", no? It's interesting, perhaps it has a deeper, symbolic meaning? Like you know, you look to the sky, yeah, but in truth you are looking towards the vastness of the universe... or something like that. Perhaps as a symbol of infinite possibilities.
THATS what its called? ive noticed it too n it throws me off hehe. but i like it. now i know the phrase for it! thanks
That not ateji, ateji is when a word is spelled using kanji only for their sound without regard for their meaning, like 亜細亜(アジア) or 滅茶苦茶(めちゃくちゃ)
I have met this guy a couple of times. Always a different face, but always the same story and “advice.” 😅
The "unfortunately" was the highlight of the video, just the pure suffering in the way he said 残念ながら was beautiful lol
Definitely some Japanese people out there who won’t accept you just because you’re a foreigner, but they’re the odd ones out. If you actually try to learn and understand the language and culture, almost all people are super welcoming and patient. If you don’t follow cultural norms, you will be despised, but that goes for everywhere in the world. If you talk loudly on the train, skip lines, and wear your shoes indoors, people will definitely not accept you. If you do your best and make an active effort to fit in and get along with people, most of them will accept you.
I do kendo, and i take it very seriously as it’s my most important hobby. No one speaks english in my dojos, and I have to communicate only in Japanese. I receive nothing but complements, advise, friendly questions about where I’m from or how long I’ve been doing kendo, or if I’m enjoying Japan, etc. people have been nothing but supportive because they see the effort I put in. I’m most definitely accepted and am viewed as a main member of many of the dojos I practice at, and I am invited to many get-together and parties where only the closer groups of kendoka are invited. Obviously I’m not Japanese, and I never will be, but if I show the same values and respect as those around me, I am gladly welcomed, accepted, and respected. (Super long rant, sorry, I just wanted to give a personal example of why it’s definitely possible to be accepted here.).
"almost all people" is wayyy too generous. But i tend to agree with you, and others alike.
Aaaaaa! It's the same in every country! That guy always finds you.
Easy. If there's two of us, we're the even ones out.
Pfft 😂 I hate it and I love you. That's great
Haha I love this 😆
I don't live in Japan, but even just learning, this is relatable and got a good laugh out of me. Thanks :)
"They'll never accept you!" I've been told this a few times, always by someone with disdain for the locals and a stubborn refusal to engage with the people/culture. Meanwhile I'm making friends and getting invited to social outings left and right, even getting told that "you're one of us now". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Who would've thunk it?
It's what ex-USSR migrants living in the West tell people who are still living in ex Soviet countries "oh it's so horrible in Canada, don't move here, they will never treat you as one of them" - "then why don't you move back?" - *crickets*. Reality is that some people just don't get assimilated, and are still watching russian TV abroad, and have idea of the Western countries from russian propaganda _despite living there,_ no wonder everyone hates them. And and the funniest thing? These people HATE migrants... while being migrants themselves.
Yeah, and you know what? It's better to never be considered "japanese", otherwise the social expectations and style of human interaction would lead to extinguishing your own culture and personality. No need to be japanese, you can still make real bonds while being "the foreigner in japan" as long as you're open, friendly, and avoid the most severe no-go's of the culture.
@@AJ-fo2pl I would bet 99.99999% that in Japanese
I wonder if one day you shall possess the wit to try and skewer the rare 'Jake Adelstein type' of long-term foreign resident. They're like this type of foreigner, except they stare off into middle distance talking about corruption, Yakuza, and how more people should buy their books.
I remember he wrote this whole long article about how he got deported "despite having contributed for 20 years!" and all sorts of other stuff that boiled down to "No, I didn't have a valid visa, but...". Also at once point he was under detention in a fascist gestapo camp, the next moment he was "walking from room to room" while on the phone to somebody.
A bunch of Brits made fun of this and his follow-up column had a whole bizarre section on the size of gardens (or "yards") you get with houses in the US compared to the UK.
No, I don't sit next to gaijin on the train either.
Way too rare though to be a successful author with a popular HBO Max show. It's not a type it's a unicorn. Now the complete lack of common sense that made it possible is also horrifying to imagine doing myself, but I can't look away!
I lived in Japan for ten years and this was my biggest peeve. Japan is not an easy country to immigrate to, you are literally doing tons of work to be here ---- if you hate it so much, just leave!
What happened to pet?
年に何度か海外の友人が日本に遊びに来るんだが、よくこういう日本在住？の外国人に声をかけられるって言ってたな。まさか本当に存在するとは思わなかった
As long as he's not curling in the squat rack, I don't care if he counts his reps by writing them out in kanji.
It probably was my first time reading Japanese subtitles to understand what was just said in English haha
So fast!
And so accurate as always :D
POV: never tried living abroad anywhere but jp
This
it's a huge thing I've noticed with americans and some europeans who like to complain about "all the reasons why living in Japan is tough", not realising that it's a pretty standard immigrant experience. it's like they treat the place as a big amusement park and not a real country or something (a lot do)
@@autismspiritOn the other hand, far too many people defend Japan when it is obviously being xenophobic and backwards re:immigrants, and there absolutely are many problems that you would experience as an immigrant to east Asia that you simply would not experience if you moved many other countries with more of an immigrant history/culture (US, Australia, many places in western Europe, many places in South America, etc.).
@o You said it yourself, it's the case because those places have already experienced mass immigration and/or have been built by immigrants. There's no reason to judge other countries by that same standard. What you experience in East Asia/Eastern Europe/Africa is natural, we're all xenophobic on some level, but in the West it's been beaten out of people. You're just projecting your cultural and historical standards onto people who haven't experienced any of that.
@@autismspirit we have come full circle, it is xenophobic to be against xenophobia
I have this strong urge to start a slow clap 💜
The inane resentful ‘you’ll never…’ rant should always be met with a offhanded なるほど、そうして… and walking off if they actually try to continue
This felt like one of those "Based on a real story." documentaries...
That annoyance felt real
I live in Japan and 100% agree with what Dogen's been saying for a while, learn Japanese 100% but also have a skill that you genuinely want to use. If you genuinely actually like teaching, then be a teacher for sure! There are plenty of foreigners I know who go straight towards actually teaching at international schools. I for one am an engineer, worked at one shitty japanese company and now work at a really really chill japanese company (2 foreigners in the entire company including me) where I get to do what I want. Sure, there are plenty of people I've met and worked with who never have and never will pick up the language and do fine, but knowing the language opens up the door to so many really fucking awesome experiences and friendships. I will never be Japanese, however when I go to my favorite bar, 居酒屋 or indie coffee shop and the staff/regulars immediately start shooting the shit with me, as cheesy as it is to say, I belong here and I am home.
How does one say, "Sorry. All out of fucks to give." in Japanese? 😂
「日本語は上手」
@@mcritz46vl I'll take your word for it.
アイスコーヒー ;)
どうでもいい
はい
残念ながらめっちゃわかるーーーw
Thanks Dogen, I will remember to keep working on my skills, save money and find a nice wife rather than an easy one.
No such thing as an easy wife. If they’re easy up front, you’ll be paying for it for years.
@@borismuller86I'm so sorry for your loss
This is.... very cathartic.
r/okinawa, r/movingtojapan, r/Japan and r/japanlife personified
Really serendipitous that two of my favorite Japan-related youtubers made content related to gyms in Japan on the same day! 😯 (Livakivi if anyone's wondering.)
Livakivi gang
Subscribed because of this video.
Been living in Japan for 1 year, and already found too many foreigners complaining like that. I try to avoid their bad energy as much as possible, because I'm happy living here. And if they're that unhappy, why don't they just leave?? 😑
Are you saying their feelings are not valid?
@@jkxss People should complain less and move forward more. Feelings are feelings, after all everyone should contain their bad mood so only meaningful part of it is spilled over.
@@jkxssOf course their feelings are valid, but there comes a time when you should stop making complaining about the country you chose to live in your whole personality, and move forward to either try and fix it or cut your losses and leave.
whats the point of complaining if theyll do NOTHING about it? if they wanna talk about finding a solution to their "problems", Im all ears and glad to help@@jkxss
@@jkxss People's feelings are always valid but it's rude to constantly force them on random strangers. That's what therapists are for. It's always valid to have whatever feelings you have. It's not always valid to act on them though. If you want to vent to someone, you need to ask first.
I am not very well 'accepted' in my own country (at least I don't feel it) so I don't really expect anywhere else will either. But that's what you get for putting your feet in two or three different languages and cultures, while living away from your own community for a very long time. I'm past caring now.
So not all people who are not accepted by their own places (and such culture/community is rapidly disintegrating anyways) seek acceptance elsewhere. Those who do have to go meditate under a waterfall!
You make a good point. I don’t feel accepted in my own country, either. When I remotely see another human (being in our car-reliant society), they’re just fucking annoying. They literally won’t shut up and let you talk. So when people tell me “Japan won’t accept you.”, America won’t accept me either, so what does it matter?! I’m there for many other reasons, not self-entitlement.
I’m sorry for your loss 🤣
Living in Japan for 4 years now with a Japanese fiance, I couldn't agree more to this. Most people who complain and make the same old same old criticism of Japan are the ones who come here from Western countries for a low paying, dead end and bad english teaching jobs, trying to change the entire country to fit their own cultural understandings and views instead of trying to adapt to the country they are trying to live lol. I know because I saw so many of them over 4 years most of which not living here anymore.
*Also some Americans should keep in mind that not all countries are immigrant countries like America and nations have thousands of years of history living together and shaping a united culture. You don't become that nation just because you step foot there once. Japanese people don't discriminate against you just because you are a foreigner, they can just act differently around you sometimes and that is if you aren't friends. They do this out of good will. Also "the restaurants not accepting you in" thing is very rare or at the very least quite outdated.
*Japanese working culture criticisms even though can be based in reality depending on the sector, are largely outdated. Compared to US it might be worse than there but in general a lot of companies have strict no overtime policies. Or overtime never exceeds 20 hours a month which isn't that much in my opinion. I have a social life I can enjoy without any issues for example.
*Most of those English teachers cannot speak Japanese even after years of living here, show no effort to learn or integrate themselves to Japan, save no money and live paycheck to paycheck, use Japan as an overglorified vacation resort with nice aesthetics basically to escape from their problems or responsibilities in their home countries, make Japanese partners just for the sake of them being Japanese and rush into relationships with them after which they regret and criticize how Japanese people are so disconnected in a relationship, work in the same dead end job with no promotion or pay raise over 3-4 years in which he isn't even taken seriously as an english teacher at all and then complain about the entire country. So it is basically an escapism that wastes valuable years of yours without improving yourself in any way in the long run and falling behind most people.
*About Japanese couples not sleeping together in bed. That is again, a you problem lol. Many people have no such issue and even though couples who are married for quite a long time commonly do sleep in seperate beds, it is not a must or a strictly cultural point at all. There are many people who don't do that and sleep together instead.
It seems like a YOU problem if you did not make any proper plans or did not find a good ground to make the move to Japan for, other than "idk, Japan seems fun lol". I came here as a software engineer, came here with savings already as a plan B, learned Japanese even before coming (doesn't have to be 100%), made online Japanese friends and language exchange partners before making the move and never felt alone or not accepted as a result. Literally all my bad experiences in Japan were with foreigners living or visiting here lol.
We've all (well, once you've been living here for years) met this type at least once. Spot on assessment lol
I was there for a couple weeks and got adopted by a family and I don't know japanese and feel homesick for a foreign country..
I think you'd need to have an especially high view of yourself as an immigrant to expect acceptance from a completely different culture, no matter where you went. And then if you barely engage with that culture, yeah, no shit they won't accept you!
...no? If you move to the US or Australia or whatever, and are not a complete dickhead, you will be accepted. Just because some countries are xenophobic doesn't mean all are.
Thank you Dogen for telling the truth. This video deserves a triple thumbs up score!
oof shoutout to wearing headphones at the gym 😅
I used to be sceptical about moving to Japan but I finally decided to move there permanently. It doesn't matter if I'm a foreigner as long as I'm happy, that's what matters.
I lived in Thailand 24 yrs, USA 16 yrs, and Tokyo 3 yrs. Recently, my JP company sent me to Bangkok office. After living in Thailand again for a year, I want to go back and live in Japan permanently. My only issue in Japan is that it is hard to find a partner since I am LGBT person. If I had a good partner living in Japan together, it would be best. I also recently had a good chance for job interview in San Francisco, but I turned it down. Too high inflation in California.
Although it is a lot of hard work working for a JP company, it is quite a life long employment, and I find that my life is more challenging trying to learn Nihongo more, rather than going back to speaking English only.
it's good till it ain't! right?
The more foreigners like yourself move there, the more Japan becomes less Japanese, and you'll end up moving somewhere else. Especially after your first near-death natural disaster.
Lol! That was great post workout video to see pop up in my feed!😂
I'm going to try counting in Japanese at the gym here in the US Midwest. If someone says I'm 上手, then they're my new best friend... Because then I know that they know... You know? 🤪
千一、千に、
@@ChrisP978
Ha! Yes!🤣
面白かった！
What is "acceptance" really, anyway? Because it seems that treating a foreign neighbor cordially and allowing him to live his life isn't considered one
I would say, you accept person if you are ready to deal with them
Treating them as a normal member of your society, the same way you would treat a native-born person, is acceptance.
To everyone reading that: study Japanese enough and you will blend in lol. If you're not blending in it's because they don't want to have to deal with you not understanding stuff. Studying more will open you more doors for work and in society.
"Veteran" Gaijin: The minute you leave, they're talking shit about you.
Me: So... just like being with my own family. Got it.
I think I should show this to one english teacher I know. I bet he will like it (but more likely he is a subscriber already)
Just dogen taking shots at his audience haha love it
Your American accent is almost as good as Sora. Keep it up, Dogen.
1) 0:31 "i believe you". very underrated yet very severe burn.
2) maybe it's not a big deal, i don't know, but i'm really impressed you did that speech at 0:49 all in one take.
"So sorry for your loss." LOL
"I'm not Japanese and I don't accept you either." Savage. I hate hearing these type of people shit talk Japan. You can tell they are the type as Dogen described at the end.
Zannen nagara... PERFECT. :)
This sentiment needs to be expressed more. I'm not Japanese and that is perfectly fine. However I live in Japan and I'm grateful for every moment I get to spend here. I don't need everyone to accept me to feel a sense of security.
Very Yes.
まるでラップバトルのよう
People who think that only Japan has these problems have never lived in any country other than their own, anywhere you will be an outsider
So true.
You know how they say there's a grain of truth in every joke. There is a hidden wisdom in that one.
This video will trigger so many r/japanlife posters
0:49 was quite on the nose there. Didn't happen to me, but know plenty of people who went through EXACTLY that...
Ouch... 😅
r/japanlife in a nutshell
Very accurate
Nice flip.
Hahahaha, this has happened to me once actually. An Australian guy did something similar to this when I was at a Sento with a Gym xD
Kinda feeling called out about not saving my paycheck 😂
In my defense American deodorant is really expensive in yen
Wait, there's a difference between American deodorant and Japanese?
Pro tip: Move to 25-40 years old concrete mansion (not apartment) and you'll save a lot of money with the same size room without worrying about earthquake
And if you live near the city center, moving 40 minutes out will save you a lot more money
was the "naruhodo" at 0:23 the same as the 256 bit encrypted japanese one ?
gotta wonder how many times he has experienced something like this..
20~30 or possibly more? lol
Totally
たすイチ in 渋谷 ... go there and 100% guaranteed you will have this type of conversation, every single time.
sweet
Sounds like you really met this guy at the gym right before you made this
We are here for your venting
لقد كنت ابحث في مقاطعك عن اي مقطع تتحدث فيه بأي لغة غير اليابانية كي اتحقق بأنك لست ياباني😅، ادائك رائع في اليابانية😎
I like the stereotypical people from Dogen's video like this😂
Brutal :O
POV: you googled “downsides of Japan living”
I learned a new translation for 失礼します! 😉
what a _nice_ foreigner.
I see Dogen has not been spared from the latest shitstorm that is #GaijinTwitter
What's GaijinTwitter?
@@HerrMustermann A miserable corner of Twitter that’s filled with people who sound just like the 25-year veteran in this video
Maybe it will inspire some more excellent content like this! @@wasabichips933
DAMN.