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That’s strange, I had never heard of those stereotypes. Normally, when I say Japan, the only thing people say is : oh, i have a japanese car.

In fact, what I heard was, on the contrary, that Japanese were exceptionally bad in english. People kept telling me to not go there without knowing JLPT1++++. Fortunately, a few person who actually went there, told me it was not true and that they were as good in english as us, french speakers. Not good, but definitly not so bad.

I had also heard they were eating rice, not sushi all the time, that they were indeed watching animes and reading manga, like we do with our own shows, that they didn’t particulary like strangers even if they are nice and polite with them, etc.

It is easy to make stereotypes with exageration. I could say that american are all idiots just because some people said so. It is by no mean a stereotype because it is not a belief of most people.

I would have called you topic : exageration of japanese stereotypes, it would have been more accurate.

I must live in my bubble though, cause I had never heard of that!! :)

P.S. – My english is bad but it’s normal, I’m french :)

this. I’ve heard of a fair few of them. So unless of course, you are the god of all the universe and know everything,  (in which case, I bow down to you) there’s a chance you might have not heard something that other people have. 

Never met a Japanese person who didn’t enjoy manga, anime, yes. Title of 1 should be changed?

Have you ever met a Japanese person who hasn’t read manga? Honestly though. In my cell’s phone book of hundreds of Japanese people, I can’t find one who I couldn’t ask about at least one manga.

You forgot one; ”All Japanese people are super, mega, ultra weird. Their TV shows are crazy, their pranks are evil, and all their cartoons end in a high school girl getting raped by a tentacle.”

 Sounds like they need to learn how to “just say no” and not give in to peer pressure. Manga is just the gateway into the crazy world of anime, tokusatsu and games, man! It does stuff to your brain, man! I spent 3 years in rehab for it, but it turned out the rehab was just a hallucinogenic metaphor for the human condition! Last time I go to the Gainax Rehabilitation Center.

I’d say one of the most common stereotypes ever is: “all Japanese people have a camera permanently attached to their face.” (It may be suggested in the graphic at the top, but somehow it didn’t make the list.) True, Japan does make some nice cameras, and some Japanese people carry them (although more people everywhere are relying on the camera built in to their phone). But one simple fact often gets missed: when most Westerners see Japanese people in their country, those Japanese people are on vacation. And doesn’t everyone take a lot of pictures when they go to a different country? If you had only a week out of your whole life to spend in America, wouldn’t you take a lot of pictures?

 You’re welcome.

 I dont get it, is it a play on words jeans and genes ?

I lived with a half-Japanese, half-white girl for 5 months in Japan.  She was born and raised in Japan, had a Japanese name, spoke perfect Japanese, everything, except that she was half-white.  Literally everyday somebody would say something along the lines of “Wow, your Japanese is so good!” to which she would politely reply, “I am Japanese.”  And every time they would proceed to argue, in the politest way possible, that she was not.  She had a really hard time with bullying in middle school and actually came to the U.S. for high school because the discrimination was so bad.  I knew quite a few other half-Japanese people and their experience was similar.  I wouldn’t say that half-Japanese people are hated or even necessarily mistreated, but they are not accepted as “Japanese,” which is pretty awful if that is your home and your identity.  If you’re half-Japanese, born and raised outside of Japan, you’ll just be treated like a foreigner, which you are, so it’s not nearly as bad.

 Thanks for the reply.
Hmm. I’m really sorry to hear that, it really gives me new insight into the depths of the Japanese culture and how proud they can be of it.

(Some of these I didn’t realize were even considered popular-yet-ridiculous stereotypes. That, or I just forgot about them after becoming more interested in Japan/Japanese.)

Though I think it’s ridiculous for people to believe that all Japanese people are obsessed with anime/manga, I don’t think the reality is quite so comparable to Americans.

In my experience, in the US, cartoons and comics are considered to be made for and enjoyed by children or nerds (i.e. that normal adults should “grow up” & not trifle with such childish activities- though I believe it’s becoming less looked down upon), whereas, I think it’s much more acceptable for an adult in Japan to enjoy watching anime and reading manga on a casual or even daily basis. But like I said, that’s just my personal experience through life, and media.

Off topic: I just noticed the “Ohioan” part of your “About”. I’d say Ohioan ftw if I didn’t dislike my home state, but cool nonetheless. :D

Re: no. 6, in my experience, there’s still a lot of racism and xenophobia among the older generations regarding the Chinese. My Japanese grandmother is always talking about how the Chinese are all untrustworthy criminals and refuses to sit or stand next to Chinese people. 

The xenophobic thing is a bit iffy I think. I don’t think that the younger Japanese are xenophobic, but I have come across a few that seemed a little wary of foreigners.

I remember this exchange I had with a lady who lives in Shinjuku with another lady who lives in Hokkaido. When I expressed my interest in the art of the Hokkaido lady, the Shinjuku lady said to the Hokkaido lady that it must be really cool that her art is appreciated by foreigners. The Hokkaido lady, however, said indirectly to me (through the Shinjuku lady) something akin to an uncomfortable “ehhhhh…. I suppose”. The Shinjuku lady thought the reaction was a little funny, probably because she herself is so accepting of foreigners.

By contrast, I have a friend in Osaka and she is the bubbliest, most friendly person you will ever meet.

I think the wariness is definitely affected by where they live. As a rational person, I can only hope that’s the case. 

I teach in Japanese schools and at about 5 of the 6 I go to there is at least one “half” student. One girl is half-Japanese, half-Taiwanese, so in my eyes she is completely Asian. However there is one boy in the class who insists on calling her “gaijin” all the time. There is also a half-German boy at my elementary who was pushed in front of me by the teacher and told “he is half foreign”, like we had a kind of instant bond over that little fact.

Aside from those two instances, a lot of kids are very tolerant of half-children and even full-blown foreigners (re: me). A lot of older teachers however…

JERO! the Fresh Prince of Enka!

This was so awesome and funny as heck! I didn’t even know about that
Jero dude, he was the bomb! >:D

Don’t feel bad! I met so many japanese people outside of my family and they all loved manga and anime….Some more, some less. Don’t listen to trolls~

lol, yup. Woo, Ohio~

This one is true, actually. I mean, they aren’t waiting, but there are significant cultural differences in how we handle gender roles – a lot of Europeans and Americans have a macho culture of “I will take care of my woman.” Conversely, in Japan, there is a feminine culture of “I will take care of my man.”

When these cultures meet, it’s good for everyone involved. Japanese women are just blown away by the way foreign men treat them. There are a lot of great Japanese men, and I see a lot of good, active fathers – but the cultural expectation is that Japanese men are lazy and unhelpful in a marriage. My mother-in-law actually, literally gets angry with my wife because I wash the dishes and cook dinner. It’s UNHEARD of, and my wife LOVES it. Most of her friends are wildly jealous of her because she has this foreign husband who cooks and cleans.

Basically, you know how American men are all, “Asian women are submissive and make great wives”? Well, Japanese women feel the same way about foreign men. “Did you know foreign men will cook and clean and help around the house?” We’re exotic, and we’re commodities. Yes, we’re objectified and treated like some kind of toy – it is frankly sexist and racist. But you know what? It works. Japanese women take care of their husbands, and foreign men take care of their wives, and every one is happy. Oh, and foreign men don’t tend to cheat as much as Japanese men do (most of my wife’s friends’ husbands have cheated). It’s just a long, long list of reasons why Japanese women like foreign men.

The only real problem is culture shock – some women can’t handle being fawned over. Some women can’t handle a man washing dishes. Most Japanese women can’t handle our casual PDA (holding hands is considered an egregious PDA in Japan). There are problems involved, but once you get over that, it’s two people who love each other and take care of each other.

 What Julid and Richard Simms said is one hundred percent true. I actually had a child ask my STEPson if he was “gaikokujin,” which pissed me off to no end (I’m still stewing over it). The boy was born in Japan, yet just by being seen with me, people ask if he’s “foreign.”

My wife actually explained that linguistically, “Japanese” and “foreign born Japanese” are NOT the same. They don’t make this distinction with any other race or ethnicity. However, my wife insists that, for example, George Takei is NOT Japanese. He’s “foreign-born.”

So it’s a complicated thing with linguistic issues thrown in. The main thing is that, in Japan, EVERYTHING is about Japan. And that makes sense – but they take it a touch too far. If you’re not Japanese, you’re “foreign.” No distinction between nationality, race or ethnicity. Just “foreign.” If you weren’t born in Japan, you’re “non-Japanese.” If you aren’t genetically 100% Japanese, you are “non-Japanese.” It’s a kind of binary thing. It’s not entirely racist, or cruel, or anything like that, but it is definitely not nice. At best, it’s just inconsiderate – but it can also lead to serious bullying and cruelty.

On the other hand…half-Japanese people are considered VERY attractive, and people will literally come up to you and ask, “When are you and your husband going to have a little half-white baby?!?!?!?!” It’s…again…not entirely cruel or racist, but it is by no means polite.

 No. Adults read comics. It’s hard to explain. It’s not like EVERYONE reads comics. But, say, in America, if an adult read Seventeen magazine, you’d think she was crazy. But if she read Glamour or something like that, you might roll your eyes, but you wouldn’t think she was crazy.

I guess just think of comic books as on the same level as magazines in America. There are low-brown and high-brow magazines, but they’re all short, simple, easy reading.

Suicide is also a common Japanese stereotype.

What are some items that are commonly used by Japanese people, such as bento boxes and random things like that?