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Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:36:53 -0400
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:34:21 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:05:02 -0400
>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
>> > Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> >  
>> >> Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a new
>> >> light after a recent visit to Japan.
>> >> 
>> >> The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the
>> >> U.S. is unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun.
>> >> 
>> >> "After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA
>> >> we're always chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country,"
>> >> he said during his monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy
>> >> Kimmel Live."  
>> >
>> >I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never
>> >seen a city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy
>> >people everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the
>> >places I've been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities to
>> >get around and function in if you don't speak the language. I
>> >thought at the time that if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd consider
>> >living in Tokyo for good if I could.  
>> 
>> But my understanding is you would have a difficult time living there
>> because you aren't Japanese.
>
>I saw an interesting documentary on that quite a few years back. The
>Japanese are hospitable to tourists but they really only accept ethnic
>Japanese that speak the language fluently as being real Japanese; they
>are essentially somewhat xenophobic about the prospect of immigration
>to help them with their demographic crunch. 


>Even Americans of Japanese descent are not fully accepted and I've
>heard that Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, suffer discrimination,
>as to Koreans, even if they are descended from people who have lived in
>Japan for the past century. (Korea was under Japanese control from
>1905-1945, which is still a source of animosity between the countries.) 

I may have seen the same Youtube video. The Japanese American girl
that looked Japanese apparently had an easier time of it even though
she had only been living in Japan for something like five years. The
other girl had been living in Japan for most of her life but she
looked like a standard American girl. So even though she spoke fluent
Japanese and considered Japanese culture as her own she wasn't that
well received outside of her home area. I suppose it's a natural
result of having a mono-culture so anything outside of the norm is
distrusted.

>> Things like buying a home would be very
>> difficult for you. 
>
>That may depend on where you want to buy this home. I saw a video
>several months back that highlighted some Japanese towns that were
>literally giving houses away. The catch is that these were in towns
>that were largely depopulated due to their main industries going away.
>The video did not say where the free houses were available to
>foreigners. 

True. I discount those homes as they really aren't desirable for
anyone and was thinking of trying to buy something in a big city like
Tokyo.

>>So it really sounds like a great place to visit as
>> a foreigner but not so to permanently live as a foreigner. As for the
>> cleanliness isn't Singapore another place that's kept exceptionally
>> clean but hot and humid.
>> 
>Yes, indeed! I used to know a guy from Singapore and he told me that it
>is only a few degrees from the equator and right on the ocean - it's an
>island - so it is between 85 and 90 degrees and has a humidity in the
>high 90s all year round. Also, the sun rises at 7:30 AM and sets
>at 7:30 PM all year round.

At least there's no need to worry about Daylight Savings Time there.