Being human in Japan (with RhymingGaijin)

Guest sensei:
http://youtube.com/rhyminggaijin
and check out his other channel:
http://youtube.com/messypro1

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[OmariDaiki]

Why do you need to know that about black people in japan?

What exactly are trying to start?

you don't have to answer but why do you want to divide and set people in bad light

because pretty sure your opinion would be negative.

you pretty much know how all race view us, so why you want to put fuel in the fire?

unless you want to keep this fuel burning like many already out there are

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@OmariDaiki

I don't think they are negative. You assume too much. BUT as I am not black I cannot answer.

[tattsun999]

I agree with Saruource. I also dislike the word, 'gaijin'. It's a kind of nationalistic word. BTW, I wanna listen to Gimmeflakeman, your opinion about a series of the latest anti-movement, demonstration against Korean-led broad casting by FUJI TV. I wanna listen to your directly straight opinion. I wait your uploading the topic on this site.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@tattsun999

I already uploaded a video on this topic, but it doesn't really interest me to talk more about it. What can I say?

[skulduggerous]

It's not so much the term "Gaijin" that bugs me. It's being treated differently because of being a gaijin. Milkjamjuice made a great video about it, called "Gaijin dakara ne". I've heard a story about someone who was eating dinner with a Japanese family. One of them used his own chopsticks to serve him some food from a nabe bowl. He was scolded for it by his mother, but he responded "Daijoubu, gaijin desu yo."

This situation is what bugs me about the situation, not the term in itself.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@skulduggerous

That is a good video, but it's funnier than it is serious. It's annoying as hell, but it isn't just about being gaijin. Many Japanese think that being born in a cold place automatically means that you are especially weak to heat. Stuff like that.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@D4inJPN

It may not be a good question, but it isn't a stupid question. It means that people care. And worry. And that they don't know. Showing your insecurity is one of the first things we need to do to start educating.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@Sarusource

The word gaijin is a word. It cannot be racist. It can be offensive but not racist. I've talked to 100s of foreigners here. Most of us do not find the word offensive. I'm a gaijin. I don't feel like I'm saying anything strange when I say that.

The gajin seat? You mean the phenomenon when nobody will sit next to you because you are a gaijin? Sure that happens. But it happens less and less every year. However the intent behind that is what indicates racism. Things ain't that simple.

[roxanneworld11]

Odd to me, too, that there can still be so much separation between 'races.' It's truly astounding & such a waste of human potential. I try to remember: not everyone has had the lifetime multi-cultural immersion experience, like the last few generations of our home line (we were raised in a 'multi-ethnic' family & community in the USA). But still sad that it's ever an issue anywhere....One of the best things we can do: encourage & help young people to travel & live abroad.

[ankokugaiBOSS]

at the end of the day, everyone's experiences will be different. The only thing one can do then is to collect a lot of different stories or opinions and form a conclusion from the results.

[fomiz]

Any experiment that involves a chicken-suit is worth doing.

[kindersurprise8]

I like to cry to that music.

It matches sad stories like someones death

[Nooklet]

I still hate how he turned a Question into a statement.. Because i swear victor asked "What is it like being black in Japan?" Not "How much are you discriminated against in Japan?"

[avok23]

@Gimmeaflakeman I thinks its a stupid question b'cos if you were black in America and got it real bad (Physical violence) then you came to japan and they ignored you , you would think you were in heaven.

[rpersonna]

whats the name of the piano song in the background?

[mr2wari]

Good title.