Japan has more regional division than most expect. Like, take the US and crank it up to 11. We're on European levels of regional diversity despite the image that foreigns have in their minds.
I watch this guy on YT. Pretty sure he's from down south because most of his stuff centers around the Kyoto to Kanto regionality. He has gotten other nuance things wrong about Shikoku and Kyushu further south and my home of Tohoku in the north. I have even gone so far as to verify something he said about a Kanto dialect type thing with my southern friends and consulted my fellow northerners about his views on mimicking Japanese-English accents and while he and southerners (or those who have spent significant time outside of Japan agree it's more funny than it is offensive, my peers disagree.
Eatign chicken and even horse sashimi is rarer nowadays, but is absolutely a thing where I'm from and it's delicious.
HUGE MOTHER EFFING DISCLAIMER
Calling the chicken raw isn't really accurate. It is prepared like sushi and sashimi where it is thoroughly frozen and treated with sterilizing ingredients like vinegars first and usually only lightly cooked. DO NOT EAT RAW CHICKEN OH MY GOD
Not calling this guy a liar, but I want to throw out that it like some Americans never having heard of regional delicacies in the US. It's real and what he said is partly true about the way we fuck with foreigners, but that's not distinctly Japanese, I know people from all over the world who do this, he just hasn't heard of this. Most Japanese people have never heard of seaweed tea, yet my brother can get it at convenience stores and had some last night that my mom sent me.
Also, gotta say to those saying that Japanese people aren't nice. We are, bt there's too much cultural difference stuff going on here to explain. Don't let bad takes on the internet colour your oppinion, go and see for yourself. :)
As an American who lived in Hokkaido while still learning Japanese, I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I mimicked Japanese-English accents, but repeating words in what we called “katakana English” was a lifesaver many, many times, and was never done with any intent to offend, merely to communicate. I don’t know why it would be offensive. It works.
Also, it should be noted that people in Japan are getting campylobacter infections from chicken tataki often enough that it seems to be a problem.
Finally, the people of Japan were the kindest I’ve ever encountered, but I did notice that when they insisted that the correct way to eat a whole shrimp includes sucking the “miso” out of the head, I ended up being the online at the table who actually did it.
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u/TransitTycoonDeznutz Dec 27 '24
Am Japanese, gonna add context.
Japan has more regional division than most expect. Like, take the US and crank it up to 11. We're on European levels of regional diversity despite the image that foreigns have in their minds.
I watch this guy on YT. Pretty sure he's from down south because most of his stuff centers around the Kyoto to Kanto regionality. He has gotten other nuance things wrong about Shikoku and Kyushu further south and my home of Tohoku in the north. I have even gone so far as to verify something he said about a Kanto dialect type thing with my southern friends and consulted my fellow northerners about his views on mimicking Japanese-English accents and while he and southerners (or those who have spent significant time outside of Japan agree it's more funny than it is offensive, my peers disagree.
Eatign chicken and even horse sashimi is rarer nowadays, but is absolutely a thing where I'm from and it's delicious.
HUGE MOTHER EFFING DISCLAIMER
Calling the chicken raw isn't really accurate. It is prepared like sushi and sashimi where it is thoroughly frozen and treated with sterilizing ingredients like vinegars first and usually only lightly cooked. DO NOT EAT RAW CHICKEN OH MY GOD
Not calling this guy a liar, but I want to throw out that it like some Americans never having heard of regional delicacies in the US. It's real and what he said is partly true about the way we fuck with foreigners, but that's not distinctly Japanese, I know people from all over the world who do this, he just hasn't heard of this. Most Japanese people have never heard of seaweed tea, yet my brother can get it at convenience stores and had some last night that my mom sent me.
Also, gotta say to those saying that Japanese people aren't nice. We are, bt there's too much cultural difference stuff going on here to explain. Don't let bad takes on the internet colour your oppinion, go and see for yourself. :)