I dunno what the motivation behind this comic was, but I now want an entire series of Bostonian-Japanese Baseball Girl.
Baseball.
Seriously Japan loves baseball and the mascots that come with it.
Yeah, they even have native word for it, I mean not even a kanji written loanword like sacca or baskettoboru
Now I’m curious as to how many foreign sports have native words. Pretty much baseball and ping pong I think, unless you want to call mountaineering a foreign sport.
Fun fact: the largest Japanese population outside of Japan is in Brazil.
Looks like the US is close, though!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora
Apparently the Brazilian center is São Paulo:
https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/p/why-brazil-is-home-to-so-many-people
the idea of Japanese-Brazilian fusion cuisine 🤤
Massachusetts also has a large Brazilian population!
Have you heard Japanese people talk about Anne of Green Gables? This should’ve been about Maine
Of course Anne of Green Gables is set in PEI so really it should have been set there. It would have been even funnier since they could probably outnumber the current population pretty easily if they immigrated en masse.
Man everyone loves Anne of Green Gables. I’ve loved Mathew, Marilla, Diana, and Gilbert since I was kid. They are an international treasure.
I think they should go to Texas to be with Kenichi Smith.
My wife was more interested in the Louisa May Alcott house when she visited Mass for the first time!
The first panel is exactly why Japan has been super isolationist. Outside of tourist areas I’ve heard foreigners are never fully welcomed no matter how long they stay
Japan has been isolationist since way before weebs existed…
Yeah that’s what I meant, I suppose I could’ve made it more clear
That’s called xenophobia.
It’s really in this year
Not to suggest that this isn’t xenophobia, nor that the subject can be summed up this succinctly, but there is something to be said for a culture not wanting to be swept away or squashed by others. As with pretty much everything else, there’s middle ground.
I think there’s no middle ground when the answer is isolation instead of trying to integrate foreigners into the local culture.
Of course not. “Middle ground” necessitates effort on both sides. I just think it’s worth bringing up when that word starts getting tossed around. It’s easy to create hard lines when it gets used.
but
No “but,” it’s plain xenophobia, no debate about it.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Not to suggest that this isn’t xenophobia
Miss that part, did you? Also, nothing is “plain” anything. Expand your view one bit and see the world for the complex place it is.
That’s what that is. You summed it up succinctly. You just think white people’s culture doesn’t count as a culture and you like to use “phobia” as a means to insult people rather than describe effects. Obviously white people are the premier example for why xenophobia should exist, but at that point we’re blaming me who has nothing to do with anything and has only ever worked hard and focused on distilling the truth of things.
That’s mostly overstated and you usually hear it from people who don’t speak Japanese who lived somewhere for a couple years teaching English after graduating college.
TBH the same could be said for some areas of Boston…
Can’t blame them. The only place where I can blame people for not accepting other races is America where we done fucked all that up. The exception is if you’re a native. Then you’ve got more reason than the rest of the planet and are pretty much the example they should all point at.
Are you an Australia denier?
Their story match?
Pretty much.
Well, everyone’s gotta maintain their space.
As a life-long Masshole, I support this change.
I think the funniest part is Japanese people choosing Massachusetts which is famously difficult for Japanese speakers to say.
What in God’s name are the rules of this show?
Seems like you laugh and you get a cheeky lil cheek slap by the IRA.
This is neither clever nor insightful nor of any artistic value. So exactly the level of stuff that Western fetishists for their idea of Japanese culture, or Japanese people writing about the West are capable of. In that way - well done!
Well, you are the divine.overseer of wit, wisdom, andnart, as well as the lord laureate of both the West and Japan, so i suppose i will take your word for it
Yeah but even better put down your Waifu pillow and get on that Peloton.
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