I was lucky mine did

Japanese 100 level classes were the cringiest I took in college though

Most of the atrocious weebs were filtered out when they learned they couldn’t just watch anime

We didn’t even have Italian language classes but we had Japanese....but we had Russian....

In college, the first class you needed for a Japanese minor had 40 people. The last one started with 6 and finished with 2.

...probably both Japanese

I like the Ben Franklin model of language acquisition

One was

The other was me

pfah. I learned to read plenty of Eurostani languages... granted I did that with the benefit of years of foreign language media sources

We don’t fail out of classes ‘round these parts

so you just stop showing up to class?

Technically the other girl was half Japanese and half Bengali

>Bengali
how'd that happen?

Nah that class started with 6, she and I were the only two that passed.

Idk. Wonder what it’s like being your own ethnic group.

Alright, here's how weird the day is: Pewdiepie goes on for a solid ~5 minutes about Yukio Mishima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNar3Dh9zDk

He also says Fahrenheit 451 is a bad book.
Pewds is making it a tough sell rn

every time my sister talks about "good schools" I am tempted to say "you mean white schools, right?" but I think if I said that she might send her kids to the ghetto school where I work just to show me she's "not racist" -_-

Pewds is wrong on another count: The Cat in the Hat is CLEARLY inferior to Yurtle the Turtle

I love that he is recommending Mishima. One of the first things that comes up online is his nationalism

oh, uh, he also talks about a book written by a Holocaust survivor

If there were a spectrum of /ourguy/-ness to the opposite, he’s more our /our guy/ than not

I'm not so sure about that

I didn’t used to think so. Lately I’m more convinced he’s def more controversial than he lets on

Well more controversial, sure.
But he is not /ourguy/ and it's dangerous to rush out there and start projecting our beliefs onto others

Unless you all can read minds

'cause I can't do that yet.

Lol

@Salo Saloson very measured and reasonable

This spectrum I’m imagining is pretty wide

Pewds does what he's gotta do in his position. I think not unequivocally bowing to the system is pretty good for someone so high profile. I love that lyric in his T-Series diss video: "I'm a blue-eyes white dragon, while you're just dark magician, oof"

I can’t imagine he goes to japan, reads a nationalist’s books, and wonders why it’s a nice place

He probably goes there, gets stared at a bunch and wonders, "why do they look at me so weird?"

"Is it because I'm the world's most famous youtuber?"

If you go to Japan, get stared at, and don't immediately realize it's because you are not Japanese, you are not very observant.

I think "not very observant" is a good descriptor for a lot of people

My Dad dated a Japanese woman when he was stationed there. She would question why he was with her when he could get a woman with blue eyes and the like. They kinda worship the European phenotype.

I am 6'9" and didn't feel stared at in Osaka, Kyoto or even Kanazawa.

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN well they were scared of you duh lol

I had to get real rural for a reaction