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"Girl you look cute, come buy at our store"
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The staff was serving me and the foreigner just pushed right in.
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When I was wearing tall shoes like these... they called out for me.
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Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's Cathy Cat.
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This time we are gonna go, hit the streets of Tokyo to ask Japanese people about weird and
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scary foreigners here in Japan. So let's
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find out which kind of foreigners are not as liked here in Japan.
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And let's go and ask Japanese...
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Have you met a weird or difficult foreigner?
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There are foreign guys on Takeshita. They will say "Girl you look cute come buy at our store..."
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Yeah those guys.
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They are quite direct.
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They are persistent! - I will say "no thanks" and try to walk on.
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I avoid them that way, but the first time I was pretty scared.
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They are quite tall. - Yeah they are so big!
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I was worried what they would do to me.
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I got used to them. My friends told me it's ok to just ignore them,
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that made it easier.
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Did you feel like you had to interact with them?
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They will definitely talk with you when you look into their eyes, so I try to walk looking down.
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They scared me.
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"We have good things in our store. You are cute, let me show you something" they say
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I was like "Whaa"
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That directness troubles Japanese?
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Yes it does and ... they scare me.
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Yesterday I was on the train. Must be because he was hot but one foreigner...
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showed his stomach!
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A guy? A girl?
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There was a couple on the train.
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The girl sat on the side... and the boy... he showed off his stomach like this.
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He lifted his shirt? - Like that yeah.
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Wow did he at least have a 6 pack to show off?
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He was a little on the chubby side.
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Muffin top? - Muffin top!
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He showed of his rolls.
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You can't do that in Japan. - Yeah you can't.
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It was quite a sight. - Have you seen it in Japan?
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Ever seen a Japanese do it? - Never!
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Showing off to much skin in public. - YEah.
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After doing sports boys will fan themselves with their shirt but...
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But men don't show their stomachs in the train or bus. I was so shocked!!!
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Everyone looked at him? - Yeah.
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Was he sitting on a seat or the floor? - The floor.
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You don't sit on the floor in Japan either right?
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No we don't.
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Is there a reason why Japanese don't sit on the floor?
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You're in the way of others.
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That is not a place to sit on.
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The train is a place where we have to look out for others too
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We have a culture of standing in line and of giving our seats to others.
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And also cleanliness wise? - Yeah
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The floor is dirty. - Yeah for sitting on.
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Inside the train....
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there was a foreigner who played his music loudly.
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That wasn't on.
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How did he play the music?
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He raised the volume on his phone. - What?
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He wedged in when he sat down.
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He was talking with other foreigners, and kept playing the music.
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I was like "No way."
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So left and right two foreigners sat playing their music? - Yeah.
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And all people on the train were annoyed, but did anyone dare to say something?
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Nobody dared to. - It's hard to do that...
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Japanese can't speak up like that.
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It's forbidden! There are so many signs saying "Don't play your music too loudly."
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Yeah it is.
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The recent foreigners in Japan seem to know and try to align to our culture.
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Most of them don't make us feel bad.
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But there are many "funky" people in Japan recently.
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They come to talk to us. Foreigners seem to talk easily to other people.
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They are friendly! - Like "Hey girl how ya doing?"
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Yeah like that. - Isn't that... chatting you up?
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I don't think that's what it was.
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Some Chinese people...
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What happened to you then? - They cut in line.
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We were shopping...
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We stood in line first...
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And then ...
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When the staff was finally serving us...
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They came and pushed right in there.
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We were like "Wow how daring?"
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What did the staff do then?
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The staff was a really good person.
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She said "Please wait for your turn"
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She took control of the situation.
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She must be used to dealing with foreign customers. - She seemed to be.
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She said "Wait till later. Next. So please wait."
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This didn't leave too much of a bad aftertaste but I didn't believe they did that.
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In Japan standing in line is an important custom. - It is.
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I invited you to join the interview, I am always dressed like this in Lolita fashion.
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Have you met a foreigner that is a bit different or strange, apart from me?
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When coming to Tokyo I see a lot of foreigners dressed in kawaii clothes!
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Sometimes they will come to talk to me.
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They will say "You look cute, let's take pictures together!"
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So people who dress similarly to me, will take pictures with me.
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So foreigners wearing different fashion from everyone else...
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Will some up to you for pictures? - That has happened to me quite a lot.
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What fashion is most popular?
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When I wear tall heels or thick soles, strong colors, or one full color like today...
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That's when they generally call out to me.
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At my university an old foreign man is teaching.
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Once I wore clothes with English writing on it...
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And he said "Do you know what it says on your tshirt?"
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And I couldn't read it and he...
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Shook his face like that.
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I was really surprised he reacted like that when I just wore a tshirt
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He is quite old so he was like that.
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He also called me out during class like that...
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He singled me out like that during his lesson.
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Now I really wanna know what it said on your tshirt!
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On Japanese clothes we will often find some English lines.
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It was one of those.
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I forgot what it said on my tshirt now.
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But it wasn't anything weird on it either.
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I went home and checked that day.
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He didn't tell you that day? - He didn't.
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He just continued class.
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What? That must have made you feel insecure for a whole day.
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Those were all questions. Thank you.
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There are quite a lot of things, weird and scary foreigners for example a
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aggressive sales people in Harajuku, foreigners who break the rules and just have
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bad manners in generally they are really not liked. Cutting in line things like that
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Come on everyone is doing it, why are you are not doing it, kind of thing.
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Foreigners who take pictures of people without permission.
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Are really really not cool!
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People wouldn't do that in their own country.
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But lots of people think its ok if they do it in Japan and I'm like,
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What's wrong with you? There are the rudest people. Like people...
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the age of our parents, coming up taking sneaky pictures without permission...
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If we tell them off they are like "meh meh meh"
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So yeah, not really on. Don't do this in Japan. It's so RUDE!
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You wouldn't do it in your country so don't do it in another country!
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Seriously guys, also rude T-shirts....
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That girls told us that she wore a tshirt and the guy told her something negative about it...
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Same thing for you guys if you come to Japan...
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Don't wear weird t-shirts so quite a lot of foreigners have...
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left a very bad impression by putting some kind of sexual content, sexual manga
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on their t-shirts, thinking it's cool to wear in Japan... it really is not... so you shouldn't
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shouldn't be doing that.
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Maybe don't wear those here. So on that note, if you wanna know what
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to avoid when coming to Japan...
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We have done quite a lot of videos on that so be sure to be subscribed to our channel so you don't
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miss the new content and check out those other videos we've done.
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We'll link them somewhere so you can find them
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There's quite a lot of helpful tips for you...
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To avoid doing a kind of faux pas...
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and you know, making yourself feel stupid in public here in Japan.
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