Japanese women dream of the USA
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DIMSDRIVE performed internet-based research involving 5,274 people in September of last year to find out which country’s citizens would people most want to marry. It is not stated whether or not the people interviewed were single or not.
The Asia versus the West split is quite noticeable in the men, but really striking amongst the women. I previously translated statistics regarding international marriages in Japan that shows that the ideals being expressed here do not seem to be realised.
On a slight tangent, I watched the last episode of an NHK English learning program which features an English-speaking Western blonde angel that prods a clueless office worker along the path to success at her job getting a date with her transferred from New York colleague, the ideal tall, muscular, tanned, well-coiffured white executive. The angel’s job was done because the glaikit Misaki finally pulled her man.
Research results
Q: Other than Japanese, which country’s people do you think would be good to have as a partner (husband or wife)? (Sample size=5,274, free answer)
Rank Votes 1 USA 1,144 2 Korea 505 3 UK 442 4 Italy 370 5 France 344 6 Australia 218 7 Germany 203 8 China 197 9 Canada 150 10 Russia 120 Q: Other than Japanese, which country’s people do you think would be good to have as a partner (husband or wife)? (By sex, free answer)
Rank MaleN=2,468 Votes Rank FemaleN=2,806 Votes 1 USA 368 1 USA 776 2 Korea 297 2 UK 347 3 China 174 3 Italy 278 4 France 134 4 France 210 5 Russia 117 5 Korea 208 6 Thailand 99 6 Australia 145 7 UK 95 7 Germany 131 8 Italy 92 8 Canada 99 9= Taiwan 73 9 Switzerland 47 9= Australia 73 10 Spain 34 First, looking at the East-West split – or more accurately, perhaps, the caucasian-Asian split (I’m not aware of any black Western role-models in Japan) we see that for men, 36% of the total votes were for Western wives versus 26% for Asian women, favouring the West (I’m including Russia, with Maria Sharapova as the popular image of the country) by just over a third. However for women there is a marked difference; about 74% in total choose the West (over 40% for the USA alone) versus a mere 7.4% for the East, a massive ten to one vote for Europe and the USA.
Next, looking at the detailed age breakdown, it’s only in the teenage girls group that the USA fails to top the charts, losing out to France and Korea, and equal with the UK. For men in their twenties, American women are preferred over the second-placed Korean women by almost 60%, and the Chinese are back in fifth, gaining just over a third of the number of votes of the USA. However, the older men get, the stronger the charms of the Asian neighbours become, with the gap at its smallest being just a mere three votes. Similarly, for men in their forties and over, Chinese women cut the gap from a third to about a half of the USA score.
For women, as they get older (ignoring the over sixty bracket which has a very small sample size, so may be rather inaccurate) the attraction to American men only get stronger; in their twenties, Americans get just under a quarter of the vote, but by their fifties, it surpasses three in ten. Despite the charms of the disturbingly Harry Potter-like Bae Yong Joon Korean men do not seem to be particularly favoured by the middle-aged demographic.
These two main trends noted above are perhaps reflections on Japanese society as much as on foreign stereotypes. The younger men hold images of themselves as charming the sophisticated Western woman, but as they age (and visit dodgy hostess bars…) they come to realise that perhaps only Asian women could accept their typical Japanese behaviour. For women, after having been around Japanese men for many, many years, they too may come to realise that the Western stereotypes of politeness and chivalry are the only things that could satisty them in marriage.
Bonus points if you can name the people pictured…
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Well, being married to a Japanese female for the past 7 years and living in the US as well as knowing many other Japanese females I can say the Yes and No, Japanese women want American men. First and foremost, its a fascination with Western culture than attract them not the man parse. Being Japanese and living in Japan your whole life means speaking Japanese, hearing Japanese and seeing Japanese 99.5% of each and everyday [depending on where they live] Besides Tokyo and the usual US military locations many Japanese rarely see foreigners in person, but rather spend their time watching foreign TV which includes the most popular Korean drama TV. Speaking English to them means the individual is more “Worldly” than those who can’t speak English and marrying an American is both good and bad, because truth be told the Japanese like to keep their blood as pure as the next race as well as preserve their culture with their own 100% Japanese children. As far as the Japanese women dreaming of America, most of all they dream of being outside of Japan, mostly to visit not to live, otherwise we would be seeing larger Japanese settlements in America than we do, right now the Japanese are sparse in the US. Probably most Japanese women would prefer if Japanese men had more of a Western view on marriage and relationships, which is happening, and with that they will be totally happy with a Japanese man.
As far as the Japanese being polite. Anyone who says this does not having any Japanese friends. Because truly they are only polite to strangers in public, its just a way of presenting yourself as a person and as a Japanese. In many ways your average American is nicer than your average Japanese on a daily basis when you include friends, family and relatives In the Japanese culture, as long as your Japanese friend is polite and using words like desu and masu, you are an outsider and are not truly seen as part of their inner circle of friends. In fact its actually strange for a Japanese to even use polite gestures and speech to their true close friends, it never happens.
Coconut well said… and I agree somewhat about who is more polite… but if you have to break down… it is much easier for an American/Western to move to Japan to live and work, then for a Japanese to work and live… especially for men. Women I think have it easier both ways. An example is… myself… As I stated before I was adopted and after college I joined the military for five years. After I got, I settled back to civilian life, and I thought living in a city of Minneapolis/St Paul area, I would thought race did not matter. I had a lot of co-workers and even people in general asked me what nationality I was or they guess my nationality. They use lines like how are you people like in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.. or do you people like this or that… OK come on! I just got out of the US Army and I am asked about where I am from. Majority of them don’t even understand the work sacrific or know the concept of serving one’s country… here they are asking me what nationality I am. If they say if your background Korea/or Asian… I would have said, “Yes I am Korea/Asian American.” Thanks and we would be done… but the average American see an Asian person … he/she … will think that I am a foreigner. And this bothers me as this is the norm for a lot of American people.. Just because your white does not mean your an American… truly they don’t look Native American (Indians)… all their parents/grand parents/great/great/great grand parents are all transplants from other countries.
So seriously there is no double standard when you see it… I just don’t see why so many white people (especially white males) complain about living overseas… you guys have it made.
As Chris Rock stated it best, he just stated that stop complaining… because your white.
Im living here in Japan for 1 year now and to be honest I dont sea to many good looking women , honest ! Where the hell are the good looking women Robert is talking about ? Where ? Bad teeth , ‘Chiken Legs ‘ No breast , nothing , nothing ! Im starting to think that you guys that are mariet to Japanes girls are Idiots . Im Sorry but . The only reason Im here is becuose my job pays well , well for now at liest .
You guys want a good looking women come to my contry -Russia . Gorgeous women everewere, i mean perfect 10 women guys no bulshiting you . End they are friendly not like the Jap girls here . I went to Rapongii distrikt and what – nothing – ugly sluts everywere and expensive ,very . Bunch dronking Jap guys , idiots there . You want good looking girls ,go to Russia , go to Moldova , go to Ukraina , go to Bulgaria ,go to Poland . lots , lots ,.inagh for every guy . Here is 1 in 500 i faund to be atractive . Japanes girls are to skiny or are to fat for my Europian taiste , lets be honest here . Do you realy want to have a childe with jap women. Jap perents are notorius , very bad , very stabern people. I personely dont like Japan very much ,been to many contrys but …Jap anes people are too face .The food I like but women are not good loking , Sorry !
My Englesh is not that great ,but you catch my drift ,right guys . Just that Japanes women is to much HUSTLE ok It is not worthet
Hey bro I am Caucasian and my beautiful wife is…YEP JAPANESE!!!! she is slim and trim and just a full beauty. Japanese women are the best!!! they are the sexiest, and prettiest women on the market. Russian women are pretty too BUT they are far bigger sluts than Japanese women, which I do not find interesting at all. You can have your Russian sluts. Japanese women all the way!!! Yoko I love you so much sweetheart!!!
Half of my family is Russian and all of the women are smart, highly educated, kind-hearted, funny, beautiful and happily married with children. There are great women all over the world. But you wouldn’t know about them, because they would never date an inferior man like you.
You’re a racist asshole and I bet good money that your “Japanese wife” is really just your right hand.
Viktor Mihayloff said,
October 16, 2009 @ 03:08
Im living here in Japan for 1 year now and to be honest I dont sea to many good looking women , honest ! Where the hell are the good looking women Robert is talking about ? Where ? Bad teeth , ‘Chiken Legs ‘ No breast , nothing , nothing ! Im starting to think that you guys that are mariet to Japanes girls are Idiots . Im Sorry but . The only reason Im here is becuose my job pays well , well for now at liest .
You guys want a good looking women come to my contry -Russia . Gorgeous women everewere, i mean perfect 10 women guys no bulshiting you . End they are friendly not like the Jap girls here . I went to Rapongii distrikt and what – nothing – ugly sluts everywere and expensive ,very . Bunch dronking Jap guys , idiots there . You want good looking girls ,go to Russia , go to Moldova , go to Ukraina , go to Bulgaria ,go to Poland . lots , lots ,.inagh for every guy . Here is 1 in 500 i faund to be atractive . Japanes girls are to skiny or are to fat for my Europian taiste , lets be honest here . Do you realy want to have a childe with jap women. Jap perents are notorius , very bad , very stabern people. I personely dont like Japan very much ,been to many contrys but …Jap anes people are too face .The food I like but women are not good loking , Sorry !
My Englesh is not that great ,but you catch my drift ,right guys . Just that Japanes women is to much HUSTLE ok It is not worthet
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WELL written my Russian Friend. Viktor is right. I am from Los Angeles and I have to agree with you. Well written! Good job!
From my experience I have met some girls who were angry that foriegners prefer ugly women. Alot of the girls I have met have real serious self confidence issues. That also goes with some things like giving a compliment to a woman is quite rare. To Robert your lucky your white admittedly there is some misunderstanding in race relations in the US. For one part yes it’s common for a white person to say, “where are you from”? “Seattle”?.?.? “No, Where are your ancestors from”. Some dont understand white people say the same thing to each other. White people in america tend to have an interest in that stuff. Look at how many ancestor websites on the internet there are. Alot of us if we are in a community where there are not many asians it tends to be more interesting. You say your family comes from england it hold no interest. It is presumed most people in the US descend from england so its less interesting. We recognize you are just as american as we are. I can’t speak for everyone of course. We don’t have meetings.
Some of what coconut said is true westerners are more exotic. It’s not some wierd complex some people like to claim. Dating a white guy to them seems closer to an american woman dating an english or sweedish exchange student. Most of the women who like them don’t actually actively pursue them. Rarely do they do that for a few reasons. 1 they don’t know english. How can you date someone if you cannot communicate with them. 2 some feel they are not attractive enough for foreigners to like. Again there is alot of self image and confidence issues many share. About the blood being pure. I do not get that too much. I think it’s funny because there somes to be a paralell in japan I discovered comparable to “white liberal guilt”. I only seem to come across that “blood mixing” stuff from the nationalists which are annoying rage imps that ride in black vans. For the younger women growing up in an age where the media puts haffuu on pedastals. High percentage of them and caucasian models in fashion magazines. They seem to be more liberal minded about that now. With the populairty of the manga “My darling is a foreigner” now being made into a movie. http://adorkable-spinster.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-darling-is-foreigner-movie.html
I have done scientific research and surveys in Japan with a top-tier Japanese university on more than 10,000 Japanese women and discovered that the vast majority of Japanese women if given a choice and had free availability to choose whoever they wanted…would rather marry with an American than a man from their own country (Japanese). The reasons that they predominantly stated fall within specific groupings such as: (1) Japanese men are such momma’s-boys (fixated mother-con); (2) Japanese men are too effeminate or too close in personality and mannerisms to homosexuals (not maxuline and confident like western guys); (3) Japanese men are too involved in their jobs, and their wives/girlfriends come second; (4) Japanese men think that foreplay or the method to attract girls is giving the girl a big wad of money or expensive gifts (instead of sympathetic talking and intimacy); (5) Japanese men are all sexual perverts (prefer sado; child-sex; abusive; etc) especially when on overseas business travel; Japanese men are too chauvinistic (try to dominate women).
Well at my university most of the women I talk to have pretty much said the exact same thing. I have also spent some time in shanghai. They too had a similar response. I think what john doe said might be a little more complicated. It’s true women are less visual based than men are. Personality tends to rule out looks in some instances. With women it’s not how expensive the gift is but the effort you put into it. But if you were doing more research have a question if you would prefer a westerner over a japanese man if they had the same qualities they desired. That way their judgement is based on gut attraction. Also to be fair when I was traveling in europe for 6 months the women said the same thing about american men. I have traveled from Ireland to scandanavia to western Turkey which all of which is considered the western world. I recieved pretty much the same response. Thats all anecdotal though. I would like to see your research. I personally can ask anyone out except for nationalist japanese. I never failed to get a date. Oh yeah about japanese men and what the women think about the ero materials, I thought was interesting. My female friends have told me they only watch american porn because it’s not as gross, wierd and the women seem to enjoy it more.
Having read through this entire thread, I first have to say I wouldn’t believe much of anything “Robert said” has to say. He claims to be from an American family of some “wealth”, which one would assume he SHOULD have had a very good wealthy familie education; YET every one of his postings is filled with terrible English Grammar, little proper punctuation and mis-spellings. Got the picture? I doubt that he is really American.
I am a University trained Anthropologist with a Ph.D. from the University .of Chicago. I’ve spent a great deal of my studies in many parts of Asia studying the people, their cultures and the origins of their ethnic groups. BTW – The Japanese are not a “race”, neither are the Chinese, Koreans, etc. The Japanese are an Ethinic group, actually three of them – an ancient migration of Mayla (Polynesian) peoples up through the Philippines, Taiwan and into Japanese islands; the Jomon (in remnant genes only now) which became the Ainu and a Yayoi Euro-Asian (which is where their Altaic based language is derived, as is the Euro-Asian Koreans, but not the Chinese mix Koreans)
The Japanese are not thru Asians either, more Central Euro-Asian than anything else (the people of the lands that often end in “stan” like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. All you have to do is look at the MDNA carriers of modern Japan, the women, and see that they look nothing like the Chinese or Southeast Asians, especially their figures. The Epicanthic fold (or double eye lids) has nothing to do with being Asian, nor does the shape of the eyes. It is an ancient adaptation to an environment. White people in Finland have Epicanthic fold eyelids, so do the San people of Central-Eastern Africa; are they Asian? The San people of Africa are often credited as being the “Adam and Eve” of all of the Human Race – yes the ONLY “race” involved here. We are ALL the same race, but not ethnic groups.
So this mix of the Japanese people is part of the reason that Japanese women (and many nomadic peoples females from many ethnic groups) may feel it has been an accepted part of their culture to “mix” and it is inherent in the higher order of mammals to “broaden” the gene pool. Why do Americans rate highest for some Japanese men and really high in Japanese women? Easy – thank you western books, magazines, music, Hollywood and now TV.
A few examples. – Taiwan: The Taiwanese (Chinese group, not the real native Taiwanese who migrated up from the Philippines, and on to Okinawa and then Japan – the very dark skinned Japanese), have practically felt like the 51st State of the US since the 1960’s. Talk about Americanized – Corn Flakes for breakfast instead of warm soymilk and pork buns is the norm now in Taipei and the large cities. Taiwan has emulated America as much as Japan has. Taiwanese women prefer marrying Americans, so do Taiwanese men but also to a lesser degree, as in Japan. My wife is Han Chinese / Taiwanese and every other one (50%) of her Taiwan University girlfriends is married to a white American man. In the US, Chinese emigrants of 1 to 3 generations back (“ABC” American Born Chinese), primarily marry outside of their ethnic group to white or brown, but infrequently black, Americans. Since the Chinese in America are often in better financial condition and certainly better educated than most white Americans, the reason for this “cross marriage” is blurred and certainly not to “get away” from a bad economic crisis, as Japan is in for Japanese women wanting to marry American men.
Western Canadian Japanese population. Most people don’t realize that Western Canada has the second largest relocated Japanese population in the Western Hemisphere. 4 to 9 generations of Japanese compose a huge percentage of the population in Alberta, primarily Calgary and Edmonton. Incidentally, Canada imprisoned their Japanese population at the beginning of the Second World War too, yet the US gets all the “bad rap” for doing this terrible thing.
Years ago before meeting my Taiwanese wife, I seriously dated a 4th Generation Canadian Japanese young woman named Phyllis (Kayko, as her father insisted on calling her). She was a stunningly beautiful pure Japanese woman, as the majority of all Japanese women are. We went to one of her best college girl friend’s wedding in a large park in Calgary Canada; it was a Shinto wedding that the Canadian Japanese parents insisted on. Afterward, we attended the wedding reception, at which there were easily 500 people, half were of her generation and the other half of her parent’s generation, with a small group of young children running around. Nearly every single Canadian Japanese woman of Kayko’s generation was married, engaged or with non-Japanese mostly Caucasian men. Three quarters of the “C-J” guys were similarly with non-Japanese women. Nearly all of the children running around were of Japanese – Caucasian mix. Interestingly, only approximately 1 in 20 of the “older generations” of parents were in a mixed marriage or relationship. I really had to restrain myself from doing “field research” and asking nosey questions about who, where and why? Clearly, attitudes about marrying outside of their Japanese ethnic group had exploded away. Both of Kayko’s older sisters were married to white Canadian men and her younger brother was married to a white Canadian woman.
This Canadian Japanese population group had remained pretty traditional Japanese in cultural beliefs and traditions, more so than many in Japan! Most were still Buddhist, Shinto, etc. or non-religious. Although Kayko said she liked that Japanese phallic worshipping religious group in Japan – she, like many Japanese woman I’ve met, was very sexual uninhibited and aggressive. God bless them all!
I believe that Japanese women like, if not prefer to marry Western and preferably American Caucasian men, is for the following reasons: The Hollywood image of strong, resourceful but compassionate American men; That Caucasian American men are more faithful and loving than Japanese men (same reason more American black women pursue white men); Financial security or getting away from the 25 years of economic problems in Japan; Better treatment from American men than the decidedly “2nd class”, or to a lesser degree misogynistic history of Japanese men’s attitudes towards Japanese women. Case in point, the recent high influx of gang style looking American black men having sex or raping Japanese women in Japanese generated porn. While you rarely see American or European white men with Japanese women in Japanese porn … or Japanese movies, for that matter.
Lastly, perhaps also that deep human animal desire to broaden the “gene pool” with a desirable compatible different group of men and women in a better environment is also in play as part of the reason for a desired relationship, marriage or not.
There are clearly many reasons, and the fact is that it is indeed happening. But as a white American man who loves the Japanese people, their history and cultures, and especially the great beauty of the Japanese female, American’s welcome their desire to “intermingle”. It enriches our gene pool as well and makes beautiful children.
Japanese women are the most beautiful women in the world.
Robert! it was interesting to read everything you wrote down. English is not my primary language and Japanese either. So sorry if i do some mistake…Bytheway, i agree with you in many ways,(about Japanese woman) but one thing that you mentioned about they are thought “easy” .
i think you find girls from club or something like that place. Normal Japanese girls never go to the club or roppongi that much.
I think you are pretty smart and clear. but i had never heard that western girls are “not easy ” because of they are Christian… maybe i didnt get it because of i have no religion.
I meant they would be thought of as easy in the western sense. Of course they are not. They are often confused as such though. Westerners have become less and less religious. The percentage of atheists and agnostics in the US have been increasing rapidly. 80% of people in scandanavian countries do not belong to any religion. Still Christianity has dug its claws in our culture. When it comes to getting numbers and starting a meaningful relationship it can be as hard if not a little harder with average japanese women. But because physical intmacy was never too much of a taboo in Japanese culture, it seems that aspect of the relationship can start much earlier. They never had a religion that promised eternal damnation for premarrital sex or even recreational sex. The catholic church thought sex was only appropriate to procreate. That’s probably why alot of catholic families were stereotypically large (my opinion). I too have no religion. You cannot deny our culture was heavily indluenced by it. Of course in japanese history there were many attempts by men to suppress attractiveness in women. In general I still would say my conclusion to be true.
To Keith yes I am American. Just because I do not have time to reread and transplant my text into a word processor to spell check (I do not even have one) that does not mean I am a moron. Though rereading it I agree. I tend to make things too verbose and cannot condense my ideas. I give too much information and it sometimes can be either superfluous or redundant. I can understand it’s easy to come to that conclusion though erronious. I also apologize for writing in Jack Kerouacs style of “Spontaneous Prose”. Though with all it’s faults and none of it’s eloquence. If you have read my posts in full I do have a disclaimer on the bottom. I do not edit posts like these. I am trying a little better this time but I am still not going to reread. I do not have the time.
About the beauty of Japanese women. I think they are just as attractive as women back home. I am addicted to thier displays of affection though. It just makes me feel my love is being reciprocated.
Deegii its not just bar’s in japan that are like that. Women in Bars are like that anywhere in the world.
SO keith the detective are you an athiest? do you beleive in any type of god or spirituality from any type of language or religioin or ethnic gorup as you put it your talk about race is redudant and moot since it does not matter. what I mean to say is race and ethnic there is no difference there are different races of people. as a total we are the human race and there are ethnic groups. Even if you say japan ese are decendenst whom came to trhe japanese islands from where ever etc why does the ainu have wordd and ancient text that state the japanese people came from else where and hat they were there thousands to hundred of thousands of years before the japanese came. unless they japanese were central ero like you stated and then some ainu were attacked and ran from the japanese islands and some stayed got held captive and mated wih them…. My point is there is proof by what ainu clans have stated that japanese people came from else where and will we know not really,…….? but your scientific notions make oyu look like a huge aithiest and bugs the shit out fo me. whom gave you the sceince and knowledge to make such sceinific notions and decucrions about where everyone came from and how shit happened. do yu even know how it all happened? oh wait not with out help from a higher being making sure oyu would progrees with knowledge. religoion or not.. I d not know what to call it since what we clal religion the people whom are stated in religion probably do not think of thrm selves as gods this is tlaking about god himself buddah and deities all over asia and including japan and the mythological gods of japan and other areas even the carribean island if all is true. Did oyu ever think if some higher life created all of his wheher sceintific to you or not that they are the higer being that created everthing and such?
which makes people like you destest and say such and such does not exist when that is not the cast god or what ever you want to call whom ever it is really does exist?
“se said,” your posting, filled with incredibly terrible grammar and misspelling says all anyone needs to know about your IQ and scientific knowledge.
Ps. Regarding your (not oyu) claim of a “Did oyu ever think if some higher life created all of his wheher sceintific ….” Would you care to explain then, WHO CREATED THE “some higher life (God)” ???? After-all, YOU claim something has to create everything, so WHO created God?
Answer = Man (because people too stupid, like you, to understand that in nature “shit happens” and Evolution Happens, and doesn’t require a “higher power” to create it, so they invented god(s))
Footnote, in the LONG history of humans MULTIPLE GODS have been the normal fantasy belief, as apposed to one god. So pal, YOU are out numbered! And in science, when you can not agree on a Theory (god), then the Theory is false.
But this thread was not and it NOT about Religious Fantasies, it’s about human nature, Japanese women preferring to marry other than Japanese men. So get back on track you dope.
I understand that what I am about to write is a bit off-topic, but I feel that something should be said about your egocentric, arrogant, and self righteous commentary, Keith.
First off, in science, when a theory cannot be agreed upon, it does NOT make the theory false, it simply means it remains a theory, or conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, etc…In short, due to lack of necessary evidence, it is not yet believed to be fact. That’s it.
Doctor Carl Sagen got it right when he said, “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Simply because one cannot prove that something exists, does not mean that it does not exist.
As far as your commentary regarding the following:
“Ps. Regarding your (not oyu) claim of a “Did oyu ever think if some higher life created all of his wheher sceintific ….” Would you care to explain then, WHO CREATED THE “some higher life (God)” ???? After-all, YOU claim something has to create everything, so WHO created God?
Answer = Man (because people too stupid, like you, to understand that in nature “shit happens” and Evolution Happens, and doesn’t require a “higher power” to create it, so they invented god(s))”
Similar questions have always been asked in the scientific community as well. Examples: What existed before the big bang? If space is constantly expanding, into what is it expanding? What existed before this void? What were the actions that caused the formation of the void? What exists on the inside of a black hole? I could go on and on. The answer is simply this.
We don’t know.
Simply saying “Shit happens” has nothing to do with science. The entire purpose of the existance of science is to discover WHY “shit happens”.
I also have a few things to say about your opening comments.
1. If you are going to insult someone on grammar issues, it holds a lot more credibility if YOUR commentary isn’t full of similar grammatical errors (i.e. poor sentence structure, lack of proper punctuation, misspelled words, etc.).
2. Here is another quote from Dr. Sagan.
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used”
Remember this before you insult someone on their “IQ and scientific knowledge”.
Lastly, personal insults such as “because people too stupid, like you…” and, “So get back on track you dope.” are the desperate actions of one who lacks the ability or intelligence to present their opinions in a proper manner. Before you jump up and say that what I have stated here is a personal insult to you, it is not. I am not critisizing you. I am simply critisizing your actions. There is a difference.
I apologize to everyone else for hijacking the discussion with off-topic commentary.
PS:
PS stands for Post Script, which means after the main body of writing. “PS” does not belong near the beginning.
Footnote:
Notice the colon after footnote and the capital letter at the beginning of the sentence of said footnote?
Hundreds of thousands? Humans on the top of my head have not migrated from Africa 100,000 years ago. I am sure what was written was a transcription of folklore. Compared to most cultures the Japanese have formed their method of writing much more recently. Much, much later than evidence suggests the first people came to the island.
In regards to the ainu. I am not fully aware of thier full history. If I remember correctly they belong to the Northern parts of the islands. Not making the whole of Japan thier ancestral territory.
To se I am not sure what he is saying 40% of the time. It’s Horribly misspelled. Making so many factualy inaccurate statements so far off course, I can’t help but believe they were pulled directly out of his ass. All of the inaccurate, false and often quite superfluous information was to help lead to his actual question. The climax to an episode of what is possibly the most stupid thing ever written on the internet. “which makes people like you destest and say such and such does not exist when that is not the cast god or what ever you want to call whom ever it is really does exist?” Wow Billy-Ray you get shoes that you ain’t got to wear to church. Gawsh!!!!!
This comment is to An Actual Detective.
Not only was your comment spot on, but it was greatly articulated. I deduce that not only are you intelligent but you were polite in your tact.
I thoroughly enjoyed your comment.
this blog shouldn’t be called ‘what japan thinks,’ it should be called ‘creepy stalker reports on what losers infected with yellow fever from the west wish japanese women liked so they could pander to them in a similarly creepy and disgusting manner.’ much more apt.
Well I for one very much appreciated what “Keith, history detective” said.
Very well articulated, informative and non personal.
Unlike some of the other egotistical posts.
Keith you’re a gentleman.
Everyone should make time for spell check. It’s just a common courtesy.
Keith is looking at cultures from an Anthropologist view point….he post on what his experiences are/were and what he believes to be true. Those experiences are from the outside looking in with regards to a true relationship. I knew a white female once who took a class on how to cook soul food. She actually thought that she could tell me how to cook soul food and what soul food really was….I’m Black, everything I cook is soul-food by default. She has no real idea what soul food is, only what she has learned or observed from the outside. Keith was close when he made the assumption that Japanese women like white men because of the Hollywood image etc. but its really a little deeper than that and just as plain. Japanese women like most Asian women like white men because of the pre-concieved notion that white men are powerful, rich and educated. It is no secret that the white male has for the most part made his presence known around the globe. When Japan fought the US they knew it was the white man they were fighting, when rockets reach the moon it was the white man who was there, when every major even happens its the white man that is either leading it or has made it happen. So sub-consciously everyone knows that its the white man who has the most power on earth. Its just that simple. Now race aside who would not want to be with someone who is obviously on top of the world?
Being married to a Japanese woman, having Japanese relatives and friends puts me in a position that NO outsider will ever see, know or experience [at least from the Japanese]. This is because in Japanese culture it is normal to present yourself with at least two faces, the one in which family and friends see and know and that for outsiders. It permeates their culture on every level, whole vocabularies used daily are spoken ONLY to outsiders…that would be the desu, the ‘o’ at the beginning of some words etc. Working with a Japanese person or going to school with a Japanese person STILL does not grant you inside their inner circle and make you privy to their real thoughts, wants and desires. It takes years, even once you are married to one.
“this blog shouldn’t be called ‘what japan thinks,’ it should be called ‘creepy stalker reports on what losers infected with yellow fever from the west wish japanese women liked so they could pander to them in a similarly creepy and disgusting manner.’ much more apt”. How did you come up to this conclusion? White men were not asked any questions. Nor is this flasified, several other surveys had relativly the same answer.
damn I really need to spell check and read over it. That last one was very embarrassing. Maybe it’s about time to get Microsoft Word.
japanese girls are weird! just weird! i’m gaijin and i slept with almost 10 japanese women (for free). all strange sex. i can’t explain with words.
“i can’t explain with words.”
Try reading a book and noting the vocabulary.
Please make it a little more tasteful, they are people too. They felt comfortable with you enough to try something new. Something that YOU have found was strange.
Do you not think it is rude in the slightest? For you to talk about times when they have been the most vulnerable.
Hey Robert, do you think that the “strange sex” NOBODY was talking about is something Japanese women like to do..or actually do because that is what society expects from them?
Never been to Japan but from all the media that lands on my lap from there it seems like everything is sexually driven. All the way from the news[newscasters are mostly female and "beautiful" because that's what attracts viewers? what happened to watching the news for news?] to a simple cartoon show meant for children[hard to find a decent cartoon these days that doesn't involved half naked women exposing themselves at every chance].
I’m not from there so maybe that is why I lack understanding but none of this can be healthy for a young girl who might believe this is how she must act.
Different interpretation: older less desirable Japanese women who realize that they can’t get a good Japanese men are bitter and opt for a loserish White man.
Having lived in Taiwan for 10 years I can tell you that locals dont often eat cornflakes for breakfast, rightly knowimg that it is not nutritious, they do eat chinese food, asian style creals and their own types of western style breakfast burgers and toast. However most taiwanese will not eat westerb food at other times and many never eat it at all! Taiwan is far less western in eating habits than Japan….which makes taiwans diverse array of restaurants pretty unique in Asia..Chinese, Japanese, southeast asian and then just a few western restaurants by percentage. Japan is far far more westernised in its eating habits..,coffeshops eveywhere even in smaller cities. There are few chinese restaaurants or southeast asian restaurants also.
Taiwanese women like foreign men, not just american…in fact many prefer europeans or koreans etc. however the vast majority are happy with their Taiwanese guys….
Taiwanese guys are not as controlling.
Its the same the world over, foreigners hold an attraction for locals…something exotic!
Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I found Japanese women beautiful. Especially when you see their beauty as a blend of physical attraction, cultural heritage, commitment to overcome challenges. I have lived a traveled throughout Tokyo, and areas along to NOZOMI Shinkansen line. I have seen some strikingly beautiful women. The person that distinquishes the “nice” factor of japanese cultural traits versus japanese people is also correct I think. The cultural manners are graceful but some of the people are less graceful or less nicer than the vale of the cultural grace. This is especially so in Corporate Japan. Even so, I still think Japanese people are as nice as any other people on the planet. You just can’t be lulled to sleep by the high level cultural traits. Lastly, Japanese women should not be viewed only as sex objects when rating their beauty. If you get to know them, they offer much more. When ranking them know that they are also daughters and sisters, etc. They have many responsibilities so we they give YOU time, it is a silent but valuable investment in YOU.
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I Just think that it is pretty sad that an entire race is judged by the actions of a few people. Example I am an Black American and just from looking at me most Japanese or Asian women or people for that matter my see me as a trouble maker, that is ignorant of the things in this world. just to set the record straight not every single black man in the U.S. or in the world are gangstas or drug dealer or go around raping judged Asian women. example I was liking this Japanese Woman who started to like me as well (took a long time to open up to me.) But as soon as here family found out that i was Black they told her to stop seeing me. or they would cut her off (they were paying for her to go to school at the time.) they judge me without even getting to know me. If they had took the time they would have found out that i have Japanese and Filipino in my family. (through marriages) I have never been in trouble with the law. I work and have my own business. it seem to me the Asian women want to adapt the Black Culture (like our music clothes and style) but want nothing to do with the black men and women who started it. The reason i think black people can get along with other races easily is because we have seen and been through the race turmoil and slavery where we were beaten shot even hung for just being black so we understand the right of another minority for being. I mean really since when did love become a color. My entire family is made up of Asian, Latino, Whites, Blacks, Mixed. as long as you love each other race shouldn’t matter. I think Interracial Dating and Marriage is good because we complete each other Example say Japanese have a hereditary weakness against a certain disease where as Black people don’t coming together just makes the next generation stronger.