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
No shit? What’s the word?
It’s やきゅう, yakyū
Cool, TIL, thanks!
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!
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.
but
No “but,” it’s plain xenophobia, no debate about it.
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.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Obi-wan declaring himself a Sith was the weirdest part of the prequels.
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.
TBH the same could be said for some areas of Boston…
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.
As a life-long Masshole, I support this change.
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.
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!
Why would they be in Maine if they like Anne of Green Gables? Green Gables is in PEI, Canada.
I know that Anne of Green Gables takes place in PEI. But Maine is more accessible for Japanese tourists.
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 the funniest part is Japanese people choosing Massachusetts which is famously difficult for Japanese speakers to say.
Gotta challenge yourself.
Also that’s hilarious. So many silent and not so silent Us in that.
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.
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