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Little Fish, Bigger Pond
Foreign misfits find that Japan may not be the answer they hoped it would be
It seems to me there are two types of people who come to Japan; those looking to explore a new country and those trying to escape their own. An amazing percentage fall into the latter category. No, they aren’t criminals fleeing justice; they are social outcasts looking for a place to belong. And the reasons they choose Japan have become almost cliché, reading like some overdone recruiting advertisement.Tired of women in your home country pointing out that you are fat, ugly and lack a personality? Want a career but have no discernable job skills and no motivation, and even McDonald’s won’t hire you? Sometimes wish that you could just disappear, start over, reinvent yourself? Then Japan is the right country for you! Be the Superstar you always wanted to be! Become one of the elite, the special, the Gaijin.
But the truth is, Japan rarely fulfills its promise to the Charisma Man. Many foreign misfits who come to play find themselves stuck on a merry-go-round of disappointment. The fairytale ending in Japan is just that: a fairytale.
Nor as a gift set for the Lunar New Year.
This is what happens when one discusses nudity while drinking
Because it just might attack you. Or, why does one seek revenge against an inanimate object.
Documentary Film Shown
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) — Documentary film “To Realize the Leader’s Desire” was shown at the People’s Palace of Culture today on the occasion of the birthday of Kim Jong Il.
The film makes an impressive representation of the history of the long journeys made by Kim Jong Il with total dedication to build a great prosperous powerful nation as desired by President Kim Il Sung.
It deals with the immortal leadership exploits he has performed by putting the dignity and national power of socialist Korea on the highest level with his unique Songun politics and ushering in a heyday of the country’s prosperity, deeply imbuing the servicepersons and people of the DPRK with the firm faith that the President will always be with us and his noble intention in the period of the ordeal unprecedented in history.
It also deals with the signal changes being brought about by the drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation under the seasoned and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il.
It was appreciated by senior officials of the party and state, a chairperson of a friendly party and others.
I’m sure the editors at the National Inquirer would have approved. After all its just a Fairy Tale.
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I suspect it is only harassment when the chest hair is accompanied by a collection of gold medallions.
since i’ve moved to the farm i’ve been e-mailing my son the link to this each saturday.
it has been very helpful to me to have subjects to discuss with him. i’m hoping it is the start of mending our strained relationship.
anyway, thank you ♥~
Sounds like the writer had a bad day or just ended a relationship. Reads like he just got Kung Fu’ed to the curb.
Of course moving to Asia is not for everyone, the same with moving to Florida, Colorado or anywhere else to look for the missing something in life.
As for me, I avoid most expats as most are drunks and here mainly to damage their livers and the fuck over the female population. I have met a rare few that I would consider friends back home if we met there.
And when they start bashing China or the Chinese people for some perceived problem (usually a cultural issue they haven’t taken the time to understand), I have one simple response. “GO Home.”
example: A guy was complaining that he went to a Chinese home and they gave him a cup of hot water. Giving hot water is a sign of welcome. If you are given cold water , it means, you aren’t gonna be here long enough for the water to get hot.
Today I rode my bright shiny new cruiser bike through the narrow and twisting alleys of an old fishing village that is now surrounded by modern China. My brother and I stopped and had a beer at the town square, played with the kids and taught the old guys sitting around how to say hello. From the looks we got, I don’t think they had ever seen white dudes there before.
Meanwhile most other guys I know were either drinking themselves into a daze in some Expat bar that reminds them of some shit hole bar in their home country or sitting at home watching American movies. Fuck that.