Sunday, August 29, 2010

The inspiration for this blog's name

Sapp Time, by Bob Sapp. It is ridiculous, funny and so politically incorrect. So at he same time you can see how non-Japanese people can be portrayed in the media in Japan (especially black folks). Maybe this is why a guy said "kowai" (lit. "scary") right to my face while passing me on the street (jerk)...

According to the Japan wikipedia article, the population is as follows: 98.5% Japanese, 0.5% Korean, 0.4% Chinese, 0.6% "other".

So being a white person who's a part of that 0.6% percent, I'm going to accumulate probably, like, thousands of instances where the locals will stare, assume I am a tourist who doesn't actually live here or know Japanese language or culture, etc. Sigh. (But I got myself into this whole deal being pretty aware of this, so I suppose it's alright?)

So in a way, this video can also encompass the (non-asian?) foreigner's struggle living in Japan, haha...

1 comment:

  1. dear lord. and i thought Barrett from FF7 was enough of a caricature. SAPP Time is just plain silly.

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