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Found this on Youtube recently: some Commonwealth Wapanese decided to make a video showing "why Japan is superior"

However, the video runs 7:55, so if you don't want to waste your time like I did, I have a summary:

1. Historically white people think of Japanese as a bunch of rice-eating buck-toothed Japs, but there is something you don't know zOMG!!!!1111
2. Scarlett Johannson is not "hotness" compared to various Jpop idols and actresses. However I concede anything is hotness compared to Paris Hilton. (Author does the same for Japanese male entertainers.)
3. Japanese music ownz j000. Proceed to music videos of metal band members puking and bloodied and zombified.
4. Jpop boy bands are better than the Backstreet Boys.
5. Younha (Korean Jpop singer) is better than Celine Dion.
6. Waterboys is held up as an example of creative J-drama (don't see any Western tv execs clamoring to copy that)
7. Battle Royale (Takeshi Kitano), Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike), Ringu, and Densha Otoko are exemplars of Japanese cinema (gee, is the guy 14 years old?)
8. Claims that white people think Japanese is not as sonorous as Chinese. 'Cause we all know Cantonese sounds so elegant. (Besides how can white people tell the difference? "All Asians are the same!")
9. Surprisingly anime/manga and videogames rate one sentence in the whole shebang, which means he totally missed the boat on the reason why 99% of Wapanese like "Japan."
10. Japan is teh futurez!1!!1one Discover Japan: "you will feel like resurrected" (land of the rising sun, get it?)

A shoutout to my homies with roots in the subcontinent (Rahul).
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1. o rly?
2. woman sure... men.. to metro?
3. sure they have blood but the music isent as heavy as ours..
4. i would normally agree but they looked like a gay man group... way to close...( and again metro)
5. since when do we like celine dion?
6. whoot little chinese men in speedos!..?
7. you forget the grudge? and all the other shitty ninja movies they made?
8. right..
9. okie you got 1 point!! whoot!
10. no.. that was a bomb...... sorry.
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Dir en Grey is great stuff, however, blowing Korn and Slipknot away isn't much of task to begin with. Their men...I'm no so sure. Clive Owen beats the shit out of an androgynous pretty boy (Brie would agree with me here, hahahaha), but this is all personal preference anyway. That whole video is a waste - "MY OPINYARN IS FACTOID!".

Nothing to lose sleep over.

Last edited by Steve on March 21, 2006

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Oh, so that's Dir En Grey. Yes I am not in the know.

And Nataru, that's really PC of you.
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Steve said:
Dir en Grey is great stuff, however, blowing Korn and Slipknot away isn't much of task to begin with. Their men...I'm no so sure. Clive Owen beats the shit out of an androgynous pretty boy (Brie would agree with me here, hahahaha), but this is all personal preference anyway. That whole video is a waste - "MY OPINYARN IS FACTOID!".

Nothing to lose sleep over.

*nods* and so can Hallie Berry... I seen her....
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