0:00 Intro 0:10 Weeb/Otaku 0:37 Student 0:54 Living in the bubble (economic bubble) 1:33 Living in a bubble (English bubble) 2:41 One-week expert 3:12 KZreadr 4:25 LBH 5:35 NBH 7:21 Executive expat 7:32 Entrepreneur 8:27 Crypto bro 8:56 Never going back 9:24 Gone native 10:08 Micro gaijin

Lol so spot on for all this stuff. I think we all go through phases of these. I tried to be super Japanese for a while, no western furniture etc. plenty of dif phases. Things changed a lot when I moved to Tokyo and I didn’t have to be Japanese to fit in with the locals anymore and could make more foreign friends. Now I feel like I’m a good mix. I’m fluent, not perfect but good enough to work with Japanese in a professional setting. I watch Japanese TV, but still enjoy my American shows. If I’m in a room with a bilingual Japanese person I’ll speak English and not need like I need to show off my Japanese level. I think more foreigners that love Japan and want to learn japanese should come here and help out the country. I think the big picture that most people need to keep in mind when they first come here is meet as many different people as possible and take everything with a grin man of salt. I grew up poor and with violence around me. Even being poor in Japan you can still afford basic amenities and find a job relatively easily. It’s easy to lose perspective if you hang around negative people and take things way too seriously. Good video though. I subbed 👍 looking forward to more 😊

@TkyoSam

25 күн бұрын

Sorry typing on a phone lol

@weeklyfascination

25 күн бұрын

Thank you! And you’re spot on. It’s very important to be around other positive people.

I could see people falling into multiple categories, especially depending on how long they have been there for. I can relate to the entrepreneur and never going back(although I would consider going to a 3rd party country such as one in the Eurozone I think though). I am from America and the price of housing 10X annual salary, medical costs are sky high, the increasing required car expense to stay employed is constantly putting more pressure on you and widespread violent crime including shootings, armed robberies, brazen shoplifting's and car windows being smashed when your asleep in just makes me not want to ever move back there. In Japan I could just buy a old house in cash and fix it and not pay rent or a mortgage. To visit America for family and friends sure, but move back not ever again, if I want to leave Japan maybe Europe.

@weeklyfascination

14 күн бұрын

I've definitely fit into multiple categories over the years.

Dogen is great! Another podcast I highly recommend is GoGo Abe Kaiwa. Abe (Canadian guy) and Yoshi are a really great comedic duo...

@weeklyfascination

26 күн бұрын

Watching Dogen really helped me realize that my pronunciation was not as good as I thought.

In your time in Japan, have you ever heard of a venture capitalist named Guy Cihi? He is a very wealthy entrepeneur, Brown and Harvard alumni. The reason most people online have heard of him is because he voiced the player character in Silent Hill 2 (PS2 game.) He's not an actor -- the opportunity just fell into his lap when he was taking his daughter to audition for a role in the game -- which I'm assuming he knew about because he is a well connected super rich guy. He's pretty much the dream "gaijin turned native" every westerner aspired to, in my opinion. Because of his success of course, but his Japanese is impeccable and I think he is well-liked over there too.

@weeklyfascination

23 күн бұрын

I have not heard of Guy Cihi. There are some foreigners who are just quietly getting rich. And some that I just don't know about. But I'll have to look him up.

how about the "I don't know anything about Japan but I'm moving there because I can get an akiya in the countryside for cheap or free" people.

@weeklyfascination

14 күн бұрын

Great point.

Love your channel, but I think you left out foreigners who were born in and grew up in Japan, like me. We are called Third Culture People, which refers to people who grew up in a country that is different from the country of their passport.

@weeklyfascination

26 күн бұрын

How could I forget? Thank you. I'll have to make a short video about that.

Man, I don't fit into any of those groups. I was a weeb, came over as a student (guess i also qualified as an LBH), got married and moved back home for two years. Then i got an offer from a startup (NBH?) so i moved back. That fell through because the company went bankrupt but i stuck around by relying on my skills as an engineer and passable Japanese. Have i gone native? Not really; i really like the US (although not so much these days) and the only thing micro about me is my... well, let's leave it at that.

@weeklyfascination

26 күн бұрын

At some point, I've been one or two of these.

@user-hb2eq1sk7n

22 күн бұрын

micro?

@weeklyfascination

2 күн бұрын

I've been called worse...

"Japan is for all the Japanese people... and me. Because I fit in here." 😆

@weeklyfascination

22 күн бұрын

Some people feel like that. I created this channel because I want to share the awesome things about Japan. Sometimes I share the not so great things, and try to do it as objectively as possible. And I hope more people visit or move here.

Good video

@weeklyfascination

5 күн бұрын

Thank you!

I guess I fit pretty squarely into the gone native category which is something I’m simultaneously both proud and not proud of. A lot of foreigners give me negative responses to how far I lean into Japanese society to the point I start expecting an argument beforehand. Before I realized it, I stopped trying to justify myself to them and just ended up avoiding foreigners by default. Probably not the best outcome since I’ll still run into cultural faux pas in Japanese society as well. It is what it is I guess.

@weeklyfascination

24 күн бұрын

Everyone has their own path. I’ve done native at times, finding Japanese society easier to deal with at times. Then I go into a social bubble. It’s a luxury problem.

@wanwanutan-nt5rg

24 күн бұрын

@@weeklyfascination Thanks, I definitely get the social bubble thing but I’ll try to remember the “luxury problem” aspect of it.

so funny, I am one of the oakwood nbh 😄😄😄

@weeklyfascination

24 күн бұрын

That's awesome. I'd love to stay there.

I guess I will find out after 3 months were I fit on the spectrum. At least my Japanese will be okay not good but good enough. Hope that I get to experience getting kicked out of a restaurant even though I can read the menu.

You forgot about americans with main character syndrome

@weeklyfascination

25 күн бұрын

You’ll definitely see some of those. Part 2 is coming soon. I address main character syndrome. Thanks for the suggestion.

@Hay8137g

22 күн бұрын

This can definitely be said towards the men. Men who fetish the Japanese women whether they met home or Japan, especially those who come to use them to live abroad like passport bros. Also the culture is notoriously sexist. Why don’t American men like American women?? 😅😅 Frankly speaking there are tons of Asians in Amurica…. Because Japanese women don’t complain as much!!

@user-hb2eq1sk7n

22 күн бұрын

what is main character syndrome?

@UnderGeorge

22 күн бұрын

@@user-hb2eq1sk7n This quote sums it up nicely: “you’re all just background characters in my narrative. your personalities, needs, and desires are not as fully fleshed as mine. you exist here only insofar as you are of use to me in my own personal development. if you are not acting for my benefit, you are set dressing at best - an extra in the movie i alone am leading - or an antagonist for me to surpass. my needs and sufferings, perhaps those of my supporting cast, are all that matter. the gods are writers; they wrote your part for me.” Basically a deranged narcissist

@Hay8137g

22 күн бұрын

@@UnderGeorgethis is exclusive to Japan?

You forgot about the gaijin who have yellow-fever. I know it's a bad term, but it's a real thing. 😵‍💫😒

@weeklyfascination

22 күн бұрын

I’ve got part 2 coming up! I’m trying to think of a family friendly way to bring this up.

@TheCyberMantis

22 күн бұрын

@@weeklyfascination Yeah, it's a touchy subject. Good luck with it.

@weeklyfascination

18 күн бұрын

I talk about them in part 2. Coming soon!

@TheCyberMantis

17 күн бұрын

@@weeklyfascination Okay, I will watch part 2.

@weeklyfascination

2 күн бұрын

Honestly, some of my best ideas come from the comments section. There are some ideas that are beyond my skill set, but maybe someday.

Interesting. IMO better to lose the label 'loser'. have enjoyed a number of KZreadrs eg Chris Broad.

@weeklyfascination

18 күн бұрын

Chris is amazing. He's my "sempai". We could make a video in the same location with the same script, and we'd get different responses. Me: Lots of info. You've been there a long time. Chris: I can't stop laughing. You've got to see this video!

Im a white man and I aspire to work at a host club

@weeklyfascination

23 күн бұрын

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