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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-10-11 03:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2839 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2839 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-10-12 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Idaho potato??

(Anonymous) 2014-10-12 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Idaho Potato.. It's a term that means Japan exports many things, but most of what they export is too expensive to actually buy within the country. It's why most laptops sold in the country come with floppy drives, etc. This can also be a broader term - a lot of the image Japan projects as 'progressive' outside the country isn't actually as common within the country.

For example, I went out shopping with a Japanese coworker and he bought a pink magnet band and I had to listen to hurhur look how much better Japan is in comparison to America because us Japanese don't care about girl colors and boy colors. But then right afterwords, we went to a drinking party and the I was ropped into pouring the beer, as well as the other 3 women in the office.

Oh, hey, do you know that the subtitles for movies here are actually 'non-authentic' because they were done by women? But women have so much more free time to stay at home because the don't have to work and get so much maternity leave, unlike the men of Japan that they have time to study English. - true statement from a board member of an major international company who sends his employees to my current place of work to learn English.

I've probably lived here too long.