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a guy asked me today if "asian people eat sushi too"

I don't know where he thinks sushi came from. America?

On the flip side of that, I've freaked my Japanese roommate before by willing purchasing and eating natto. Apparently foreigners aren't supposed to be able to eat it? Idk.

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I don't think that's comparable. You loving a foreign food is different from a foreigner assuming that everything in their country originated from their country.

It would be comparable if it was a Japanese person asking "do Americans eat corn on the cob too?" and it's like where do you think the it came from WTF.

Uhhh my roommate was working with the assumption that foreigners couldn't and wouldn't eat such a "Japanese" food. It's related. I at no point asserted it was the same. In fact I said "on the flip side of that" to demonstrate they are related but not the same concept.

My point was considering the very tiny ratio of non-Japanese that enjoy natto it isn't actually weird to be surprised. I'd say it's a reasonable reaction, like a Filipino person being surprised a Westerner enjoys balut.

A lot of people in general don't like natto. The fact that I like it isn't what she's surprised at, it's that I'm not Japanese therefore I shouldn't be able to like it at all. It's like brusselsprouts. Would you tell someone that they wouldn't be able to eat it and wouldn't enjoy it because of their ethnic ancestry? Do you see my point there?

Maybe I should have just gone with the number of people who think that because I'm obviously not Japanese that I can't use chopsticks. But my point was to relate a Japanese food based anecdote. And now this has become really boring and pedantic.

Jumping to this new topic, that happens to me SO MUCH, anon. SO MUCH. I've been in Japan for two years and change and it still happens basically any time I meet a new Japanese person.

And yeah, I get what you mean on the natto thing, too. I do hate natto but it's not because I'm American, it's because natto is fucking gross to me. I also hate bell peppers and that ain't because I'm white!

I'm honestly (albeit briefly) surprised whenever I meet a non-Australian who likes Vegemite? It might be an acquired taste thing - most Australians are raised eating Vegemite from a really young age, so when someone tries it for the first time, often it's too overwhelmingly salty. The roommate might have assumed that natto is another acquired taste, so it'd be incredibly rare to find a non-Japanese person who likes it.

I heard once in a sociology class that in Japan they had a really popular book back in the...80s, I think? That theorized, in all seriousness, that the Japanese brain was "special" which is why Japanese was so impossible for people from other countries to learn, and why Japanese people struggled with other languages as well.

This was told to me from my teacher in that class, who lived in Japan for a long time and even married a woman from Japan. Apparently they got really, really freaked out when he talked to them in Japanese and they realized he was actually very good at it. When he was moving out of Japan and trying to find a hotel to stay at he got into a long argument with the people at the hotel because they thought he wouldn't know how to bathe Japanese-style properly and would taint the bath. His wife had to get on the phone and assure them that he'd lived in Japan for years and knew how to take a bath. (I think they must've had a communal bath or something, that's the only way this story makes sense to me...)

So...yeah, I can kinda see someone from Japan getting freaked out by someone from another country eating natto, particularly since I think quite a few Japanese people don't like natto either.

That thing about the baths... I went to Japan for a vacation once, but was terrified of going to an onsen. I felt too dirty to bathe in a possibly unclorinated bath with other people when I never feel clean enough taking a bath already. I mean, just exactly what is the difference between scrubbing the hell out of yourself in Japan or in America? (aside from, I guess, their perception that we might not put the effort in? IDK) I just never tried it, for that feeling of inadequacy, and because I've never really been naked in front of others. Aren't they against pubic hair too or is that just a TV thing?

A) you wash up BEFORE you get into the onsen. There's always some sort of shower area before the baths. Then you just relax in the warm water. There are plenty of bathing guides you can find online. B) the pubic hair thing is a censorship in media thing, not a body image thing.

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