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Lame.
I've never seen this but it feels at least 10 years old
Yeah, it has real 'Early 00s ~~Smartphone~~ Cameraphone' vibes
There were no smartphones in the early 2000s though.
This dude’s never heard of Symbian or Blackberry I guess. Or Sony Ericsson and Nokia N*** phones.
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I left Japan in 2008. Phones had had cameras long enough that the makers had to add the can't-turn-it-off shutter sound because so many chikan were taking upskirt photos on public transport.
Less salaciously, there was also panic about people taking pictures of magazine articles in bookstores and then not buying the magazine. Not sure anyone really would have tried to read an article on those tiny screens, though.
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There were plenty low quality digital point and shoot cameras though.
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I've never seen this specific photo, but it absolutely was popular ~2010.
Tubas and trombones were popular choices among band students
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I was there Gandalf, I was there three thousand years ago...
Darkness took me and I strayed away through thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and every meme was as long as a life age of the earth...
This was the best thing I'd seen all day, until I saw this:
...and this is just true love:
If japs didn't exist, they should be invented.
Are you aware that's a slur?
I'm italian and in Italy that's not considered a slur. It's more telling someone they're funny or amusing.
You really need to use your hands more so we know you’re Italian. 🤌
When written, Italian does look a lot like English then.
Not the sentiment, the word used for Japanese people. Saying “if Japanese people didn’t exist, they should be invented” would be totally acceptable.
It can be hard to avoid slurs in other languages though, especially when English has so many. My husband’s not a native English speaker and it comes up maybe every other month that he’ll say something and I’ll have to tell him to avoid that word or only use it in one specific usage. I’ve only been corrected/gaped at for inadvertently using slurs twice in over five years living in Germany, for comparison.
Ok, now I get it. I didn't use "japs" as derogatory, obviously.
Yeah, it is an easy mistake to make. Generally abbreviations/diminutives for nationalities are insulting (Brit excluded)
Like Germs
In english there's a similar sounding word that means a joke or something done in jest, Jape with a long a
In America.
Here in Australia, Nip (Nippon being old spelling of Nihon which is Japan in Japanese) is the slur.
Chad Australian teaches American that other dialects of english exist
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Please explain
"Japs" was used by Americans during WW2 so it has pretty negative connotations there.
Do Japanese people consider this a slur? To me it seems like one instance of people using a word with negative connotations doesnt make it a slur or our list of slurs would be far greater. In most instances its just an english shortened version of Japanese.
I looked it up and it seems there is debate over this with mostly Japanese Americans finding the word offensive due to historical context with most others just viewing it as a shortened version of Japanese. (I'm mostly making this comment because Jap is censored in one of my favourite RTS games where the Japanese are a highly used nation and I hate having to use the full word over a 3 letter abv)
I'm from Seattle, a place where many Japanese Americans immigrated to before the war.
... During the war, they were rounded up, shipped to concentration camps on the other side of the state (in a desert), and basically all of their homes and business property/possessions were seized and sold off during the war, and while they were released aome years after the war ended, they were seriously discriminated against for decades afterward.
I obviously can't speak for all Japanese people, but yeah, Japanese Americans I've known find 'Jap' to be a slur. There's a good amount of newspapers and even US propaganda films shown to either the military and/or the public, and other media, that use the term 'Jap' alongside rascist cariacatures...
Dr Seuss, more widely known as an author/illustrator of childrens books, actually drew a good amount of these racist cariacatures.
A likely NSFW example
This was a poster, an advertisement for a war bond, drawn by Dr Seuss
The even worse slur... is something I'm not even comfortable typing out... basically, similarly shorten Nippon (which is a name of 'Japan' in Japanese, along with Nihon) to only the first syllable.
That one is an even more severe slur and was commonly used during the war. It's basically as severe, rude and disrespectful as the n-word with a hard r to refer to Black people.
If you want to use a 3 letter abbreviation for Japan, I'd suggest JPN.
The shortened version of Nippon is also considered an unusable slur where im from as well since its only ever used with negative intent. Its interesting to read about the different perspectives of this word around the world. Since the word is offensive to some Japanese people I should refrain from using the world online.
It's a goddamn minefield, especially for someone like me who hates excessive censorship.
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I think older generations might know that it was a slur that was used and maybe some people who stumble upon old cartoons/newsreels (somewhat unlikely given poor English ability in Japan as a whole) or otherwise find posts like this. My wife, now in her 30s, had never heard it. I've met a few who have around my age (mid 40s) who knew it but all except one or two had decent English. I can't really speak to younger people.
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Thanks!
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Fake, she's not even blowing on it.
Shes using an advanced technique common in bass instruments known as "slapping."
I need a dramatic close up on a bystander who gasps in surprise before announcing "She's not even blowing into it!" followed by the close up of the shooter saying "That's right, I have gone BEYOND the need to blow into my instrument of destruction!"
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╏I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE╏
╙───────────────╜Is this the next Hibiki Euphonium series?
Way better than the fad of throwing jugs of milk in grocery stores.
You’re goddamn right.
We had this in the west as well when I was a kid. It was called fus-ro-dahing or something.
We had hadokens before Morrowind, let alone Skyrim, when I was a kid. Street Fighter was pretty popular.
Oh god, skyrim is 14 years old
I prefer "How do you do, Ken?"-ing and "Sorry you Ken!"-ing...
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