The Japanese are weird.

[AsianBlossom]

I'm weird...I've been called that to my face and behind my back.

"Normal" and "weird" are just defined by the culture you live in, I guess. So think about it: somehwere in the world, we would be called normal, and in other places, we would be called weird.

In this case, by American (or wherever you live) standards, seeing the things that the Japanese find perfectly normal in their culture, one might find the Japanese "weird" because they do things differently. And in this case, "weird" is not necessarily a bad thing.

But that doesn't stop them from having some of the most interesting things I've ever seen! *is fascinated*

[Radical Dreamer]

Wow, those eyelashes are freaking scary. XDD

And on the "weird" thing, I think some of you are taking this too seriously. XD Relax and laugh a little, people. XD

[Gabriel 9.0]

...I didn't mean it as a bad thing. I'm weird. I believe in Christ. D: I'm sorry I offended you?

But seriously, if you get offended over "weird" stereotypes, you need to get out more often.

I'm not offended, all I'm saying in general, is that anyone is to say a entire ethnic group is weird for a certain culture of theirs is a stupid thing to do. Take me for example. I'm multi-racial, my heritage comes from \six different countries, Poland, France, Puerto Rico, Sicily, Africa and America.
Now some say that each of those ethnic back rounds have weird cultures and try to say every person within each is the same. When in reality that is untrue.
Stereotyping as a whole is also dumb imo. Its just not a good thing to do.
Like I said though I'm not offended.
You don't seem weird to me.

I'm weird...I've been called that to my face and behind my back.

Whoever said that about you my friend is mistaken. You're one of the nicest people I know here:). Along with Okami, Dan,Tsu, Radical Dreamer etc.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Gabriel, you're taking it too seriously. Nothing in the OP even hinted towards any Japanese Stereotypes, rather it showed some weird/interesting things that have come from Japan. If you don't think that girls posing at a camera with scary masks is weird, then you're weird. (I'm sure many Japanese citizens find it weird as well)

Oh and Koreans are weird. All they do is play Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Warcraft, and eat nothing but Kimchi and Rice all the time.

[Kenshin17]

Ok I have seen this thread floating about, and I feel I must say this:

Your just realizing this?

However I would like to point out....a lot of people around the world think we are weird too XD

[Gabriel 9.0]

Gabriel, you're taking it too seriously. Nothing in the OP even hinted towards any Japanese Stereotypes, rather it showed some weird/interesting things that have come from Japan. If you don't think that girls posing at a camera with scary masks is weird, then you're weird. (I'm sure many Japanese citizens find it weird as well)

Oh and Koreans are weird. All they do is play Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Warcraft, and eat nothing but Kimchi and Rice all the time.

I was talking about something in general and am not taking it too seriously, Smarty. Well the whole mask wearing thing is not as strange as compared to the very weird and disturbing things I've seen.

I heard that Koreans did that, and don't really play Console games due to some bad history with China and Japan, I think.

[Puguni]

Ok I have seen this thread floating about, and I feel I must say this:

Your just realizing this?

However I would like to point out....a lot of people around the world think we are weird too XD

Um, NO. Why do you people think that I just realized this? I'm just making a general statement. D: Yeah, maybe if the title of the thread was, "I just realized that Japanese people are weird," you'd have something there, but...?

You guys are getting awfully defensive though. I'm sure if I started a "Koreans are weird" thread, no one would say much. We are weird though. Why are most generic mmorpgs Korean? lol.

[Okami]

I want one of those pigs! *^*

Whoever said that about you my friend is mistaken. You're one of the nicest people I know here:). Along with Okami, Dan,Tsu, Radical Dreamer etc.

N'aw, I love you too, Prince <3

[teen4truth]

Japanese weirdness? I think it's hot. That's all I've got to say about that XD

Those peeps dancing...are they doing it after this dance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQDoME0QMTQ&NR=1

heh we do that in America, too.....
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=24161347

[Kenshin17]

Um, NO. Why do you people think that I just realized this? I'm just making a general statement. D: Yeah, maybe if the title of the thread was, "I just realized that Japanese people are weird," you'd have something there, but...?

You guys are getting awfully defensive though. I'm sure if I started a "Koreans are weird" thread, no one would say much. We are weird though. Why are most generic mmorpgs Korean? lol.

I was joking around, totally I was not out to get anyone or anything. Just a joke

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I heard that Koreans did that, and don't really play Console games due to some bad history with China and Japan, I think.

See now YOU are the one stereotyping! But yeah, I was just being sarcastic with my previous post.

[eternalprincess]

One more reason for me to adore the Japanese culture ^^

Ditto. lol

[Nate]

Now the leagl age about being 13 there to get married is unsound.

Says who? Just because you live in America and have it drilled in your head that 18 is legal, doesn't make it unsound or wrong for other countries to have lower legal ages. What happens at 18 that magically makes a person an adult? Nothing. It's just an arbitrary age the government chose for no reason. Nothing "happens" at 18 to make a person an adult, therefore, you have no right to call the laws of other countries wrong.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Gabriel, you're taking it too seriously. Nothing in the OP even hinted towards any Japanese Stereotypes, rather it showed some weird/interesting things that have come from Japan. If you don't think that girls posing at a camera with scary masks is weird, then you're weird. (I'm sure many Japanese citizens find it weird as well)

Oh and Koreans are weird. All they do is play Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Warcraft, and eat nothing but Kimchi and Rice all the time.

Well, it is a well documented fact that the Koreans have a gaming gene that allows them to instantly pwn anyone in any game ever, even if it isn't multiplayer. There have been studies, you know.

We've got entire books of japanese fashion and odd inventions at work, like a mask for your face so that when you're eating Udon you don't get stuff all over your clothing. It makes you look like a giant blooming flower. OR! My favorite. The toilet paper roll hat. You just roll down in front of your face, blow your nose, rip it off, and move on.

Also, don't forget that the concept of a "minor" is a relatively recent concept in our culture. It wasn't so long ago that 13 was a perfectly acceptable marriage age for westerners.

[Gabriel 9.0]

Says who? Just because you live in America and have it drilled in your head that 18 is legal, doesn't make it unsound or wrong for other countries to have lower legal ages. What happens at 18 that magically makes a person an adult? Nothing. It's just an arbitrary age the government chose for no reason. Nothing "happens" at 18 to make a person an adult, therefore, you have no right to call the laws of other countries wrong.

Well age 18 is near the age of accountability in the Bible according to Exodus 30:14 and Numbers 14:29. I myself felt like a adult at age 18.

Age 13-17, is just not a good time to be getting married, given that a person hasn't even continued to live their childhood along with it the whole thing being odd. I didn't say all of Japan's laws are unsound or any other country, just the one where you can get married at 13 is unsound, well really age 16 with parental consent, my mistake . As in any other other country that endorses it, including some of the United States such as Alabama. Which the age to get married there is 16. Its a odd thing to get married while still a teenager. Even when one becomes a adult, its best to wait on God for that.

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See now YOU are the one stereotyping! But yeah, I was just being sarcastic with my previous post.

I do my best to never stereotype. And wasn't . All I said is that I heard that from somewhere, I didn't say I actually believe that. I'm the type of person to see for myself about a thing/ another person in order to see if its true or false. Instead of taking somebody else's word right away about a certain person/thing.

[Bobtheduck]

I believe Mary was estimated to be around 14, and Joeseph was probably in his late twenties or early thirties... Of course, I still think Cradle robbing is gross, but maybe that's my age... As those girls get older, there seems to be less of a gap... I mean, there's an almost 8 year gap between me and the youngest of the "legal" crowd, and I would have shuddered at thinking of that much of an age gap a couple years ago... Considering most girls want older men, and I have a baby face and not much life experience outside of the abnormal (Missions stuff, for instance) I, as a begger, may not be capable of becoming a chooser.

[Gabriel 9.0]

I believe Mary was estimated to be around 14, and Joeseph was probably in his late twenties or early thirties... Of course, I still think Cradle robbing is gross, but maybe that's my age... As those girls get older, there seems to be less of a gap... I mean, there's an almost 8 year gap between me and the youngest of the "legal" crowd, and I would have shuddered at thinking of that much of an age gap a couple years ago... Considering most girls want older men, and I have a baby face and not much life experience outside of the abnormal (Missions stuff, for instance) I, as a begger, may not be capable of becoming a chooser.

I don't recall anywhere in the Bible that says Mary was 14....I'll have to research more about that anyway.

Cradle robbing is also not a good thing like you said.
God will show you the right woman in time , like he will with me .

[Nate]

Well age 18 is near the age of accountability in the Bible according to Exodus 30:14 and Numbers 14:29.

Those verses have literally nothing to do with sex or marriage and therefore are inapplicable to such.

I myself felt like a adult at age 18.

Good for you. Most people don't, hence why you hear so many people say "I don't feel any different now that I'm x." Regardless of whether you feel like it or not, it still doesn't make anything unbelievable happen to your body or mind that suddenly makes you an adult. It's still just an arbitrary age created by lawmakers.

Age 13-17, is just not a good time to be getting married, given that a person hasn't even continued to live their childhood along with it the whole thing being odd.

That's your opinion, for one. Second, did you know humans are the only creatures on the planet that rear their young for so long? Even animals that live longer than us only spend a couple of years at most with their parents.

It's not odd at all. As Etoh stated, the concept of 18 being legal is actually very recent. This is why you think it's not a good time to be married, and why you think it's odd. It isn't odd or not a good time, it's just how society has influenced you. If you were brought up in say, the Middle East, you'd think the concept of women wearing a tank top and shorts would be horrendously evil. It isn't, of course, it's just how where you were raised affects your judgment of things. Same with teenagers getting married.

Even when one becomes a adult, its best to wait on God for that.

What's funny is in this whole conversation you're acting like 18 magically turns you into an adult. Lemme ask you this question. If 18 is when someone becomes an adult, then why do women gain the ability to become pregnant (and men the ability to impregnate) around 12 or 13? Do you think God made a mistake in how he created our bodies? I tell you my friend, God makes no mistakes. While I'm not endorsing people getting married and having children that young (especially not in this country), I am not condemning it either.

[Gabriel 9.0]

Those verses have literally nothing to do with sex or marriage and therefore are inapplicable to such.

Quite true.

Good for you. Most people don't, hence why you hear so many people say "I don't feel any different now that I'm x." Regardless of whether you feel like it or not, it still doesn't make anything unbelievable happen to your body or mind that suddenly makes you an adult. It's still just an arbitrary age created by lawmakers.

Perhaps so, perhaps not. Everybody in the Bible that was a adult had to be at least 18 and up, not saying they were.

It's not odd at all. As Etoh stated, the concept of 18 being legal is actually very recent. This is why you think it's not a good time to be married, and why you think it's odd. It isn't odd or not a good time, it's just how society has influenced you. If you were brought up in say, the Middle East, you'd think the concept of women wearing a tank top and shorts would be horrendously evil. It isn't, of course, it's just how where you were raised affects your judgment of things. Same with teenagers getting married.

Society has not influenced me in anyway, only God has done that.
If I were born in Israel( which is in the in he middle East , I still would have no problem with a woman wearing that type of attire. After-all, that is the birthplace of our faith. God even says in the Bible , that a man shall lead the household, not a teen, child. Which is why the enemy constantly tries to destroy marriages between a man and woman. Even though there is the exception of the verse that mentions a child shall lead, but that's talking about pets.
I really do not like it when some try to say this and that about me, when in reality they don't know me or haven't even gotten to know me.

What's funny is in this whole conversation you're acting like 18 magically turns you into an adult. Lemme ask you this question. If 18 is when someone becomes an adult, then why do women gain the ability to become pregnant (and men the ability to impregnate) around 12 or 13? Do you think God made a mistake in how he created our bodies? I tell you my friend, God makes no mistakes. While I'm not endorsing people getting married and having children that young (especially not in this country), I am not condemning it either.

You're completely misunderstanding me, nowhere am I acting like when one reaches age 18, you become a adult, all I'm saying is that I know God intends marriage to be between a man and woman, and that children, teens are not ready for it. Nor do I think God makes any mistakes, even though you didn't say that.

[Ashley]

Okay guys, take it to PMs or we shut the thread down.

[Nate]

Hey, did you hear the Japanese sell beer in vending machines? That's crazy!

[teen4truth]

Nobody answered my question =O

[Gabriel 9.0]

Nobody answered my question =O

What was your question?

[teen4truth]

Japanese weirdness? I think it's hot. That's all I've got to say about that XD

Those peeps dancing...are they doing it after this dance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQDoME0QMTQ&NR=1

heh we do that in America, too.....
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=24161347

^ Up there ^

[tokiklok]

that is awesome but weriod XD i love pigs

[Stephen]

Hey, did you hear the Japanese sell beer in vending machines? That's crazy!

I hear you can buy babies that way too!

[Mr. SmartyPants]

T4T... gawd I hate Soulja Boy's music.

That guy has zero talent.

[RubyJewelStone]

Ooh! How do I get one of those piggies? Especially without any nifty friends from China or Taiwan or something to find me one?

I wanna piggy!

[teen4truth]

T4T... gawd I hate Soulja Boy's music.

That guy has zero talent.

Oh, I agree. I can't understand a single word he says...and I probably don't want to. Then again, I'm more of a rocker girl anyway; I'm not so into hip hop and rap stuffs.

So......were those peeps doing that one dance after that anime dance?

[Shadowalker]

Says who?

Marriage tends to go hand in hand with sex. 13 is too young to be having sex - precious few people are mature enough, and psychologically prepared enough, for sex at that age.

Just because you live in America and have it drilled in your head that 18 is legal, doesn't make it unsound or wrong for other countries to have lower legal ages.

18 is a good age for marriage legality because you finish high school (barring any failures) at/around 18. I doubt that many responsible parents would want their children married while those children were still going to high school. The fact is that high school life is somewhat regimented, and seen as part of the maturing into an adult stage in one's life (and most folks I've talked to agree with this view of high school). Some mature faster than others, of course, but 18 is probably the median age, or average age, for when a person starts to truly feel like an adult.

Now, my maternal grandmother was married at the age of 16, but that was back in a time and age in my province in Canada when people would rarely finish high school.

What happens at 18 that magically makes a person an adult?

Graduating from high school, typically.

It's just an arbitrary age the government chose for no reason.

No, it's not.

Nothing "happens" at 18 to make a person an adult, therefore, you have no right to call the laws of other countries wrong.

He has a right to call any secular law he wants to "wrong", Nate. Don't be so defensive.