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   cell classic (cell@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:10:23 JST cell classic
   > A gaikokujin tarento (外国人タレント), also known as gaijin tarento (外人タレント) and abbreviated gaitare, is a foreign celebrity active exclusively or almost exclusively in Japan. The phrase literally means "foreign talent". Having at least a conversational level Japanese, combined with foreign looks as well as a standout personality, they are often chosen because they meet the Japanese stereotypes of foreigners (for example, the notion that Americans generally look rugged and have blond hair and blue eyes).
   > Gaijin tarento largely inspire interest in the Japanese viewer due to their use of the Japanese language, a feat considered especially remarkable by the Japanese.
   > Thus the main attraction of gaijin tarento is not their talent or fame but their clown-like clumsy use of the Japanese language, which serves to further define the Japanese as 'those who can speak Japanese'. Gaijin tarento is overall an objectification of foreigners that reinforces the separateness, uniqueness, and specialness of "Japaneseness".
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:10:22 JST Blurry Moon

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     @cell it's exceptionally hard to be japanese so
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     cell classic (cell@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:13:43 JST cell classic

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     @sun > In the 1991 documentary "The Japanese Version", veteran foreign personality, Dave Spector, stated, "[I'm] doing things like the lowest bozo, circus kind of stuff. But it doesn't bother me at all. A lot of times the foreigners on TV, models and what-not, are compared to pandas. They use that term here—pandas—because they're cuddly, you can go and have fun with them, and throw a marshmallow and that's about it. And you don't get involved any deeper than that. But ... since I'm making half a million dollars a year, I'm very happy to be a panda."
     
     that feel when you make half a million dollars acting out american stereotypes
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:14:22 JST Blurry Moon

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     @cell I have heard that it can be detrimental to be "too good" at being Japanese because some people don't like seeing that japaneseness is actually not uniquely special and outsiders can potentially learn it even if uncommon.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:15:39 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @sun @cell Heh, well at least in Mexico being too good at being latino will cause people to not raise eyebrows instead of this insanity
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:36:22 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
     @nyanide @cell @sun
     Foreigners tend to pick up the most prominent parts and miss out on subtleties — so they become the embodiment of what locals who are slightly more sophisticated than a stool likely hate. I don't think it's unique to Japan or anywhere else, when a foreigner attempt to "act Russian", even if they aren't particularly bad at it, it makes me wanna puke — because Russians whom I mostly interact with don't "act Russian" at all.
     Same is often true for a local who lived abroad for an extensive period and then comes back and puts on all the most vile stereotypes: "Look at me, I'm just like you!"— and that's of course top cringe. I think it's important to act natural, whatever the situation is — learning subtleties about local things is cool, that evokes respect, but picking up the most glaring stereotypes makes you stand out even more because you don't really understand why things are this way.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:41:22 JST Blurry Moon

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     @m0xEE @nyanide @cell Japanese do this even to non-Japanese that were born in Japan and only know Japanese culture.
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     Reitoei (idoru@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:49:26 JST Reitoei

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     @sun @cell there's a line:
     
     "what's harder than being a gaijin in Japan?"
     
     "being Japanese in Japan."
     
     I have low expectations on my side!
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     erős pista (pista@mikro.brainsocks.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:51:01 JST erős pista

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     In China learning to be too Chinese and knowing too much about how society works makes you a “bad foreigner”.

     And eventually you become the worst foreigner and get a green card.

     Only about 3,500 people in history have made it to “worst foreigner”.

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     tsoifan1997 (sysrq@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 20:18:08 JST tsoifan1997

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     • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
     @nyanide @sun @cell God, I love living in the Anglosphere.