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isa
2007-04-20 06:39 pm UTC (link)

But don't you know that the Japanese STOLED the LANGUAGE and PERVERTED IT and are the evillest evildoers what ever evilled and TOTALLY didn't kick our butts repeatedly because it don't matter how big your military is, if you can't get it there across your huge-ass country before the enemy leaves it ain't gonna help none and they are RAPERS of CULTUER and anyway you should totally know how to pronounce them 'cuz you're learning the lesser forms of the characters, right?

Bit late, but when I was taking a Chinese Film class, it was loads of fun being the Japanese Program Expat in there. Two of us, thirty Chinese speakers, and at least five films that had the requisite "OMG the islanders- no, the ones that keep invading us- are PSYCHOTIC AAAAGH!" elements. Every single time it came up in class, all the heads in the room would swivel towards us and just staaaaare, as if expecting some sort of defense. It got so bad the two of us refused to pronounce any Japanese words in discussion and kept deliberately calling our (non-Asian) teacher "professor" in Mandarin.

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