“I Study Japanese because…
I want a Japanese girlfriend.”
How many times have I heard that from classmates? And for reals too. Sound familiar? You may have heard similar variants in other Asian language classes.
I remember one time I was in recitation, and some guy was going on about how that was his motivation for taking the class and becoming proficient, bemoaning the fact that there weren’t many ways to meet Japanese girls around our university campus. The recitation instructor—a student from Japan—remarked that there are a number Japanese American students in the student population and a number of Japanese Americans in the area, to which he quickly and bluntly replied in Japanese, “They aren’t really Japanese.”
There was a lot going on there, and I didn’t know how to even begin dealing with it, so I didn’t try. Maybe I should have. Ever encountered something like this before? What did you do?
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