I agree that it's debatable, especially depending on where you live. However, I still am a little put off by people whose minds are absolutely blown that I could possibly speak more than three words of Japanese. (And other similar examples)
However, my attitude is that Japan is overall become much much more friendly to foreigners, the most shining example being recently all the chopsticks packets have warnings in English on them, "Danger! The toothpick inside might hurt you!", cuz we're famous for stabbing ourselves on it
I sure did on my first day in Japan... hehe.
Kind of a funny shining example. Of course there's bigger ones like foreigners being placed in the same pension/insurance category as the natives and such, but yeah.
Anyway, back on topic, I'll post that commercial when it hits the intertubes.
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Originally Posted by Tenchu
I think this is kind of the same thing. If they want to make fun of an American trying to learn Japanese they can, but fact is, they're probably laughing at a very wealthy business man who's learning the language to expand his business in Japan... more successful than a lot of those McDonalds fans will ever be...
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I like this.