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spicytuna (Offline)
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09-21-2009, 06:25 PM

Haha! You guys are funny!

The weirdest question I was ever asked was by some Japanese girl who had just arrived in Canada via the working holiday program.

A mutual friend of ours introduced her to me since she was having problems with the brand new laptop she bought over from Japan.

She turned it on and surely enough, it booted into Japanese Windows 2000 so I asked her what the problem was. She then looked at me as though I was an idiot and said, "What?! Isn't it obvious? We're in Canada and yet its coming up in Japanese!".

She apparently thought that her operating system would suddenly turn into English the moment she landed in an English speaking country. Much like her radio.

Ok, this has nothing to do with stereotyping, general perceptions, etc. but I thought it was friggin hilarious!
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