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tokusatsufan (Offline)
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04-18-2011, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
I ran into a foreigner in Tokyo earlier this year. He was trying to get to the American embassy. He was amazed that the train station staff did not speak English and had spent (according to him) 90 minutes asking strangers "Where is the American Embassy". He was only a couple blocks away, but since he didn't have a dictionary and hadn't looked up the word "taishikan" (embassy) he might as well have been on a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
I thought that was a ridiculous,anime creation from people that had never met white people. Those people give the rest of us a bad name.
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