tech bro accidentally sent their son to Japan to study Chinese

I mean there are immigrant areas in Japan. There's a big Chinese community in Yokohama, which is reasonably close to Tokyo.

But I guess that would involve interactions with working class Chinese immigrants, or second generation kids of immigrants. And that's not the type of people some fancy rich kid would want to be around.

What kind of racism do you need to assume Japanese people simply know how to speak Mandarin and also use it in their daily lives? And what kind of racism do you need to not even investigate this. They could have sent the kid to Singapore or Malaysia, a lot of people speak Mandarin there.

It's like going to Poland to study Russian lmao wtf

Critical support to this guy's large adult son, who is either:

1. Offline enough to not know about Japan through manga/anime/Vtubers/Jpop/hentai/video games and genuinely didn't know his father was making a huge mistake

or

2. Knows and opted not to tell his brain dead father for a free trip to Japan

both are good bits.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Accidentally-sent-my-son-to-Japan-to-study-Chinese-fxdjjwqJ

This has to be a bit. They didn't want to send their son to Taiwan because they have a "hillbilly accent", so they sent him to Japan instead?

"I didn't do any research and I didn't ask any questions. This sucks. Why didn't anyone tell me."

Before all you holier-than-thou people jump in and call me racist, I am AWARE. That Japan also speaks Japanese.

The author is right. How could we possibly assume from the context of this post that they are a racist who wouldn’t know that the Japanese people ALSO speak Japanese?

He could’ve gone to Singapore, or Taiwan, or just came back to Germany and lived in Chinatown or something. But instead he decided to go to Japan to learn Chinese to own da gommies

[...] call me racist.

first of all, this is still pretty damn racist lol, also my main complaint is that it is highly stupid.

How does someone send their child to another country without knowing that Japan isn't China. Did they try to send them by air mail because it also involves a plane?

My son came back from Japan after going there to learn Chinese. When he came back, he suddenly had an interest in this thing called Hentai? I didn't know China was so cultured.

Surprised he didn’t just send the kid to Taiwan.

i wish i had enough money to accidentally go to the wrong country to learn a language. send me to japan to learn chinese. then I'll cross the East China Sea to learn Japanese (I will reply to anyone who tries to speak Japanese at me in Japan with "wakarimasen" because I know that one already). once I'm done learning Japanese I'll go to India and learn Arabic.

this could be my life

Lmao what level of racism is this?

How do people like this exist long enough to have children but not gain awareness?

I'd like the lodge a complaint with how stupid this motherfucker is

American schooling at its finest

soo...China isn't a dictatorship. It considers itself to be a democracy

theres no way this is real its way too hilarious omfg

Learn Chinese at the university and Japanese in daily life, and as you learn Japanese, learn tips and tricks for converting shinjitai into kyuujitai into simplified hanzi, as well as tips and tricks for converting kango into Middle Chinese into Putonghua. If you can't look at 流星 ryuusei and automatically know that it's something like *liuxing in Putonghua and then you just sort of happen to get the tones right, then that is a skill issue and you can ligma balls

We wanted my son to learn the standard Chinese. Japan also seemed like the better choice because the northern latitude coincided with China’s capital, Beijing.

what

of course, the latitude determines the language. thats why everyone in dublin and moscow have the same accent

I feel like if you're wealthy enough to make a mistake this costly and foolish then you should have to go in front of a jury of your peers and they should decide to revoke your drivers license for five years.

Large Adult Son goes to Japan

Stupid fucker should have gone to Malaysia

That sounds like something incredibly white and incredibly rich, how would you send your kid to a country you don't even know anything about???? Whiter than golf behaviour

More stupid than racist.

Before all you holier-than-thou people jump in and call me racist,I am AWARE. That Japan also speaks Japanese. But I didn't know that Chinese was not spoken AT ALL by the common population.

Funny, Mr. Threedots Notaracist, why did you think Japanese people would speak Chinese?

Well, I hope the young man had a nice time at least

Is there like any historical context to justify misunderstanding that speaking Mandarin was common in Japan?

I met a Chinese citizen at university, she knew Korean and Japanese,

but not Russian.

Taiwan is right there you fucking dumbass, also imagine not being willing to send your kid to China because you're afraid of communism

Not. A Single. One.