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Let's talk reverse culture shock

Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punkhedge witchRegistered User regular
edited May 2011 in Social Entropy++
So in five days I'm gonna be back on American soil. Something tells me one of the first things I'm gonna see, landing in LAX, is this:
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Also being around cars at all has been really damn rare over the last nine months, so it's gonna be kinda crazy to be around them as a fact of life all. the. time. And on the wrong side of the road, too~!

I mean, I lived in Tanzania for a year a long while back, and suffered pretty crazy reverse culture shock then as well (going into a mall after being in a small village for a year is downright decadent), but a life without seeing schoolgirls and animu ever ten minutes is gonna be weird yo

So tell me about your funny reverse culture shock moments, SE++. It might take the edge off the stress of packing my insane amounts of merch.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That's just regular culture shock

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    reverse-racism

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  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That's just regular culture shock

    No, it's reverse culture shock. Like, how when a black guy is all hatin' on whities, it's reverse racism.

    See?

    [edit]Fuck you, Pip.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I am amazing just pointing this out

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  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    One day in High School, the vice principal went around giving every class a lecture on the "reverse racism" problem on campus.

    To this day I still regret not thinking to call him out on that bullshit.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Welcome back to America.

    Leave your tentacles and loli mags at the door.

    You've been warned.

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  • RethiusRethius Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I went to Manila in 2008 for work. There's a serious problem with goddamned terrorists in the Philippines, and in the district of Manila I was staying in (Makati, the nice rich area) they have huge malls everywhere. To get into these malls (and most places) you get patted down by a security officer to make sure you don't have a fucking bomb or anything. Was weird at first but after 6 weeks I got used to it.

    Shortly after I came home I went to Wal-Mart with some friends. As we entered the place, the greeter was like "Yo, welcome to Wal-Mart". Without breaking my conversation, I put my hands on the podium and waited to be searched.

    Old lady greeter wasn't into it.

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  • ThreadbareSockThreadbareSock Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I could go for some greasy fried chicken right about now.

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  • ThreadbareSockThreadbareSock Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    edited May 2011

    Almost none of those are fried chicken.

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  • ThreadbareSockThreadbareSock Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That's not fried chicken?

    I have been misled.

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  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    haha rethius thats hilarious

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    i go to walmart for one item and one item only

    sexual fulfillment

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    i get a good deal too, i know a guy

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That's not fried chicken?

    I have been misled.
    A large number of them seem to actually be spiders.

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  • GalacticGalactic Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Anyone ever try Bon Chon? It's Korean fried chicken. They only serve drumsticks and wings, but they are delicious.

    Korean Fried Chicken: Like our women, no breasts or thighs!

    Galactic on
    ^_-;

    Too Galactic for you.
  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I want to go to Japan

    but I'm afraid it'll be too weird for me

    I mean, japanese culture fascinates and disgusts me in equal measures

    I just think that if I ever actually went there I might lock myself in my hotel room and just peep out the window at all the strangeness below me

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    i am going to some weird party tomorrow for japanese foreign exchange students

    it will be weird

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  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't think I could leave Japan or any Asian country, if I found a dojo that would accept me.

    *kung fu noises*

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Japan isn't actually that weird. It's just that all the weird stuff gets press because Americans enjoy laughing at funny things, and Japanese make a lot of funny things (note that most of them barely actually exist, or are found in porn shops)

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I want to go to Japan

    but I'm afraid it'll be too weird for me

    I mean, japanese culture fascinates and disgusts me in equal measures

    I just think that if I ever actually went there I might lock myself in my hotel room and just peep out the window at all the strangeness below me

    That's probably the worst attitude you could approach it with.

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    What spring does with the cherry trees.
  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Also you probably wouldn't see anything terribly strange looking out from a hotel room

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  • FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I would go to feudal Japan.

    Animu/Tentacle/Loli/Rape culture Japan... not so much.

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    I would like to pause for a moment, to talk about my penis.
    My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    Ferrus wrote: »
    I would go to feudal Japan.

    Animu/Tentacle/Loli/Rape culture Japan... not so much.

    I hear they have vending machines that dispense schoolgirls

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  • M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm going to be going back to America in October

    I've lived in Europe for the past 3 years, while it wont be that big of a difference i've kinda gotten usta the fact folks dont speak english and such and I have to learn the language of where I live.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2011
    Monkeyfeet wrote: »
    Also you probably wouldn't see anything terribly strange looking out from a hotel room

    Except for the masses of tentacle rape happening in the streets.

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm hoping my culture shock after returning home will be managed by the fact I can just sleep all day in my bed with video games if the depression crushes me too much.

    Ideally there would be no depression

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  • FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I mean, I don't know about you gentlemen but if I saw something like this:

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    I'd be hella (culture) shocked.

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    I would like to pause for a moment, to talk about my penis.
    My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Galactic wrote: »
    Anyone ever try Bon Chon? It's Korean fried chicken. They only serve drumsticks and wings, but they are delicious.

    Korean Fried Chicken: Like our women, no breasts or thighs!

    sssssomeone's never heard of g.na

    L|ama on
  • M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    also i'm probably coming home married

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    L|ama wrote: »
    Galactic wrote: »
    Anyone ever try Bon Chon? It's Korean fried chicken. They only serve drumsticks and wings, but they are delicious.

    Korean Fried Chicken: Like our women, no breasts or thighs!

    sssssomeone's never heard of g.na

    It's funny how every single interview she does involves her boobs.

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    I want to do with you
    What spring does with the cherry trees.
  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Alright Mr.D stealing women from other cultures

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  • M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    that's how you do it, go there find one and smuggle her back to the motherland

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    the ultimate souvenir

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    L|ama wrote: »
    Galactic wrote: »
    Anyone ever try Bon Chon? It's Korean fried chicken. They only serve drumsticks and wings, but they are delicious.

    Korean Fried Chicken: Like our women, no breasts or thighs!

    sssssomeone's never heard of g.na

    It's funny how every single interview she does involves her boobs.

    and even funnier that from day 1 she's been all "can we talk about something other than my tits for fucks sake"

    and also sad

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ferrus wrote: »
    I mean, I don't know about you gentlemen but if I saw something like this:

    Ganguro-pink-green-hair.jpgI'd be hella (culture) shocked.

    I have spent a good amount of time in fashion districts in both Nagoya and Tokyo, and I have never once seen a full on ganguro like this. Not once. In some 50-odd hours of bumming around the city sections known for these. I think it's a relic of the 90s and early 2000s that Cracked really just likes making fun of.

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  • Cargo CultureCargo Culture Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ferrus wrote: »
    I mean, I don't know about you gentlemen but if I saw something like this:

    Ganguro-pink-green-hair.jpg

    I'd be hella (culture) shocked.

    what the fuck is up with that eye makeup

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  • GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    She looks DTF

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  • yurnamehereyurnamehere Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I thought reverse culture shock was like when a Japanese tourist goes to Paris and has a heart attack because Paris isn't as different as he expected.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Sometimes I go walking around and don't hear a word in English and I'm in the US. It's all Pakistani, Indian and Eastern European stuff.

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