LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand

Striker@lemmy.worldmod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1321 points –
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Not really related, but a couple of years ago in my home country, a Western bloke was actually pictured on the internet wearing a shirt that said something like "白人很笨" (white people are stupid).

Some of us buy those ironically though. I had a shirt that said (and I unfortunately cannot put it in kana/Kanji atm) something very close to, in full kana and kanji: "I am a stupid American. I'll buy anything."

I knee fully what it meant because the sentence was pretty easy, but I still wanted to travel to Japan wearing it.

I imagine you were quite first impression popular with the local vendors!

Well I mean it's not wrong. Everybody's stupid, it's just a matter of quantity and context.