What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world?

egitalian@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 220 points –
323

You are viewing a single comment

Their ability to actually build things. The amount of construction projects I saw while visiting was insane, and they get it done fast.

Fast my ass. Once they finally start maybe... But it takes ages to lay the first stone. There's not enough people available to build everything they want to build. It's a serious issue

They had a lot of practice with all their empty scam apartment buildings.

Are you thinking about China?

Oh ye. Sorry.

When your xenophobia is eager but bad at geography.

Pretty common unfortunately in America.

I still think about how Blizzard originally made their WoW expansion, Panderia, to include Samurai and sushi. And someone had to explain them the difference between China and Japan.

It's so stupid.

That's not even necessarily mixing the two up so much as failing to distinguish cultures within "Asia" in the first place. A lot of people think of the whole region as one place. Put some soy and garlic on something? You've got an "Asian" dish. Never mind that there are numerous regional culinary traditions within China alone.

See also: Africa.

There are people on the Web unable to distinguish between Asia as in "China, Japan, Kamboja, Vietnam ..." and Asia as in "Iran and Saudi Arabia".