My main concern right now are the Human Rights victims. It would not be easy to just move on from their past. Ordinary Filipinos might be okay, what about them?
@LTYokota Perspective from an Asian who grew up and has always live here, this is pretty much a stereotypical Westerner. Not saying all, but not surprised someone from the West does this.
@FredAlmeidaAMI@politicalawake Why should it be ok for you to be an immigrant here in Japan, but not them?
And no, they are not a monolith.
Also, some Japanese, though very few, are muslims themselves.
@addict_reality@SpamAcc93775191@Bimpson0 ..developing his shop's recipe or presenting a longstanding Filipino practice as a new innovation.
Given the history of Western food media, that's not an irrational concern.
@addict_reality@SpamAcc93775191@Bimpson0 The problem isn't that people don't understand what recipe development means.
The problem is that coconut-milk-based ube ice-cream isn't new. So when a white chef says he "developed a vegan ube ice cream recipe," some are naturally going to wonder whether he's talking about..
@Bimpson0@JustParody703 He claimed to develop a recipe for a vegan one 🙄.
Heck, had the word the word "my" was used in the original tweet, or acknowledged in the initial tweet the PH origin, sure.
@testpatterns_@Bimpson0 His original statement wasnt done in good faith. Could have removed it and tweeted a corrected one.
He had to hold on to semantics.
Tried to justify afterwards that he asked Filipinos.
Then just insulted Filipinos for misunderstanding him.
@JustParody703@Bimpson0 He admitted afterwards he got help form Filipinos.
And he knows how he phrased his tweet.
He could have simply added in his first tweet how coconut milk is used in (some) ube ice cream in the Philippines.
@JustParody703@Bimpson0 But Asians dont pretend they invented sandwich. With Banh mi, Vietnamese would clearly say the French influence. Katsu sando is clearly a type of sandwich. The guy saying he developed a vegan ube ice cream was literally describing something that already existed. Not a new variant
And even the accusation of Koreans stealing should come with an asterisk. It ignores the power imbalance between Korea and the West that brought their music (which includes black influence) to the world.
black people are allowed to be mad at koreans and white people for stealing their culture but filipinos aren't allowed to be mad when our culture gets stolen and our farmers exploited? fuck you.
@yanideputa Oh.. to Westerners in general.. western POC sometimes act as if they're not part of the west that oppressed and/or acting superior over others.
This is peak Japanese hypocrisy.
They demand every foreign tourist in Japan obey invisible local scripts perfectly, or be filmed, shamed, and turned into “迷惑系” content.
But when Japanese tourists go abroad?
Japanese tourists caught vandalizing trains in Bangkok
Publicly exposing their genitals on the Great Wall of China.
Raping underage girls in Southeast Asia.
Japanese women are banned from entering the country due to overseas prostitution.
Suddenly it’s not “national character.”
Suddenly it’s not “respect local culture.”
Suddenly it’s just “individual cases.”
So let’s be clear:
If foreigners must respect Japan, then Japanese tourists must respect other countries too.
You don’t get to export humiliation, exploitation, and bad behavior across Asia, then cry “manners” when a Chinese tourist dances outside Lawson at 5 a.m. with no crowd, no victim, and no obstruction.
Japan doesn’t have a foreigner problem.
It has a hypocrisy problem.