There's a saying on American social media:
"Be the American that Japanese people think you are."
I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life.
So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room.
"When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38)
"An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61)
"If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45)
"At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio)
"A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21)
"At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70)
"American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33)
"I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48)
"When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39)
"They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66)
And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country.
"Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing.
The people running toward it.
There are always so many."
So, America.
You don't have to become the Americans we think you are.
We're not imagining you.
We're remembering you.
@SamuraiShibaJP This made me cry. Not ashamed. It feels really good to have someone actually SEE Americans for who we really are.
Americans never tap out. We'll help anyone or everyone. We run towards danger, not away.
And, above all else, We Love our country.
Thank you.
@22BMCG@GiorgiaMeloni The ripples of people who've had enough are growing into storms in order to protect their society and our Western Civilization.
Brilliant move. Hope it holds all over Italy.
🚨WHILE EVERYONE IS DISTRACTED BY TILLAMOOK CAVING TO SHARIA, NABISCO QUIETLY ADDED A SMALL TEAM OF IMAMS TO BLESS THE PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF ITS PLANT IN THE SUBURBS OF DETROIT!
“Nabisco went Halal and didn’t bother to tell anyone but the Muslim community,” said Activist Ben Jarroo of the Citizens United National Trust Society. “Now we have people of all faiths consuming products blessed by what most would consider blasphemers to their own beliefs. It’s not right.”
Nabisco says the Imams are there to make sure the food that goes out to the heavily Muslim communities in Dearborn and Grand Rapids is “customer friendly.”
They didn’t have an answer for all the other people unwittingly conforming to a foreign religion’s dietary restrictions.
Share this everywhere so they see Nabisco went Halal in secret and nobody was told!
🚨 BREAKING: POLISH PRESIDENT STORMS HIS OWN HIGHEST COURT AT 1 AM 🚨
Karol Nawrocki just walked straight into the Constitutional Tribunal building after turning his plane around mid-flight from Senegal.
He looked the pro-EU judges in the eye and told them they are NOT judges.
Their attempted takeover is OVER.
“You are not judges of the Constitutional Tribunal!”
🔥🔥🔥
This is the elected President of Poland personally ending a coup in real time.
Donald Tusk’s camp declared the Tribunal’s president (Bogdan Święczkowski) “suspended,” sent police to surround the building, and tried to seize control with judges who were never sworn in by the President. Nawrocki cut his trip short, flew home, arrived after midnight with the head of the Supreme Court, and forced his way inside through the pushing and scuffling at the doors.
He is not backing down.
Poland’s highest court was being hijacked. The President just took it back. 🇵🇱
Go get ’em, Mr. President! 🇺🇸
This is what standing up to a power grab looks like.
This is the best representation of My Dad teaching me, his daughter, these very things. I went back to those memories so fast, it surprised me. In the best way.
I'm still smiling. It's been three straight minutes. And my mind is still amazed that he wanted me to learn. And it was his way of Dad/Daughter time.
You, once again, have my thanks and my gratitude.
That is what we all wish. Unfortunately, human nature has always puzzled us humans, that's why philosophers evolved. And they argue more than any humans should.
To be honest...some cultures are simply not meant to mix. There are those that rise and do as much good as they can. Others, cause as much fear and pain as they can.
We're all of us like magnets, pulling or repelling, others. Whether as individuals, or as entire countries.
Keep what works. Throw out what doesn't. This is humanity throughout our long history.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT 🚨 American Medical Doctor in Chicago is blowing the whistle on a new practice that’s taking place
It’s called “close your eyes and immunize.” He says it’s becoming very common to vaccinate children when they go under anesthesia WITHOUT PARENT CONSENT often times because the parents are signing to do what’s best for the child under anesthesia, but doctors are now including vaccinations as necessary
Again, you take your child in for a surgery, sign the paper saying to do what’s best for your child, the hospitals are now using that consent to vaccinate your kids without your knowledge. Including with the COVID vaccine
“I'm a family doctor who practices in the suburbs and the city of Chicago. I wanted to offer some practical advice tonight to those of you who, like me, might be angry and very concerned about the news reports detailing the rise of what one hospital is calling, close your eyes, we'll immunize. This is a growing practice, perhaps pioneered at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, but something that's been around longer than the powers that be would like us to know, where children are undergoing elective and emergency medical surgeries and being immunized while they're away from their parents in the operating room”
“Parents have often given consent unknowingly or under duress for these vaccinations to be performed. And one of the things that's clear from the reports is that informed consent, which should be one of the hallmarks of medical ethics and practice today, is rarely being provided to the extent that it should be”
“Flu shot seems to be the most popular thing to administer, but RSV, COVID, and some other things are now being administered without the parents knowing while their child is in the hospital. So imagine you take your child to the hospital because they have terrible belly pain. Turns out they have appendicitis and any of appendix taken out. You sign a form saying that the surgeon and the medical team can do whatever they think is necessary to help your child. You didn't know your child's getting a flu shot 15 minutes later before the first incision is made”
Okay this is CRIMINAL in my opinion so I did my own research and found out what states this is happening in,
Pennsylvania at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia . Official “Close Your Eyes, We’ll Immunize” program running since 2023. It gave 2,054 influenza vaccine doses in the 2025–2026 season to children already under sedation anesthesia
Colorado at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Offers influenza vaccine under general anesthesia to eligible patients since 2020. More than 18,000 patients have received it. Additional vaccines are sometimes given at the request of a primary care clinician
Illinois at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and its ambulatory surgery centers. Offers flu shots under anesthesia for eligible patients age 6 months and older during scheduled surgeries and procedures
California at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center in Northern California. First KP facility in the region to offer flu shots to pediatric surgical patients ages 6 months–18 while under anesthesia for planned procedures
@ThomasSowell I'm very sure Ben has never once made a blanket judgment in his life.
I never seem to have a need to ask a celebrity for their political opinion, and yet, like magic, a celebrity appears.
Get the fuck out of here, Ben-Ben.
@CongressmanRaja Stop this bullshit lie!
You whinge more than any five women I know.
And the shooter was trans which is antithetical to our beliefs. NOT WHITE SUPREMACY. TRANS CRAZY.
You're such a fucking liar.
Good God! She's just like Macron. The difference is gone. Which is the real Marine?
Didn't she state numerous times that she'd kick them out if elected, then Macron remained in power?
France is screwed if anyone wins France.
France, wave the white flag higher for islam. Good work.
Some Indians are extremely intelligent, hard working, and want a new life in America to be an American not an Indian.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. You're scammers. You bring your caste system to America and push us out of jobs because you'll accept less money. Then scam us another way to make up the difference.
I don't like many Indians I meet, but i am polite and accomodating as i can until you go Full Indian in my presence. I don't need you in my life at all. I'm not missing out on a thing as I don't care for Indian culture. Never did. Never will.
Ya know, when they treat America like India by dumping their trash in the waterways thick enough to walk across, I don't want that shite in MY country!
The X post by @BasedSolutions1 shares screenshots styled as Google search results claiming medieval Cairo Geniza fragments describe ten Jewish elders co-authoring the Quran to shield Jews from Byzantine Christian persecution.
These screenshots reference a documented 10th-12th century Jewish polemical legend preserved in Geniza manuscripts, portraying the elders as infiltrating Muhammad's circle and embedding hidden messages in the text as cultural resistance.
Scholars identify the story as fabricated folklore rather than historical evidence, part of medieval interfaith polemics with no basis in Islamic sources or contemporary records.
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