![]() 04/27/2015 at 21:39 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
The following can also work for any type of car. Be warned, slight language.
But then you ask why and you realize they have no car knowledge, so you smile and do this…
![]() 04/27/2015 at 21:43 |
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Kinja messed up my word positioning. Terribly sorry.
![]() 04/27/2015 at 21:51 |
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Everytime I hear someone dismiss a Japanese car because of some reason involving WWII I just roll my eyes and immediately just end the conversation. There’s no point continuing.
The funniest thing - at least in my experience - is that they don’t have any of the same hatred towards German brands. They just like having an excuse to be Xenophobic toward the Japanese. And it usually carries over to the South Korean brands for some inexplicable reasons...at that point they just mumble if asked directly.
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Exactly. Except you can also apply the non-hatred to American cars. I asked my car-guy friend if my dad should get the new Miata and he said no. I asked why and I kid you not, he said "Because it's a Miata". This literally shows that, as you said, people make up excuses about hating the Japanese.
![]() 04/27/2015 at 22:31 |
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....another one for the arsenal.
![]() 04/27/2015 at 22:35 |
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Most of the time I hear irrational hate for American cars. I can't remember the last time I heard anyone say anything bad about a Japanese car.
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I hoped someone would use that.
![]() 04/27/2015 at 23:18 |
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For me at least I’ve heard the opposite. Everyone I know is “oh ‘murica they make the best cars if you don’t buy one you’re stupid” and thus they hate on Jap cars.
I’m assuming that the hate for American cars you’re hearing is due to the pre-bankruptcy era. Admittedly they made some bad cars during that time, but they’ve improved for sure.
![]() 04/28/2015 at 19:07 |
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I still remember when that Typhoon (and total incompetence of managing a nuclear reactor plant) took out Fukushima. Sooooo many “This is payback for Pearl Harbor!!” Comments on social media. From people who weren’t even alive at that time and aren’t connected to anyone that was. Because the double nuking wasn’t payback enough.
I just wanted to strangle the whole world.
![]() 04/28/2015 at 19:11 |
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Oh god dammit to hell and back. I totally fucking forgot about that bullshit.
Thanks for my daily dose of Rage-a-hol.
![]() 04/28/2015 at 19:43 |
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I dunno if that’s necessarily a Japan thing. I work for a Japanese company’s U.S. arm and my work friends still hate on Miatas (my dad has an NC).
![]() 04/28/2015 at 19:49 |
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Possibly. The people I know dislike Miatas thought because they’re “slow”.