Comment on Cool Japan 🌸

20cello@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It wasn’t saying it wasn’t tho

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• Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, genuinely, how? It’s not saying you need to be Japanese to enter, just that you need to be able to read Japanese. IMO, learning the local language of a country you plan to visit is a basic courtesy that too many people don’t bother with.

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  • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “I’m tired of all these immigrants coming over here and not even being able to speak the language. This is [country] and we speak [language] here!”

    That’s what you sound like.

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s their country. Aren’t they entitled to make rules?

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      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you tie the availability of housing to whatever language someone speaks instead of something tangible related to the respective person, it’s racism.

        I used Google Lens to translate the bottom text. Do you think that if i would go in there using my phone to translate i would get a room for the night?

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      • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you believe that anyone existing in America must speak English and only English? If a couple next to you at a cafe are speaking French to each other do you tell them to go back home?

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        .world btw

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “This is [Barcelona] and we speak [Catalan] here!”

      Is this suddenly a different situation?

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … How many countries have you ever visited to say that

    Like, being able to speak the very basics I agree. Numbers, hello and goodbye, thank you, etc.

    But “If you can read this, you may come in” is pretty advanced. Like, probably requiring weeks of daily study level advanced to be able to understand.

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    • untorquer@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Solidly A2 (European system) with that grammar(English translation) so 3-6 months (1-2 terms of university course).

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re right, in Barcelona they write “Tourists go home” in plain English in order to accommodate foreigners who aren’t fluent in Catalan!

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    • 20cello@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly

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  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jim Crow literacy tests have entered the chat

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  • M137@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, yes, everyone whould spend months to learn the language of every country they visit even though they might be there for only a few days.

    How are you this dumb? I highly doubt you’ve ever been outside the country you were born in, and if you have you certainly didn’t follow your own thought here.

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    • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Christ Almighty dude, calm down. Yeah, maybe my comment was ignorant crap, but why jump straight to ad hominem? Do you think you’re actually going to change anyone’s opinion by calling them stupid straight off the bat?

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