https://www.teamblind.com/post/Accidentally-sent-my-son-to-Japan-to-study-Chinese-fxdjjwqJ
This has to be a bit. They didn't want to send their son to Taiwan because they have a "hillbilly accent", so they sent him to Japan instead?
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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Japan also seemed like the better choice because the northern latitude coincided with China’s capital, Beijing.
What is going on in this person's brain? Do they think the magnetic poles impact a person's accent? Being closer to the equator makes you sound more like a hick or what lmao
Ah yes studying Arabic in Mexico will help me develop an Algerian accent because of the latitude
Oh dear god I think he first learned Taiwan has a different accent, and separately learned that it's in the south, so therefore there would be a southern accent and mentally melded the two together as Taiwanese have a hillbilly accent
He then learned the University of Tokyo has a good Mandarin course, and it's on the same level latitude as Beijing, so he would get a proper northerner accent.
If this is real, this guy is incredible
The most 
of
It's like a few months ago when discussing the Napoleon film with my friend, she had previously learned that Napoleon was exiled to an island (twice) and also that he was defeated at Waterloo, so she assumed The Battle of Waterloo was either entirely a naval battle or naval with some aspects on an island. She then said she hasn't watched the film but will eventually because she enjoyed the naval battles in Pirates of the Caribbean so she wants to see Ridley Scott's take on the Battle of Waterloo.
"You... You've conflated two completely unrelated facts about this one subject in your head. Waterloo was not a naval battle"
"He was on an island when he lost?"
"No he was exiled to an isla- wait, did you think Waterloo was on the water because "water" is in the name?"
"He was defeated and died on the island? Was it not a naval battle?"
"Those are two completely different events"
dutch claims another victim. we can't let them get away with this!
equator makes you sound more like a hick
hicquator
hes a nordicist (hence the "ethnic german") and wants to stay in the higher latitudes
i just wanted to point out that an exaggerated taiwanese accent is generally perceived to be more effeminate to your average mainlander. so their son was not in any danger of sounding like a hillbilly, at worst people might think he was gay or fem
at worst people might think he was gay
So the one part of China that is not ruled by the Communist Party is the same part of China whose locals are most likely to sound like "comrades"?
I was told that Southern Chinese accents do not sound good on men, and Taiwanese accents could come across as “feminine”-sounding. It seems like Taiwan is also the only place in Asia where gay marriage is legal, so there seems to be some logic in that. Not prejudiced or anything, but I’m not spending thousands to send my son overseas so he can sound gay.
They are so prejudiced
Northern accents are apparently more masculine, hence our choice in Japan, a northern masculine country.
TO LEARN CHINESE
I'm crying
This is actually a thing, Taiwanese Mandarin accents are difficult to the point that even Taiwanese people acknowledge it because the other way around with another accent is usually easier to understand
Also, I would imagine that Japan is much closer to China in terms of culture and language, than Mexico is to the US or the UK.
than Mexico is to the US
There are no Chicanos in Ba Sing Se
Critical support to this guy's large adult son, who is either:
- Offline enough to not know about Japan through manga/anime/Vtubers/Jpop/hentai/video games and genuinely didn't know his father was making a huge mistake
or
- Knows and opted not to tell his brain dead father for a free trip to Japan
both are good bits.
Nice thesis and antithesis there, but I must propose the synthesis "offline enough to not know about Japan through pop culture soft power shit, but also totally knew his dad was being an ass but opted not to say anything in order to get a free trip to Japan"
American schooling at its finest 
How do people like this exist long enough to have children but not gain awareness?
Having children is extremely easy for most. Raising them is the harder part, but people like this hire an Ecuadorian nanny and call them Mexican. Then send their kids to Denmark to learn Kirundi.
How does someone send their child to another country without knowing that Japan isn't China. Did they try to send them by air mail because it also involves a plane?
Racism. Which is ironic because they sent their kid to a country that is racist against the people who speak the language they sent the kid there to learn.
Before all you holier-than-thou people jump in and call me racist, I am AWARE. That Japan also speaks Japanese.
The author is right. How could we possibly assume from the context of this post that they are a racist who wouldn’t know that the Japanese people ALSO speak Japanese?
Japanese people get to speak Japanese, as a treat
My son came back from Japan after going there to learn Chinese. When he came back, he suddenly had an interest in this thing called Hentai? I didn't know China was so cultured.
I mean there are immigrant areas in Japan. There's a big Chinese community in Yokohama, which is reasonably close to Tokyo.
But I guess that would involve interactions with working class Chinese immigrants, or second generation kids of immigrants. And that's not the type of people some fancy rich kid would want to be around.
What kind of racism do you need to assume Japanese people simply know how to speak Mandarin and also use it in their daily lives? And what kind of racism do you need to not even investigate this. They could have sent the kid to Singapore or Malaysia, a lot of people speak Mandarin there.
It's like going to Poland to study Russian lmao wtf
Help I sent my kid to Madagascar to learn Basque
Lmao what level of racism is this?
"I didn't do any research and I didn't ask any questions. This sucks. Why didn't anyone tell me."
The "research" here was just going to the Chinese language wiki page.
but if he did that he would already know that Chinese is not spoken in Japan
i wish i had enough money to accidentally go to the wrong country to learn a language. send me to japan to learn chinese. then I'll cross the East China Sea to learn Japanese (I will reply to anyone who tries to speak Japanese at me in Japan with "wakarimasen" because I know that one already). once I'm done learning Japanese I'll go to India and learn Arabic.
this could be my life 
I went to school with a guy who thought he could just move to Rome to learn Latin. Even 13 year old me was like "I'm pretty sure they speak Italian in Rome".
spoilers: He grew out of his Roman Empire worship days, did not go to Rome or the Vatican to learn Latin by age 16.
I feel like Romeaboos would be less taken with the language if they realized that the Italian accent didn't just come out of nowhere. The vision they have in their heads is all movie-badass-voice Euromerican-accent Latin, but the reality is much funnier. 
Taiwan is right there you fucking dumbass, also imagine not being willing to send your kid to China because you're afraid of communism 
He could’ve gone to Singapore, or Taiwan, or just came back to Germany and lived in Chinatown or something. But instead he decided to go to Japan to learn Chinese to own da gommies
back to germany
I'm guessing the "ethnic German" actually means they're Americans with German great-great-great-great-grandparents
This is 100% the case.
eh germamy doesn't really have any significant chinese population
they live in San Francisco. They call themselves "ethnically German" because they are too ashamed to admit they are actually from Alabama
Surprised he didn’t just send the kid to Taiwan.
He's probably drunk the Kool aid and thinks Taiwan people don't speak Chinese but a totally different indigenous language
Mandela effect from a universe where the Taiwanese Indigenous languages did not all become extinct, moribund, or endangered
I wonder who did all that.