50 Signs You're in Japan for Too Long

Hey guys and girls this is CathyCat on Ask Japanese this time i'm gonna tell you 50   signs that will tell you that you've been in  Japan for so long that you started turning a   little bit Japanese and forgot that you may be a foreigner It feels more natural to you to pay by cash and not by credit card It's not weird  for you to see coffee cold and in jelly form you don't get that surprised anymore when  you find a pair of panties on the street   when you hear the word Japanese sour plum  "ume" your mouth immediately starts to water   the convenient store near your house is super convenient but you always spend too much time and money there   you know that when you go to the hundred  yen store you don't get what you need   you go to the 100 yen store and the  100 yen store tells you what you need. you feel like taking a bath without having had  a shower beforehand is a sin when you get a gift from a friend you immediately start thinking about what kind of gift you have to give back now   you say karaoke instead of karaoke when you meet someone for the very first time it's natural to you to bow and not to shake hands You wave  your hand when you want to say no no no no no no you feel like Baumkuchen is a Japanese food you got used to having sweet corn and mayo on  your pizza and you start to think it's great you never close the taxi door neither open it   there might be days when you  don't say anything at all if you meet another foreigner  living on the countryside of Japan   you feel some sort of sympathy (she meant camaraderie) wow if you see obnoxious tourists in  Tokyo you feel some sort of apathy   you realize you're bowing  to western foreigners too you don't talk on the elevator you don't talk on the train you don't talk on the bus you say "Otsukaresama deshita" every day while the first few years you are fine during hay fever season the next few years you're  suffering through it just like everyone else you frown when you accidentally  drink sweetened green tea   you realize you're nodding a lot even on the phone   you go wow and are super surprised when you see  a big dog but you never do that for small dogs cute you realize you say "sorry" more than "excuse me" you don't get nervous anymore when you put a 10 000 yen bill into a vending machine that's like 100 dollars! you started calling your stapler a hotchkiss none of your friends thinks it's weird  that you ate an American dog last night instead of asking for a power  outlet you're asking for consent   consent? you get more hot canned coffee out of  the vending machines than going to starbucks you think the opposite of red is white you  answer the phone with moshimoshi instead of hello you know that tonkatsu's best friend is cabbage   you buy a strawberry shortcake on christmas you buy a strawberry shortcake on your birthday you buy a shorsh... you buy a strawberry  shortcake on any other celebration you never bump into anyone when you're crossing shibuya crossing on a tight month you hope that your senpai pays your lunch bill you think  that salt and rice is the best onigiri there is you're searching for a button in a restaurant you know that a drink bar does not contain any alcohol even though you get asked to  check your change you never do   when a Japanese person says "raito" you know whether they meant right or light you're learning more about the difference between chinese usage kanji and Japanese usage kanji you know more fish and flower names in Japanese than you know in English you stopped thinking that a magnitude 4 earthquake is scary but you  know that in magnitude 5 would be very scary you have a hundred receipts in your wallet you have dozens of point cards in your wallet when a Japanese person tells you "Oh you can use chopsticks so very well" you smile but internally  you think "of course" someone compliments you and tells you your Japanese is very good and you internally wish you'd said more better now wait a second Like... "hey I didn't even speak something yet!" but then Dogen said something similar... when someone compliments you  how great your Japanese is   you instead of accepting it turn it down with the words of "no no not at all" even though you ....  even though you speak it fluently for you the week starts on a Sunday so these are a couple of things you realize  you've been doing if you've been living in   Japan for a long time is there anything I missed  let us know in the comments down below looking   forward to reading your comments don't forget  give us a like so more people can find this   and I hope I catch you soon for more videos on Ask Japanese, so don't forget to subscribe bye guys you

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Length: 6min 51sec (411 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 17 2021