Help with Japanese culture

[DanS]

I was actually the only representative from our family that made it over to my brother's wedding in Munich to his German fiance. Besides my brother, I was the only American out of ~ 200 guests.

I have to admit that it was a little intimidating. First and only time I have danced the waltz. Can't speak a word of German.

Where is this wedding being held? State-side or in Japan?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
...never complement any rice apart from Japanese rice

"Man, this Uncle Bens is the ****! It especially goes good with Kikomans soy sauce!"

[Harry Seldon]

The wedding's in Arkansas. She won't have any family here. As a family, we tend to be over enthusiastic when greeting new members of the clan.

"Man, this Uncle Bens is the ****! It especially goes good with Kikomans soy sauce!"

You're gonna end up getting shot, roundeye.

[DanS]

Overenthusiastic? Could you tell a story or two so that we can get the whole picture?

[Harry Seldon]

Well, when I first brought my wife, then girlfriend, over to my parent's house for Thanksgiving dinner for the first time, she was swept into a whirlwind of activity. Each of my relatives were telling her jokes, relating family secrets, yelling at each other in a semijovial fashion while trying to monopolize time with her. They were just trying to make her feel like she fit in but it so completely overwhelmed her that it took almost a year before I could get her back around my family again.

[Drake Tungsten]

and we have Japanese nationals that participate on this forum

No we don't, as far as I know.

She's painfully shy and already nervous.

So she fits the stereotype!

Yep.

remove your shoes when entering a house (facing inwards I think, maybe sideways to be safe)

Toes pointed toward the door.

What is it with asians and alcohol.

They're missing an enzyme Europeans have that breaks down alcohol. That's why they get drunk so easily.

Do mo arigato go zay mas ta is formal thank you.

She's his family, not the Emperor. "Arigatou" should suffice. If she's from Kansai, break out the "okini" and she will adore you.

It especially goes good with Kikomans soy sauce!

Kikkoman is the leading soy sauce company in Japan as well.

That's all. You should be fine, Harry. Even if you do make a gaffe, she'll more than likely let it slide since you're a gaijin.

[Nubclear]

Ki mi ga -- yo -- wa! Ye cho yi -- -- ya chi yo ni, sa za re, i shi no! I wa oo to na re te, ko ke no..mu -- su -- ma -- -- de!!!

[Drake Tungsten]

I hate that song...

[Nubclear]

Wanna translate it for me?

[DanS]

No we don't, as far as I know.

Doesn't DaShi have Japanese parents or something?

[Drake Tungsten]

Doesn't DaShi have Japanese parents or something?

I don't really know. He was the only one I wasn't sure about, but I seem to remember him not being Japanese (or at least a Japanese national) for some reason. I could be wrong, however.

[DanS]

I was under the impression that he's American. But his posting style is rather... ummm... brief. Almost like DinoDoc's.

[Timexwatch]

Harry,

I'm sure she will love him long time


ack!

[Harry Seldon]

Update:

Satoko has been thoroughly Americanized. She still doesn't speak very good english but by the end of this weekend she had driven a truck, ridden horses, wrecked a truck, fed farm animals, pulled meat from a pit cooked hog, and been drug behind a speedboat at thirty miles per hour on an innertube. Plus, she got married in red, white, and blue sandals and can dance like The King. Good times.

[Arrian]

Satoko has been thoroughly Americanized. She still doesn't speak very good english but by the end of this weekend she had driven a truck, ridden horses, wrecked a truck, fed farm animals, pulled meat from a pit cooked hog, and been drug behind a speedboat at thirty miles per hour on an innertube. Plus, she got married in red, white, and blue sandals and can dance like The King. Good times.

Wrecked a truck?

-Arrian