Why Tourists Keep Disrespecting Japan

why do tourists keep messing around with traditional Japanese culture when visiting we're going to break it down yeah this is not as bad as Johnny Somali but still disrespect let's run the clip you can't do that you can't do that oh my good that's so rude boom long story short you guys saw it I mean this got 71,000 UPS on Reddit and various platforms this lady is being disrespectful to the traditional gishes in Kyoto the government of Kyoto now is Banning son of the private streets from tourists entering and a lot of people are just like can anybody just respect anybody else's culture is this specifically an American thing towards Japan or is all is it just all tourists everywhere around the world yeah so here are five main reasons why tourists keep disrespecting the traditional Japanese areas while visiting uh and we're going to also give you our thoughts on it and also what is [ __ ] Japan doing about it so please hit that like button check out other episodes of hopa boys check also check out our super thanks button right down below Point number one I think obviously there is a lack of respect for people's traditional culture gishes have been around I want to say for like a thousand years there's only a thousand remaining true real geishas left in Japan but some of them are still very much living that traditional lifestyle yeah I mean this kind of reminds me of that time nearby the uh British royal palace where the British guards are supposed to stand very still and there's like people trying to mess with them and they're trying to stay like focused and locked in and not move cuz that's their tradition that's their uh their job so I do you think it's uh people like not from Britain like maybe if this woman was British she might have more respect for classic culture but since she's probably from America she or Australia she has no like classic culture uh yeah I think that Americans are also likely to mess with the British royal guards too with the big hats on but yeah I think Americans are more known for that jackass punked Johnny Knoxville nek booys type trolling I think Americans like maybe invented it no I think they take it everywhere in the world and I think Americans feel like passport which is a very great amazing powerful passport that the passport is going to protect you because there is no like stories of police brutality in Japan if you get arrested you're not going to get hurt you know what I mean like that yeah I would say that Americans and Johnny Somali was American as well there's this sense of like wanting to cash in our points from being the world's dominant power for the past several decades and when we do that that can lead to [ __ ] Behavior overseas right like We Run The Joint exactly Point number two two in a place where social etiquette is so high for example Andrew Japan all around but kyota specifically a hyper traditionalist place in Japan certain parts of England you know what I mean more around the Kensington Palace or whatever you know what I mean Buckingham Palace I'm sorry I guess why do people want to disturb the peace you mean there's a sense that visitors you know uh coming from out of town it's almost like Japan is like this still pool of water and you just want to go in there and just splash it up is is it kind of like being a kid running through a flock of birds every kid did that right yeah no hey I used to do it when I was a kid or also like you know and I understand the feeling sometimes people are maybe uh weirded out or they think it's awkward for things to be so silent Serene and clean where it's like if you walk into a room you know a waiting room where everyone's quiet there's some people who like can't stand the silence so they just have to do something like fart or like do something goofy like oh hey everybody's silent here what's you're saying some people are addicted to chaos or or or just some more crazy stimulus going on yeah they just feel like I feel like some Americans feel like it's their job to add that energy or that chaos and disturb the peace disturb the silence you know right right right I think that this lady was probably from like Philly or somewhere and was like yeah I'm in attack mode I got to get the photos to show show my grandchild and you know what like I don't think she meant it maliciously like I don't think this little lady like she meant to hurt or be super rude but she's just like she was so locked in on getting the photo she's like running around the gisha and clearly the geisha's like trying to avoid her and it's just like it's super rude what she's doing again what I don't think she did was that terrible but it's just showing that dang even like a mother of kids uh a woman can still make the wrong reads you know right um a lot of people were calling her Danny DeVito from uh It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia uh Point number three Andrew why do people see Japan as this mystical mystical Pokemon land because whether they're in Tokyo that's like the mystical anime you know like Akira Super Future and then they're in Kyoto and then they're like in a hay Miyazaki film I guess Spirited Away do we empathize at all with this particular tourist that she's just surprised to see a real life gay cuz she probably watched Memoirs of Aisha before maybe and like then she sees the gisha in real life it's like oh my gosh I got to take this picture no come on come back here yeah but you know I didn't even think about it that way that she watched I don't know she probably read the book and then watched the one where dangi was in it too yeah I mean cuz she doesn't even I will say that she doesn't look like a person you see would see in Japan immediately I'm like she looks like she's more like trying to get a foot long hot dog I guess some people are just maybe they get shocked that the things that they saw in animes or the movies kind of do exist they're not just a Hollywood set like the Kyoto is a very traditional place a place that everybody has agreed to preserve right there are party places of Japan of course in Tokyo there's Rowdy places there's places where you you can be a little bit more rude and rambunctious of course in those party areas whatever but when you go to Kyoto there's kind of like this the rules that's like written that's like hey be polite right um yeah and she's she's treating it with a rongi like attitude it's not Thailand I it would be impolite even in Thailand but there are places with particularly strict social etiquette codes Japan probably top 5% in the world in terms of strictness uh Point number four Andrew some people were trying to make the excuse that black people around Asia and maybe some white people get extra attention as well or like when Asian tourists go to the West sometimes they take a lot of photos what do you mean like uh you mean just kind of like like trying to say like it wasn't cuz there were some white people who saw the video and were like hey hey guys Asians they don't act they they act this way when they come to the West too yeah yeah I I see where they're coming from but not fully though they would not do it to the extent that this lady is running in front of the gisha there has been some bad Asian tourists okay let's be honest there has been so I'm not going to say Asian people are incapable of it but it's from a different place I think it's driven from a different place because we just stayed internally we didn't run the world like whites did yeah I think Asians when they do it they're so ignorant but they don't do it out of uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh yeah they don't do it out of thinking of out of superiority yeah they don't do it to troll people like uh in Punk again listen I don't personally know this little white lady I don't know her intentions it's just embarrassing what she was doing she just people just got to read the signs right um Ander here are some photos of Kanye living in Nanjing China when he was younger he said that the kids would come up to him and rub his skin to see if the black would come off but they didn't mean it in a bad way David Point number five a lot of people mess around in Japan because they just know that honestly they're not going to get harassed or physically hurt by locals or the police are not really going to handle them a certain way now unless your name is Johnny Somali finally he did get handled by the police and some locals you're talking about more Yakuza type yeah yeah some of the gangsters right but in general like this little lady like nothing's really going to happen to her but she does get embarrassed on the internet and people talk about it and people just use it as an example of what not to do when you're in a traditional Japanese place again there are party places like dude in the city I'm sure in Osaka there are streets where like the rules are pretty loose okay I'm sure but when you're at the historical sites and you see the tradition you're supposed to know and you're supposed to read the signs before you go into Japan you're supposed to kind of know where you're going yeah and also let's be honest Andrew if she was in Osaka let's just say in a Yakuza District I don't think she's following Yakuza that pull up in some black VIP lexuses taking photos of them either but she's not doing it because she'd be scared of them right well because of gisha like I guess you're not there's no Reas intimidation Factor there's no reason to be scared of the Geisha that's why I mean here's the things that people should remember here I saw some comments saying that people should attack this white woman that's not the right path either calm down yeah because that's what makes Japan so civilized is that they would not react that way yeah so why would they descend into chaos based off her chaos yeah the reason why you like Japan is because Japanese people don't just react like that right um I think that people should seek to educate her on proper etiquette I'm sure I hope she's mortified that this video went viral do you think that she is but at the same time she might be so old it's tough to say right yeah like all you can hope for is more hope that this uh video goes viral educates the Next Generation to prevent them from uh having a repeat copycat Style video hey you tourist don't come to Japan and become a meme what is and I think this is the last Point Andrew what's happening to manners worldwide are manners getting worse worldwide after they peaked in the not 90s or is it just that people are recording things yeah I don't know I think it's a number of things I do think culture got more casual and people are like H who cares about rules but at some point you do need rules you actually have to have rules guys and they have to be enforced because what what are what are rules meant to do rules are meant to keep things in order and keep things structured without structure you essentially eventually will have no you been to a daycare that had no structure versus a daycare with a lot of structure I'm just saying well I mean just go spend 20 minutes in each of them see which one you want what about this for example have you ever played a sport a team sport where there was no teamwork and no structure and then you played on a team that had a lot of structure when you have a lot of structure the team plays better together but it does require more thinking and work from everybody people have to buy in yeah people have to buy into the system but if you just don't want to think about anything and you're like well I just want to play I Just Want to Have Fun then you run on the court together and God knows what happens it's ugly basketball it's not fun there's a ball hog everything so essentially you need rules but anyways people just read the rules before you go to Japan of all places especially Japan let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time we the hot hop boys be out peace peace