In the aftermath of Johnny Somali and a bunch of other colored Americans being disruptive in public and on trains, Japan has decided to put up posters of noisy colored monkeys to ask foreigners to not disturb the peace.
Johnny Somali is a vile little troll who provokes racist and nationalist incidents for internet clout, but yeah, Japan is pretty racist. He’ll probably end up seriously injured or dead if he keeps up his trolling. I hear he’s taken his act to Korea now, and Koreans don’t mess around, to put it lightly.
I’d be really pissed if I were an expat in Japan, just like I get annoyed here when foreigners do something stupid and draw attention to themselves. I did see some younger westerners (around mid 20s) using the MRT poles as their personal monkey bars (trying to do pull ups or chin ups or whatever) a couple weekends ago. That was bad enough. Luckily most of these human scum social media “pranksters” like Johnny Somali don’t bother with Taiwan because it’s not high profile enough, so we just get the garden variety idiots like tattoo face.
Japanese are too polite. Most of the time they’ll just ignore you if you’re an ass in public. There was a clip of a prankster playing loud music who did get confronted by a Japanese-American, but obviously he had less inhibition to speak up than the average Japanese.
Korea doesn’t mess around. Korea is much closer to Taiwan in this regard. Somali had been getting punched by random Koreans. I hate that I know this much about this loser.
No. A guy who takes up two MRT seats during rush hour is a “twit.” Somali is far worse… he is a social terrorist. He is one of the biggest social media shit bags alive.
Maybe the best strategy for someone like that is to set on “ignore.” Oh and also hope that he’s denied entry to Taiwan should he ever try to bring his antics here.
Remember the Singapore vlogger Kiarrakitty that faked being attacked with eggs earlier this year in Taiwan. Her male friend dressed up as an old Taiwan woman and scammed the whole country.
If I were an expat in Japan, I’d be more pissed about any Japanese people who are unable to realize that one dickhead foreigner doing something dickheady doesn’t show anything about the rest of the foreigners living there, most of whom presumably aren’t dickheads.
That’s just par for the course with East Asian countries though. You can’t fight against an entire country’s ingrained prejudice, but you can tut when one of your own makes you all look bad.
The Koreans have done a decent job of this! As soon as I noticed he was in Korea I knew it wasn’t going to end well for him. Growing up in ATL with Korean youth taught me not to fuck around with them.