Why Japanese People HATE this woman [1qN_8jIOxFU]

There's this woman called Karolina Shino.

She's a 26-year-old Ukrainian woman who

moved to Japan when she was around 5 and

then became a naturalized Japanese woman.

And recently she's won the Miss Japan

beauty contest, the beauty pageant, and

it's caused a bit of an uproar on Japan

Twitter and among the very nationalistic

Japanese people. So there's a group of

Japanese people on the internet known as

the uyoku, and it basically means right

plus wing. And they're not very nice

people. They're very unpleasant, very

nationalistic, and very stupid. And I

actually had an encounter with them about

5 years ago when I made a video about why

I hate living in Japan, which was supposed

to be a comical, funny, tongue-in-cheek,

light-hearted video criticizing a few

things I didn't like about living in

Japan. And all I did was say that the

bacon was bad and the crisps were bad and

some of the food was bad, and Because the

video went viral and blew up, they found

the video and they just started to attack

me. And there's a website that they all go

to. I forgot the name of the website.

It's kind of like a 4chan website where

it's completely unmoderated. All the

toxic, horrible, scummy people of society

gather there and just say whatever they

want to say. And they had like a

60-page-long thread about me saying stuff

like, this guy is stupid, he should get

out of Japan, he should go home if he

doesn't like it. They were trying to

report me to immigration and all that kind

of stuff just because I said said the

bacon in Japan is bad. And then the most

annoying thing about them was they started

debating about whether I was actually

British or not. They seem to be insulted

at the idea of me saying that I'm British

just because, you know, I look Asian. So

they're saying stuff like, there's no way

he's British, he has to be Chinese, and

then he moved to England, and then he

scammed his way into somehow getting UK

citizenship. It's like they couldn't

believe the idea that I was born in the

UK, that means I am British. They just

seem to be obsessed with things like

racial identity, genetics, what people

look like instead of what people are on

the inside. And this was my first real

experience of having a massive group of

people just outright, flat out say that

I'm not British and reject my national

identity, which I found pretty shocking at

the time because it's never happened to me

before. And yeah, I was kind of upset.

And I feel sorry for anyone who kind of

blows up on the internet and becomes viral

or becomes a meme, and then they become

the target of these uyoku people because

they're just a bunch of nasty, horrible

people. But I kind of find myself agreeing

with them on this point. So as you can

imagine, they're very upset and very

against the idea of this Ukrainian woman,

Karolina Shino, winning the Miss Japan

beauty pageant. And I think they're kind

of right here. So first of all, she wasn't

even born in Japan. She was actually born

in Ukraine. Maybe if she was born in

Japan, I might think a little bit

differently because she was born in the

country and she grew up there from her

very first day alive, but she was actually

born in Ukraine. Her parents were both

Ukrainian, so she's not even half Japanese

or quarter Japanese. She's not even 1%

Japanese, probably. So she had 2 Ukrainian

parents, and then her Ukrainian mum went

to Japan and married a Japanese man and

then got a visa, I guess, and citizenship

that way, and then brought Karolina as her

daughter over to Japan as well. And then

Karolina naturalized and was given

citizenship to live in Japan since her mum

is married to a Japanese man. So pretty

simple, but I personally would never think

her as a Japanese woman. I'd always just

see her as a Ukrainian woman who moved to

Japan as a young child and then speaks

very good Japanese and knows a lot about

Japanese culture and mannerisms and

etiquette and stuff like that. I don't

really have a problem with her identifying

culturally and nationally as a Japanese

person. She can identify as whatever she

wants, but the problem is she won the Miss

Japan beauty contest, and it's in the name

beauty contest. It's all about your looks

and your face and your genetics. It's

nothing to do with your personality or

your nationality or your cultural values.

It's all about what you look like. And she

doesn't look like a Japanese person, so I

don't think she should be able to even

participate in a contest that is titled

Miss Japan because she's not even

Japanese. I think the winner or the

participants of a Miss Japan beauty

contest should at least, at the bare

minimum, looks slightly like the people

who represent the majority of the

population of Japan, which she does not.

Imagine if they let a man win Miss Japan

and he's not even Japanese either. That

would just be even more ridiculous. But in

these days, I could imagine that happening

as well. And it seems like the uyoku

people have won this battle because they

managed to bully her into giving up the

title of Miss Japan, and the Miss Japan

title is now vacant. No one has it. But it

also seems like she was having an affair

with one of the judges of the contest,

and that's her official reason for giving

up the title, but I bet it's also partly

because she probably didn't like all the

criticism she was getting and all the hate

she was getting. I find it kind of funny

that she's trying to tick every box of

adopting Japanese culture, even the whole

cheating part of Japanese culture, which

is very prevalent. You might not know that

cheating is like really heavily embedded

into Japanese society and culture. That's

why they've got love hotels all over the

place. And even my ex-wife said Basically

everyone at her company has either had an

affair or they're having an affair or

they're being cheated on and they know

about it and they just kind of accept it

as part of daily life because cheating is

so widespread in Japan. Even if you're

being cheated on, people just go, oh well,

well, that kind of sucks. Whatever. I

guess I'll cheat as well. You might know

this already, but Japan heavily idolizes

and glorifies Westerners. They love

Western people, especially Western women

like Taylor Swift. They think she's like

an amazingly beautiful Disney princess,

perfect face, perfect body, everything.

Taylor Swift's amazing. Whoa, Taylor Swift

has blonde hair, blue eyes, she's tall,

she's got long legs. She's like the

perfect woman in the Japanese eyes. I

remember one time I was at some kind of

temple place in Osaka and there was a

blonde-haired, blue-eyed little baby with

its mum, and the baby was just kind of,

you know, playing around like a baby. Not

really a baby, more like a toddler, like

5, 6 years old. And there was a crowd of

old Japanese people gathering around the

baby, all going, oh, your baby's so cute,

when it's literally just a blonde baby.

There's a billion blonde babies all over

Europe. When you go traveling in Japan to

very touristy places like Kyoto,

Nara, temple kind of places where

Westerners love to travel to, and you sit

on the train, every time I sat on the

train going to like Kyoto or temple place

and there were other very Western-looking

Westerners on the train as well, I swear

to Jesus, at least one Japanese person

would come over to them and initiate

conversation. That has never happened to

me. So I've got a few examples. One time I

was on the train going to visit some

temple, and I think there was like a

Canadian couple. I know this because I

overheard the conversation. A Canadian

couple, very Western looking, and they

were trying to figure out how to get to

this place. And this Japanese woman just

comes up to them and starts talking to

them to help them. And then she also

starts telling them how she lived in

Canada for a few years or something, and

she seemed so happy to be able to talk to

a Westerner and practice English and stuff

like that. And I'm standing there

thinking, hello, I'm British, why don't

you talk to me? And then this other time

on the train, there was a Swedish couple.

I know this because every time the

Japanese people go up to them, they'll

say, first of all, where are you from? In

very broken English. So there's a Swedish

couple just sitting on the train minding

their own business, and then this Japanese

guy— he seemed kind of drunk the way he

was slurring his words and stuff— he just

stands in front of them and he starts

randomly asking questions like, where are

you from? Do you like Japan? How long are

you here? Where have you been? Do you like

it here? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then they also say every time they

say, welcome to Japan. And then the

foreigners have no choice but to say,

thank you. Thanks so much for welcoming

us. And I'm just sitting there thinking,

thank God that's not me. I can't imagine

what it's like being white and traveling

to Japan. You must have people coming up

to you all the time just asking you these

annoying questions and trying to take a

photo with you. Maybe I'm exaggerating,

but I feel like if you're blonde and

you've got blue eyes and you're kind of

tall, you could probably just draw a crowd

just by standing there, and people just

come over to you and start taking photos

because you look beautiful to them. So the

whole reason why this Karolina Ukrainian

woman won the beauty contest is because

she basically ticks almost all the boxes

for being a beautiful Western woman.

She's got the small face, the big eyes,

the kind of blondish light brown hair,

the very pale complexion. So the reason

why she won the Miss Japan beauty contest

is because she basically looks nothing

like a Japanese woman. So it's kind of a

weird message they're sending here.

They're saying that to be beautiful, you

have to basically not look like a Japanese

woman, which I don't know what kind of

negative message that's sending to all of

the Japanese women. Now, this is just my

subjective opinion, but I don't know how

she won the Miss Beauty— Miss Japan beauty

contest because she looks incredibly plain

and incredibly average as just like an

average Western woman. You see people look

like that everywhere in Europe, but in

Japan she's like, oh my god, 10 out of 10.

I think even a 2 out of 10 Japanese woman

who's like 40 years old looks more

attractive than Carolina Chino. But you

know what these contests are like, they

always seem to highlight the worst of

everything. For example, fashion contests

have people with the worst fashion

imaginable art contests and art museums

have the stupidest and worst-looking art

I've ever seen, like just a splash of

paint or a blob of paint, and that's

contemporary art. And then Miss Japan

beauty contests where the contestants are

not even beautiful and they're not even

from Japan. I guess that's just the silly

world we live in now.