Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"

On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:05:02 -0400
shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a new
light after a recent visit to Japan.
 
The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the
U.S. is unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun.
 
"After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA
we're always chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country,"
he said during his monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy
Kimmel Live." 

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I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never
seen a city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy
people everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the
places I've been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities to
get around and function in if you don't speak the language. I
thought at the time that if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd consider
living in Tokyo for good if I could. 

 
But my understanding is you would have a difficult time living there
because you aren't Japanese.

I saw an interesting documentary on that quite a few years back. The
Japanese are hospitable to tourists but they really only accept ethnic
Japanese that speak the language fluently as being real Japanese; they
are essentially somewhat xenophobic about the prospect of immigration
to help them with their demographic crunch.

Even Americans of Japanese descent are not fully accepted and I've
heard that Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, suffer discrimination,
as to Koreans, even if they are descended from people who have lived in
Japan for the past century. (Korea was under Japanese control from
1905-1945, which is still a source of animosity between the countries.)

Things like buying a home would be very
difficult for you.

That may depend on where you want to buy this home. I saw a video
several months back that highlighted some Japanese towns that were
literally giving houses away. The catch is that these were in towns
that were largely depopulated due to their main industries going away.
The video did not say where the free houses were available to
foreigners.

So it really sounds like a great place to visit as
a foreigner but not so to permanently live as a foreigner. As for the
cleanliness isn't Singapore another place that's kept exceptionally
clean but hot and humid.
 

Yes, indeed! I used to know a guy from Singapore and he told me that it
is only a few degrees from the equator and right on the ocean - it's an
island - so it is between 85 and 90 degrees and has a humidity in the
high 90s all year round. Also, the sun rises at 7:30 AM and sets
at 7:30 PM all year round.

 

Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the last
10 short years was very disheartening. 

 
Of course LA is going to be disheartening just from all the homeless
on the streets.
 

It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel, whose
show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across Hollywood Blvd
from the Chinese Theater and the Hollywood-and-Highland Complex,
where fentanyl addicts stagger around like WALKING DEAD extras,
crime is out of control, vagrants tents and trash mountains abound,
and dead bodies lying on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence.
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Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed.
 

Kimmel went on to describe how he used to believe that while the
U.S. had "areas for improvement," it was mostly ahead in terms of
cleanliness compared to most of the rest of the world.
 
"I go to Europe, and there are dirt holes where plumbing is
supposed to be. I hold my breath, and I go, 'I'm glad I'm not one
of these people,' and then I go back home," he continued. Kimmel
went on to praise the cleanliness of the bathrooms in Japan.
 
"The bathrooms in Tokyo and Kyoto are cleaner than our operating
rooms here. Everywhere you go the bathrooms are clean, they don't
smell bad, they have those toilets that wash you from the inside
out," he marveled. Kimmel also joked that even truck stop
restrooms were "cleaner than Jennifer Garner's teeth -- the
cleanest. Beautiful."
 
"And it's not just the bathrooms," the host added. "People carry
their own trash. There are no garbage cans," Kimmel said,
mentioning the 1995 terrorist incident when a man put poisonous
sarin gas in trash cans. 

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Yes! I noticed that. I had to carry around an empty Coke can for
several hours because there was nowhere on the street to put it.
 

This resulted in the country removing public trash receptacles and
Japanese citizens adapting to dispose of their own garbage.
 
"They're like OK, no more trash cans, everybody clean up after
yourselves. And guess what -- they clean up after themselves! They
bring their garbage to their houses," he added.
 
"It's like the whole country is Disneyland, and we're living at
Six Flags," Kimmel said. "I've been home 36 hours, I have never
felt dirtier. We are like hogs compared to the Japanese. I can't
imagine what they must think of us. 'Oh, the garbage people. Yes,
the Americans. Garbage.'"
 
[NYC was much cleaner before several Demcorats were running it,
Jimmy-Boy.] 

--
Rhino