I “Pretended” To Be Japanese To Embarrass My Roommate’s Entitled Friend r/AITA
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🗓️ 3 October 2024
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| 1:04.0 | Am I the jerk for embarrassing someone by pretending to be Japanese backstory? |
| 1:10.0 | I am a 20 year old woman and I have a Japanese name even though I am not ethnically Japanese. |
| 1:15.6 | My mom is Korean and my dad is British. |
| 1:18.0 | They met and fell in love while studying in Japan and had me there after marrying. We lived there until I was 14 |
| 1:24.2 | before moving to the States. This will be important later. Today a group of my |
| 1:28.2 | roommate's friends came over to study with her and I happened to be in the |
| 1:31.6 | living room when they arrived. They were introducing themselves to me and when I said my name I have a pretty common Japanese girl name so it's pretty hard to be mistaken about the origin. |
| 1:41.6 | One of the girls made a disgusted face and laughed at me, saying that was so dumb. |
| 1:47.2 | She said that she was Japanese American and I was culturally appropriating her country as a white person. |
| 1:54.1 | I tried to explain that I lived in Japan for a while and that was why. |
| 1:57.9 | But she kept insisting I was lying and that if I was telling the truth I'd be able to speak the language. |
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