Three years in Asia, now in the USA

[WilliamSmith]

Greetings. I'm fresh out of the military. I spent two years in Japan, one in Korea, and one in Turkey. The two years in Japan were the best time of my life. I'm back in the USA now.

It has been a big struggle to get back on my feet and find a meaningful job, but I am finally on track again. If things had been different, maybe I would have stayed in the military longer and would have had the chance to go to Japan again. It was causing me too much heartache so it was time to get out.

I wish I had been born Japanese instead of American. Japan has a much better society.

Hi Joe_, welcome.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more about Japan being a great country.

I'm not sure I'd actually have wanted to have been born there, since my Japanese friends (mostly guys from college days) pretty much all talked about feeling a sort of palpable sense of peer pressure and stress on them at all times growing up there. However, they still all thought it was a great country compared with the USA, even though they said they felt freer here, and they all got rid of their American low-end hotrods and girlfriends and went back there anyway.

I don't personally think all American women are quite as bad as most guys these days seem to (LOL), but I agree this country's down the tubes to the point I really don't see it turning around, and I want to get out too before the Iron Curtain falls over this woke !@#$hole.

I am still looking up the theoretic best places to go for dual citizenship (which Japan does not allow, probably wisely from their POV), but Japan is still on the top of the list of best countries. I still have this feeling of guilt about not wanting to impose on them, but the harsh reality is that they've already opened themselves up to major foreign immigration over the past few years, and there's been all kinds of foreigners in there making trouble. So for those of us who would actually be gentlemanly in public, not be a burden on them financially or go around bitching about how "Japan is rayciss'", learn how to speak at least decent Japanese, etc, it's an interesting option.

[WilliamSmith]

Some of the men aren't much better. The millennials/gen Zers I am stuck working with at work have all the social skills of a feral cat. Oh to be back in Japan...

I agree with this too. I have been running my own modest online businesses and not following US cesspool culture at all for around 10 years (so was kind of oblivious to how hard things went downhill in that period), and I only just learned about the whole manosphere/"MGTOW"/redpill movement stuff this year. I think I understand where all the pissed off men are coming from overall, and I'm right there with them on being totally un-PC and anti-woke, but have to say I haven't seen one single guy in the USA who wouldn't have me completely cringing if I had any daughters dragging any of these guys back home. I don't even know whether all the nasty dope-smoking misogynistic porno-hounds and Grand-Theft-Auto addicts are worse, or if the whiny gender-confused bolshevik beta cucks would be worse.
Thank god I don't have any daughters here, LOL.

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[WilliamSmith]

Interesting, but you lost me at "misogynistic." There is no such thing as misogyny. It's just another label the leftoids throw around these days. Anyone who a leftoid disagrees with is labeled:

misogynist
racist
xenophobic
homophobic
transphobic
nazi
neo-nazi
hitler
incel

Did I forget any?

You're right about "leftoids" (LOL, nice term) throwing around all those terms in a nonsensical way that derives these actual words of any legit meaning.

"Misogyny" is just an old term that predates feminism by hundreds of years though, and means "hatred of women." (The term came into use sometime around the 1600s, along with the opposite term philogyny for hatred of men, which obviously has also always been a thing as long as either men and women existed.)
I'm sure the current whackjob feminists are misusing the term and labelling all sorts of things "misogyny" that don't belong there though, like you said. (I don't follow mainstream culture, so you're probably thinking of examples that make sense that I don't know about.)
The "2nd wave" feminism created by a wax-museum horror exhibition of psychotic female jews who started promoting the idea that there's supposedly no such thing as gender is to blame for this modern mess, as far as the gender perversion side goes.

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[Outcast9428]

@Joe_

I'm extremely curious about Japan... Japan and Thailand are both at the top of my list for countries I'm interested in moving to.

Where in Japan did you live? I am thinking about living either in Okinawa or somewhere in the greater Tokyo area (but not in downtown Tokyo).

My brother discouraged me from being interested in Japan, he said that wokeness and feminism is getting surprisingly bad in Tokyo. He says he knows somebody who lives there and thinks its marginally better here in Virginia then in Tokyo. In the area of Virginia I live in, I would say that woke ideology is not popular at all and most people make fun of it but you do occasionally run into someone like that. I wouldn't consider Virginia, or anywhere in the US really, to truly be conservative but I do think Virginia is much more spared from the woke plague then other US states are.

But I'm interested in living in a true conservative society where I can find a loyal, sweet, feminine stay at home wife. In college I actually met a Japanese girl, it was the first and only time in my whole life that a girl actually walked up to me in broad daylight and essentially picked me up. She asked for my phone number, texted me and everything. I remember when I talked to her and other Asian female foreign exchange students, walking away with this weird feeling that this is the way things are supposed to be. That this is how an interaction between a guy and a girl should feel like.

I'm planning on visiting Japan this summer when the COVID restrictions are lifted. Do you have any recommendations on places to go and how I could get to know the culture better and meet people while I'm there? I took some Japanese language classes but I am very rusty on them. I could probably refresh a bit before visiting though.

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[WilliamSmith]

Awesome pictures! Well, I guess Joe put me on his ignore list because I annoyed him about something (LOL), but you guys can thank him for me for posting the pics I guess. :0)
Japanese Castle architecture is badass: Here's another one of Osaka Castle during a lantern festival :

[Outcast9428]

@Joe_ Why is there nothing in your posts? Did you edit out everything you said?

Why is everybody on this forum so bad at responding to people? Protip, if you don't mention someone or reply to their post, they can't tell whether you replied to them unless they check your specific thread all the time.