Sneako on Japanese Culture
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with a good friend of mine, and we talk about a variety of topics. We talk about our experiences growing up in the United States, what it's like being an immigrant in a foreign country, and how to adjust to a new culture.
Transcript
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You can steal $950 worth of items from a Walgreens in New York, and they can't call the police.
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Like, you can just steal—I was—that's why I left New York.
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I was just waiting in line like a bot, and everyone's like, just, okay, here's my cough syrup.
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And then someone—I thought that he was working at the Walgreens.
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He has all these crates, and he's just putting all the beer into the crates.
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And I'm like, oh, he works there. Like, oh, good, employee.
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And then he takes it, and it's like, where is he pushing this?
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But I didn't, but—and I asked the cashier, like, why don't you do anything?
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It's like, it's under $950. We can't call the police.
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So you can just steal, and you're not a criminal.
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There's no way that this is going to end up well.
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Or we just tolerate it, and we allow this to happen.
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But you see that, and you're like, why am I here?
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You don't even want to play music on the train.
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You don't—like, I noticed my, like, my pants were sagging a little bit by accident.
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I'd pull them up because, like, I didn't want to upset the grandma near here.
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I have tattoos on my arms, and I would cover them because I don't want to—
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You want to contribute to the peace and to how everybody is—everybody's respectful.
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There's none of that, like, people looking at each other weird, mean mugging each other.
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But after seeing what's possible outside, I don't understand, like, why you would invest more time into being in these places.
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I just miss my family, and my family's in Chicago.
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It's possible I could move somewhere else, but it's like, what, I would go to, what, Dubai or something, and now I'm up 20 hours from my family.
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How do you—like, where do you go when—it's like you're starting over in a brand new place knowing nobody, and it's hard because I have nine siblings, and I'm just close with them.
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Do you want to hear my—so you're getting in trouble for the repeal of the 19th.
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Okay, Dubai works because there is Arab supremacy.
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Like, I grew up with, like, nannies from around the world, and, like, Americans have this lack of respect for other cultures where they don't feel like they need to immigrate, like, into the culture.
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So if they go somewhere, they feel like the culture should appease them.
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When it's like, no, you're—like, when I went to—I can't remember where it was, Hyderabad, maybe, or something.
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I just remember somewhere I had to wear the—to go in the temple.
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Like, people would say that's misogynistic or sexist or whatever, but it's like—
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Yeah, everybody in America, when you—these westernized societies, everyone's like, they're not proud of the place.
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There's no—the only people who are proud of being American are MAGA people, are the Trump supporters.
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I'm like—I come from an immigrant family, too, but I respect that he loves his country.
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Most of the people—all the people in the West, in New York, in Chicago, L.A., they hate America.
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They think that waving the American flag is like, these are the colonizers, this is racist, and it's a symbol of slavery.
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It's almost become the new Confederate flag, the American flag.
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Everybody latches on so hard, this is an American thing.
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Like, I'm 12% Irish, so St. Patrick's Day, let's—I'm—kiss me if I'm—you're not Irish.
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Five generations of your family have been in America.
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Any other place, you would just be of that country.
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But no, everybody—identity politics has been ingrained so hard into the West that they feel the need to latch on to something else.
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They latch on to—and so when you lose the identity of a place, I don't think it's worth living in.
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If there is no—like, no one—you can't really describe American culture now.
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Because everywhere—so if you go to California, it's very different from, like, Nebraska to Florida to New York.
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I think you might—it's just—have you seen the videos of the—
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So I live, like—like, my parents live on 40 acres outside the city.
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It's complete—they just elected, like, a new communist governor in Illinois.
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Or maybe the new mayor of Chicago is just a straight-up communist.
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They are—they're so brainwashed by racism and wokeness and how, like, it's okay if you steal.
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They are burning cars in the middle of the street.
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They've blocked down streets, and they're lighting cars on fire.
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And you're going to say it's because they're displaced that this is justified.
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They can't just say that this is degenerate behavior.
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Like, this—they won't incriminate these people because they are programmed to think that it's racist to even criticize them.
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My prediction for the future of America, it's rapidly declining.
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But I think soon it's not going to be the world power that it was.
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And America has pretty much been the world's police for a long time.
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And when you lose that grip on the world—like, they just reduced the military requirements because people were too fat.
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We're so fat that they needed to make it easier to get in.
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You know when the teacher curves the score because everyone failed?
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Our military—and then you look at, like, they're training kids in China, like, at 10 years old.
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In Russia, they don't have the same fat problem.
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We don't have—the thing is specifically in the West.
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The obesity problem, the homelessness is going up.
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When people are—I don't see a bright future for America, unfortunately.
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Like, whatever is left of it, some of that culture.
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I love the people that love America, but you have to put yourself first at some point.
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You know, I believe in America first, but I also believe in family first before that.
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So I wouldn't raise my family there, hopefully.
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I like—Florida is, like, the last state, I think.
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Right now, Florida's okay because it's separated from that.
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But eventually, it's not going to be a place long, long term.
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It's good for the next 10, 15 years, 20 years, something like that.
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That's why I'm traveling the world because I want to go and see where it's worth setting up.
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I know very little, so I don't even know what Ramadan is.
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It's about a month of fasting, and you have to be an extra good Muslim.
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You have to—it's mostly fasting, and then some people that you pray more, you make sure to not drink.
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Or it just—all the same rules about—are extra strict during Ramadan.
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But I didn't—I mean, like, right now, I'm not sure what the time is.
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You can eat and—you can break fast while you're traveling, but I wasn't perfect.
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I mean, I guess it was like a soft conversion, but I did say the words.
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Muhammad is the prophet and Allah is the one true God, and then that's it.
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It's actually—Islam and Christianity have a lot in common.
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I would say the major difference, and what I think is kind of weird—you grew up Catholic?
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No disrespect, but the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
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And then you go up, and you take your first communion, and you're eating the body of Christ
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You're drinking—and then kids are drinking wine.
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I'm just—it's a little s**tanic to be drinking a dude's blood, right?
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But I'm not trying to be disrespectful to Catholicism.
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