There was a commercial in Japanese TV a long long long LONG time ago (when the first easy-to-use cameras came out) where a Very Famous Tarento made the peace sign (for signifying something like "the easy-to-use cameras has came to win" = to stay).
Well, the cameras did stay and went easier and easier - and the then "cool and new" peace-sign stayd with them as a half-compulsory pose for snap-shot photos ...

Conclusion: all the young Japanese are just victims of a commercial their parents though to be cool ...

 

Dale180SX, you seem to be a living proof to what I have always been thinking :-)
ccl37:�gamerikaa jouguu�h (�A�����J�[�W���E�O�[) which means people who prefer Americans (�A�����J�l�D��) in the Okinawan dialect.
New words to learn! Cool.

 

... I can't see what's all that fuss about "international marriages"?

Isn't it so that if you really like somebody, then you just like her/ him.
Nomatter what is his/ her colour, sex, nationality.
And if you really do not like somebody, then you just do not like her/ him.
Nomatter what is her/ his colour, sex, nationality.

Pepole may have dreams, both good ones and stupid ones but in reality it is all about liking A PERSON or not liking that PERSON.
Sometimes this liking ends up with a marriage and if one of the spouses happens to be Japanese it is called "international marriage" by other Japanese. If they fit each other it'll last - not more or less than any other marriage.
Sometimes it doesn't end up with a marriage.
And sometimes people may found that they weren't marring each other but only a imagination of each other - in this case it often ends with a divorce...
And a divorce is just not-fitting to each other and it can happen with any nationalities, not just between a Japanese and a "gaijin".

I can't see why "an international relationship" should be any better or worser than any other (non-international??) relationship for at the end it is only about two persons liking each other or not liking each other; fitting to each other or not fitting to each other.

No rules in war, no rules in love - no generalizations like "international relationships are ..."
for each of them is different.

 

I can't see how chogori, ao dai and Chinese dresscould resemble a nightclub/ cabaret to *anybody* ... Maybe he meant "carnival" but being a typical japanese with almost no education misspelt it as "cabaret" ...?

Personally I find the student's behaviour extremely welcome in Japans anti-asian/ anti-foreigners minded society.

(by "anti-foreigner" I don't mean all Japanese are racists, no. But ... for example, do you know how difficult Living In Japan can be when you are a student who just wants to rent a *cheap* appartement? etc; out of topic, sorry)