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White lawyer d00d gets STYLED ON by alpha Jap bros

Is it time to bid bye-bye to ‘haro’? by Colin P.A. Jones ...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
i dont get it. is 'haro' supposed to be what a japanese pers...
drab geriatric ticket booth
  10/18/14
yeah wtf is this. as far as i understood the half of the art...
slap-happy adulterous private investor
  10/18/14
Theres a lot of these types in Asia, brother. They're the wh...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
tough to be NOWAG when you're drowning in jap pussy every ni...
charismatic snowy mediation
  10/18/14
im sure the white lawyer dude is a fratty 230 lb 6'3 muscles...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
lol he's white so it's safe to assume he has his pick of jap...
charismatic snowy mediation
  10/18/14
maybe, just maybe :)
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
bitching about this sort of thing is a favorite pastime of e...
Henna stag film
  10/18/14
Very nicely summarized.
brilliant hairraiser field
  10/18/14
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Sexy jet parlour
  10/18/14
cr
poppy school cafeteria
  10/18/14
what if i lived in Japan to be with my girlfriend? how would...
laughsome abnormal quadroon
  10/18/14
dunno, can't speak from the experience of a chinese person i...
Henna stag film
  10/19/14
Jap dude saying haro to a white dude in Japan is the equival...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
what the fuck are u even saying? seriously man, please fucki...
Alcoholic School
  10/18/14
lets just say i wouldnt trade places with him even for a sec...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
LOL at this disingenuous bs, you would trade places with the...
charismatic snowy mediation
  10/18/14
korea has been too good to me, brother
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
Now just imagine the world of possiblities that would be unl...
charismatic snowy mediation
  10/18/14
which white nationality are you referring to, specifically?
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
Lol as if it matters
charismatic snowy mediation
  10/18/14
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT KIND OF CUMSKIN YOU ARE!!!!1111
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
are u fluent now?
Alcoholic School
  10/18/14
nah
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
wait you're not even fluent? wouldn't women be 100x more ope...
harsh station rigor
  10/18/14
idk, is Ban Ki Moon a fluent English speaker? probably not, ...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
"probably" lol don't be such a fuckin kike poli...
Alcoholic School
  10/18/14
when i approach white girls i usually open in korean, then p...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
oh shit that's right. i forgot her moniker (what a hilarious...
Alcoholic School
  10/18/14
(NOWAG)
charismatic snowy mediation
  10/18/14
Is it a taunt?
Filthy abusive idea he suggested lay
  10/18/14
i never witnessed this when i was in japan but i am assuming...
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
...
Sexy jet parlour
  10/18/14
it can be, but usually only when it's younger (teens through...
Henna stag film
  10/18/14
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Sexy jet parlour
  10/18/14
the only whiteys that bitch about it are long-termers, who a...
Henna stag film
  10/18/14
TITCREAM
soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess
  10/18/14
i was expecting this to be a thread about spoiled jewish boy...
concupiscible den shitlib
  10/18/14
Herro?
Lilac roast beef
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Date: October 18th, 2014 5:06 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

Is it time to bid bye-bye to ‘haro’?

by Colin P.A. Jones

Here’s a question for my fellow expatriates: When was the last time a Japanese person said “hello” to you?

Wait, let me rephrase that: When was the last time somebody used your presence as an excuse to say/shout/whisper “haro” whilst furtively glancing sideways at their companions to confirm they just made the funniest joke ever?

I am asking because it struck me that it has been a while, maybe half a year at least, since this has happened to me — since I have had the chance to further perfect my standard response to what I call haro-hara, a form of harassment. This response consists of shaking the haroer’s hand while offering them my hearty congratulations on being the 10,000th person to make the short synaptic leap from gaijin (foreigner) to haro. I keep thinking that next time I should add something about how they have just demonstrated the requisite level of comic originality to qualify as a Yoshimoto-branded TV “talent,” but like I said, it’s been a while.

When I first came to Japan 30 years ago, getting haroed was just a fact of life for us large, lumbering white alien beings. In the years since, accumulated experience has taught me that haroing is a hobby practiced overwhelmingly by males traveling in packs, often suffering from some form of diminished capacity — usually childhood or alcohol. There have been the occasional soloists, but they usually work in a different genre, like the man who asked if he could speak English at me, apparently unfazed by the fact I was using a urinal at the time. Such utilitarian gaijin-bothering has generally been the exception compared to prevailing forms of recreational haroing.

When living in Sendai in the 1980s, I thought “haro” might be superseded by the more sophisticated “This is a pen.” Apparently a stock phrase from introductory English texts in use at the time, children used to delight in shouting this at me, sometimes from across a busy street with a bemused parent watching from well within scolding range. A shift from single words to a sentence-based form of alien-teasing would certainly have evidenced an improvement in the general level of English, at least amongst the random stranger-mocking demographic. Sadly, the drunk who botched it to declare “I am a pen” was a sign that only “haro” had the Zen-like simplicity to remain sustainable over the decades.

It also struck me that it might be useful to develop a scale based on the average number of haros experienced over a specific period of time. Standard units of measurement I would call “harons” could then be used to rank places for ill-mannered parochialism.

“Oh, let’s not go drinking in [name of place] — Gaijinpot is listing it at 7.5 harons.” Or, “I was with the JET Programme in [village in Shikoku], which must be at least 500 kiloharons away from Tokyo.”

Tokyo might be the “absolute zero” on the scale, since you can probably spend a long time and hear nary a “haro.” Kyoto, where I live, would not rate a very high haron score either. Of course, it has long been a mecca for foreign tourists and seems to have more French-style boulangeries than convenience stores (also, it has some temples and stuff) so everyone here may be pretty numb to foreignness. That said, I have been haroed a good number of times during my time here. Even so, it has been a while, as I keep saying.

This subject has been stuck in the back of my mind for a while, but came to the forefront when we took our children to the o-Bon summer festival at the elementary school up the street. It was night and the grounds were full of people enjoying the event. As you might expect from such a venue, it was full of elementary school children.

In the past, the effect of me walking into a schoolyard full of elementary students was completely predictable: It would generate a steady stream, if not a veritable chorus, of “haro,” just as surely as putting food in the mouth of a vacuous young woman on TV generates an effusive “oishii!” I steeled myself, but nothing happened. The sea of kids ignored me and I ignored them — it was great!

Thinking about it more, the last person to haro me in Kyoto was an old man, one of a troop of old men who filed past me as part of a tour group on their way to see some old remnant of old Japan. Perhaps he was bored or had run out of food- and ailment-related topics to share with his companions. Or perhaps he was drunk or it was just some Pavlovian reaction to seeing a tall, shambling Caucasian in a place like Kyoto. But there it was, the faintly taunting “haro” from someone clearly old enough to know better.

The haros will probably continue for a while yet. But that old man will be dead soon (well, not that soon — he looked to be only in his late 70s) while the kids from that schoolyard will be around for a long time to come. So, it gives me great comfort to have been accepted into their version of the world, one in which people who look different do not merit any special comment or attention.

I could speculate about the reasons — my neighborhood being surprisingly cosmopolitan, the effect of the JET Programme and other initiatives, globalization blah blah blah, or maybe me just not getting out enough recently — but frankly, I don’t care. All I know is that being able to go into a space full of pre-teens without feeling vaguely like John Merrick minus his head sack could reflect some sort of subtle yet significant sea change in Japanese society as I experience it in daily life. And perhaps once the haros have all died out, it will be easier to actually just say hello.

Colin P.A. Jones is a professor at Doshisha Law School in Kyoto. Law of the Land appears in print on the second Thursday Community Page of every month. Comments: community@japantimes.co.jp

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/10/15/issues/time-bid-bye-bye-haro/#.VEIsQhbbBQT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540653)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 5:35 AM
Author: drab geriatric ticket booth

i dont get it. is 'haro' supposed to be what a japanese person saying hello sounds like? why does this piss this guy off so much?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540704)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 5:40 AM
Author: slap-happy adulterous private investor

yeah wtf is this. as far as i understood the half of the article i read, he doesn't like to be "otherized" and be used as a medium for japs to hone their spare english knowledge

basically a cumskin dork bitching about microsaggressions

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540712)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:13 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

Theres a lot of these types in Asia, brother. They're the white equivalent of NOWAG basically.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540753)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:16 AM
Author: charismatic snowy mediation

tough to be NOWAG when you're drowning in jap pussy every night though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540761)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:20 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

im sure the white lawyer dude is a fratty 230 lb 6'3 musclestud drowning in jap pussy every night :)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540772)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:22 AM
Author: charismatic snowy mediation

lol he's white so it's safe to assume he has his pick of jap girls nightly, the other stuff is irrelevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540775)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:24 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

maybe, just maybe :)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540779)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 11:46 AM
Author: Henna stag film

bitching about this sort of thing is a favorite pastime of expats (read: white westerners) in japan. it's hard to understand just how a quintessentially "expat in japan" article this is if you haven't lived there

japan is such a racially homogeneous society, and the idea of foreigners actually taking the time and effort to learn their language and culture too inconceivable, that you constantly get japanese people who assume that you don't speak their language and try to talk to you in english of varying levels of fluency, regardless of how long you may have actually lived in the country

this drives the long-termers crazy, because many of them are dyed-in-the-wool japanophiles, or at least started out that way, yet japanese society as a whole won't let them in the club, so to speak. so every time some random jap "harro"s them, or, for instance, answers back in english when they address them in Japanese, they perceive it as a microaggression of sorts

in my experience, the people who best handle living in Japan are those that had no previous interest or emotional investment in japan before coming there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541583)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 11:58 AM
Author: brilliant hairraiser field

Very nicely summarized.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541638)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 12:22 PM
Author: Sexy jet parlour



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541772)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 12:27 PM
Author: poppy school cafeteria

cr



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541811)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 9:45 PM
Author: laughsome abnormal quadroon

what if i lived in Japan to be with my girlfriend? how would i handle it?

im not a japanophile, but i love dem jap bitches.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26544801)



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Date: October 19th, 2014 10:52 AM
Author: Henna stag film

dunno, can't speak from the experience of a chinese person in japan

you'd probably have a pretty good time overall due to being asian, though not speaking the language has its own frustrations

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26546995)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:09 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

Jap dude saying haro to a white dude in Japan is the equivalent of a white dude sayin Konnichiwa to a Jap dude in America.

White lawyer d00d is pissed cuz alpha Jap bros wont let go of the fact that he's white.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540744)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:21 AM
Author: Alcoholic School

what the fuck are u even saying? seriously man, please fucking go to that forest that everyone killself in and just let it do.

faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540774)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:25 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

lets just say i wouldnt trade places with him even for a second

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540782)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:26 AM
Author: charismatic snowy mediation

LOL at this disingenuous bs, you would trade places with the dorkiest white guy on wizardchan in a split second.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540784)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:27 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

korea has been too good to me, brother



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540788)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:28 AM
Author: charismatic snowy mediation

Now just imagine the world of possiblities that would be unlocked if you were white? It would literally be raining gook panties 24/7.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540789)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:30 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

which white nationality are you referring to, specifically?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540794)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:47 AM
Author: charismatic snowy mediation

Lol as if it matters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540819)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:50 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT KIND OF CUMSKIN YOU ARE!!!!1111

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540823)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:47 AM
Author: Alcoholic School

are u fluent now?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540817)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:50 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

nah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540824)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:56 AM
Author: harsh station rigor

wait you're not even fluent? wouldn't women be 100x more open to you if you were? what i've noticed from living in koreatown is that the FOB girls aren't into american-born koreans, they only associate with other FOBs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540829)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 7:00 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

idk, is Ban Ki Moon a fluent English speaker? probably not, but his english is good enough for you and me to understand :)

the gyopos i roll with (including myself) are all excellent korean speakers and it certainly hasnt affected my game. if anything my korean game is actually probably much better than my english game

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540834)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 7:04 AM
Author: Alcoholic School

"probably"

lol don't be such a fuckin kike politician. you have 0 ENGRISH game. i do, however, admit you might have some korean game and I applaud you for that.

what happened to the good old days of u taking pics in ur dorm with what's her face

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540837)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 7:08 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

when i approach white girls i usually open in korean, then pause before switching to english. it usually does the trick, d00d.

blondielaw is doing fine, i'm sure although I havent been in contact with her for a while now. those were the good days for sure

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540840)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 7:15 AM
Author: Alcoholic School

oh shit that's right. i forgot her moniker (what a hilarious word btw)

4 questions for u. 1) which city are you in 2) do you have a car 3) what are the most popular console video game systems in SK 4) have you hired a prostitute in SK. if yes, please describe.

actually, one more question. what are those bars called where guys and girls are mostly separate and the waiter will go up to the guys and essentially play the middle man and hook them up with women?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540844)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:23 AM
Author: charismatic snowy mediation

(NOWAG)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540776)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:26 AM
Author: Filthy abusive idea he suggested lay

Is it a taunt?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540785)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 6:29 AM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

i never witnessed this when i was in japan but i am assuming this is the case - its basically like how smirking NOWAG trolls here append "NOWAG" whenever they see asian posters, except these are IRL jap bros

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26540793)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 11:12 AM
Author: Sexy jet parlour



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541397)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 11:50 AM
Author: Henna stag film

it can be, but usually only when it's younger (teens through 30-ish) jap dude saying it – usually inebriated, and *always* in a group.

most of the time, the only people that say "harro" randomly anymore are children of various ages, up to high school age if you're out in bumfuck rural areas where whiteys are regularly seen, or older people who want to talk to the foreigner. it's innocent fun on the part of the former, and the latter are usually just enthusiastic about talking to a foreign and practicing the few english phrases they've managed to memorize.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541600)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 11:13 AM
Author: Sexy jet parlour



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541401)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 11:55 AM
Author: Henna stag film

the only whiteys that bitch about it are long-termers, who are almost without exception losers that couldn't hack it in their home countries

doods who just go there a few years to earn a little money at a highly undemanding english teaching "job" while enjoying the food, bumming around the country, and fucking local strange – and, importantly, don't give two shits about "fitting in" – love japan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541620)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 8:34 PM
Author: soul-stirring insecure foreskin jewess

TITCREAM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26544238)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 11:14 AM
Author: concupiscible den shitlib

i was expecting this to be a thread about spoiled jewish boys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541406)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 12:31 PM
Author: Lilac roast beef

Herro?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2703128&forum_id=2#26541828)