… eh?

I’ve met and known a fair number of Japanese people from spending a fairly significant amount of time doing Karate, and living in areas of the US with significant numbers of Japanese immigrants, 2nd 3rd or 4th generation.

Most of those I met were actually quite funny, making puns and jokes… in my experience, they would make a good number of jokes based around the difficulty they have learning/speaking English, and the difficulty English speakers have learning/speaking Japanese… like, very self-aware humor, self-deprecating sarcasm, sarcastic jabs, etc.

I actually learned the “Don’t touchee my moustache” ‘joke’ from a Japanese person … explaining to me that that had started as a common English speaker corruption of dou itashimashite… I remember feeling a strange kind of … 3rd hand embarassment, if that makes any sense.

… maybe we just met/knew different groups of Japanese people? I don’t think I met too many uh… salaryman types… ???

I mean, honestly what I think is that… well in America, I’m an introverted autistic nerd with a sense of humor that is too complicated and particular for most Americans. Compared to most Japanese I’ve met? I am a polite yet clever, outgoing goofball.

I think most Americans are just basically just extroverted assholes with fragile egos and projection problems, whose ‘humor’ is mostly based around genuinely insulting other people, but with flashy/evocative vocabulary.