/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

So why do we call it Japan, when they call it Nippon?
Where did this Japan come from?

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1664929
Chinese.

[Anonymous No.]

So why do we call it Germany, when they call it Deutschland?
Where did this Germany come from?

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

The English word for Japan came to the West from early trade routes. The early Mandarin or possibly Wu Chinese (呉語) word for Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu. In modern Shanghainese, a Wu dialect, the pronunciation of characters 日本 'Japan' is Zeppen [zəʔpən]; in Wu, the character 日 has two pronunciations, informal (白讀) [niʔ] and formal (文讀) [zəʔ]. (In some southern Wu dialects, 日本 is pronounced [niʔpən], similar to its pronunciation in Japanese.) The old Malay word for Japan, Jepang (now spelled Jepun in Malaysia, though still spelled Jepang in Indonesia), was borrowed from a Chinese language, and this Malay word was encountered by Portuguese traders in Malacca in the 16th century. It is thought the Portuguese traders were the first to bring the word to Europe. It was first recorded in English in a 1565 letter spelled Giapan; (further details).

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1664935
Despite the lack of a German nation state before 1871, the History of Germany dates back to the era of the Germanic tribes.

[Anonymous No.]

So why do they call it Nippon, when they call it the United States of Japan?

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1664943
Japan is made of 99.95% NON GAJINS, unlike Amerikka thats made of 99& GAJINS.

[Chaos of Alabama !pJrg9//LbM No.]

>>1664954
>Amerikka thats made of 99& GAJINS

Pro-tip: Everyone in America is the child of foreigners, unless they're some purebred Native American, in which case they live on a reservation.

Also, Japanese are foreigners, too. They were originally Koreans who settled in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1664963
I thought Japan had some native inhabitants as well, before the koreans moved in?
Am I wrong?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1664982
No, it was inhabited kappas, frogmen, foxes, and various demons which they killed off.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1664963
I said what you prototiped ... 99% GAJIN means 99% foreigner.
>>1664982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people
Maybe this is THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1664990
Poor little fox girls. All they wanted was to fuck.

[Chaos of Alabama !pJrg9//LbM No.]

>>1664999
Pro-tip: Europeans are all foreigners, too. We're all descended from the tribes of North Africa/Mid East.

Also, that's just Japanese propaganda. Same thing with the NAZIs and Aryan racial propaganda.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1664963

Only ~24% of the genetic makeup of Japan came from the Korean peninsula. The rest came from eastern China (Wu) and Jomon (Ainu and Ryukyuan).

[Anonymous No.]

>>1664963
and even then, "native americans" moved here from russia.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665012
>Also, that's just Japanese propaganda. Same thing with the NAZIs and Aryan racial propaganda.

That would make sense if Japan wasn't actively invading Ainu territory in the 1800's, and only recently recognized them as a minority after hundreds of years of oppression.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1665012
EUROPE IS 100% PURE!!!

[Anonymous No.]

Japanese is not human
they are robot

[Chaos of Alabama !pJrg9//LbM No.]

>>1665031
Except for all the Roman, Slavic, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Germanic blood that got raped into your bloodlines over the centuries, sure.

[Anonymous No.]

Everyone came from Africa.

/thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665031
Haha, oh wow.

What >>1665047 said, and recently, there's been a flooding of niggers of various degrees coming too.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1665047
NO we are 100% pure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665047

Those people are all European.

[Chaos of Alabama !pJrg9//LbM No.]

>>1665059
You might be 100% Slav, but that's not such a great thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665059
More like 100% chav amirite?

[Chaos of Alabama !pJrg9//LbM No.]

>>1665065
European is a collective association. That's the same as saying all Americans are Americans.

Sure, no shit.

But racially, Europe, like America, is a mongrel continent made up of dozens of races that all interbreed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665083
I've always thought of interbreeding as a good thing. The best combinations persevere. Do you disagree? Can't really tell from your post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665012
Europeans are very clearly racially different from Africans and Arabs. Japanese, however, are inseparable from Chinese or Koreans, hence this "unique Yamato race" bullshit is just a load of delusional propaganda.

[Anonymous No.]

NIPPON NIPPON NIPPON PON ＼（●）／

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665095
They are basically the same, but there are true cultural differences, as far as that goes.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1665066
Oh i'm only about 5/8 slavic.

[Chaos of Alabama !pJrg9//LbM No.]

>>1665091
I don't have a problem with races mixing. The finality of all closed systems is entropy. Genetic entropy, the blending of all available traits, will be the end result no matter what happens. We'll reach a common bloodline at some point, unless we spread out to the stars and begin to breed homogenously again.

I don't find interbreeding to be a problem at all.

If anything, it usually reduces genetic conditions by mixing dissimilar genetic profiles.

However, in the society we live in, social institutions prevent the accurate replication of darwinism as it exists in nature. Strong genetics is no longer rewarded by survival and reproduction. Even people with terminal genetic profiles can live long enough to breed and pass on genes which will reduce the survival ability of the next generation.

Well, this is a problem for another time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665091
>The best combinations persevere. Do you disagree?
Yeah, I do. I maintain that in this day and age, the greatest trash from all races are the ones making most kids.

[Chaos of Alabama !pJrg9//LbM No.]

>>1665095
Most Europeans would say they could tell a Brit from a Frenchman from a German by just how they look.

Genetic differences survive to this day. It's not as pronounced as the difference between Arabs and Africans, for instance, but regional genetic bloodlines are still in existence, even though they are dying out with increased inter-regional mixing.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1665135
>Most Europeans would say they could tell a Brit from a Frenchman from a German by just how they look.

Theres 3 French 6 Germans 1 Brit on this picture tell me whos what...

[Chaos of Alabama !.p44NyTsCo No.]

>>1665161
I'm not a European, you dumbfuck. There's no Alabama in Europe, that I am aware of.

I could tell you if someone was from up North or was an East Coaster, or if they were from Mississippi or Florida. But that's because I live here.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

>>1665182
So just by looking at them you can tell?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665161
a larger pic would be fun - at least one where you could see their faces

guessing:
green shirt, red t-shirt, blazer and white shirt = French.
the guy behind green shirt looks German on the pic.

[Chaos of Alabama !.p44NyTsCo No.]

>>1665184
In person, you can generally tell.

It's not an exact science, but meeting enough people you get a sense of their physical appearance enough sometimes to tell if they're Southern or not.

It's harder for some areas because there's so much mobility of families in America, now. But Southerners usually have been here for generations, so it's easier to tell a location.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665191
i prefer to think that a great deal of this ability is seeing how someone presents themselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1665190
No Frenchman would dress that badly.
The French one is cleraly the fabulous one right in the middle of the pic.