I (NB16) called a famous baseball player (Shoto Imanaga) samurai looking while on call with some of my friends. None of us are Japanese, however 2 of them are Australian and that is close to Japan. I am "American" unfortunately & that is why I called a famous Japanese baseball player who plays for an American team samurai looking.
I believe that it was funny however it could be racist. AITA for being possibly racist even thought I thought the guy looked like a samurai.
I don’t think you’re in a good position be calling people names like that
i mean, yeah, probably a little racist. it’s like seeing a mexican man and saying that he’s “mariachi looking”. just doesn’t quite sit right.
As a Mexican this would make me laugh so hard if someone said I looked “mariachi” hahaha
More then a little racist
What are “samurai” facial features….?
LMAO
Well think about it from the perspective of being profiled. If you’re an American then you’d be okay with the following attributed to you….because you’re an American…
You preach freedom while backing dictators, preach law while ignoring it when inconvenient, export culture louder than you listen, wage wars you don’t finish, and treat global rules as optional for you but mandatory for others. You fuck over other economies and dress it up as “free markets,” and you get the charge of empire without accountability. You claim to value life by outlawing abortion but constantly shoot your own citizens on the street. You claim to be the melting pot, but only so long as it’s white people doing the melting.
Starting to see the point?
I’m not saying being called a samurai means that person is bad…I’d say you’re tagging someone as something based on a characteristic they cannot control. People don’t like that.
Just like you have no control over all the shit that the world thinks of Americans. But you’re an American…so you must be all those things.
So yeah, YTA.
i am seeing the point. thanks for the comment. really put this into perspective
It just depends on HOW you say it and to WHOM you say it to. Did he laugh? Did he seem flattered? Because if someone came up to me hella excited to tell me (with star in their eyes like an anime) that I reminded them of a freaking ninja…then yeah I’d be happy and not offended. But again, it’s all about how it was said with what kind of energy.
YTA. Insensitive. Some opinions don’t need to be verbalized.
Yes, that’s just ignorant
YTA. Did the baseball player have samurai armor on? A sword? No? Then he looked like an Asian man.
>None of us are Japanese, however 2 of them are Australian and that is close to Japan.
Is this some American level of Geographical and/or cultural knowledge?
He plays for the Samurai Japan. Does he play for an American team? It just sounds like a corny joke to me, like saying a football player for the Dallas Cowboys is “cowboy looking.”