{"id":11892,"date":"2013-12-22T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2013-12-22T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:22:22","slug":"holiday-tangent-debito-org-cited-in-cracked-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11892","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Tangent: Debito.org cited in Cracked.com!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0As the year-end holidays approach, Debito.org usually puts up topics that are more tangental and less serious. \u00a0As Japan is going through something I consider to be very serious (a return to Prewar values and political systems), this is hardly the time, but I think I’ve said so far all that one needs to say about the issues for now in previous blog posts. \u00a0So today, let’s look at a site that I have become quite a fan of: \u00a0Cracked.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I used to read CRACKED magazine, but always found it to be an insipid copy of MAD Magazine. \u00a0But online, it’s a place with an obnoxious,\u00a0scatological tone that has thankfully graduated from its high-school smart-alecky roots. \u00a0Their articles are some of the best diversions and procrastinations I’ve had over the years (they’re quite well referenced, too). \u00a0It seems that writers from them are fans of Debito.org as well. \u00a0Check out this site:<\/p>\n

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5 Innocent Gestures That Make You Look Like a Dick Overseas<\/strong>
\n By C. Coville, October 04, 2013, 864,352 views<\/strong><\/p>\n

So you’re not making as many friends as you would like in your world travels. You’ve practiced some local phrases, you’ve stopped humming “America the Beautiful” during pauses in conversations, you’ve even personally apologized about the drone that ruined Hashim’s wedding last week. But your foreign friends still don’t accept you. What’s going on? Maybe you’re doing one of these …<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

#5. Blowing Your Nose (in Japan)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest, including the Debito.org citation, at: http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-innocent-gestures-that-make-you-look-like-dick-overseas\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, we can debate here the relative veracity of the claims made. \u00a0I for one never found people looking at me funny for blowing my nose, but perhaps 1) I was oblivious, or 2) it was Sapporo and there’s a higher tolerance for it, given the long, long winters. \u00a0But anyway, Holiday Tangent. \u00a0Comments? \u00a0ARUDOU Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the year-end holidays approach, Debito.org usually puts up topics that are more tangental and less serious. As Japan is going through something I consider to be very serious (a return to Prewar values and political systems), this is hardly the time, but I think I’ve said so far all that one needs to say about the issues for now in previous blog posts. So today, let’s look at a site that I have become quite a fan of: Cracked.com.<\/p>\n

I used to read CRACKED magazine, but always found it to be an insipid copy of MAD Magazine. But online, it’s a place with an obnoxious, scatological tone that has thankfully graduated from its high-school smart-alecky roots. Their articles are some of the best diversions and procrastinations I’ve had over the years (they’re quite well referenced, too). It seems that writers from them are fans of Debito.org as well. Check out this site:<\/p>\n

5 Innocent Gestures That Make You Look Like a Dick Overseas (cites Debito.org!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issue","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}