Which hobbies do Japanese think are the cutest/coolest to pursue? Survey responses seem to indicate hobbies with a perceived air of sophistication are just the thing…
1. English conversation
2. Horse riding
3. Piano playing
4. Diving
5. Tennis
6. Violin
7. Home cooking
8. Baking
9. Interior decoration
10. Japanese tea ceremony
Gender differences between responses were slight – in particular, English conversation came top in the eyes of both men and women, demonstrating that the English conversation school industry still maintains an air of cosmopolitan glamour and cultivation despite its obvious lack of efficacy in improving the English language abilities of the Japanese.
Fortunately for the self esteem of Japan’s hard-pressed otaku, the survey did not even bother to include doll fiddling and figure fancying, so the lower ranks were occupied by comparatively innocuous hobbies such as karate and dog styling.
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What,karate & judo ain't cool no more. Martial Art kickass, everybody should get into it
Since when did speaking english become "sophisticated"?
Seriously. At least chinese has a couple of thousand years' mostly-civilized history behind it. English? The british empire is long gone.
I guess the more perceptibly refined/sophisticated a pastime is the better. I guess what English conversation is to the Japanese is what French (and, maybe, German, Italian, and Latin) is to people living in Anglosphere...so I can't ridicule the Japanese really for it. The rest (more or less) is somewhat standard to the rest of the world too, in various forms. I wouldn't refer to them as cute or cool though...refined and cosmopolitan would be more appropiate.
Why are baking and home cooking two different hobbies ? Doesn't home cooking also include baking ?
Well, certainly Zun has #3 down pat. If he had #1 he'd be a real envy.
All I have to say is that equestrian is fucking gay.
Wow at all the deluded comments thinking they're cool/sophisticated by speaking English. This list or more precisely this point only applies to Japanese locals/natives obviously. A more accurate portraiture would be to replace English with French or Japanese as examples.
what about baseball?
this is all boring i did every single one(except interior design) and i hated all of them(especially horse riding) except the tea ceremony and baking
Tennis for the skirts :3
What about figure skating? Petite little female figure skaters are the best. I've got mine :P
Ok, that proves it.
Japanese are obvious western admirers/worshippers/envious
Wheres Footbal!? I se why those japafags r useless at serious sports..
what?! NO SAXOPHONE-PLAYING??? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
wow...according to this list, japanese people are boring! i mean, i speak english! and write it! will that make me the koolest person ever! lol, not to mention, hunting, fight/martial arts are not included...nor is riding a motorcycle or is getting ur pilots lisence...this is a boring group of people!
The source linked to the 3rd page instead of the first page? The least favored is baby sitter lol
im so in luck with horse riding it's time to bag me some hot japanese women
horses stink pretty bad.
No golf???i thought the Japanese is crazy about golf......
This poll is biased
I love horse riding but there's no place for me to ride a horse like the medieval time, lol.
Interior Decoration! (woot)
Well, fortunately, I'm student of Interior Design at college :)
talking in english is cute.....wtf XD i would have accepted french but english...the most talked languaje of the world XD ...lol japanese rock at making me lol ( is by any chance spanish in the list??)
JAPAFAG,THATS IT.
1. English conversation
I've mastered English but I can't hold a conversation to save my life. Half way there!
yea just a bunch of boring hobbies, except for Piano Playing that's ok
horse riding for men seems just gay and not cool at all. Also,why English conversation?It sounds gay to speak English if you're Japanese to begin with + English is already practiced all over the world,they should start practicing conversations in German instead (because German is the best language since it doesn't have those gay phonetics as English has and can be spoken quite easily with much less accents and gruesome stress on the wrong syllables <_< Basically,all you need is to learn German and Cantonese to be able to speak all major languages of the world with the least accents,so you should practice those instead of English and foreigners going to Japan should practice Japanese conversation instead(because the other way around,most foreigners can't pronounce Japanese words right,may it be the stress (like in Germany) or generally wrong spelling
(like in America, they can't read anything without phonetic transcription because their vowel-pronounciations are messed up)...
# 1 makes me giggle and lol it's funny cuz we "American kids" want Japanese conversation. :p
Looks like I win, I can do 8/10 of those things.
English conversation is a hobby wtf?
look at my horse, my horse is amazing...
No, I won't lick your goddamn horse even if it tastes like raisin!
I can't see anything but a tiny mouse.
Next time I go to Japan, I should bring those high hats and monocles after that I'll try to imitate some british accent with my friends just for the lulz.
What no cars?
Learning english now...so i agree with number 1
the only cool hobby is cock fapping.
Piano > Violin?
Baking is included in "home cooking" right?
It's kinda unbelievable to see diving being cool/cute to a population that has numerous swimming venues/resorts, thought that it would be more common D:
English Conversation? - lololol That made me happy
Wow the Japanese are.... unique :D
Guitar > Everything
I can speak 5(ish) languages so I don't really care about the english one, I usually only speak in German or Russian, sometimes Japanese but I'm currently learning Korean so English can go Fuck itself!!!
Seems like you speak the english language quite fluent.
Maybe you should've posted that comment in russian (which I could still translate with a dictionary whatsoever) or french (which I've learned but don't use and thus I suck).
Probably korean would've been the only language you wouldn't make such a foll out of yourself with that comment.
I've got 5 of em down pact...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
I'm on a horse...
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa power.. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFAXv_OGdz0]
FailNiac
Sankaku must be the cutest/coolest site then and we are all the cutest/coolest ppl
Well ugh, i gotta scratch my head at the English conversation thingie, i guess they ascociate an erronous british steretopy with it.
don't they also have an anti-gaijin thing going on?
Yes Shigure. Yes they fucking do.
Huh! I'd expect "guitar" to be up there...
Me too, but I guess they were making a list of hobbies more associated with the "sophisticated" look. Lets see, 1. I speak english, japanese and a little german. 2. Never have, probably never will. 3. One of my favorite hobbies. 4. No. 5. Nope. 6. I don't play violin, but I play cello. Does that count? 7. I do it, but I'm nothing special. 8. Love baking, but I burn everything. 9. My house wouldn't have furniture in most of the rooms if she didn't force me to. 10. I probably wouldn't have the patience for such things. I was disappointed by the lack of guitar, though maybe that's because I play. I guess I'm sophisticated, but I feel most of these are just stereotypical rich people hobbies. (I'm not.)
Yay I have 1,6 and 9 :D
Yeah 1, 3, and 5. :D