Gaijin Smash

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When a foreigner messes up Japanese culture on purpose or by accident and then acts like they don't care when the Japanese try to tell them off.

I ate the whole sushi platter and then laughed when my host got mad.

I yelled 'I don't speak Japanese!' when I clearly did.

I walked into a shrine wearing jeans and a hat and refused to apologize.

A sneaky trick foreigners use in Japan to get their way by being annoying and pretending they're not smart.

I said I was lost even though I had Google Maps open.

I used 'arigatou' wrong on purpose to avoid paying for my ramen.

I pretended I didn’t know Japanese so I could skip the line at the izakaya.

When a non-Japanese person breaks all the rules in Japan just for fun and then acts like they're the king of the hill.

I broke the tea ceremony rules and then said it was 'a cultural experiment.'

I wore a tuxedo to a festival and called it 'fashion forward.'

I cursed in English and said it was 'a language of power.'

The art of being a lazy, ignorant, loud foreigner and getting away with it by saying 'I don’t speak Japanese!' when things go wrong.

I spilled sake on my host and said, 'I don't know what that means!'

I broke the quiet rule in the onsen and said I 'didn’t get the memo.'

I laughed at the shrine and said 'I don’t know what that means!'

A way for foreigners to brag about their power in Japan and say they’re doing something cool, even if they’re just being loud and stupid.

I said I was ‘doing a gaijin smash’ when I yelled at the vending machine.

I called my friend ‘a gaijin smash’ because he talked too loud in the izakaya.

I said I was ‘doing my gaijin smash’ when I tried to drink a whole bottle of sake.