Disclaimer: The reason why so many Japanese boxing game videos are in top videos in YouTube this weekend is not the scope of this website.
Now and then, I feel knowing two languages is disadvantageous. I don’t know much about what’s on in the Japanese web. Neither do I about the English-speaking world. Not so many people around me have a Facebook account. Perhaps I have a personal identity issue. If I try to keep up with both worlds, I need to read way more RSS feeds, watch more YouTube videos and listen to more podcasts. Namely, unfeasible. This website would lose a focus then. This website is specifically designed for me, not you. It’s up to me with respect to what to write.
What’s interesting is YouTube is now multilingual. It seems www.youtube.com is international and the Japanese-translated is on jp.youtube.com. They are not the identical in terms of which videos are shown. I’m not quite sure how YouTube guys and gals filter which one is for Japanese. There should be some needs for non-Japanese nerds who love Japanese videos (i.e., latest TV shows, video games and music videos) How do such geeks feel about this filtering?
How does the filtering work? I went through Help, but can’t find the answer. What about other languages?
I can’t find many videos on Al Gore’s recent achievement there. Didn’t he show up on TV a a lot yesterday or these few days? Most likely this is simply because he knows what YouTube is doing to the environment. The main cause of the global warming is, in my theory, sizzling Intel processors striving for displaying YouTube videos. I’m 100% sure, by the end of the next year, YouTube will be banned in Alaska and Canada.
Comments
Just for you?
I’m not sure that I follow your logic - especially the part about this web site being for you. How can this web site be designed just for you when these posts are public and you accept donations? It is my opionion that anyone with a blog hardly has any identity theft issues, otherwise you would not have an “About” page. Maybe I am misunderstanding? Anyhow, I do give you props for making your domain registration private.
I’m by no means trying to provoke anything negative from you. I wouldn’t be syndicating your content if I didn’t like it.
With that said, I do agree with you about the filtering. I don’t understand why they would hide certain videos based on the language barrier.
Thanks for your comments.
Thanks for your comment, Mike.
I was trying to mention psychological identity problems. I grew up in Japan and majored in English when I was a university student. The first time I went abroad was when I was 20 years old. I spent around 2 years in Canada and Hawaii. Now I’m 26. As I spend more time on the English-speaking world through the web, I sometimes have conflicts with other Japanese.
Japan is monolingual and mono-cultural mostly. Through learning English, I somehow learned to accept diversity, but that’s not everyone does here in Japan. Even when I work for a web developing company, I seldom find people who have time to listen to me explaining how 37 signals’ ajax effects are cool, how Digg’s comments work and how Facebook apps are made. (But YouTube is one exception because YouTube is so visually understandable.) People here don’t get what’s worth until it’s localized into Japanese.
This is a great business opportunity because, if a company hires me, I’m likely to be resourceful. I’m regarded as a Japanese who’s familiar with web written or made by English-speaking people. Am I familiar with the non-Japanese web? Yes. But, do I behave and think like other Japanese? Hmm… questionable. I devoted myself to immersing me in other cultures through the study of English language and culture in university days.
I believe, and ideally, my experience helps me in the end. In practical, I really have difficulty in reality. Trying to express myself isn’t always permitted in Japanese culture. Being expected to follow my senior’s instruction, however illegal the direction is, is hard for me. Had I spent exclusively in Japanese culture, my life would be easier.
I have a unique background. I didn’t spend a very long time abroad. But I rely quite a lot on what’s happening in the world where I don’t belong.
I’ll get some sleep and revisit this comment. Monday 1:30 AM is the worst time to use the brain in a week.
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