European tourist vandalizes Japan; commenters immediately blame America

[u/StrangeHour4061]

/r/trashy/s/3VpU2A9N94

Whats hilarious is that after someone pointed out that he is not American, they changed the subject to insulting americans “skill” in vandalism. Suddenly vandalism is OK then.

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[u/Intelligent_Tea_1134]

How do we know he is European?

[u/StrangeHour4061 → u/Intelligent_Tea_1134]

His tag was recognized in the graffiti subreddit. Hes from Armenia.

[u/Intelligent_Tea_1134 → u/Intelligent_Tea_1134]

Also Japanese people can be super racist.

[u/fonzwazhere]

Yakuza.

[u/nmchlngy4]

I spent hours upon hours studying Japanese attractions, culture and history in my sophomore year of high school (2016-2017) before my first trip to Japan in July 2017. Vandalism wasn't, isn't, and will never be an activity I will be doing in Japan.

[u/StrangeHour4061 → u/nmchlngy4]

Its not an activity that most americans would do anywhere in the world

[u/Educational-Year3146]

It isn’t just Americans that are shitty tourists.

Everyone needs to be better tourists.

It wasn’t hard to be respectful when I went to Japan. Just don’t be a dick and listen to what the locals say. Also doesn’t hurt to educate yourself anyway.

Plus when you are a dick, it ruins the experience for everyone else.

[u/Live-Elderbean]

Johnny somali has damaged your reputation, to be honest. He is just one person but he made headlines.

[u/Kaatochacha]

Someone just needs to walk up behind him and do one of those "300" kicks into the small of this back "THIS IS JAPAN!"