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100JapaneseThings.com
A collaboration to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff:
We post links to/info on fun Japanese things, and little explanations of the Japanese involved.
The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you need a song about alpacas, don’t you?
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:
saleem
who updates from Japan and sometimes India.
FROM THE START:
The Quarter-Japanese Kid hits up the homeland
Tokyo Silence
I'm Oriented
Tilting Towards Kumamoto
Fish Heads and Public Nudity
Halfie the Half-blood falls off his bike
And furthermore: Halfie the Half-blood Breaks a Chair
I Don't Know if I Like Pippi Longstalkings
Tanboy Eats Fish Eyeball
Japanese Communists are Cuddly
Test Your Halfblood Knowledge!
I Scare Small Children
It Was Like a Cuteworld Abby Road
Today's Post Contains Bees. And Profanity.
Typhoons Will Not Stop Me
The Sun Also Sets
Quick Note: Saleem is Not Dead
CORRECTION: Typhoons Scare Me. Lots.
Watch the Tan Kid Blush
Call for Entries: Name My Kids
The Youth Are Quick and True
Open Letter: To the Breaker at City Hall
Halfie Gets a Verbal Sucker Punch
The Kumamoto Drunken Horse Fest
Japanese Houses Hate Halfie's Head
How to Start Your Japanese Rock Band
Halfie's Personal Dignity on Decline
Japanese Sports Day: I Train Young Warriors
Theory: Three Strange Occurences Per Hour
How to Win an iPod While Dressed as a Typhoon
Winnie the (drunken) Pooh
The Earth Quakes
Collecting Japanese Salmon Sperm
Illiterate at 26
Japan's Children Ignore Homeboy's Toothless Face
Japanese Genius Boy Answers Your Question
Our Students Have Respect . For Nelly.
The Young Boxers
Dear 27% of America (Kid Ethnic Registers)
Please Do Not Attempt to Step to My Japanese Rock Band
You’re a 17-year-old Japanese dude with agression to spare.
You’ve been packed in classes all day with 40 other guys, some of them large sumo man-children.
You must relax.
So, you find some tape for your knuckles. And you find some friends.
Do you feel more or less agressive than before? Curious.

(All from the cameraphone.)
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Our Students Have Respect . For Nelly. | Sombreros, Leather Pants, White Boys: A J-X-mas Party
Some would say that the bag doesn’t even feel your punches, so feeble they are.
The bag rocks, dude!
As an answer to your question, you leave with a sense of awe for the Supreme Zen Master, the punching Bag.
— Camilo 1241 days ago #
anyways, i think less agressive. but why do you ask? did something happen?
— ching 1239 days ago #
I like to think aggressive sports help kids become less aggressive. Because I like aggressive sports.
But I’m not sure if they do or not.
In other news, last week I wasn’t looking and a kid got toilet papered. Yes, toilet papered. During class.
I don’t know how else to explain it: I turned around and his head was wrapped in toilet paper.
— saleem 1239 days ago #
i also have a couple of students that are a pain in the arse, but they’re just foul mouthed more than anything else. the boys will do anything to shock and embarass me. they used to bring sex toys into class and this was shocking at first, but now it’s become the norm to confiscate a dildo.
at the moment they’re having a jolly good time swearing in engrish, which is pretty funny though and i know i shouldn’t be laughing sometimes, but it’s hard not to.
(btw. these students are 15 years old)
when stuff like that happens it brings you right back down to earth doesn’t it? however, no violence so far…
saleem sensei ganbatte ne : )
— ching 1239 days ago #
my friend was adopted from korea as a baby and is now there teaching english. her emails remind me of your posts here. stay well and write more or stop posting so i can finish my paper and get the hell out of wisconsin.
mae
— w mae 1239 days ago #
But reading this website is kind of like research into multiracialism and intersectionality, no? Surely it can be rationalized.
Ching:
Most of the discipline issues at the Ag. school are just kids reading manga and playing cards. Which means I get to walk around snatching things, and then using them in the lessons. Which is actually really fun.
No real American-style violence yet. There was a semi-vicious head-butting in class yesterday, though. It was the first thing in class that actually made me upset.
I stopped clas and walked the head-butter back to his desk. Then I made him stand there while I stared at him from about two feet away.
It was pretty weird, and I don’t know how I decided to just stare at the poor guy. But it seemed to be really effective.
The whole class just watched me stare, and no one did anything not-cool for the rest of the day.
Overall, the kids are crazy and fun. I mean, I kind of respect a kid insane enough to toilet paper his enemy’s head.
— saleem 1237 days ago #
Mindless agression is good for the soul. Its a channel for a release of hormones, endorphins, the mind, the body and almost any form of martial arts teaches good self dicipline and respect. Mostly because you know how hard you can hit and how hard someone can hit you back.
Seriously, I got hit at school. A lot. Its a stupid ‘Christian masculintiy’ thing where I got educated. But the good thing is, these guys got it out when they were 15,16,17 & 18, before they can do real damage. Now most of them would rather chew nails than get in a fight. Guys need a bit of aggression, I think is the way we are built.
As for me, boxing would get me peaking off endorphins for a half hour afterwards but i had nothing to target anymore. Its more the release that is found in physcial action than the actual boxing itself.
Still, its kinda fun…
— Simon 1237 days ago #