I'm on my knees here begging. Ya'll gotta understand that there's a difference between sending a 3 year old to buy groceries with an entire film crew dedicated to keeping the child safe and the normal expectations for what a 3 year old can/should do on their own in Japan.
In the west: “He’s just a child, of course he throws things at strangers!”
In Japan: “You’re 3 now. Old enough to go to the store and buy me some groceries. By yourself.”
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Hajimete no Otsukai is not a documentary about creatures in a zoo. It's a show MADE TO ENTERTAIN JAPANESE PEOPLE by showing them something entertaining: a child who is not ready to run errands running errands.
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@ScriptingJapan
To play devil's advocate, isn't it fair to say that the way the show is framed shows that this sort of child independence is at least viewed as a sort of ideal, even if it's unrealistic? There -is- a certain underlying cultural difference here.
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@ScriptingJapan
the takes are really regressing. i feel like even a year ago, someone wouldn’t dare post that hajimete no otsukai was a documentary, for fear of being roasted to high heaven, and now look
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@eldrichames
This is historical revisionism. I saw so many bad takes about Hajimete no Otsukai being evidence of Japan having ______________________________ when the show was the talk of the town.
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@ScriptingJapan
Japan is a very safe high-trust country.
Unlike nearly every other country, a 5 year old can safely go buy groceries by themselves.
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@ScriptingJapan
Let's be fair, in parts of America that three year old is old enough to work in the meat packing plant.
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@ScriptingJapan
In my day we had to walk 10km in the snow before we even got to see the first cameraman pretending to be a construction worker with a camera hidden in his tool box.
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@ScriptingJapan
It should also be noted this woman is a notorious bigot full of hate and should not to be listened to for any reason
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@ScriptingJapan
I love はじめてのおつかい but it’s not a true representation. No parent would’ve agreed to this if there wasn’t a full on camera crew watching and protecting them. I could see them doing it at maybe 8-9 years old, bc that’s what I did when I was that age.
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@ScriptingJapan
Hold on. Hooold the fuck on.
Do they not send these same kids to ninja / superhero school when they get older either??
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@ScriptingJapan
Actually, in a wider area of Japan than you expect, it’s both customary and safe for kids to be out to the shops here in Japan, because we’re not full of Ford Kidcrushers.
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