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10 Jan 2023, 6:04 pm

Singer Gwen Stefani, who was born to an Italian American father and Irish American mother in California, claimed in a bizarre new interview that she is Japanese — despite having absolutely zero ethnic ties to the country.

The No Doubt lead singer explained to Allure magazine Tuesday how she visited the district of Harajuku herself before releasing her now-controversial Harajuku Lovers collection in 2004 and realised she’s apparently Asian.

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I mean, it's a free world right?



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10 Jan 2023, 6:08 pm

So, how long until she declares she is a victim of the nuking of Nagasaki?


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10 Jan 2023, 6:22 pm

I think she's adopted the identity. But as with Rachel Dolezal if there isn't in-group consensus from Japanese people then I am not sure how far she can take it.

But self-identification is harmless. She is welcome to identify as anything. I self-identify as an alien.



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10 Jan 2023, 6:47 pm

So now she's turning Japanese?

I really think so...


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10 Jan 2023, 9:07 pm

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So now she's turning Japanese?

I really think so...


Da da da da da...



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10 Jan 2023, 9:40 pm

She could claim to be a Martian for all I care...



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10 Jan 2023, 10:02 pm

DeathFlowerKing wrote:
She could claim to be a Martian for all I care...


Not the first time



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11 Jan 2023, 5:35 am





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11 Jan 2023, 3:26 pm

old_comedywriter wrote:
So now she's turning Japanese?

I really think so...

Beat me to it...


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11 Jan 2023, 7:22 pm

Back in the 80s when the song came out a guy I worked with explained to us in the warehouse that "turning Japanese" is slang for masturbation "because you squint your eyes when you do it", or at least guys do.

I dont know if the ladies squint their eyes or not. Gwen might well...remain Caucasian!


https://youtu.be/KFq4E9XTueY



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11 Jan 2023, 7:31 pm

old_comedywriter wrote:
So now she's turning Japanese?

I really think so...
Everyone avoid her like a cyclone ranger.


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11 Jan 2023, 10:55 pm

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Back in the 80s when the song came out a guy I worked with explained to us in the warehouse that "turning Japanese" is slang for masturbation "because you squint your eyes when you do it", or at least guys do.

I dont know if the ladies squint their eyes or not. Gwen might well...remain Caucasian!


https://youtu.be/KFq4E9XTueY

I remember at the time that was a popular theory of the songs meaning.

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One of the more misinterpreted songs of all time, word was that "Turning Japanese" refers to the Asian facial features people get at the moment of climax during masturbation. In a VH1 True Spin special, they asked The Vapors about this song, and they explained that it is a love song about someone who lost their girlfriend and was going slowly crazy. Lead singer Dave Fenton said: "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect to." It was inspired by Fenton's relationship problems


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12 Jan 2023, 1:47 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Back in the 80s when the song came out a guy I worked with explained to us in the warehouse that "turning Japanese" is slang for masturbation "because you squint your eyes when you do it", or at least guys do.


Oh, so it has a double meaning? I didn't know that. I assumed the song was about Japanese tech = turning Japanese.
The song itself was incredibly racist, I won't repeat the lyrics here.



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12 Jan 2023, 9:09 am

I just googled the lyrics. There isnt anything "racist" in the lyrics that I can see.

The music is indeed punctuated by that Hollywood 'doo da doo da doo-- dot doo dot doo' motif that old movies use to signal 'east Asian', or "Chinese". But thats too stupid to be offensive IMHO.



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12 Jan 2023, 9:57 am

I have a hard time with people "identifying as" things they are not. "Psychotic" is the a word for when you cannot tell the difference between your thinking and reality.

I realize this is an unpopular position to take. I will probably get flamed for stating this opinion.

I think it is important to accept one's self for what one truly is.

I realize that not everyone agreed with this.

I was expressing to a woman who had a Ph.D. in Social Science (and a teach position at a college in the same subject). She replied "That is Essentialism. I reject Essentialism because of what it means to Feminism." Hard to argue with that.

I guess that I might have replied: "I reject Feminism because of what it means to Essentialism".

Sometimes I think the world has just gone crazy.


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12 Jan 2023, 11:25 am

Weird how she doesn't put her money where her mouth is and live in Japan. She's been like this for years. Even when I was in school a lot of kids thought she had an obsession with Japan.