Sunday, September 2, 2007

Fake Turks, Fake Japanese, etc

One interesting feature of Skypeland is the discovery of a number of "fakes" there. Many young men, for a joke I presume, pretend to be something they are not and take outrageous positions. One prominent group of young men comes from the UK, and pretend to be Turkish. They will make outrageous claims about Islam, and anti-American statements, and spin out crazy conspiracy theories, all in a bit of an accent. However, finally we found out that these "Turks" could not speak Turkish. Game over. They had basically been mocking Turks by trying to make them look as stupid as possible. And they were exposed.

A similar case surfaced when someone claiming to be Japanese behaved in a very non-Japanese manner, interrupting constantly, and not allowing anyone to answer his questions. He just repeated the same anti-American nonsense over and over and over like a mantra. Japanese or not? I do not think so....

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