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[trigger warning: what starts as obnoxious Japanese cultural appropriation turns into full-on racism by the end of the interview segment. It’s really gross.]
In part three of this interview, Katy Perry talks about a recent visit to Japan and her “obsess[ion] with Japanese people”. A few highlights:
Katy: I’m obsessed with Japanese people though! [0:48]
Jimmy: Oh, you are?
Katy: Yeah, because-
Jimmy: In a good way?
Katy: Well, yeah, totally obsessed. I love everything about them and they’re so wonderful as human beings. But, the reason why I’m really obsessed is because… [0:53]
[Katy explains that her sister was kicked out of the house for a while, and during that time her family used her room to house Japanese exchange students.]
Katy: … we had exchange students come in and live with us at our house, and I was just like [gasps exaggeratedly with wide eyes] Your, like, everything is Hello Kitty and it’s perfect and clean, and you eat with sticks!!! It was so incredible, watching them as a culture, and so now I’ve been obsessed with them ever since. [1:34]
Jimmy: So did you try to eat with the chopsticks?
Katy: I still have- they bring you, like, a housewarming gift [she’s now holding her cupped hands out in front of her and miming giving someone a gift with both hands and sort of bowing a little bit] and they’re very polite, and she brought me these Hello Kitty chopsticks and I still haven’t opened them- opened them and I was, like, 13, and I just like, I will always forever have them. [1:53]
Jimmy: Do you keep in touch with these people?
Katy: No. [2:07]
Jimmy: You don’t?
Katy: No- I mean, I was just too young and I- you know what- [2:09]
Jimmy: Maybe they’ll find you now-
Katy: I asked to borrow one of their clothes one time, they were very, like, weirded out by it. It was like, so cute! All your little outfits! Can I borrow one? [2:13]
Jimmy: They’re probably telling this story over in Japan, like, “Yeah, we lived with this family and the girl would wanna wear our clothes, it was a very strange experience.”
Katy: [Opens her eyes very widely and puts on a creepy face and weird voice] I’m so obsessed with you I want to skin you and wear you like Versace! [2:27]
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I thought the problematic one was this:
