'This would never happen in US': Netizens praise Japanese grandpa's conversation with American man

Time of India

a day ago

The internet is a place for many positive things. Every day stories of meet-cutes, surprising friendships, and heart-melting conversations between animals, humans and both reach people through the net and make their day by either making them happy or reminding them of a similar love.
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Recently, a video of an American man striking up a conversation with a Japanese grandpa in Japan is going viral on the social media platform X and the netizens are all for the beautiful bond that is formed by the sharing of the same language between these men of different cultures.
"This American dude on his way to his Japanese fluency decides to talk to a local Japanese grandpa, and it turned out to be the most wholesome convo ever 🥹" captioned the post, published by an account titled "Wholesome side of X."
In the video, the young American man seemed to be doing a series of videos on "Interviewing people in Japan until I am fluent in Japanese." He panned the camera towards a grandpa sitting on a park bench asking him if he is Japanese to which he affirmed.
"I am American but I am studying Japanese," said the American man and proceeded to ask the permission of the Japanese grandpa for a video they could shoot together.
The Japanese grandpa introduced himself as 'Nishikawa Takashi' and shared how it was the first time he had ever spoken like this with an American man over a camera.
When asked by the man if he was his first foreign friend, he agreed.
Then happened the most wholesome part which melted many hearts on the internet where the old grandpa invited the young American for dinner at his house. They took a bus to the grandpa's house where the American man shared a dinner with him and his wife. When he asked if the couple had ever been to America, the grandpa shared that they had visited during the time of their marriage to Hawaii and Los Angeles almost 48 years ago.
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Netizens react to the wholesome video
Image credits: X/@itsme_urstruly
In a few hours since the video has been posted, it has received 2.9M views, 750 comments and 93K likes.
Pointing out the welcoming nature of the Japanese grandpa, a person wrote, "Love Japanese culture and how welcoming they are. This would never happen in the US if roles were flipped."
"As someone who just came back from visiting Japan I can definitely say that this excellent 🧵doesn't even begin to describe how kind, disciplined and caring are the Japanese and visiting Japan makes you wonder why the rest of the world doesn't behave the same way.
❤️🇯🇵" added another.
Some got emotional seeing the conversation, writing, "This was really interesting 🥹" and 'heart warming - this is goodness'
'The young man was very respectful and his Japanese was actually quite good. Very wholesome interaction and they became friends. ♥️' commended a person on X.
Others added that these are the kind of videos that deserve to be more on the internet. 'Nice to see common human courtesy and interaction of different cultures. More of this on the Internet, please.👍' and 'THIS is what was meant for social media.'