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Of course the most memorable part of NEWS na Futari was the part with foreigners and the following experiment. 

First, this Russia Mihail guy complained that when Japanese people meet foreigners, they talk to them in English which frankly didn’t make any sense because it’s not like they can talk Russian anyway. Shige said that if he met Mihail on the street he would likely talk to him in English and asked if he knew English. The guy replied “Well, I do understand it but…” Russians seriously need to chill.

Other foreigners had valid complains ie people talk to them as if they didn’t understand or expected a certain stereotypical behavior from them such as expecting an African American person to be a good runner or Mongolian person to live in a yurt.  

Then there was the awfully embarrassing part where Shige went to a cafe with many foreigners and tried to find Russian people with the 3 very random characteristics given (not smiling in front of unfamiliar people, having roundish face and having gaudy fashion). When these vague hints didn’t help they gave him Matreshka dolls and made him do a stereotypical Russian dance which frankly was kind of offensive in itself. Amazingly enough, he actually did manage to find a Russian girl. I’m not even sure I would. Good job, sensei! He said “zdravstvuyte” aww~

I haven’t seen the show yet so idk about this Russian guy, but if he can decently talk in Japanese, he certainly meant that Japanese people talk to him/foreigners living in Japan in English instead of Japanese (and not his native langage). Some foreigners living in Japan can be upset because Japanese people tend to assume you don’t know how to speak Japanese.