askchapo

Seeing so many people in the U.S. driven to either commit or condone violence both social and physical by their total disconnection from reality, as well as the heightened suppression and censorship of any and all dissenting voices, has me feeling like I'm growing an increasing disdain for humanity as a whole. So, I think it would be good for me to talk to someone who exists outside of the English-speaking world.

Obviously Japan is not the most detached country from the hegemony, and generally it has its own reactionary ideals as a state, but the reasons that I'm interested in speaking with someone from Japan are specifically that I've been gradually learning the basics of Japanese (I have hiragana and katakana memorized and I'm working on expanding vocabulary and figuring out sentence structure now, as well as slowly learning some Kanji), and that the average Japanese person is not consuming English-speaking media. I'm aware that Japan is beset by its own hyper-capitalist media hellscape, but it's still different, and that's what I need right now.

If you guys wanted to just reach out and talk casually to someone who lives in Japan, how would you go about it?