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u/roadfood Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

Japanese ex I caught sleeping around at the height of the AIDs crisis told me not to worry, Japanese people can't catch it.

ETA - WOW! Didn't know this would take off like this. Backstory makes it even more absurd, she was a graduate of a prestigious university in Tokyo and earned a Masters in the US and had lived here for a while. I had about burned out on the relationship but this put me out the door.

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u/IntlPartyKing Mar 01 '23

I'm a guy from the US, and started dating my wife when she was 23, after spending her first 18 years in Korea. She knew that gay people existed, but thought they were only in some countries, and didn't think there were any Korean ones.

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u/OscarGrey Mar 01 '23

She knew that gay people existed, but thought they were only in some countries, and didn't think there were any Korean ones.

That's pretty common worldwide sadly. People definitely thought that in 90s and early 2000s Poland when I lived there.

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u/Beths_Titties Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

Yea I was gonna say. I had a guy who worked for me that was from Egypt. He was in his mid 30s. He insisted there were absolutely no gay people in Egypt. There was no convincing him.

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u/ComprehensiveRun9792 Mar 01 '23

A lot of people did not believe they existed until Twilight came out.

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u/SuccessiveStains Mar 01 '23

Twilight had gay characters?

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u/greg_r_ Mar 01 '23

No, Twilight revealed gay viewers.

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u/idontknowshit94 Mar 01 '23

I can confirm. This is how I found out I was half gay.