I heard once that art is 2 percent creativity and the rest "derivativity."
Well, what follows is not exactly art, but it does owe a friendly tip of the hat to American comedian Jeff Foxworthy and his renowned "redneck" schtick, a comic form that -- in turn -- must be as old as "knock-knock" jokes.
Only in this case, it is not rednecks that get picked apart. Instead, the good-natured target is us, the foreign residents of Japan -- especially those who reached these shores as adults.
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