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[00:00.64] Todd: So I'm here with Shantel, and we both are from the United States.

[00:05.39] And we both are teachers in Japan.

[00:07.14] So I thought we would talk a little bit about some of the stereotypes that people might have in other countries, for example Japan, or other countries about Americans.

[00:17.14] So first, we're going to talk about hamburgers.

[00:19.14] Shantel: Okay.

[00:20.39] Todd: Okay, so hamburgers. How often do you actually eat a hamburger?

[00:27.14] Shantel: Uh, hamburgers. I would say, it's actually not that often, although I love hamburgers.

[00:37.39] I love them very much, but maybe only a couple times a month or so.

[00:45.14] Todd: Yeah, I agree. I think hamburgers is the one thing that does not meet the stereotype, that we don't eat them that often.

[00:53.14] Like, I never have hamburgers in America.

[00:55.89] Shantel: Ah, okay.

[00:56.89] Todd: Pretty much never. Like, I'll have them if somebody's barbecuing it, maybe for a picnic, or something.

[01:02.89] Um, yeah. And if I do eat fast food it's usually not a hamburger.

[01:07.14] Shantel: Oh.

[01:08.14] Todd: I eat something else. Like, I eat tacos or burritos, right.

[01:10.64] Shantel: Yeah.

[01:11.89] Todd: I don't eat hamburgers. So that's one. I think hamburgers don't really match the stereotype myth.

[01:16.39] Shantel: Yeah. I agree.

[01:17.39] Todd: Do you agree?

[01:18.39] Shantel: I agree, especially because I know many, many of my students here in Japan, they will ask me often, what I eat for lunch.

[01:27.14] And before I respond, cause they're playing a joke on me, they'll say like, "Oh, hamburger? Hamburger?"

[01:33.39] Todd: (laughs), yeah.

[01:34.39] Shantel: And I have to tell them that, you know, now I do live in Japan, but in the United States I don't typically eat hamburgers every day.

[01:42.89] Todd: Yeah.

[01:43.89] Shantel: But that is a lot of what they think. They think that I eat hamburgers regularly or, at least, fast food but their image of fast food is only hamburgers.

[01:53.39] Todd: So true. And actually,the funny side story to that, or contrary story would be you know, sushi.

[02:00.39] So we both teach in Japan, and I think most people think that you eat sushi all the time in Japan.

[02:05.64] And that's almost the equivalent of the hamburger. You don't eat it that much.

[02:09.64] Shantel: That is so true.

[02:10.64] Todd: Right?

[02:11.64] Shantel: So true. I cannot say how true that is.

[02:13.64] Todd: Or uh, another one, we're talking about um, stereotypes would be sumo.

[02:17.64] So Japanese people are not that into sumo, really, right, but it's an iconic thing. So that brings us to the point of baseball.

[02:26.14] Shantel: Ah, yes.

[02:27.39] Todd: So do you actually like baseball?

[02:29.89] Shantel: I do. I love baseball. I do, and I used to go to some games in the United States, in San Francisco.

[02:37.39] I went to several Giants games growing up, yeah. So I do enjoy baseball. Do you enjoy baseball?

[02:45.89] Todd: I do. I have to admit, like I played you know, baseball when I was younger.

[02:49.14] I loved baseball, but I do think it's not as popular as people think it is.

[02:54.14] Shantel: Ah.

[02:54.89] Todd: You know what I mean?

[02:55.64] Shantel: Yes.

[02:56.14] Todd: I think that like, a lot of people like it. You like it, I like it. But a lot of people could care less.

[02:59.39] Shantel: Yes.

[03:00.14] Todd: About baseball.

[03:00.89] Shantel: Most of the time I think I hear people say it's, it's a slow sport, it's boring. No one wants to watch it.

[03:06.39] Todd: Right.

[03:07.39] Shantel: They're much more inclined to watch basketball or football instead of baseball.

[03:11.14] Todd: So true.