# What "American" activities would Japanese high school exchange students want to engage in?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 17, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-activities-would-japanese-high-school-exchange-students-want-to-engage-in/782364 "2017-03-17T00:37:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-activities-would-japanese-high-school-exchange-students-want-to-engage-in/782364/81 "2017-03-22T21:52:48Z")

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> [@Ranchoth](#):
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> …I understand some fruit is noticeably pricier than it is in the US. Watermelons, in particular, even aside from special fancy gift varieties.

Do they even have the large, oblong watermelons in Japan? All of the ones I see in Japanese media are round ones so small I’d almost not conciser one worth bending over to pick up.

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**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-activities-would-japanese-high-school-exchange-students-want-to-engage-in/782364/82 "2017-03-22T22:21:48Z")

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So reading the various suggestions and thinking about what would be novel, I’m thinking the way to pack it all in to a couple of days is to load your truck up with tents, steaks, guns, and shooting cans and head on down to somewhere in the country.

Go mudding in the country. Have the kids shoot cans. Cook em up some steaks and baked beans out of a redneck barrel, and then sleep in tents. Yeah buddy, that’s the life.

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-activities-would-japanese-high-school-exchange-students-want-to-engage-in/782364/83 "2017-03-23T07:15:32Z")

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> [@scr4](#):
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> But when it comes to fruits and vegetables in Japan, you get what you pay for. Right now Japan is way ahead of the US when it comes to growing high quality, flavorful fruits and vegetables.

Friend, I don’t know about you, but where I live, even organic Honeycrisp apples don’t cost $7 a lb. 😉

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-activities-would-japanese-high-school-exchange-students-want-to-engage-in/782364/84 "2017-03-23T10:42:23Z")

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> [@SamuelA](#):
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> So reading the various suggestions and thinking about what would be novel, I’m thinking the way to pack it all in to a couple of days is to load your truck up with tents, steaks, guns, and shooting cans and head on down to somewhere in the country.
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> Go mudding in the country. Have the kids shoot cans. Cook em up some steaks and baked beans out of a redneck barrel, and then sleep in tents. Yeah buddy, that’s the life.

Heh. I do this every few years with a group of friends. We add beer and weed to our activities and call it Men’s Town.

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-activities-would-japanese-high-school-exchange-students-want-to-engage-in/782364/85 "2017-03-24T06:18:45Z")

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Try to teach them the tipping rules. Especially cow-tipping. Also, chick-cruising, ham-boning, heavy-petting, break-dancing, off the top of my head (or their head?).

Japan is all about regional food specialties, so if you could explain what Seattle’s specialty is (coffee?) - and teach them how to tell a good one from a bad one, etc., that might be interesting for them.

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