These people are douchebags. Honky douchebags.
Why?
Because they were making a huge show out of doing the whole single-clap, bowing, ringing the ceremonial bells, basically running through the whole Shinto ritual in front of this place while very openly and deliberately filming themselves doing it, all with VERY SERIOUS expressions on their faces, so you sure to know how
serious and
respectful they are.
Guess what, jerkfaces – you probably don't – wait, scratch that, I'm pretty damn sure you don't – actually practice the religion you're aping nor do you really believe in what you're doing, so knock it off. Nobody cares that you memorized the ritual. Doing things like this, filming yourselves doing it – that's the epitome of fake “worldliness”, a big narcissistic put-on where you make a big show about how you know the ritual and oh look at us we're so goddamn cosmopolitan and worldly and let's all go back to our youth hostel, snack on Trader Joe's wasabi peas while sitting cross-legged on a hemp blanket normally used on the quad during Capoeira sessions and talk about the latest Sigur Ros album while updating our
Facebook profiles to tell our friends about how we're in Japan douching it up.
