Quote from ns2np5
I think most shoujo mangaka apply this stereotype to any non-japanese OR a Japanese who used to live abroad. I read one manga where the guy who does this is a returnee who used to live in Indonesia. After he kissed the girl as greetings, he said, "This is how we do things in Indonesia". That made me laugh and also feel really annoyed at the same time. Seems that many mangaka view Japanese as very chaste and any other nationalities are basically pervert. I mean, come on...
This just makes me believe more that it's just used as an excuse to kiss the girl. From the ones I've read, I have never seen the guy kiss anyone else "as a greeting" like he did with the main girl. Now that I think about it, most of the time the girl is upset about the kiss in that A) it was unexpected and unwanted, and B) she feels she can't really blame or be mad at the guy because he's adjusted to another culture in a "he doesn't know any better" sort of way. This makes it possible for the guy to basically get away with kissing the girl he likes without any serious repercussions. And since the main girl typically doesn't know a lot about the western culture, she can't really say whether or not it is true. [Does this make sense?]
It's kind of like that little trick where a girl tells the guy she likes that they're hands are the same size[?], only for the guy to hold her hand and declare that his hand is bigger. This is just an excuse for the girl to hold her crush's hand and not that she really believed their hands were the same size.