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GhostOwl
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Cool Cat
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
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AFKing
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Lucumo
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
On January 15 2013 15:00 dAPhREAk wrote: please tell me about my people. A= Korean, teaching English (American is the real name of that language, thank you) in Japan. I sense a walking contradiction. ![[image loading]](http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/4h3ewZxrqU4/mqdefault.jpg) | ||
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ShiroKaisen
United States1082 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
Give me pics of the food! | ||
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GhostOwl
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LinYu)Fury
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Kuni
Austria765 Posts
On January 15 2013 15:49 Torte de Lini wrote: I just care about the food. Give me pics of the food! I totally agree, the food represents the most important aspect of any country. Food is beautiful, Food is elegant, Food is honest and it makes my stomache full, Oh food, let me be the one to consume you, You be the food to travel my body through, Food, please become me, Food, I will always love thee. Post pictures of all the places you go eat, go to many different places and eat a lot of diferent things :-) I will love your blog then ! | ||
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
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Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
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GhostOwl
766 Posts
On January 15 2013 19:07 Shady Sands wrote: What is the attitude of average Japanese people towards people of Korean descent? Well, I'd have to say that it was mainly positive. A lot of times, I just try to come off as Asian American, but being Korean has huge benefits in Japan. I'll get more into it in my first blog entry | ||
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Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
On January 15 2013 19:46 GhostOwl wrote: Well, I'd have to say that it was mainly positive. A lot of times, I just try to come off as Asian American, but being Korean has huge benefits in Japan. I'll get more into it in my first blog entry That's awesome. I keep hearing that Japanese society has opened up tremendously to foreigners in recent years--makes me real eager for a visit. | ||
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esReveR
United States567 Posts
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GhostOwl
766 Posts
On January 15 2013 19:52 esReveR wrote: I'm curious... With all the highly publicized incidents with the US military in Japan, have you noticed any change in the way you are treated? I am working on the assumption that the general public (citizens of Japan) lump Americans together regardless of affiliation, which may or may not be accurate. No change, but I live near Tokyo. So maybe I'm guessing it's hostile around Okinawa area. It also wasn't hostile when I was living in a rural part of Japan. Japanese people see mainly Black and White as American, so if you're Latino, Indian, Asian, then they will keep asking you where you are from. One time I even had my US passport during a party (long story), and this woman asked me if the passport was really mine. I had to open it up to show her it was really me. | ||
Spica
United States5582 Posts
On January 15 2013 19:46 GhostOwl wrote: Well, I'd have to say that it was mainly positive. A lot of times, I just try to come off as Asian American, but being Korean has huge benefits in Japan. I'll get more into it in my first blog entry I'd really like to hear more details on this. One of my parents' main concerns for me going to Japan besides the language barriers and such, is the treatment of Koreans by Japanese, but I'm fairly positive that attitudes are getting better, and it seems that my hunches are right. Looking forward to your first blog! Also, are you teaching under the JET program? | ||
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Vega62a
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Flyingsnow
Japan208 Posts
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FakeDeath
Malaysia6060 Posts
What is the attitude of average Japanese people towards people of Chinese descent? I am an overseas Chinese so i would like to know. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On January 16 2013 00:22 FakeDeath wrote: I want to ask the something what Shady Sands said. What is the attitude of average Japanese people towards people of Chinese descent? I am an overseas Chinese so i would like to know. In short, they are fine, you would never notice anything unless you act really out of line. No one will hate you just because you are Chinese. In fact, if you don't speak and act out of line, they'll just think you are Japanese. Japanese people will almost always appear friendly, because it's the polite thing to do; sometimes this is genuine, but a lot of times it's phony, but that really doesn't matter as you wouldn't know. I'm Chinese Canadian and I've lived in Tokyo for over two years now, and I think it's swell. I've never felt like I was alienated from the crowd. Things might be a little different if I were poor and didn't speak English though, which is the case for a lot of the Chinese people living here. | ||
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FakeDeath
Malaysia6060 Posts
On January 16 2013 00:36 Cambium wrote: In short, they are fine, you would never notice anything unless you act really out of line. No one will hate you just because you are Chinese. In fact, if you don't speak and act out of line, they'll just think you are Japanese. Japanese people will almost always appear friendly, because it's the polite thing to do; sometimes this is genuine, but a lot of times it's phony, but that really doesn't matter as you wouldn't know. I'm Chinese Canadian and I've lived in Tokyo for over two years now, and I think it's swell. I've never felt like I was alienated from the crowd. Things might be a little different if I were poor and didn't speak English though, which is the case for a lot of the Chinese people living here. Well my older cousin brother said the same thing as well. He worked there as a Mitsubishi engineer. Japanese can understand English well? I heard from my cousin they aren't proficient in English. Koreans has a slightly better understanding on the English language though. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
Even though the general populace is terrible at speaking, English still goes a very long way in Japan, especially in large cities like Tokyo. I visited Seoul for four days in the past, I didn't think the general public spoke more English than Tokyo. I recall speaking a lot of Japanese in Korea. | ||
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quannguyen
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
some examples from my experience: - i dated a japanese girl who was 1/16 korean. the family refused to tell the younger brother he was 1/16 korean because (a) he didn't like koreans, and (b) they were concerned he would be ridiculed for it. i was told point blank not to let him know he is korean. - i taught english to middle aged women. they told me straight out that chinese were criminals and they wished that the government would exclude them from japan. if you think thats bad, you should see what they say about blacks. japanese wont do anything directly about it usually. they wont say anything to you, but i wouldnt be surprised if they act passively aggressive towards you. i wouldnt let it stop me from going to japan if i was a young korean/chinese, but full disclosure, its not all unicorns and rainbows like people are saying. | ||
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Ianuus
Australia349 Posts
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yokohama
United States1116 Posts
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REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1904 Posts
Also since Senkaku dispute was already mentioned I wonder which territorial dispute is seen as the most serious in Japan? It would seem to me to be the Kuril island dispute because it is biggest in area, the history of it (no peace-treaty between Japan and Russia after WW2, they are technically still at war  ), the Japanese fisherman killed by Russian border patrols and Moscows increased military deployments to the islands. Yet this dispute seems to hardly get any mention in the media here. | ||
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
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NonFactor
Sweden698 Posts
On January 16 2013 11:41 Ianuus wrote: Are the Senkaku islands a big deal over there right now? I'm visiting family in China and now it's all over the news, and from what I can see there's little about it in the Western media. I'm a Swedish guy in Japan atm and have been for about half a year now. The conflict is certainly in the news, but it doesn't really seem to affect the general Japanese population. (As you would expect.) On the internet though there is a lot of discussion and even hate by the nationalists. I currently work in a place with around 7 people that come from China, Hongkong and Taiwan. I've talked to them about this since it interests me and they say it doesn't really affect them at all. If you walk around Tokyo or any major city you will hear Chinese spoken all the time so obviously people are open about it. I've been traveling all around Japan and worked with numerous foreigners (I'm volunteering), and the consensus seems to be that, no matter where your from, what the color of your skin is, if you act like a decent human being, you will be treated the same. Though, it is true that many Japanese do sometimes see foreigners in a stereotypical way. This though in my opinion is simply due to inexperience with dealing and interacting with foreigners. They simply only know what the television shows them. Have I in my 6 months experienced or witnessed any racism or discrimination? Nope. | ||
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yokohama
United States1116 Posts
On January 17 2013 08:46 NonFactor wrote: I'm a Swedish guy in Japan atm and have been for about half a year now. The conflict is certainly in the news, but it doesn't really seem to affect the general Japanese population. (As you would expect.) On the internet though there is a lot of discussion and even hate by the nationalists. I currently work in a place with around 7 people that come from China, Hongkong and Taiwan. I've talked to them about this since it interests me and they say it doesn't really affect them at all. If you walk around Tokyo or any major city you will hear Chinese spoken all the time so obviously people are open about it. I've been traveling all around Japan and worked with numerous foreigners (I'm volunteering), and the consensus seems to be that, no matter where your from, what the color of your skin is, if you act like a decent human being, you will be treated the same. Though, it is true that many Japanese do sometimes see foreigners in a stereotypical way. This though in my opinion is simply due to inexperience with dealing and interacting with foreigners. They simply only know what the television shows them. Have I in my 6 months experienced or witnessed any racism or discrimination? Nope. I've lived here for a year now and I can say I've witnessed racism/discrimination multiple times. I've gone to multiple izakayas and bars where I've been either ignored completely or told no foreigners and pointed to the door. I also have a lot of Japanese born Korean friends that have to hide the fact that they are Korean from their jobs to avoid never being able to promote and constant harassment. I take it with a grain of salt though, I understand that as a foreigner there are a lot of old fashioned Japanese that are set in their ways and can't hold it against them, I just try to be respectful either way. I know a lot of foreigners have caused some bad problems in Japan and the media likes to blow it up which makes the people more biased perhaps. All in all I really love this country and don't have any desire to return to America, though there is evidence of obvious racism there are many things in this country which are far superior and make it a more enjoyable place for me to live. | ||
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