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[Cool Teacher]

I met this guy recently who was ransting about how much he hated Japanese people for their intolernace of gaijins but I think it was him who has an intolerance of Japanse.

Now he said a neighbout wagged a finger at him and said some bad words because he dripped water on his neghbours baconly. When I asked why he knew that was racist he said, "You can just tell with these people."

Then I thought maybe this guy was the racist againt the Japanese not the Japanese against him. He said, "Yeah but you can just tell sometimes!" Then this giy said he urinated on this Japanese guy's balcony in revenge. I wsa amazed at this disgusting behaviour and thought that maybe this is just giving firre to the people the gaijin thinks is racist. I was so shocked and ashamed to think that this guy could come from the same country as mine and bahave like that. it was horrible and he was even worse than I said already you might be surprised how bad he was. I was shocked.

This is a true story and I didn't make it up.!

[Glenski]

"...these people."

Would that be assistant professor, ALT, or eikaiwa instructor Archie Bunker?

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

So you are (I'm guessing here) a gaijin who is anti-anti-Japanese-gaijin? How is that not discrimination? You don't even know most of those people. And you already hate them. They are a 'hidden' subgroup of people. It's pretty likely that there are anti-anti-anti-Japanese-gaijin people out there, too.



People suffer culture shock ('culture fatigue'). It's like a wave that goes up and down over the course of years. They may lash out against the host members of the country (in this case Japanese people) when what they really are, is tired of being in the foreign culture (except that if they've been here for years, then they would experience the same thing in their home country). They need a break. I think any foreigner who actually hates Japanese people would leave. It's not like there aren't more lucrative opportunities elsewhere.

[Cool Teacher]

[Cool Teacher]

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

[Cool Teacher]

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

I don't think it was overly strong (except for the word 'hate', I guess).

I think anytime a thread is posted like this, then it invites people to come out and either 'agree' with what you're saying, 'disagree' with what your saying (both of which are fine, IMO) but there's also a possibility that it will devolve into a 'this [very small thing] happened to me and so that proves that all Japanese people are racist' thread.

[if the guy speaks no Japanese at all, and 'just knew' it was racism, that that might be a clue that he's all stressed out and is kind-of out-of-his-head {at the moment?}. This would go back to my idea that it could have been from any number of other things and that he was venting at ALL Japanese people for something else, possibly at frustration (maybe from being unemployed... and not speaking the language at all?)].

[HLJHLJ]

I'd be willing to bet he is anti-many things, and it's not specific to the Japanese. Some people are just ****s, and remain so regardless of where they live. He would likely have the same arguments with people in his home country but he'd have to find some other excuse as to why his neighbors 'hate' him.

[Cool Teacher]

[Cool Teacher]

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

So write him off as a douchebag and move on.

[Tsian]

Coolteacher:

I'm curious, have you had some other experiences recently that have made you feel frustrated with Japan or highlighted differences?

I think we all run into idiots from time to time. There is little to do but ignore them and move on -- and realize that many of them are probably not bad people. Everyone goes through stages and has bouts of homesickness or doubts about their decision to relocate long term to Japan. Perhaps he is just under a lot of stress (or perhaps he is truly just an *beep*).

In any event, no use in worrying too much about his problems! In the end he will be rewarded in kind.

[Cool Teacher]

Yeah, you might be right.

[Inflames]