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[TokyoLiz]

[rxk22]

[mitsui]

It is hard to say.
I think there were more religious types in the past.

I don't know if people were greedier.

More people have a MA, so the job market has gotten more competitive but schools are pickier which forces people to have to make their resumes better.

It used to be that just a BA was enough to get a high school job but some places want teachers to be certified in their own country, as they are seen as more serious.

I do think that I knew nicer people in the past.
Conditions were better and some people would want to stay longer.
Maybe people are busier, having to hustle to make money, so they have less time.

There are more Americans than before 2009.
Maybe there are more transients, but that has always been the case.

[RM1983]

[RM1983]

[timothypfox]

RM1983, please stick to the issues instead of flapping around negatively trying to attack people's opinions based on their writing style or intentions to be honest. Quite honestly, most of us find your contributions to this conversation juvenile and inappropriate.

[steki47]

[rxk22]

I do the interviews for my school. I am trying to be fair here, so please bear with me. Most of the guys are more or less normal. A lot have the "I am a gaijin, so I am so cool" deal going on. They usually weren't too bad. I did see quite a few Otaku in that mix. I would guess that it isn't too different from the states.
The girls that we interviewed. Most of them were Otaku. I am not trying to be cruel here, but a lot of them were easily 100 pounds overweight, and they probably had never put a comb through their hair.
I still have eikaiwa and ALT connections. THey tell me most of their new people are Otaku. I guess no one else would put up with the lack of pay/benefits?

[mitsui]

Makes sense. Pay is less than in the past.
People would really want to be here, and could accept less pay.
Some people get sick of the low pay, and just don't renew their contract.

Maybe many of the otaku types just come as tourists.

I did hear from one Berlitz teacher, that he was told that the otaku types should keep it to themselves and not be obvious about it.

[TokyoLiz]

rxk22,

When you say otaku, you mean people who suffer monomania, or people who are disconnected from humanity, or both?

Are the people you interview freshly arrived, or are they already resident here?

[Nemu_Yoake]

Don't disparage otakus please, we don't need this. We may be a little (or really) weird, but we are very sensitive beings. Some of us are well integrated, some others are not. The big fat girls/guys have no confidence in themselves and that why they don't take care of their appearance. It's like an armor that would protect them from being hurt again and again. They say "You won't like me anyway, will you? See, I'm disgusting you with my looks." Some of them have a sort of abandonment neurosis and that's why they lock themselves up in an unreal world.

[weigookin74]

[rxk22]

[TokyoLiz]

Rxk22, interesting how each generation of noobs in Japan are attracted by popular ideas about Japan. Many of my fellow martial artists, resident here, are in their 40s. They came over to study aikido, karate, classical martial arts.

Before us, there were Buddhist seekers, artists, business people.

My mother's husband, now in his 70s, worked for a Japanese manufacturing company in Kansai, when Japan's manufacturing and markets were just beginning to boom.

Japan's past economic drivers are moribund, and the best Japan can manage is promoting pop culture and tourism. The result is otaku in droves. What a weird world we live in.

[rxk22]