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There's a big difference between A) living in Japan, B) vacationing in Japan, and C) secondhand experience via TV and anime and never ever being in Japan.
A lot of arguments on Twitter come from people in B and C accusing people in A of having unrealistic perspectives on Japan.
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@FeministaJones
White fear is the most lethal thing on the planet. After the last few years of televised lynchings, I look at White people who claim to be in fear of their lives from Black people and ask—why?
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This really is an annual event where some J*panese person puts on blackface and everyone pleads ignorance or apologists try to wave the issue away.
My mans looks like a hockey puck eating a Brillo pad. He closer to an oil slick than a human being.
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@ermesgoatt
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This is an example of how idealizing a group of people can lead to racist objectification of that people.
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@defnoodles
@ladyscribe21
It's really disturbing to see how many people are able to watch video of a child being abused and then give reasons for why she deserves it.
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PEOPLE OF JAPAN:
i haven't traveled further than Family Mart for the last two years, I didn't bring the virus here, chill out
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Isn't it funny how a JP person goes abroad for too long, they're no longer 'JP enough' for some people here, but no matter how long a gaijin lives here they just always gaijin?
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There's Japan as it really is, and then there's Japan as Narnia. People who've never lived here are desperate to protect their magical fantasy Japan, and I can't wash enough dishes to get them to stop.
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It's really fucking sickening that people will post purposeful misinformation like this (this person's skin tone isn't even the same as J*hnny's) and use an innocent person's suffering as a way of showing their hatred for Black people/immigrants.
Some of ya'll are really f'd up.
Many people are using the J*hnny S*mali situation to gain Twitter engagement via 'reporting' and also as an excuse to voice anti-Black and anti-immigrant hate.
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I've been saying this for a while now, but 外人 does not mean 'foreigner'. It means 'outsider'. It means 'not one of us'.
This is why Japanese people go abroad to other countries and still refer to the people who live there as 'gaijin'.
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English teaching is not your only option for making a living in Japan, by the way. If you learn Japanese and have/learn a skill, you can do whatever you want: from running a video game bar to translating for R*kuten.
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Learning Japanese is almost like a class system in a JRPG. Most people start off by getting really good in either conversation or reading, and then struggle mightily to boost their stats in the other skills.
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Japanese teachers from kindy to HS regularly refer to themselves as "sensei" when talking about themselves with students. One thing you won't pick up on from anime or whatever is the hierarchical structure in Japan,
Coming from the yakuza post to troll
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A little reminder:
If you live in Japan and you've got feelings about Japan, there's healthy ways to process those feelings. Provoking strangers in public to blow off steam won't make things better for you, but will make things worse for others.
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In all honesty, Japan attracts some of the most degenerate and delusional human beings from around the world.
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I've been in Japan for five minutes.
No racism/xenophobia/social problems so far!
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Japan Life Pro Tip:
The English website is only half of the story.
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Loving Japan does not mean denying its problems. Loving Japan means loving the people who sustain it. Japanese men, Japanese women, multi-ethnic Japanese, queer Japanese, naturalized Japanese, and all the immigrants to Japan who have traveled from far away
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There's zero shame in admitting when you were wrong. On the contrary, the longer you argue that you're right, the more shameful you'll feel later.
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@AQ1Miller
Dear White People:
Listen.
Just once, consider that out of the other 7 billion people experiencing the phenomenon of life, some of them might have perspectives that can help enrich your own.
You don't need to have an answer for everything.
Listen.
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In Japan, sometimes there are people on the train or the bus who (seem to) have mental difficulties who talk out loud or make abrupt sounds. One thing I've always liked about Japan is how nice it is that people with these difficulties can feel safe to ride public transportation.
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Japan is not a carbon copy of your country. The problems and the glories of your country will be different from those in Japan. If you have never been abroad before, you will have no frame of reference to understand Japan without making (mostly) meaningless comparisons to
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I am a Black man.
I live in J*pan.
I have had some relationships with JP women.
I try not to fetishize JP women, and I have tried to avoid women who would fetishize me.
It's a very uncomfortable feeling when it's clear that there's a role they want you to play. Like you're a toy.
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Mr Rogers was the nicest American to ever live.
And he soaked his feet on nat'l TV with a Black man. To show children that Black people *are* people.
IN THE 1960s.
Being 'nice' doesn't mean avoiding controversy.
'Nice' doesn't mean turning a blind eye to other people's lives.
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The clothes on my body are Japanese.
The food in my belly is Japanese.
The water I wash myself with is Japanese.
The air I breathe is Japanese.
The language I speak is Japanese.
It has been this way for over 10 years.
Does that make me Japanese?
Not in Japan.
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And by the way, when a person has Japanese ancestry and describes themselves as "Osaka Rin" and you call them "Detroit Rin" instead, you are quietly saying that person is Not Japanese Enough. This is racist.
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Life in Japan is weird sometimes because people inside Japan act like you don't live here, and people outside Japan act like you don't live here.
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Your periodic reminder that you probably know more Japanese than you give yourself credit for because people here can be weirdly elitist about language skill because language skill = status or whatever but fuck that, you don't gotta meet someone else's standards.
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Anti-maskers in Japan are, even after the government officially said 'do what you want', still acting like they're being oppressed, and it's just like—by whom?
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People in Japan (specifically residents who live here) would rather can themselves "foreigner"and "gaijin" because back home they use "immigrant" to refer to people they see as less-than.
"i moved overseas", "digital nomad", "expat", "global citizen". anything but IM AN IMMIGRANT. u see the DIFFERENCE.
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I would pay MONEY to watch the Family Mart HQ meeting where they try to figure out why they're selling so many goddamn socks lol
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2022.
Rules on underwear color, black hair to be abolished at Tokyo public high schools in 2022
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Just a friendly reminder that 'gaijin', 'foreigner', etc don't default to 'White', thank you~
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some of y'all come over here and start families and bring mixed-Japanese people into the world, but then go on Twitter and harass mixed-Japanese people with no shame and I can't understand you
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I'm a Black American with Haitian roots who has spent more than a decade living in Japan. Let me give you some tips on the ancient Japanese art of staying cool in summer, "Ehyakon." 🧵
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I've met many mixed Japanese young people who are very conscious of the racism and discrimination that they will have to face despite being fully Japanese. So it upsets me when privileged people come from abroad and insist s.t. they know nothing about doesn't exist here.
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In a few years the story will be, "Foreigners have turned their backs on Japan, snubbing the island nation's welcoming arms."
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Living in Japan as a minority can be stressful. Some people don't handle it very well. Sometimes they relieve the stress by turning against other minorities as an outlet to soothe the pain of their own feelings of mistreatment by being hateful and condescending towards others.
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You can't talk about your 'direct experience' in Japan when that experience is that of a traveler because your frame of reference is so vanishingly limited you're intimidated by using the toilet.
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Went into the conbini. Young man holds the door open for me on the way out. Very rare thing. Next, he starts chatting me up, in Japanese. Another very rare thing. He wished me a good night and went off.
Kindness for kindness' sake. The middle of the night in the middle of Tokyo.
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The funny thing about this teaching English in Japan thing is that I'm good at it.
Really good at it.
I was so good that I made my gaijin coworkers at my last school terribly insecure.
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We should really be helping build each other up, especially around this Japanese language thing. Learning this language is made that much harder by all the peacocking and dunking.
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they say you get more conservative as you get older, I keep becoming more liberal
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Dear racists, homophobes, and misogynists living in Japan:
Go home.
We don't need your perversion here.
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*Considers making a joke about how Japanese people casually complain about how 'kuroi' they're getting*
*Considers the immediate blacklash Japan defenders would bring into his comments*
*Considers making joke about Japan defenders*
*Runs out of characters, decides to abort joke.*
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Summer in Japan has taught me I wouldn't survive five minutes in Africa
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I can understand never having met a Black person. I'll even go crazy and give you the benefit of the doubt that you've never even *seen* a human being from the African diaspora.
But to dress up like Axel Foley, you have to have at least seen Eddie Murphy—
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Learning Japanese is not fetishizing Japanese people.
Gwen Stefani literally claiming to be Japanese during interview with an Asian-American is fetishizing Japanese people.
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The benchmark for understanding Japanese society is now... *check notes* 16 days!
White nationalists are never wrong!
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if i can live here for 12 years and still be a foreigner, that means 'foreigner' if just a nice way of saying 'outsider'
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and Eddie Murphy doesn't like a black sheep in a closet with the lights turned out.
That is a *specific* depiction of a Black human beings that comes from a *very* specific tradition of American minstrel shows.
You could not look at the color of Eddie Murphy's skin and
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The reason White people are seen more favorably than other minorities in Japan is because Hollywood is controlled by White people and influences how White people are seen around the world—just like how blackface minstrel shows influenced how Black people are seen around the world
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Two men, both native English speakers, are talking about differences between the present tense and past tense in English and Japanese.
Your ears prick up.
Well, one says, you can tell stories in the present tense in English too.
No you can't, the other says.
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If you think gays are considered an impurity in Japan, wait until I tell ya about something called 'gaijin.'
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@RoseDaddyMike
@sam_d_1995
WELL IF YOU DON'T WANT DIVERSITY YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SENT ALL THOSE BOATS STEVEN
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If you're going to complain about anime localization using examples from anime that came out *before you were born*, go tough some grass, but get off of my lawn 😂😂😂
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Q: Why did the Japanese bakery go under?
A: It just didn't pan out.
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@redpyrameadhead
Some Americans eagerly waited for the day the Olsen twins turned 18. They won't come right out and say that they are attracted to girls who are underage, but they will show it in how much time and energy they focus on the subject.
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(I didn't mention Asian folks in this equation because I'm not Asian and I don't really think it's my place—not because I don't recognize Asian people don't also face criticism for their views on their own countries.)
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I remember two dudes at work being like, Yeah no, just worry about N2, you don't need N1, and then studying an N1 textbook anyway and finding plenty of stuff that was really useful and decided I would stop taking those guys' advice on studying Japanese 😅🤭
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And honestly, 外国人 is just polite lip service. It still permanently excludes us from ever being seen as citizens, regardless of whether we go through the naturalization process.
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I took a writing class in college. The professor insisted I enter a college-wide writing contest and eventually I acquiesced. Our names were removed from the entries and given to someone unaffiliated with the college to judge.
I won.
Based on the merit of my skill alone, I won.
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If your counter to my argument is that 'it's worse in the US', I gotta follow up by asking if you really want to use the US as your baseline for ethics and morality.
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One thing nobody tells you about before living in JP is how many self-hating gaijin there are who only feel safe taking their frustration out on the people most like them.
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We need to be now respectful towards immigrant women in Japan. There's a certain kind of immigrant man that deeply enjoys the opportunity to insult and harass women in ways they wouldn't do towards another man.
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In the first fucking place, I'm sick and tired of being called a fucking 'foreigner'
10+ years is a foreigner?
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JAPAN LIFE EXAM TEST
Q: Which conbini should you buy socks from?
a. Lawson
b. Sebun
c. Famima
d. Sankusu
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Older Japanese man on the train platform. Masked. Pulls two (2) windows down. Empty seats everywhere. He sits in the opposite aisle right in front of me with no hesitation.
I think I love this man ❤️
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it's amazing to me how English-speaking people in Japan automatically default 'foreigner/gaijin' to 'White'
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And finally, 'foreigner' is just an English analogue to the linguistic marginalization found in the use of the 'polite' 外国人. I've lived here 10+ years and I contribute to society, I am not a fucking foreigner.
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I beg you:
If you've never lived in Japan, don't talk about living in Japan.
No shade but my fear is that black and brown Americans are in such dire straights here that we relocate and gentrify countries where apartments like this are inaccessible to the residents there… it’s a shitty situation man
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back in my day, we were just happy to see any kind of anime!
Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball? boy, girl, didn't matter! everybody watched every show, every frame! and we liked it too!
we didn't complain about translations!
we just watched the uncut shit on the Spanish channel😂😂😂
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You do not need to be an expert on everything about Japan.
You do not need to have an opinion on everything that happens in Japan.
You do not need to evaluate other people's Japanese language skill.
If you want to be interesting, try being authentic.
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You ever been so burnt out that when you actually get a minute to relax you forgot how?
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There's nothing inherently wrong with Assistant Language Teaching. There are ALTs who go above and beyond what is expected of them because they love education and they love their students.
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the ink from a Sharpie and come to the conclusion that it's the same color. An alien from outer space could not come to this conclusion—
But a racist American could!
And racist American media, polluting the minds of people around the world, could make it so people as far as
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This is why these people drive me crazy: They're willing to harass and traumatize people no problem, but press them on why they believe what they believe and they sidestep like the Temptations.
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If you get into an argument with a Japanese person and they say "This is Japan!", you have automatically won the argument.
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Maybe we should take a moment to spotlight some of the more positive members of the J Twitter community.
Who actually makes your Twitter feed better?
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JP TV show segment: Why can't Japanese speak English?
*participants are all Japanese people*
*participants are all speaking Japanese*
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It's 30°C in Tokyo today.
Who is tired of this heat?
Who is tired of their job?
Who wants to start an ice cream shop?
(Who got some start-an-ice-cream-shop money?)
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@StuartForbes
I'm not sure about that. People with delusions about Japan are very good at coming over here and rationalizing those delusions into reality. From my own experience, people who have very liberal views and aren't ready for life in a very conservative country burn out quick.
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Everyone in the world knows that America has a racism problem. What everyone in the world doesn't realize is that people aren't *born* racist, racism has to come from somewhere. The ideas about how Black people look and speak and behave have to come from somewhere.
And the same
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I will get on a plane and go to your house and wash your dishes in exchange for you not saying 'in Japan' if you don't actually live in Japan.
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why is it that people who say "go back to your country" are so often the same people stealing other people's countries
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Many people are using the J*hnny S*mali situation to gain Twitter engagement via 'reporting' and also as an excuse to voice anti-Black and anti-immigrant hate.
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Which Japanese conbini is the best of them all?
Explain your answer with examples. Be persuasive.
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Please, for the love of. This is not a 'foreigners in Japan' thing, this is a 'people in big cities are wild' thing.
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You can learn Japanese.
Study a little today. Review tomorrow.
Study a little tomorrow. Review the day after that.
Etc.
Anyone who says different is a hater.
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I went through a I love Japan phase.
I went through a I hate Japan phase.
Now I just try to take the good things and the bad things as they come.
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For many people outside of it, Japan is almost like a TV show. Two-dimensional. Episodic. Entertainment.
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@UnseenJapanSite
There sure is a lot of racism in this country that doesn't know anything about racism 🤔🤔🤔
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Don't be on here with your Big Opinions if you gonna chump out when people bring up opposing viewpoints.
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It has dawned upon me that there are people out there who fetishize J*pan so much that they're no longer willing to let actual J*panese people change their minds about J*pan.
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