/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11509864
Every time I meet or speak with non-whites coming back from Japan they're always enthralled with how everyone is so kind in Japan and how excepting they were of them. I have met, on rare occasion, some non-whites/non-asian travelers to Japan that insist that they are part of the nation Japan now and they were excepted saying "Have you even been to Japan? How would you know if you've never been to Japan?!" The fact that they are always pushing the idea that they have become part of Japan and flaunting it around that they've lived among them shows how insecure they really are about their status in Japan. One doesn't have to live amongst a nation to figure out their beliefs and social norms, it helps tremendously to, but not a requirement.

The fact is that putting on a second face of politeness is how Japan survives being a large island nation. For up until the 1940's Japanese people lived within one town or spot their entire lives. They would see everyone in those towns for their entire lives, so to upset any balance in that community would turn the whole town on head causing havoc. So the Japanese would never be able to speak what they really thought of another person, else that relationship would further escalate into worse and worse throughout their lives. Some Japanese scholars even theorize/contribute mass riots, revolts, and clan rivalries to small isolated incidents of letting this so called second mask come off between two peoples or small groups.


The Japanese are two faced and will always be polite to avoid conflict within their tiny communities on the Islands, but never truly express their true feelings about you unless persistently directly asked (even then that is a taboo). They speak amongst themselves in private in spike of the gaijin that are not white.


Unless you are really willing to live your entire life surrounded by lies and false friendships living with in Japan, I suggest you not permanently live there.

>>11294570
GET out

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