Discrimination Cartoons

[Mulboyne]

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Debito has posted a scan of an article in the Asahi about discrimination against foreigners. Even if you can't read the captions, you should be able work out the scenarios shown in the cartoons.

[pheyton]

I've been victim to the first cartoon. Needless to say we left the rental company in Machida and never went back. Other than that I have never experienced outright discrimination that I know of.

Unfortunatly a lot of Gaijins go to Japan and go fuckin nuts because you can. We are use to the screw the rules lifestyle so understanding them and doing your best to follow them are alien concepts to us. Individuality and fuck you is king, at least here in America.

[Charles]

The cartoon is a How-To-Discriminate instructional piece, right?

[TFG]

I have experienced all of them several times.
Talking about Fudosan experiences.
In Saginuma in Kanagawa, I was looking for a mansion with my GF, the guy takes us in the car to see one and then in the car starts saying to my GF.

"I suppose gaijin have big dicks but are they really hard like a Japanese dick?"
"How many times a day can they do it? I imagine it doesn't last long"".

I nearly killed the guy....Honestly this is true.

[Kagetsu]

I'm assuming he assumed you didn't understand Japanese?
Sounds like the usual pricks...

On the other hand, maybe he was gay, and interested in gaijin dicks.

[Yokohammer]

Originally Posted by TFG

I have experienced all of them several times.
Talking about Fudosan experiences.
In Saginuma in Kanagawa, I was looking for a mansion with my GF, the guy takes us in the car to see one and then in the car starts saying to my GF.

"I suppose gaijin have big dicks but are they really hard like a Japanese dick?"
"How many times a day can they do it? I imagine it doesn't last long"".

I nearly killed the guy....Honestly this is true.

I experienced a similar situation in a taxi with my wife (who is Japanese). Needless to say the taxi driver got an earful. Insensitive, and very stupid.

Having lived here for almost 40 years I've had quite a few little run-ins, but I have to add that in all that time I have never had a violent confrontation. Permanently marginalized, yes, but physically attacked, no.

[Charles]

This story needs an ending. So what did your girlfriend say in response to his crude remarks?

[Behan]

Originally Posted by Yokohammer

I experienced a similar situation in a taxi with my wife (who is Japanese). ..

Me, too.

A friend of mine and I got in a taxi to go to a bar and the taxi driver asked us why we weren't going to a love hotel. He, I mean she, jokingly replied that she wanted to. I could hardly speak any Japanese at the time but my friend translated it all for me. I guess it depends on your mood, but it seemed a bit rude to me.

[Takechanpoo]

It is probably impossible to improve Japanese corwadice.
Even I, who am baldheaded, have scarface and needless to say am legitimate Japanese, am avoided or feared when I sit seat on train and bus or someone come across me on the thin alley at night, too.
By the way, in my personal opinion, most avoided foreigners in Japan are Chinese, Korean, Latin American, Iranian, Pakistani, Russian, African Black and so on.

[Behan]

Originally Posted by Takechanpoo

It is probably impossible to improve Japanese corwadice.
Even I, who am baldheaded, have scarface and needless to say am legitimate Japanese, am avoided or feared when I sit seat on train and bus or someone come across me on the thin alley at night, too.
By the way, in my personal opinion, most avoided foreigners in Japan are Chinese, Korean, Latin American, Iranian, Pakistani, Russian, African Black and so on.

Chinese and Koreans wouldn't be so identifiable but you might be right about the other ethnic groups.