Gaijin Tarento: Foreign TV personality, someone who is usually born in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. Other gaijin hate you.
I wouldn't say that... I like watching Seine's "Japanese please"... he seems pretty funny.
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Gaijin Tarento: Foreign TV personality, someone who is usually born in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. Other gaijin hate you.
I don't know if this happens to expats in other countries, but those foreigners living in Japan tend to foster a unique attitude toward other foreigners. It's a mixed thing: We can use each other's support, yet we don't really want to see others of our kind taking away our glory and making us less a kind of pioneer. Two gaijin strangers will not sit next to each other on the train. Two gaijin strolling down a street in the same neighborhood will give each other the hairy eyeball: "What's he doing on my turf? This is my neighborhood! This chome isn't big enough for more than one gaijin!" Maybe it's the Japanese tendency to hold strangers at arm's length that rubs off on us. Maybe we think that it takes a rare and special breed of foreigner to live in Japan. We want to pat ourselves on the back because we know not many people on our home soil will put up with the nonsense that goes with the lifestyle. But the more foreigners appear, the less special the lifestyle gets.
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hats what I hope to be too, but I'd settle for being an extra in a bukkake flick!
My one hope is that I get to see Chocoball in person, that guy is a legend.
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