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]

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]

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]

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.

[omae mona]

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.

Takechanpoo, have you considered that the amount of time since your previous bath might be a big factor?

[Catoneinutica]

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.

Boy, that's sure true of Brazilians - they seem to be kryptonite to most Japanese. They're also about the friendliest, genki-est folks you'll meet in Japan (except the guy who has that Brazilian BBQ restaurant in Marunouchi - he's a crotchety mofo).

Chinese and Koreans are only identifiable to me when they talk. J-folks used to have fancier clothes, hairstyles, etc, but, you know, they're getting poorer these days.

-catone

[Cyka UchuuJin]

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

just the opposite for me, when they realise i'm russian, they want to talk to me even more.

i'm sure it has NOTHING to do with the fact that 90% of my fellow russian girls in japan are in the hostess or other dodgy trades.

[Greji]

"....other dodgy trades....."

Let's hear it for the dark side of the force......

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Let's hear it for the dark side of the force......

you'd know all about those, wouldn't you.

[Greji]

[quote="Cyka UchuuJin"]you'd know all about those, wouldn't you. ]

Used to have a dormitory of them right up from the office... Ahh, the good old days! What great laundry lines! There was never a lack of talent. As soon as one would get deported, they would import two more.

[Takechanpoo]

[Behan]

How do you say 'troll' in Japanese?

[TFG]

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

She didn't have to say anything as I ordered him to stop the car then dragged the fucker out and made him sit seiza on the road and apologize while I kicked him in the head. The I took him back to his office and made him tell his boss what he had said to my GF.
I got a cheap brand new mansion in Saginuma out of that for the price of a an old aparto.

[American Oyaji]

She didn't have to say anything as I ordered him to stop the car then dragged the fucker out and made him sit seiza on the road and apologize while I kicked him in the head. The I took him back to his office and made him tell his boss what he had said to my GF.
I got a cheap brand new mansion in Saginuma out of that for the price of a an old aparto.

You went Yakuza on that scumbitch! NOICE!!!!

[alicia454]

Boy, that's sure true of Brazilians - they seem to be kryptonite to most Japanese. They're also about the friendliest, genki-est folks you'll meet in Japan (except the guy who has that Brazilian BBQ restaurant in Marunouchi - he's a crotchety mofo).

Agreed, most Brazilians are quite friendly and open especially with strangers, and since I am fluent in Portuguese, I enjoying talking with them in their native language. I only wish that the Japanese were as open to strangers.

My only compliant about the Brazilians, is that many are in need of volume control. I have no idea why they typically speak so loud, especially when they are in groups of 3 or more, that they can be heard from blocks away. Unless one is screaming for help, there is no need for anyone to talk so loud anywhere including Brazil, and especially in a country like Japan where the population is more reserved. Maybe Brazilians have their ears all blocked up (it's a long flight to Japan), or some other hearing impairments.

I think that if the Brazilians spoke softer, they would fit in much better in Japan, much more than anything else. I can see the uncomfortable Japanese faces when Brazilians are speaking loudly.

Still I do prefer the Brazilian openness over the Japanese reservedness. But volume control is a good thing.

[Catoneinutica]

Agreed, most Brazilians are quite friendly and open especially with strangers, and since I am fluent in Portuguese, I enjoying talking with them in their native language. I only wish that the Japanese were as open to strangers.

My only compliant about the Brazilians, is that many are in need of volume control. I have no idea why they typically speak so loud, especially when they are in groups of 3 or more, that they can be heard from blocks away. Unless one is screaming for help, there is no need for anyone to talk so loud anywhere including Brazil, and especially in a country like Japan where the population is more reserved. Maybe Brazilians have their ears all blocked up (it's a long flight to Japan), or some other hearing impairments.

I think that if the Brazilians spoke softer, they would fit in much better in Japan, much more than anything else. I can see the uncomfortable Japanese faces when Brazilians are speaking loudly.

Still I do prefer the Brazilian openness over the Japanese reservedness. But volume control is a good thing.

Yeah, the Brazilian communication style is pretty much the antithesis of that of the Japanese. Get two or more Brazilians in a subway car and you've got a par-TAY - and a lot of uncomfortable nihonjin. Italians are similar; they're a lot of fun, but they can get on your nerves sometimes. We were sitting next to an Italian oyaji at a restaurant in Torino and he was talking loudly into his cell phone: "She said WHAT? You better watch your cock! She's gonna cut it off!"

[meursault]

[sillygirl]

Eeh, just reading ura yasu tekkin kazoku what I haven't read for ages and found this:

[james]

[omae mona]

Coal at Liberation Kowloon did a nice translation of the Asahi Shinbun cartoon Mulboyne posted at the top of this thread. He writes:

Spent Saturday afternoon localising a scan of a comic found in the Japanese edition of the Asahi Shimbun showing common examples of discrimination in Japan. This was at the request of Debito Arudou to accompany the article he had translated for Japan Focus.