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You have just moved to possibly the most xenophobic country ever,
AssKissinger wrote:The local girls don't suck your cock in the most xenophobic countries.
wuchan wrote:good point.......... but aside from the women wanting to find out if all the rumors about gaijin dick is true.....
Ran into a messed up situation a few months ago. In a bar one of the guys at our table gets mad and punches his date in the face. I grab him and pull him outside ans start with the WTF Q's. In the end I somehow became the bad guy and the rest of the party, all japanese, asked me to leave while saying "you can't force your western culture on the japanese". Fuckhead and his girl stayed and from what I hear are still together today.
BO-SENSEI wrote:After reviewing what i previously posted about why Japanese people seem to be unwilling to allow an increase in the immigration of foreigners it does not make any sense.
With 2 percent of Japan being foreign-born versus the 10 percent of America, would Japan worry about its own culture if Japan had the same amount of immigrants as America did? I'd doubt it. Japanese culture evolves much like every other cultures. When I asked my students to draw a poster on something interesting about Japan, I got some posters on Kyoto, sushi, Mt. Fuji, kimonos. But by far i got the most posters on things like anime and manga. No matter how many foreigners you bring into Japan, these things are not going to go away. Sure kimonos are no longer worn, but that was killed by the Meiji period and are still worn, beautifully I might add, on coming of age day and important ceremonies. Millions of Americas eat sushi, watch anime and read manga. No matter what, Mt. Fuji is not going away. And Kyoto, although parts of it look like Las Vegas, is still a booming tourist destination with numerous historic temples, shrines, and gates.
So why do some Japanese people fear the increase in foreigners and so nationalistic politicians demand to keep their race pure? Because they are backwards, they live in their own little world that is 60 years ago. They live in a world where Japan was not the aggressor in World War II and Nanking never happened, they live in a world where everything is controlled by the bureaucracy and corruption and bribes are as much a part of politics as domestic policy. Japan's economy might be falling down around them but what can they do? The so-called "obvious solution" to them is an unreasonable one.
GomiGirl wrote:OMG there is just much wrong with this post it is hard to know where to start.
I think the biggest problem that I had was your attempt to view your assumptions (which are mostly incorrect I might add) via your own value system. This is not possible and kinda rude.
Japan is not America so you can't compare stats this way and make an assumption about how people feel about it and then criticise as you feel differently. Do a role reversal and you would be kinda pissed that people were making these sorts of value judgements on your lifestyle and opinions.
BTW I see some people who do wear kimono every day but that is besides the point.
Mate - quit while you are behind and rather than try to enforce your opinions, sit back and listen to what is the actual situation and not your misconceived ideas.
nottu wrote:I really hope this thread continues - very entertaining - illuminating product of US culture and education. Cleveland follows me everywhere.
BO-SENSEI wrote:Do you or do you not agree that the increase of educated foreigners to Japan would help bring Japan out of its economic turmoil.
BO-SENSEI wrote:What on earth made you jump to the conclusion that i am some undereducated guy, I went a decent university. I am not about to compare degrees with you.......
wuchan wrote:And this is why many US companies prefer people from community colleges. The guy who paid his own way through CC while working will, yes there are studies to prove this, produce more than the kid straight out of harvard. A BA from Harvard, Yale, etc... = a nice piece of paper from an expensive school.
Back home we always said a four degree is nothing more than a piece of paper. Experience is everything.
but TIJ and you are unemployable without that piece of paper, or ten years of experience.
wuchan wrote:good point.......... but aside from the women wanting to find out if all the rumors about gaijin dick is true.....
Ran into a messed up situation a few months ago. In a bar one of the guys at our table gets mad and punches his date in the face. I grab him and pull him outside ans start with the WTF Q's. In the end I somehow became the bad guy and the rest of the party, all japanese, asked me to leave while saying "you can't force your western culture on the japanese". Fuckhead and his girl stayed and from what I hear are still together today.
BO-SENSEI wrote:...You refer to Perry's acts from the Japanese point of view as an act of war. And yes the United States unfairly used force to coerce the Tokugawa government in opening thier ports to Western trade. The term is called "gunboat dipolmacy" and even the Japanese used it against Korea in 1876. What Perry did was made the Japanese people realize that if Japan was going to avoid becoming like China, forced to open itself to the European powers, modernization was mandatory and the Tokugawa system had to be removed. Am I right or did I leave something out?
Number11 wrote:
The decade resulted in having a third of workforce working as contract or temporary workers. Those are Japanese people and not just foreigners. That hollowing out will continue and there will be no demand for "educated foreigners" or more middle class white collar workers. So the question of more foreigners is moot.
Number11 wrote:It comes from this quote by bo-sensei: "Do you or do you not agree that the increase of educated foreigners to Japan would help bring Japan out of its economic turmoil."
I presumed that context meant executive or professional- level positions and not skilled or unskilled labor.
You sound like someone with an academic inferiority complex. I don't care what kind of degree you have or even if you have one. I respect all skilled people, but your comment about employers preferring people having a community college diploma over those with a bachelors degree is ridiculous.
nottu wrote:Thank for writing this and saving me the time.
When I meet a foreigner and they start using words like xenophobic, etc. its time to walk.
nottu wrote:Since you brought this up - what is your field? And tell me about the Harvard people you knew - what did they do?
I'm interested.
wuchan wrote:many things wrong with your post but I'd like to focus on this. If you go back a few pages you will see my comment on people having a BA in BS. The fact is that not only japan but most international companies could give a shit less about what degree you have or what school you went to. Experience is much, much more valuable which is why japan had the ten year experience clause in visa law. I came in with the ten years+ experience, no one ever bothered to ask if I even went to school.
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