Tama-chan: Japanese Resident!?

[wagyl]

Tama guy doesn't know his railroads.

[Takechanpoo]

its wrong. sorry!

[matsuki]

He is right about the increasing Chinese though...yesterday I went on a rare pilgrimage to the local department store and was pretty surprised at how many Chinese were there yelling...I mean talking, with one another. Tourist area it is not.

[Samurai_Jerk]

He is right about the increasing Chinese though...yesterday I went on a rare pilgrimage to the local department store and was pretty surprised at how many Chinese were there yelling...I mean talking, with one another. Tourist area it is not.

Maybe my prediction that Japan will eventually be like SE Asia with a small but significant population of wealthy ethnic Chinese in charge of industry while the natives run the government will happen sooner than I thought.

[kurogane]

Can't be a good place to be with so few dogs, very sad

Well put. My initial concern was not that he dislikes foreigners, but that he dislikes furriners enough to compare them to foreigners, and that is unfair to doggies. I would never trust anybody that didn't at least sort of like dogs. Then I remembered that most of those Foreigners in Shitama would be Japanese born and bred, and it made me sad. At least if he had targeted Those White People it would have been refreshing, and a clever unwitting play on the old Bruce Lee movie schtick (No Dogs/No Chinese)

[kurogane]

He is right about the increasing Chinese though...yesterday I went on a rare pilgrimage to the local department store and was pretty surprised at how many Chinese were there yelling...

It was Cruise Ship Arrival day down here, and I ran into them at the local AEON supermarket mall. Being in the midst of that is like wandering into the middle of a gooby school day out just when all the handlers go for a smoke. I had to run ahead just to make sure I got my packs of mixed nuts for snacks. I think I like best the smoking in front of the No Smoking sign. The one that isn't written in English. Or in Japanese phonetics. At least that stops them from emitting that ear piercing gibberish.

[matsuki]

He is right about the increasing Chinese though...yesterday I went on a rare pilgrimage to the local department store and was pretty surprised at how many Chinese were there yelling...I mean talking, with one another. Tourist area it is not.

Maybe my prediction that Japan will eventually be like SE Asia with a small but significant population of wealthy ethnic Chinese in charge of industry while the natives run the government will happen sooner than I thought.

I totally agree with this...

[kurogane]

It's all very heartening to dream of new ways to punish the Japanese just for being themselves, but sadly, recent history shows that ethnic Chinese minorities establishing residence in other parts of Asia do not always fare well, and one big earthquake in the Tokyo area could easily result in horrible inter-ethnic bloodshed. A poignant case was that of the ethnic Chinese Vietnamese, who after barely 2 millenia of continuous residence in Vietnam were driven to flee the ethnic discrimination and persecution of the newly victorious Vietnamese Communist Regime, leading to the boat people debacle that resulted in places like mine suddenly benefitting from an explosion of yummy noodle shops and cheap, high quality laundries run by nice if somewhat shell shocked people with alarmingly difficult and often comical names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoa_people

Han Chinese migration into Vietnam dated back to the era of 2nd Century BCE when Qin Shi Huang first placed Tonkin under Chinese rule, Chinese soldiers and fugitives from Central China migrated en masse into Tonkin from this time onwards, and introduced Chinese influences into Vietnamese culture

The Chinese living in the Mekong Delta area settled there before any Vietnamese settled in the region

But do let's keep up this "Punish the Japanese for being successfully if somewhat truculently monoethnic" schtick. It's a prime candidate for an updated version of Stuff White People Like, slotted in between Anime, Manga and Sooshi

[matsuki]

How familiar are you with Singapore Kuro?

[Samurai_Jerk]

I was only half serious (or was I half kidding?) but here's where I originally brought this up.

[matsuki]

I was only half serious (or was I half kidding?) but here's where I originally brought this up.

Dealing with Singapore/Malaysia quite a bit the past few years and have seen exactly what you are talking about...totally agree it's likely.

[kurogane]

I was only half serious (or was I half kidding?) but here's where I originally brought this up.

I never assumed anything else I'll bet you an expensive craft beer you're wrong, but I'll be about 84 by then so hopefully I will have learned to like craft beer I actually wouldn't care as long as it wasn't a massive, sudden influx. All the resident Chinese I know are lovely, and speak lovely Japanese and seem to rather enjoy the difference in business culture, the usual expat grumbling aside. They do have to try harder than We do, which strikes me as unfair.

Matsuki,
Singapore? Smokin' halfies (esp the intra-Asian action), and nothing else. I'd like to go there, but urban tourism isn't my gig and I heard it was hot as in HOT HOT HOT, and no beaches. I might have to go for work next spring, so we'll see. But let's not forget that so-called Chinese Malays are about as or less Chinese than Z-Koreans are Korean or our East Asians at home are East Asian, for the most part. The diaspora Chinese in Asia are like the Askenazi in Europe. If people would stop harping on them for being who they be they'd be like the people harping, only different in their own loveable ways. Except for the language. Mind you, if they weren't always arguing and shouting from 20 yards away it would help a lot.

PS

I was only half serious (or was I half kidding?) but here's where I originally brought this up.

ROFL ROFL...........BFF LOL.

Quel fun.