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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying people from Tokyo are more discriminatory than the rest of the country, or anything like that. The proportion of foreigners in the area is completely out of whack from the rest of the country, and I think that may be some source of the problem.
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I don`t particularly like Tokyo, but I didn`t find it all that much different in terms of attitudes than the rest of Japan. Just a lot more effort seems to be made to accommodate tourists (which face it - most foreigners in Tokyo ARE tourists. You can`t expect people to be able to distinguish just by looking at you.
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I think that the "discrimination" comes into play largely because there is a huge foreign population, and a large chunk of it gets a kick out of misbehaving. Even when they don`t view it as such, if you`re gathered with 10 teacher friends getting loud and rowdy (which would be accepted where you are from) it is indeed misbehaving in the Japanese view. That`s culture, not discrimination.
I also think it has a lot to do with having countless people around who are bitter about Japan, jumping to point out any little thing, however mundane, that can be twisted into something "racist".