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Originally Posted by noodle
Me defending China and this situation are not the same. This person says he just came back from Japan. Me defending China is usually against people that have never stepped foot on China and usually have strong feelings based on what they have seen on TV. So, if someone comes to me and says "when I was in China.... so and so happened...", I will not defend it, the way Japan is being defended right now.
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Let us say that someone comes along and says "I just got back from China! Everyone threw rocks at me, beat me every time I tried to go into a shop!!! And all the kids were slaves. There were human rights violations everywhere I looked! And everyone was eating dogs! It`s so awful!" ... etc etc - giving examples of an experience
seriously removed from what you knew of the country (but not from negative media about China). Don`t you think that maybe, just maybe, you might doubt some of what they were saying? That maybe you might find it hard to believe that they had really visited the country?
I don`t want to fight with you over this, but I don`t think it`s fair of you to snap at those of us who actually have long life experience in Japan saying "Wait a second, that doesn`t sound realistic at all."
ETA; Also, the number of foreigners living in a city is a moot point. More important is the number of foreign tourists on a given day - and there are a TON in Tokyo.