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Originally Posted by Tenchu
All I'm saying is I take issue with being turned away from a place because I have tattoos. Now people try to tell me it was my fault, and something that's openly accepted in my culture brands me a criminal elsewhere.
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The country isn't rejecting you. Onsens are.
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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Honestly, it's arrogant. I'm not a yakuza. They'd know that.
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You obviously didn't read my posts why you wouldn't be allowed into an onsen. It doesn't matter that you are not yakuza. Do I need to copy-paste my words for a third time?
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Originally Posted by Tenchu
I know why they consider their skin to be so precious, as well; it's another racism thing that came about having pure and white skin was what separated you from poor people. We've talked about that many times.
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Japan is a country of a homogeneous bloodline (in their eyes). As much as you want Japan to be Thai, it is not the same. There are no dark-skinned Japanese and light-skinned Japanese in the same way as other parts of SE Asia. There is just Japanese and non-Japanese. It is not the skin color that is precious but the the gift of life from your parents. This is what you, Tenchu, are not understanding. And I wouldn't expect you to. You have never lived in japan or dealt with Japanese people. So you apply your experiences of BS in Thai with how people are in Japan.
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Originally Posted by Tenchu
In the end, in Thailand, tattoos are encouraged here as a means of spirituality and social acceptance. It's not ignorance us foreign Muay Thai fighters wear as trophies, it's our tattoos which earn us a lot of respect from down at the lowest peasant right up to the royal family. Muay Thai is the art of Kings, they say, and I'm proud of who I am and what I do; that's my medal of honor in Thailand.
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And that is why Thai is the place for you and Japan isn't. That doesn't make Japanese people a**holes, unless you are so narrow-minded that your way is the only way.
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And no, I won't tolerate people who will not tolerate me. I should never be asked to; no one should. So **** Japan.
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No one in Japan is waiting on the tarmac for your arrival, so i am sure the attitude is mutual.