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Originally Posted by GoNative
I find it amusing though when foreigners complain about other foreigners getting drunk and obnoxious as though this is just something peculiar to foreigners! Either some people don't go out much or they choose to ignore all the Japanese guys getting drunk, obnoxious and trying to pick up girls as well. In the bar I own in Hakodate it's hardly unusual to see Japanese girls getting drunk, obnoxious and trying to pick up foreign guys for that matter.
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I think it's just that Japanese can get away with being drunk/obnoxious, but if a foreigner does it than he's judged more. I feel like a lot of foreigners here are walking on egg shells all the time, not trying to be
meiwaku, I guess. But you're right, this consideration is taken more to heart by long term residents.