Quote:
Originally Posted by MMM
You know, I have spent small periods of time here and there all around Kanto, from Chiba to Rokko to Yokohama to Saitama, and the level of looks from the 80s to the 90s to the 00s has dropped greatly. Again, at this point I think if you think people are "staring" at you, you are probably are being too sensitive.
If a woman was wearing a kimono in my neighborhood in the US, I might look twice and think "I wonder why she is wearing a kimono?" but that is as far as it would go, and I would probably forget about it 30 seconds later. I think this is a realistic thinking.
The idea that foreigners are so special and weird in Japan went out a couple decades ago.
|
Kimono is a good example. I don't think a black guy in Tokyo today would get as much attention as a Japanese girl wearing Kimono would in the states. You have to go really Inaka to get that much attention. There are sensitive people out there though. And they might feel the "stares" which isn't always a bad thing. I like to stand out as long as it is not in a negative way.