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Originally Posted by RealJames
I think that's a good point about racism, more often than not in Japan it's just ignorance or a lack of experience/education, not a conscious effort to discriminate.
Then when most people get the chance to have that experience or education regarding foreigners, they lighten up and are very kind and welcoming, unless it was a horrible experience I guess.
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Japanese are taught that they are superior to everyone else (a cultural thing, so I am not judging them just the way it is good or bad). I experienced racism just by this belief. My students never listened to my advice(even though I have 20+ years of experience and it was not English lessons, a science was what I taught) because they all believed they could figure things out once they had a basic knowledge of the subject. Of course when something went wrong, us Americans were to blame. After several years of this, we went home when a manager with no experience in our field convinced the board of directors they didn't need us any more. The program lasted 2 years after we left and was closed due to excessive complaints of the quality of work.
