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Originally Posted by RealJames
Canadians and Americans I talk to in Japan, who normally are not so patriotic, always seem to find a way of putting themselves above Japan.
I think this is just a common way of missing your home, finding all the ways it's better than where you are.
Maybe I'm just lucky and I don't meet the ass-holes that others meet, or maybe I'm blind to peoples real opinions of me and where I'm from...
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I don't feel that the Japanese acting this way were assholes, just being who they were taught to be. There is nothing wrong with being proud of your country unless it affects your ability to judge. Americans are more accepting of foreigners because we are made up of foreigners. But that doesn't stop racism here totally.
Japanese are wonderful people who could teach us all better cooperation. I hold no grudges against the people I worked with as people, but of course I am happy that they saw that sending us home early was a very bad mistake. Japan was our home and we left many friends there as well as a very decent income. That was what was sad to us.