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Originally Posted by MMM
Most foreigners who shop at H&M in Tokyo are tourists.
If you were a tourist and he didn't give you the tourist discount he would have lost his job.
I am sorry, but this story sounds quite silly. You insisted he charge you more because you are a temporary resident, rather than a tourist? I would have taken the discount and ran.
This kind of self-righteousness is what gives gaijin a bad name in Japan. Oh, good for you! You made a fuss in an essentially homogeneous country to show you were an extreme minority in order to pay MORE money for a item because you have blue eyes. The foreigners who will now have to show their visas at H&M to get that discount now surely thank you.
When you have lived there 10 years and get this treatment at stores you regularly frequent, then this complaint is legit. But when you go to the Disneyland of retail fashion and complain about being mistaken for a tourist, I feel no sympathy.
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regarding being taken for a tourist when actually studyingin JAPAN. WINGS"How was the shop person supposed to know the difference between you or a tourist. Were you dressed diffferently. Are they supposed to be psychic?
You have strange expectations surely.