[Nyororin]

Im most cases, I think it`s more a way to present yourself as something you wish you were rather than a form of protecting yourself.

Or at least that is my experience on this forum. We seem to get waves of people wanting to say they`re Japanese, or that they live in Japan... When it is very very clear they are lying.

I`m quite happy with who I am and have never felt the need to represent myself as something / someone I am not.