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01-09-2011, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire View Post
What you'll get is a whole bunch of white people that are used to being in the majority and then all of a sudden they've become the minority and so to THEM Japan seems racist. To my African American friend, Japanese society is no more racist than American society and according to his experience was a much more pleasurable to be black in at least.
I find this to be very true. They love it when people tell them how good their Japanese is and how good they are with chopsticks until the day someone cuts in front of them in line or gets served at the restaurant faster then them.
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