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Originally Posted by MMM
To be clear, I didn't call you a racist, I was agreeing with the observation about white guys in Japan.
Your observations about Japanese men may be your own, but your conclusions are based the cultural lens you see through to interpret them.
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It's true that we are all biased in that we can only observe things from our own eyes.
But the fact is that most people reading those tips with the intention of coming to Japan for a visit will be seeing it all from the same "western" perspective, no?
I have several Japanese guy friends and I don't think negatively of them, they are kind and wonderful and honestly would do anything for their girlfriends.
They may cheat now and then but that's in most cultures, they may treat their girlfriends like a maid, or in the same way their father treats their mother, but that's also in most cultures. All I can say is if Suki came here... what do you think would happen?
Anyways I edited those parts of the first post, check it out again.
My intention with that list isn't to force my opinions onto others but simply to compile a list of information that will be useful to visitors.
So if a topic enters the "debatable" realm then it can be edited appropriately or removed, as they were.
