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05-19-2011, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery View Post

But then you have being a gaijin from the Japanese perspective. If you take too little interest in social customs, many Japanese will just think you're an ignorant foreigner and treat you as such. If you try too hard, they'll question why you're trying to be more Japanese than them.
I've never heard of the latter phenomena.

In my experience... you can never try too hard to fit in, in Japanese society from a Japanese perspective.
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