[RealJames]

I'm finding a lot of this interesting.
I honestly have little to no idea what foreigner-foreigner relations are like in Japan.
With regards to how I am seen by Japanese people, it feels like regardless of how much Japanese I speak, everyone around me wishes I spoke more.
It feels like any behavior I have which is western is being put up with and would be better off dropped like a bad habit.
It honestly feels like there's a consistent and constant desire for me to be less western etc.
When I showed strangers a picture of me wearing a yukatta and tell them that I tied the obi myself, I get the standard "don't brag" thing, and then a kind of happiness from them that a foreigner has taken interest in learning such a Japanese custom.

If I wore my yukatta with pride and strutted down the street, I'm sure that any Japanese person observing it would think that I was getting it all wrong.