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Originally Posted by Columbine
I wonder if it has to do with her friend being related to Japanese people but very distinctly American. Like a clash in expectations, possibly even a few older people being like 'oh you don't have to force yourself to speak Japanese'. or else thinking "oh boy, another foreigner trying to piggyback as 'Japanese'."
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I have known and known of quite a few mixed race / of Japanese descent foreigners who have visited or moved to Japan.
The complete opposite is true. There is always a pretty high expectation that they WILL be able to speak Japanese, especially with the older generation.
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Who knows. Maybe she speaks badly, presents herself wrongly and generally makes a massive tit of herself wherever she goes. Or maybe she's only met urban jerks.
But it's definitely not the norm.
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Most definitely not the norm, and not even into the "rare but it happens" level.
I find it doubtful that she could find that many urban jerks... So it could have been the way she behaved, I suppose.