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Originally Posted by Nyororin
As to the extreme language being used by WingsToDiscovery...
If you are searching for evidence to support your view that people are xenophobic, racist, looking down at you, etc... You will see that sort of thing anywhere you look, regardless of whether it truly carries that meaning. It is sort of like scientists cherry picking only results that support their hypothesis and being blinded to all that do not .
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Just as equally you can become blind to it. To justify the choices you have made in your life you can deny that racism and xenophobia exists. You can deny a whole raft of issues that make it hard for a foreigner to live in Japan. I love Japan and would move back to live there in a heartbeat. I preferred living there than living in Australia by far and I would never have left if not for my wife!! But I witnessed and experienced quite a lot of xenophobic attitudes and outright, in your face racism during my time there. To try and deny it exists is ridiculous. Japan is not one of the least culturally diverse nations on the planet for no reason. I think many have very valid reasons to feel disgruntled about how non Japanese attempting to live there can be treated. There is little if any protection in law against discrimination based on race. Something that is very unusual in a developed nation in this age and I believe a testament to the xenophobic attitudes that pervade the nation. Because it is legitimised from the top down many Japanese can't even comprehend that some of their actions could be considered racist. But I challenge anyone to show that race is not an issue in Japan.