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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
But this is the automatic assumption that every single foreign client being dealt with has a lack of understanding of both the culture and the language.
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No no no, I am not referring to the client being delt with, its the service provider themselves... The denial of service is because "I am scared because I don't speak English and I don't know what you are up to"... not "I don't think they know our language and culture"....
As per James, a lot of these fear was from an assumption that foreigner will be loud and noisy, they bring home different girls 4 times a day.. again, all assumptions, mostly hearsay...
I have a book at home that talks about life after Japan surrendered during WWII, I think a lot of the current mentality was "carry over" from similar thinking from that period. One of the chapter in that book talks about a Picture between taken of the US marine shaking hand with the emperor at the time, how people see the tall wide American overpowering an small short Emperor, American were viewed as beast, and families with daugthers were listening in closely to when the troops will land and they need to move north to the moutain and suburbs to avoid a run in with the American because they are on a mission to rape all the Japanese women.....
Anyways, I will see if i remember to dig up that book and share a few interesting articles with you guys on a separate thread, but I think a lot of the "avoidance" mentality came from that kind of media back in the days, much of it were not erased till even now....
I still don't know if I would classify this form of "fear" as racism, but I do see why others felt that way..