[Sumippi]

I know a lot of American, British and Australian people working in Kyoto. Some of them can't speak Japanese at all (except some simple words such as 'konnichiwa' 'arigatougozaimasu' 'watashi no namae wa 〇〇desu' and so on), and they don't seem to be trying to learn Japanese, and when I ask them why, they usually tell me like they don't need to know Japanese to live where they live and work where they work. While Chinese and Korean people I know are all good at Japanese.