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Originally Posted by Nyororin
My personal terrible experience was some really awful bullying at their hands because when the leader pulled the "We do NOT get in onsen outside of Japan - there is NO WAY we are getting in there naked. It is just common sense for non-Japanese. We want private baths in a private room! It is our religious and cultural right!" card, I wasn`t about to let her ruin my chance to get in a rotenburo for the first time... So I rolled my eyes and went to enjoy the onsen anyway.
Suddenly, it wasn`t "common sense that any non-Japanese would agree with". My choice not to go along with them made them look bad. My actually *wanting* to get in and telling the teachers I thought it was a wonderful chance was even worse for them. Why was *I* willing to do something they had thrown such fits about being "common sense" for foreigners, even though I was a foreigner too? Maybe they should try some of the cultural stuff too for once. Maybe, just maybe, all those "No foreigners would ever do this!" excuses in the past were exaggerations...
This apparently made the leader girl VERY mad. They basically stormed my room that night and did all sorts of crap to me. Somewhere on here there is another post about it.
I have a very depressed memory of sitting staring out over Nagasaki from the hotel window and just crying through the night.
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Depressed memory, you said? Why? Time is a best judge ever. They were a typical brainless herd under brainless shepherd while you never were. You decided no to be a part of a herd and finally you won. Even after infamous attack of those idiots you did not join them, right?
You wrote that after recent disaster you had enough common sense and responsibility to stay at work while the very same kind of people escaped Japan like a scared herd of rats from sinking ship. Unlike you, they lost their faces for japanese people and all those "demands" from their side merely looks out like a cheap monkey grimacing. You maybe got a lot of work but also you got a true respect from locals.
