/why-do-people-hate-all-the-best-parts-of-being-a-gaijin-in-japan/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 /why-do-people-hate-all-the-best-parts-of-being-a-gaijin-in-japan/#comment-1000170300 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:30:39 +0000 /?p=28824#comment-1000170300 This is good food for thought. I have had my fair share of odd little encounters in Japan, but I also spent a few months in Vietnam, which was quite a bit worse in a way. And yet, I still liked living in Vietnam in many ways and often miss it. It’s a matter of perspective. Expats in Japan tend to inflate and gripe a lot about the xenophobia there, and yes it’s true, but it’s not the end of the world. People get upset because they somehow expect things to somehow be different, and can’t handle the discrepancy between reality and their expectations. But for me, I just sort of realized that the world doesn’t really owe me anything. I’m not entitled to anything. So, I just enjoy what I can and roll with the rest. It makes my time in Japan a lot easier. This same advice would work just as well at home, given all the jerks who live there too (though we tend to treat them on an individual basis, not an ethnic basis).

]]> /why-do-people-hate-all-the-best-parts-of-being-a-gaijin-in-japan/#comment-1000067270 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:04:56 +0000 /?p=28824#comment-1000067270 If you don’t like Japanese people speaking broken English just say you’re Polish and don’t speak English yourself.

]]> /why-do-people-hate-all-the-best-parts-of-being-a-gaijin-in-japan/#comment-1000067238 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:00:37 +0000 /?p=28824#comment-1000067238 カッちゃん、舊字體を使うんなら「戦」じゃなくて「戰」でしょ！

]]>