Is Japan really a lonely place for guy-jin like this movie depicts
>>2876983Yes, one of the many problems with Japan is the (hidden and subtle) xenophobia.It’s unlikely anyone will actually yell “whito piggu go home” at you but they sure love making you feel unwelcome in subtle and surreptitious ways. It’s especially disheartening if you’re making an honest effort to assimilate. No one should be made to feel unwelcome, Japs just haven’t gotten the memo that we live in a globalized world where that kind of shit is increasingly not tolerated anymore.
>>2876989Best place I've ever visited. Great people.
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>>2876989Racism against immigrants was very abundant in America, so it’s funny to see white Americans cry about it when visiting Japan now
>>2876989>It’s unlikely anyone will actually yell “whito piggu go home” at you but they sure love making you feel unwelcome in subtle and surreptitious waysSo it's basically like in any other country?
>>2877061Racism didn’t exist until the Early Modern Period.As for Japan, it hardly qualifies as a chud country, especially when you compare it to its pre-WWII incarnation.Japan has many admirable qualities, it is a pacifist democracy after all (it has no standing army).But it could be better, if only Japs realized that the key to their country’s salvation lies with the gaijin.Read this post >>2876873 for more info.
>>2876989Dude the population of non-asians in Japan is like 0.2%. Almost all Japs just don't think about gaijins. Why are gaijins like this?Is the entire western progressism made to blame Japs freely?
>>2876989>giving a shit about what the locals think You're doing it wrong
>>2876983It's a lonely place even if you're Japanese. It gets a hundred times worse if you're not.Anyone who moves to Japan ends up in either of two situations: (1) you leave after 1-2 years when the novelty wears off, (2) you have literally nothing to go back to so you marry some 4/10 gaijin hunter and live in a bubble where your only interaction with society is through their wife; you are approximately 80% likely to get divorced after she gives birth, after which you will be on your own again and posting desperate threads on /r/japanlife for advice.Japan is a fantastic travel destination but, as a place to live in, it gets shilled mostly by weebs who want to pretend like they live in their favorite anime and only know their imagined version of Japan, not the real country.
>>2879018This, except it's missing 3) You learn Japanese, don't exclusively hang out with other gaijin / your gaijin hunter wife who speaks English and adapt to the culture. Being successful in Japan isn't an impossible pipe dream, but it requires hard work. Something most of the weebs who end up here aren't capable of.
>>2879034a lot of shitters get hard filtered by language
>>2879034IME I would not say that people who are fluent in Japanese are any happier in Japan long term than people who don't speak it.It's not the language barrier that gets to people, it's the cultural barrier and how different the society is.
>>2879059If you're autistic, you're born to be Japanese and there's no cultural barrier. The people who struggle the most and go home are the highly social people. The ones who talk to their families for 3 hours on the phone every single fucking day.For people who don't care about their family/have no family and just want a place with modern conveniences where they can also be left alone, Japan isn't bad at all.
>>2877230Those figures are highly inaccurate, as they do not account for the numerous people in the country as tourists or students or temporary workers. >>2879090But don't you get tired of being left alone after a few weeks? It's no wonder the addicts are always wishing they could bring weed into Japan. Weed makes solitude feel okay.
>>2879433Not him, but I hadn't had any friends or close family members for years before going to Japan, so "being left alone" is just default for me. The fact is solitude itself is not a problem, but being oversocialized and not having any passions to use your free time on.
