Hello all! I was wondering how bad is it in Japan? Say if I plan to teach English there and had just graduated from university and want to live there for a long time for work and leisure through a work Visa and sponsorship if I can get one would that be possible? The reason I choose Japan is because Im fascinated by their culture and is very interested in it. (Im still a beginner in terms of their language though)
Im Hong Kong, but I have a permanent Canadian citizenship and have grown up in Canada for the majority of my life. I heard the racism in Japan for Chinese people is really bad. Is this true? For anybody that has lived or is born in Japan, can you guys give me some insight on this issue?
And also, how bad is it in terms of relationships? Do they care if Im Hong Kong? Would I be able to have one? Are they racists or only a small number of them are? Im asking because I prefer Japanese girls and I dont really know so much about the ones that live in Japan so I hope you guys will enlighten me, thanks!
First of all, I'm not a racist at all, I have racially diverse Friends, I'm purely Japanese, not mixed, but my cousins are half-white who live in America, and Ive lived in the US myself and also African Americans home as a homestay student. This is why, my ex-girlfriends are not only Japanese. Ive never slept with the white or african american though.[I love the Japanese the best coz I love my own roots the most.]
Note: In this post, I cant help but use the word, the foreigners, however this doesn't mean the word as we use it in the US, I just cant find the other word.
As a Japanese I must say in general no doubt we hate China, not the Chinese people maybe, and You must know the fact that the Chinese people hate us, so we cant help but have bad feelings about the Chinese people overall, this is not personal, strictly speaking, I think this is not a RACISM at all. This is an inevitable part of human nature, we are not Pokemon or something, we have feelings.
Firstly to understand this thing, You must know the fact that we have historically hated each other. And Why do you think China lost at the First Sino-Japanese War?
You know what 中国[China] means? It means the central of the world. China has been too proud to change their policy always. On the contrary, Japan has been always flexible, and emerged as the only one of great powers in Asia first. However this, the appearance of Japan as a country that had stood up to the then dominant powers in the Western world has made China mad even until today. This is the root of all evil of hundred of years, I believe.
Second, what the Chinese goverment's doing is completely crap "WE" strongly believe.
You know they sold us poisoned gyoza, This is a fact.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclien...f.,cf.osb&fp=7a969fd9a30728f&biw=1366&bih=641
Chinese government does everything, like thought control, lying about everything and hiding everything they don’t like. Besides in China a public act of violence by an unruly mob happens frequency, but unfortunately their motto is not anti-governmental demonstration, but anti-Japanese because the Chinese government allows them to do it in case of anti-Japanese demonstration’s which is exactly an outlet for the Chinese energies for hundreds of years. Moreover, You know what the ratio of man and woman is in China? This kind of thing never happened to our human history. I think China will collapse soon like Soviet Union.
Plus, You know in China people can’t even care people die on the street because they are afraid of getting involved in trouble. They can’t help each other because they dread standing out so badly. This is not the people’s fault, but their government’s. In China Police and Government are everything. If they disobey their policy which is of course fascism, their future would be nothing but a catastrophe. So simply they can’t say anything, no choice but to just hide behind a delusion world, their control of free speech and disparity of wealth.
YES, I have some Chinese friends, but I hate China and the Chinese people overall, AGAIN this is because they hate us unfairly by using crappy policy, this is not racism at all imo, but maybe we can be friends oneday. Who knows.
As a caucasian it's very difficult for me to answer this but I've found differing opinions among Chinese people who live here. One Taiwanese lady I know loves living in Tokyo and takes any racism as a necessary part of being a foreigner. Others seems to not share this approach and thus close-knit Chinese communities have developed in many areas of Japan, where they look after their own and serve their own needs, I suppose just like they have always done in many countries for many years... nothing wrong with that. Unlike Muslims and other religious zealots, they tend not to annoy other members of the community.
Chinese/Japanese interracial marriage is increasing, so that's an encouraging sign. There is a lot of jealousy among the old guard concerning the emergence of China as an economic force and eclipsing Japan as no. 2 economy in the world. That can't be helped but is counter-balanced by facts like Japan being the largest foreign investor in China.
First of all, we consider that Taiwan and China are different, you know Taiwan was the best donator after the Japans disastrous earthquake 311. Personally I love Taiwan, becasue they love us.
As for the second part, that's true, but I don't know why.
Oh, so youre saying its not that bad right? The discrimination only applies to the majority of the old population? Im just guessing that the young people in Japan my age, dont really care?
Ive had varying responses for the Japanese people Ive met, most say they dont care however, there are a few say some Japanese think Chinese people are lame.
No matter what they say, in truth we do care about that, I think everyone in the world cares about nationalities, we are not that blind, everybody reads the newspaper, however, I think if you are a good person, in Japan nobodys gonna be mean to you and of course you can make a Japanese girlfriend, you must know wherever you go, this thing depends on the person, I think everybody hates the people who can't observe the their proprieties. I personally hate some foreigners here because they always break our traditions, rules and peace even if there is the fact they are the foreigners here. If you think this is a racism, say it.
Yes, young people are not racist at all in my experience.
Chinese lame? I think the Japanese that express that opinion are simply jealous of the current strength of China.
Jesus, Darn, not true. Who would be jealous about China as the Japanese?
You must consider the fact that China freely and constantly ignores our "Intellectual Property Right" first. As a person who works for Japanese company this thing always annoys me lately, they don't listen to me, darn. They are breaking our rules. Why would we like them? [imo piracy about "culture", I mean JAV or something is not that bad]
i don't know why my last msg has been deleted, anyway:
although many locals really look down gaijin, but as you're Chinese, there shouldn't be any racist problems.
In the past YES, we had hated all the foreigners, and this is also not a racism, Japan had been afraid of being colonized by the western countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnō_jōi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere
Today, I say NO, in general, the Japanese are just shy and afraid of the foreigners especially in locals because weve never experienced this diversity thing and generally the foreigners. I think you can't understand this, if you are not Japanese.
Regarding racism and those who ARE racist in this country, Chinese would be ranked #1 in the 'dislike' category, quite possibly next to those from the United States. As with your last post, you don't seem to know what you are talking about, hence a probably reason for it's deletion.
According to poll 読売新聞, China or Korea, not America, I think in general we love America, I personally love America not just because I have American relatives, but also the freedom and everything.
