“I love my country but I know we can do better.”

These types of statements are so damn stupid. It’s like the Gilette commercial telling men to not be sexual abusers. Yeah, the majority of people arent racist or sexual abusers. The ones who are aren’t going to give a damn about someone telling them to stop.

“We can do better”

cheshireinthemiddle:

Lol I live in Japan NOW. I’m a black American. OP must not get out much or talk to many people. Likely attributed to the like 5 Japanese phrases they know.

There is enormous discrimination towards anyome not ethnically Japanese here. Maybe you dont see or hear it because you admittedly dont understand it when it is happening in front of you.

There are groups who HATE that english is taught in schools and businesses offer it to help foreigners. There are “keep japan pure” groups.

There are businesses with “Japanese Only” signs. And no, being fluent in Japanese wont get a foreigner in. You could have been asked to leave a business for your race, and because you dont understand enough of the language to process it, you could have mistaken it for the business being closed.

There are parents still kicking their kids out of the house for merely DATING someone of a different race. And never talking to them again. Two of my neighboors had to deal with this. They still dont talk to their parents.

Kids in school being called racial slurs and being bullied for their race. And teachers doingnothingbecausethey dont see it as a problem.

Job advertisements will literally say “No foreigners” in the discription. Sometimes they will even say “no men”.

Lol Trains are still FULL. PACKED with people going to and from work. Tons of elderly. Tons of people with no masks. It didnt stop once the pandemic started.

Many people donthave masks because they cant find anymore or they dont care. Even today, my friends and I play games while walking down the street of who isnt wearing a mask. We find a lot of people.

Businesses only closed briefly. Restaurants are still PACKED. Bars (izakayas), yakiniku restaurants, train station restaurants, etc are still PACKED with people sitting 2 feet from each other without masks.

Like how the police in Japan often lie about criminals being found and cases being closed to look good, the government often lies about covid cases. The citizens tend to understand that things are worse than they are told.

Youre right about one thing. People will offer you their seat (they do this in the US too btw). The only reason they use gesturing instead of words for you is because youre a foreigner who admittedly only knows a few phrases. We treat foreigners the same in the US.

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

I question if you really observe and talk to people (clearly not the latter due to your admittedly low vocabulary) to form your opinion. Because it seems like a bunch of assumptions from the outside looking in, rather than a part of the community making an observation.