‘Discriminatory things that Japanese people to do foreigners that they don’t realise are discriminatory
‘Discriminatory things that Japanese people to do foreigners that they don’t realise are discriminatory’.
Maki Patoriku (Patrick Mackey)| Original Here
He talks about the different things he's observed, experienced, and decided are discriminatory acts towards foreigners in Japan.
- - Talks about a time when instead of just talking to him like a normal person, the shop clerk mimed stuff at him and wrote stuff down on paper… even when he replied in Japanese.
- - People are kinder and friendlier to the tourists from the West more than those from other Asian countries.
- - But, they won’t give chopsticks to all the white people they see, assuming that they just can’t use them.
- - Says that foreigners are dumped into the collective group, ‘foreigners’ – not individuals, and that TV shows like ‘Youは何しに日本へ?’ ['Why did you come to Japan?'] make this worse by reducing the ‘guests’ they have on to stereotypes.
- - Concludes by say that whilst Japanese people obviously aren’t the only ones to do this kind of thing, suggests that there are 3 things Japanese people can do: just respond to people when they speak in Japanese, don’t judge people based on outward appearances only, and to go and travel to other countries themselves.
I remember a while ago, when I was working part-time down at a petrol station, this foreigner (a white person) came to fill up his motorbike. When he came to the counter I wanted to tell him the price in English and mimed as best as I could without even saying anything in the end, and he just said (in Japanese), ‘ah, 500 yen?’. I’d judged him by his appearance, and it made me reflect on my actions a little bit more.
Sometimes, I look to foreigners for their frank and honest advice. I think that there are more and more people doing that nowadays. Often, you can’t see your own self very well. And I think that the best and most common advice is to firstly listen well to what people say and think it over. You can’t make anything out of repeated rejection of anything new.
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Anonymous 2017/10/06
Yeah but wasn’t that lady at the airport (who didn’t/couldn’t speak Japanese) not Japanese? Or, perhaps she was deaf/mute, or something else, and didn’t the journalist check this?
If they didn’t check about her situation, then I think this article is written very carelessly…
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Japanese people are always happy when they find out that foreigners have put in the effort to learn Japanese.
Those in the service industry, however...
Didn’t though author talk to lots of different people to collect this material? There are loads of foreigners working in the convenience shops at the airport. You can always see foreign employees who can’t speak Japanese gesturing like that at the till in those shops.
I can only see mal-intentioned words from the author’s part for this article. Discrimination is important; we have a responsibility to take it more seriously.
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I’m French, but I’ve never experienced behaviour like this once. I have a feeling that the people this article is talking about aren’t Japanese.
And whenever I have received negative behaviour, my wife tells me ‘that person doesn’t look Japanese though.’
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Anonymous 2017/10/06
This isn’t a blog, this is Koyo News. You’ve really got to provide receipts here, don’t other people think like that…? Honestly, this author.
There are loads of Japanese people who really treasure (sometimes too much) the foreigners who speak Japanese. And even if you do see those kind of people at the airport or train station who gesture at you, I don’t even think it’s that big of a deal.
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