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How can you know? Can you reliably identify Koreans from Japanese?
this is really not difficult as a general rule
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I work in Akihabara. I see foreigners everyday. Even in Minato-ku I see plenty of non-Japanese people running around.
Add Shibuya (mainly around the station) and Shinjuku and you basically covered all foreigner hotspots! Those are the most non-representative areas! But go to Shimokitezawa or Gakuendaigaku or anywhere off the beaten path and foreigners will be few and far between.
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Yeah a few people I know who have worked there enjoyed it but the sort of mechanics about how you have to work, traditions.... they love that in the US they can break so many "rules" and it's thought of as innovative, not the end times.
It's not even about the freedoms you get working in other countries. Once had a Japan client change some settings in their account which cause a different workflow to occur. I had to write an incident report for the issue. It's like "if you change A to B, B will happen instead of A... If you want A to happen, select A..." Another job we were processing the POS system records and tracking sales / inventory. The dates…
Several had so many questions they asked for the actual code for a misc set of settings....
They were always meaningless rat hole type discussions and usually with enterprise customers. I'm not sure if they were impressing their bosses with big reports but oh man it was a pain.
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> Many Japanese will always consider them "less Japanese" or outsiders. Isn't this true of other nations?
> Isn't this true of other nations? Not as a general rule, no. What makes the distinction for me is the dialect they speak and their way of speaking. Then I'll have them firmly identified as 'from that town', or 'that particular part of the country' and there's no way for me to think of them differently. Where their parents came from has no part of it for me or for most people. It's just not possible for my mind to t…
Are you familiar with The Clarks' doll experiments?
The doll experiment involved a child being presented with two dolls.
Both of these dolls were completely identical except for the skin and
hair color. One doll was white with yellow hair, while the other was
brown with black hair. The child was then asked questions inquiring
as to which one is the doll they would play with, which one is the nice
doll, which one looks bad, which one has the nicer color, etc. The
experiment showed a clear preference for the white doll among all
children in the study.
Though the effect was less intense for children from integrated schools.
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It's not very difficult if you've lived in either place... (And they don't exactly have a mutual love for each other)
I am a Korean (lived in Korea for >30 years) and I think it is difficult...
You are right though, the occasional Japanese person is going to be very hard to spot since they usually fall within the range of Korean diversity.
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> Yes, she is "all" Japanese. She grew up in Japan, with her Japanese mother, attending Japanese schools. This is the subtle bigotry toward people who are "half" (as they're called in Japan) rather than "dual". Many Japanese will always consider them "less Japanese" or outsiders. Just because she qualifies as Japanese from your point of view doesn't mean that the Japanese have to view it like you. White savior comple…
> but rather are the genetic conglomerate of their ancestors (which is hard to argue against) and thus links in a chain But that's exactly it. It's not like that. Or shouldn't be. That's not what makes a person a part of a group (town, city, region, country, etc). It's a constraining, and wrong way of looking at things. It's something to grow out of. Heck, in my hometown we consider someone as 'from' this town (to tr…
They don't have a "wrong way of looking at things" simply because it is not your way. And your way is by no means the way.
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There might be a tiny group of Americans for whom something being "Made in America" would significantly impact their product decisions, but in most cases I think price and quality are the main decision making factors.
I used to work for a german web hosting company and they were able to charge double for the same service in Germany vs Spain, the only reason being germans like to buy german products.
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> but rather are the genetic conglomerate of their ancestors (which is hard to argue against) and thus links in a chain But that's exactly it. It's not like that. Or shouldn't be. That's not what makes a person a part of a group (town, city, region, country, etc). It's a constraining, and wrong way of looking at things. It's something to grow out of. Heck, in my hometown we consider someone as 'from' this town (to tr…
It is revolting how terribly arrogant your comment is, really. They don't have a "wrong way of looking at things" simply because it is not your way. And your way is by no means the way.
The Bloomberg article exacerbates the bigotry many Japanese have against their own fellow citizens. In the caption of the first picture: "She’s not all Japanese, but she was Miss Universe Japan 2015." Yes, she is "all" Japanese. She grew up in Japan, with her Japanese mother, attending Japanese schools. This is the subtle bigotry toward people who are "half" (as they're called in Japan) rather than "dual". Many Japan…
> Yes, she is "all" Japanese. She grew up in Japan, with her Japanese mother, attending Japanese schools. This is the subtle bigotry toward people who are "half" (as they're called in Japan) rather than "dual". Many Japanese will always consider them "less Japanese" or outsiders. Just because she qualifies as Japanese from your point of view doesn't mean that the Japanese have to view it like you. White savior comple…