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Oh man, I was totally hoping to move there! I have heard nothing but positive things about their work culture and immigrants...
Erm....
Duolingo time
lol my wife would hate me if I learned japanese before spanish.
She's black and when she was in japan years before she met me... oh boy she had a bad experience lol.
My tall, fit, skinny white ex girlfriend however was chased by an old japanese guy who saw her, called her gaijin several times, and gave her a giant container of milk as a gift. She had absolutely nothing bad to say about the experience and she was there for a few months, they loved her.
Unlike my first comment, this is serious and a true story. It's anecdotal.. but something that basically plays out everywhere in the world unfortunately.
I've heard in the past that most Asian countries are weirdly racist, like practically white supremacist. I guess that is true for Japan as well. That's a shame.
It's practically every country man. There's always weird othering (racism is just one category) and a belief that xyz is better than abc. There's tons of pockets everywhere. Some cultures are just harsher than others at how they effect the "others" they believe they are superior to.
It doesn't seem like it matters which side of the political spectrum they're on either... deep down there's always a belief even on an individual level that we're better than others in some way because of some bullshit rationale probably driven by evolutionary instinct that drives competition and propagation of genes one might consider "similar" to their own. At least that's a rough idea of how I think of it, because like everything it's complicated.