But we're speaking Japanese!　日本語喋ってるんだけど

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Cites Nadya · 2015-06 · on “A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself”

If your Japanese is near-perfect you can tell them to let you enter the "no foreigners" nightclubs and bars claiming you were born and raised in Japan. Just pick a place as your hometown. If it were for racist reasons, they wouldn't let you enter simply because you don't "look Japanese". Not to say the issue doesn't exist at all. Just that it isn't prevalent. If it didn't exist, there wouldn't be this comedy sketch about it: [this video] Although the scenario I experienced was that the waitress asked my Japanese friend what I wanted to order rather than asking me. Assuming I didn't speak Japanese. At most places I ordered food at - they would ask me what I wanted directly. So I wouldn't say it's

Cites jason_tko · 2016-01 · on “The Disappearance of Self in Japan”

I've lived in Japan for 14 years, and I'm doing a startup here. In my experience, if you stay in Japan for more than a year, you go through several phases. The first phase is confusion. Why am I being treated differently, even though I'm doing and saying the same things as another Japanese person. The second phase that quickly follows is anger. This is bullshit! I know my accent and pronunciation is correct! Why are they saying they don't understand me! WTF! The third is dull acceptance. You're not going to change Japan. They're not like this because they're bad people. They're just inexperienced with foreigners and foreign things, and they're overcompensating and trying to be nice in the wa

Cites titanix2 · 2016-11 · on “Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student”

"Japanese people will rarely call out any grammar/pronunciation error" & "In Japan, if you speak Japanese well, eventually they stop forgiving you as "oh, he's just a foreigner", and they hold you to similar standards." There is also something else I notice: some people will decide they will not understand you because you look/are foreign no matter how hard you try or even if you don't make not many mistakes. There is a famous video about that[1] but this is not limited to Japan, I also saw it in France too with foreigners trying to speak French. Also even in a cultural area there can be wide differences. Almost all Mandarin speakers I interact with (be they Taiwanese, mainlanders or huaqiao

Cites enteeentee · 2024-11 · on “The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan”

“No matter how long you live in Japan… “ bit more like even if you are born in Japan with a non-Japanese heritage you will never be Japanese. There are people born in Japan, raised in Japan that aren’t considered ok Japanese. Some don’t consider themselves Japanese because that’s the cultural norm. Many other people in other countries would consider themselves a citizen of that country if born there. Japan is different. [this video]