response - apply to JET - gender and safety issues

This is a response to one of my subscribers - Crackaline.

She had some questions about the JET application, and I tried to provide some answers in my usual long-winded way.

-Jason

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• JET
• ALT
• Jason
• Shimane
• Japan

[bluecloud0]

Thank you so much. This really helped.

[TaishaJason]

you're welcome - glad it was helpful

[missvinca]

haha this might be a stupid question but will asians from america be hired as an ALT? xD

[TaishaJason]

yep - plenty of Asian-Americans are JETs

[SutiesFavoriteSongs]

Oh my gosh, that story is really scary! Chopped her up? Eeeww....

[Cronaldo02]

lool this is kinda kewl, its like survival of the fittest.

[42317]

People shouldn't think that Japanese women alone were so docile as to remain silent while being groped on a train. Of course I cannot speak for the US, but I read German studies that say much the same about German girls/women, a surprisingly large part of whom have made such experiences, but only a very small, resolute fraction "makes a scene". Which I find strange. Most kept talking to their friend or just tried to ignore it until the problem would be gone.

[jessman1999]

That case from Tokyo was the woman was working for a conversation school, but on the side was giving private lessons. From the articles I read (and of course this is all hearsay) she had told her friends that he was creepy. That should of been a red flag right there. Obviously she didn't deserve what happened to her, but she should have stopped giving him private lessons in his home. It's a little black eye on being a gaijin in Japan, but there is a lot worse that happens in the U.S.

[shildrine]

Its probably the same for gender on terms of you getting in or not, but to me, it looks like more men are on Youtube posting vlogs though =) But thats probably just Vlogs, there is probably no difference in gender on getting in. Just my opinion.