Japan Vlog 27 - Foreigners in Japan

How Foreigners (Gaijin) are treated when they come to Japan. Cover things like history/culture, "racism", and admiration for all things on the "outside"

I couldn't cover as much as I wanted too. Yes, racism is everywhere in the world, so Japan is no exception, but generally they are not ill-willed.
You can blame "racism" on ignorance, and the Japanese are generally ignorant of a lot of foreign culture. But that too, is the same everywhere. There are plenty of ignorant people in America, and Europe, and South America... anywhere.

How many of you know the names of the 4 main Japanese Islands? Who is the current Prime Minister?

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[katrandom]

@belita101

a. I'm not spreading lies, I'm spreading my opinion based off of many observations that I've made.

b. I was in Japan for an entire year, going to school, living with a Japanese family, and you're trying to tell me that you know more about the Japanese than I do by being on an online language course?

c. There are definitely some Japanese that are very well informed about foreign cultures. However, as my Japanese Host-Father said, the majority unfortunately isn't.

[mwhite1994]

The very fact you seemed it obsurd for the japanese to not know about US presidents.... i mean... why would they? Why would any country other than america need to know the history of US presidents?

[Myneighbortotoro21]

@heats1 Actually I go to private school for the exact reason that my school system fails thanks very much.

[heats1]

@mwhite1994 yea sorry i meant peace. My "smart" phone likes to auto correct.

[mwhite1994]

@heats1 but first we must conquer spelling and homophones. Peace*

What I'm saying is that it's very arrogant to assume others are naive or uneducated for not knowing the specifics of another, foreign country's politics, when that countries people, similarly, are not taught about countries other than themself.

[heats1]

@Myneighbortotoro21 says you. im sorry your school system fails.

[heats1]

@mwhite1994 knowing about everyones different cultures and languages could bring us all world piece one day.

[Myneighbortotoro21]

The sad thing is that Americans don't even know who their presidents are... :\

[agrodolce33]

WTF do you think american, specialy US Amerikans, know who the 64th Tenno was or where berlin is? No way...know alot of US amerikans and whene they ask me where i am from and i say germany-berlin. they ask: oh europa right?

Do not act like japanese do not know anything about other cultures or countrys. They know much more then wester people!