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Originally Posted by Ichirin
So everyone is called Gai-Jins ? even if you're on a trip ?
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because it's ture meaning is outsider and even if you are just visting you are an outsider and you will aways be one if your are white. Because whites where the frist non aisan outsiders. in courts all that are not boren in Japan and japanese decent are called Gai-Jins. But asians are usely called by there nationalty, while white are all called Gai-jins , i am not sure how they treat hispaics, Blacks or People of middle eastern decent.
I hear the polotics are the worst thing there. Even as a outsider some people may eventual warm up to you but you will still always be an outsider. this is phycological thing over there and it not changeing even in there youth. Young people are the frist to embrace you because they are intresting in your outsider costume but this is just a phase they go thru to rebel against there parents as all children do. They grow out of this eventual and those that truely bond with you usely leave the country because they are looked down appon.
You can say they are like this for the same reason the middle east is the way it is. it is becasue it been like that for 1,000 years or more and 1,000 or more years before it changes.