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Originally Posted by RealJames
Maybe the better question is;
Do you want to belong and fit into the culture?
It's because I don't belong and I don't fit in that I do so well here.
It's because I don't belong and I don't fit in that my attempts to do so are very well accepted and even praised at times by those who seem to think it's harder to do than it really is.
Fitting in and belonging is way overrated imo.
You can make friends just the same, enjoy your life just the same.
If anything there's a huge lack of peer pressure etc if you decide to accept the role of "that person that doesn't quite fit in".
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Eh, I don't know if that's the better question. I mean, it is a plausible one, but it doesn't really sum up what I'm curious about.
After one has accepted that they're different (which many people do prior coming to Japan, hence their attraction to it), I want to know why they think their life will be better in a society that they aren't from, especially if they've never even been there. What makes you not like your own home country so much that you think you'll thrive here? (or you don't have to not like your own country, but I see a lot of that).