ppl were sayin that the Japanese are mean to forengers just cause they arn't Japanese. I may live their when I get fluent enough, and if I don't I'll be going their alot. I'm part Japanese but from a distance relavite so I guess I look more spanish I don't look japanese that much but for my eyes and my face can get really light and my hair is dark brown. I'm afraid they may shun me because I don't look so much like them, even though I'm part Japanese. Is it tru that the Japanese don't like forengers? And do you think they would shun me and be rude?

P.S I'm not trying to be rude or ignerant, just tryin to get the facts straight. And I know not ALL Japanese r mean.

People are people. I've never seen them act mean when I was on my choral trip for my music department, when we performed in Tokyo. Actually they were quite nice.

But i'm woried they won't accept me casue I hope to maybe one day become a japanese singer, I'm woried they will judge me because I don't look alot like them and they may think I'm not japanese

Namie Amuro I believe was Filipino, she's VERY popular!

Who knows. Do you have a good voice? Try to get a recording company to audition you or something. Though you must be excellent with your notes and directly on top of the pitch!

I'm known in school for my singing, but I'm not very fluent in japanese so I dibt they would accept me wit not knowing japanese and all

Well like most countries (in general) people kinda get annoyed if words are pronounced wrong.

But one thing, voice quality matters, but if you can't be on pitch 100% of the time, you're not getting in any recording studio

I know =S well I'm only 13 I still have time, I'm looking for a place to teach me japanese and I'm gonna get into a singing class soon

lol Japanese is nothing like english other than a few grammar stuffies and cognates.

Goodluck tho.

awww good luck hunnie

Sadly, there are accounts of xenophobia over there in Japan.

And they're all over the internet.

Yahoo! search: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=xenophobi...op=mss&tab=&Z=1

I suggest you go to japan there first, and get an idea before you go and start something focusing in that country

Yes, xenophobia is in Japan, like MOST countries. I'm not trying to point finger at you japanese so don't take it the wrong way. I just find it annoying when some non-japanese takes a 3day holiday trip to japan and then act like Japan is the most non-racist country in the world..... (NOT you guys, but I just KNOW that someone is going to post here about how non-racist and nice japan is to live in.. ijust KNOW IT.. well, maybe not now after seeing my links..)

http://www.debito.org/newsweekjapan022603.html

http://www.debito.org/activistspage.html

That is a good site. It has a lot of info on racial discrimination in japan (university, police, profiling, clubs, restaurants, stores, World Cup 2002, Ishihara, ETC.).

I don't notice any in tokyo, when i go

You think you can see all of Tokyo during trips?? Not to mention, tokyo is just one city in japan..

I want to emphasize that my point wasn't to blame japan or anything like that. Most japanese I know acknowledge xenophobia and racism in Japan. It is the non-japanese who are in love with Japanese stuff that spouts crap about how much of a paradise Japan is.. Japan is no different from any other country, racism is everywhere. NO ONE can deny it

Where did I say that? You're like a new kulong!

No I don't think I've touched every corner of tokyo
But most of it, I've dined, and lived in hotels there for quite a while during the summers

There is racism in japan but I believe that it is over exaggerated.

What ogumo said. God I love Ogumo, he's cool

I've been to Japan once. People were generally nice, but I couldn't speak Japanese so I don't know if there was anyone talking behind my back.

Come to think of it...........
I've not heard anyone gossip when I was in japan except in TV shows.

thanks for the links, i had no idea how bad it was.

I think if you're cute, all the guys would be nice to you. That's true anywhere in the world actually.

Honestly you can't get that as an Idea unless you've been there to experience it and make your own conclusions.

As for white people, I'm very sure that Japanese (in general) are very nice to.

Yes, it is very true. The Japanese are famous for their irrational, xenophobic racism. If you plan on going to Japan, I sincerely propose hiring a couple of body guards. You may be attacked by mobs of angry Japanese if they find out about your mixed racial heritage. But don't worry: The Chinese Jihad Society of Berkeley is offering bodyguard services, if you're interested. For only $150 per day, plus food and board, you get two highly qualified bodyguards armed in the ancient Chinese martial arts of as well as the Islamic martial art of suicide bombing (if things get real rough). PM me if you're interested.

Xiao, how asinine are you?

I'm reporting you to a moderator, for your personal attack against me. But seeing how this place is run by administrators and moderators who hate me because of my ideology, I'll probably get banned instead. Whatever.

OH comon! The Chinese Jihad Society of Berkeley. That's a joke. And a jihad is a religious struggle. Don't you go to Berkeley? You make it sound like some mercenary group to help someone to go into japan, before they're killed by a mob.

AtlantisStar is famous for defending Japan if even Japan is wrong. So get used to it. I'm already get used to her.

See that's why I love huaren.
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Honestly AtlantisStar, when someone post something bad about Japan, you will defend Japan. I am proud of you.

Thank you

Hey, our society has many, many functions. Haven't you been reading my posts?

Some unfortunately.

Honestly xiao rong ji. Most likely nothing will happen to this girl even if japanese people "find out" that she is what ever it is that she is.

c'mon ogumo, lighten up
that post was obviously a joke

Japan is a xenophobic country and many Japanese are xenophobics.
Visiting Japan as a tourist and actually living there is very very different.
But Xiao Rong Ji's comments are way over the top.
He meant them as a joke? (I hope so)

I think the biggest reason people don't like Xiao, is that sarcasm doesn't work right when it's written

I think most of his posts are funny, but some go too far


you don't see the joke in that?

I have a Japan born korean friend whose father is Japanese and mother is korean. Eventhough his paternal root is Japanese, he still got "hijime" by kids at school. He got so sick of it, he opted to become a Korean instead. So now he talks and becomes a full blown korean. The stories he told of racism is Japan is just appaling.
Now he returns to live in Japan with his dad, if his dad isn't one of the richest real estate tycoon in Tokyo, he would have suffrered even more.

Visitors have no idea what's going on underneath all that proper and politeness.

Japanese is one of the most judgemental race in the world, a race full of perfectionists.

The irony of it is that the West itself is open about its problems with racism and still fights it... :genius:


Also, they dethroned the French as the most xenophobic people.
As in, Japan toppled France as the most xenophobic nation in the whole world by square mile, as told by my former world history teacher when I asked him so.

By the way, the French are still as xenophobic as ever.

Ogumo, one MUST realize by now that Japanese politicians who are using xenophobia are the living reason why Japan, as of late, is the most xenophobic nation in the whole world RIGHT NOW.

I disagree about japan being the "most" xenophobic nation. I believe that it is one of the most xenophobic though. I think it is either russia or isreal that is the most xenophobic. I believe even france had a politician that was very xenophobic.

Japan's xenophobia is overrated IMO. Personally france gets TONS of tourists and visitors and business travelers, I don't understand why they should be so xenophobic, which they are IMO.

AtlantisStar, the only reason why I say the French are xenophobic because of the fact that they feel that French should be spoken everywhere and their attitudes towards the Yankees (Americans). :genius:

By the way, according to a poll conducted by the BBC, France turned out to be the most xenophobic in Europe, and according to Ogumo, it even as openly xenophobic polticians.

Ogumo, if Japan is one of the most xenophobic countries in the world, would it be the most xenophobic one throughout Asia? If so, isn't it that Japan has openly xenophobic politicians? Name them for me.

Lol DI, I never denied it, I go to france sometimes, I speak french.

Tokyo's mayor is known for his xenophobic and racist views.

Yep. Shintaro Ishihara. Xenophobe no. 1.

he would probably commit a suicide if he finds out there's a chinese blood within him.

Ogumo, if Japan is one of the most xenophobic countries in the world, would it be the most xenophobic one throughout Asia? If so, isn't it that Japan has openly xenophobic politicians? Name them for me.

Argueable. It is between japan and korea. I dont know exactly how xenophobic china really is...though I have heard stories.

As for some names. Ishihara is was the name that went into everyones head I am sure. He is really the only one currently. Though koizumi comes close with his ignorant and naive comments like. "Why are you chinese so angry with me?"

Chinese are not generally xenophobic, at least nowhere close to Koreans and Japanese. A large part of this reason is that China is relatively very diverse. Not even including the many minority groups which range from racial phenotypes from Caucasians to Malays. But even amongst Hans, regional differences are so great, they actually are equivalent to ethnic differences in Europe.

Also, you will never see signs such as ONLY CHINESE ALLOWED in China. This is not even an occurence or reality.

An ethnic Korean who grows up in China will likely identify with being Chinese, because he will not be treated any differently. Foreigners who speak Chinese are treated and welcomed very warmly in China. Chinese have always been culturalists, and have not cared too much about genetic or racial background. That is why China was able to absorb so many different peoples and sinicize them.

except for Huaren

Chinese people love other cultures within China, like someone from beijing met with someone from qurumqi, they'd be friends quite well even though they're on the opposite sides of china.

But chinese people I know are stereotypical of non-chinese people. The chinese love to make generalizations of other races/groups.

It is only natural that generalizations and stereotypes exist about outsiders in every society.

However, Chinese stereotyping is nothing compared to Japanese racism and xenophobia. Take the half-Korean child as an example. If he was half-Chinese and grew up in China, he'd like come to identify as Chinese very strongly because he would not recieve any discrimination. I am 110% sure about that.