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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:08:19 JST kaia
   young woman made video how shit life in Japan is as a foreigner
   
   https://youtu.be/d3jEntyDCE0
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:15:00 JST Sick Sun

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     @kaia roughly five years seems to be right around when most long-term foreigners finally leave Japan. I read about this as far back as the 1990s.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:16:43 JST kaia

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun she brings up important point that half-Japanese kids get discriminated against a bunch, treated like bastards.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:18:37 JST Sick Sun

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     @kaia I admit I am worried about this.
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     Asa (asa@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:49:23 JST Asa

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     @sun @kaia 2 years if you dive into Japanese society instead of living half-isolated from it in a English teaching bubble.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:50:14 JST Sick Sun

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     @asa @kaia yeah you're right I should have said five years is the limit that most people last, it seems like when you find people living there longer the numbers drop way off
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:53:09 JST Sick Sun

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     @kaia I thought everything she said sounded true from things other people have told me. the only critique I have of her video is that she kept saying "no one told me, no one talks about this" but every single thing she mentioned in the video I have heard people talk about extensively since the early 1990s when I went as a homestay.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:05:41 JST kaia

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun lot of popular Japantubers are also discussing this. she was in the honeymoon phase before where she did not want to hear or understand the criticism.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:11:54 JST Sick Sun

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     • 御園はくい
     @hakui @kaia not planning to actually but accidents happen
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:11:55 JST 御園はくい

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun @kaia don't miscegenate then
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:44:28 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @sun @kaia parts of that might also be that most gaizin who go to japan are americans and life in japan is just very, very different than in america, no matter how similar it can seem from a short visit. At uni we had japanese textbooks aimed at americans, and they talked about a lot of 'culture shock' things that wouldn't be a shock at all to germans. Also, a few japanese people have told me that germany feels like a less strict version of japan, but still familiar.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:49:12 JST Sick Sun

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @kaia > they talked about a lot of 'culture shock' things that wouldn't be a shock at all to germans.
     
     revolting pornography involving bodily excretions?
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     mametschko (mametsuko@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:58:24 JST mametschko

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     @kaia@brotka.st i need to watch this

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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 03:25:44 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @sun @hakui @kaia
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     mothball蛾玉 (和文化研究部) (moth_ball@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 04:09:30 JST mothball蛾玉 (和文化研究部)

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     @sun @kaia I'm sure there are bad examples of discrimination in any country but as long as there's a connection to family and/or close friends, that's the important part I think
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     bonifartius (bonifartius@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 07:37:29 JST bonifartius

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     @kaia i always wonder how things are for foreigners in the rural areas of japan, provided they speak good japanese, know the social rules and try to not be annoying.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 07:37:48 JST kaia

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     @bonifartius probably get left alone like any other JP would get left alone? :SagaHmm: