Damn, I wish the only taste of "racism" I experienced was a Japanese local telling me 日本語上手ですね.

It must be so hard, being the right shade of "international" here...
Mayojin keep on being mayojin. I can& #39;t relate. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏽‍♀️" title="Woman shrugging (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman shrugging (medium skin tone)">

How delusional do you have to be to consider this as an experience of prejudice during the pandemic?
FYI this is referring to a tweet that someone made (which they made private) about how they experienced the true plight of a racial minority + an immigrant when someone at their post office complimented their 日本語.

A minor annoyance & racial oppression are very diff things.
I feel like this week& #39;s episode of English-speaking Japanese Twitter is coming from folks who didn& #39;t have a chance to read the original tweet that everyone had been subtweeting or quoting on because it& #39;s no longer available...so now they& #39;re going off on tangents. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👀" title="Eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Eyes">
J-Twitter had this discussion before, and they& #39;ll probably have it again when someone else makes a similar comment.

There is definitely a hierarchy of non-Japanese races and nationalities in not only this country, but in Asia in general.
The people who feel overwhelmed by the slightest inconvenience or differential treatment have never been a minority in their own country before.

If you have a non-Western nationality and/or a darker complexion, you& #39;ll have a harder time feeling accepted here than to your peers.
If you are not a native English-speaker, you will have harder experiences here than your peers.

If you are not a man, you will have less societal advantages than your peers.

This is a spectrum. Not all foreigners here are perceived the same way. Period.
I& #39;m not a white resident but I am American and speak American English. That has definitely given me some advantages here compared to residents who don& #39;t have that identity.
If you have these societal advantages, use it to help those who may not have the same agency.
If you& #39;re reading about someone else& #39;s lived experiences with actual oppression, appreciate the fact that you& #39;re getting access to this perspective for free. It& #39;s informative.

If someone labels a minor inconvenience as oppression, it& #39;s dismissing the true victims of the system.
Anyways, I& #39;m going to mute this thread. I& #39;d rather invest my energy in the chronicles of Shacho.
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