Many thanks to #GaijinTwitter for your thoughts on being #呼び捨て& #39;d as a foreign barbarian. Seems to be mostly split between "It& #39;s rude" & "It& #39;s not an issue", w/ a big side of "WTF is yobisute?"

Also just for those who& #39;re wondering, here& #39;s the reason I brought this up... 1/6
1) I (45/M/American) work as an expat engineer here in Tokyo at a major electronics manufacturer.
2) I& #39;ve been in this position a little over 2 1/2 years & added up, have spent almost 1/4 my life in Japan.
3) I speak / write / read in Japanese 99.5% of the time at work

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4) While it& #39;s a bit weird when my US colleagues refer to me as "Ben-san" as some kind of Japanese whisperer, I couldn& #39;t care less about honorifics if somebody is speaking with me in English.

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5) We have 1 of the most diverse groups in the company, with staff from Italy, China, Thailand & Ethiopia, as well as me, the American
6) There& #39;s 1 salty mid-level manager from Osaka (バリバリ関西人) who will refer to the Chinese Ph.D. as -kun & the Thai engineer as -san

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7) At the same time, he& #39;s consistently yobisute& #39;d the Ethiopian guy and myself the entire time I& #39;ve been here.
8) Some Japanese colleagues (including 1 from Osaka) have noticed this as well and kind of cringe when he does it.

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9) This isn& #39;t any kind of big dramatic issue...more like a tiny thing that& #39;s just annoying. In fact, it& #39;s frustrating that it annoys me at all.
10) Thanks for reading this far!

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