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I want to visit Japan one more time. It’s ok but I don’t understand why someone would want to live there permanently. I like the diversity of the US personally. what influenced you to live there permanently?
I want to visit Japan one more time. It’s ok but I don’t understand why someone would want to live there permanently. I like the diversity of the US personally. what influenced you to live there permanently?
The fact that I do not have to worry about some nut going crazy with a gun, or the fact that I do not have to worry about my children getting hooked on drugs, no rednecks, no racism like in the U. S., plus knowing there is no way that the U. S. military is getting their hands on my children. That any one can walk down the street at midnight or after and not worry about getting mugged or raped. There is much more that I could write about but there is not enough space and I do not have the time, but needless to say America is not as free and as democratic as it used to be and never will be again!
Japan is very diverse! We have four seasons, and four types of people…. A, B, AB, and O…… not to mention the whole Heike / Genji divide…. And there must be a dozen ways to stylize a high school uniform!
My reasons for staying largely center around the money I earn teaching.
When I was younger and single Asian women were a major drawing card. (I never gave a damn if they were Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino or whatever. If she looks good, she looks good.)
However, I wouldn’t have stayed if the money wasn’t right.
At the end of the day I like Japan and have been treated very well but I prefer the States which is where I plan to retire.
Thankfully not an American, but, alas, Canadians share some similarities. Here are a few reasons for staying here off the top of my head and in TJ Random order. I like the fact that not every third person in my field of view here is a whale. I like that I can eat good food here easily without having to tip. I love not seeing ill-conceived, boring tattoos. I like hopping on a train and being in onsen country in relatively short order. I like renting dvds for 80 yen. I like ordering something on Amazon, etc. and often receiving it within 2 days. I like the deliberate quirkiness of some of Japanese. I like that 95% of punks and idiots, when confronted, actually become a little apprehensive. Stated differently, I appreciate the safety factor here. Beyond these, my better half has a good job that she really likes. Thus, providing her with moral support seems to be only natural.
I miss the Rockies, the crisp air and the perfect blue sky, I miss the perfect calm of a ferry ride between Vancouver and Victoria on a beautiful summer afternoon or on one of the smaller ferries between the islands. I miss baseball steaks at The Keg. I super miss hockey — torrents just don’t cut it.
There is definitely racism in Japan, but is usually not motivated by hatred, rather things like fear or that is just easier to deal with Japanese only.Images of L.A. riots with black families driving into the local supermarket and looting (that’s getting back a few years now), black crime in the U.S., etc., and the complete mess Africa is in, and with the ratio of failed marriages between black (usually Nigerian) and Japanese being very high – these kind of things give a really bad impression. It is not fair and wrong to judge people on the action of a few, and the social problems in the U.S. are the fruit of bad seeds (in the form of black slavery and segregation) that were sowed a few generations ago (but not that long ago).But in reality, if a white person and a black person who were equally qualified were to apply to a Japanese firm, the white person is more likely to get the job – which is wrong, but I think that would be accurate.
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