After having to search through all the tough politics over there and trying to see the bigger picture from as many possible angle I can see, it seems that we can all come to conclusion that:
Even if you have mastered your "Japanese-ness", the chances of having to sucessfully integrate and be accepted almost like family is probably far less than 50%. Integration must go two ways, meaning that Japanese society must accept in turn the integrated gaijin as an integrated member.
It seems that unlike in the west, even social integration can get you rejected too. I even heard that the Ainu populace is placed at the same level as the "gaijin class". Not to mention that you are already and permanantly negatively judged the moment you get off that airport.....
I guess its due to the part that the content in most anime and manga so misleading though. The plots have everybody from different races getting along like family, seems so far-fetched with reality and I sometimes wonder how anime and manga sold so well in Japan and that the nationalists are hovering over the authors asking them why they make their characters so liberal and tolerable etc, etc.
Where fear of difference is the norm in society, the authors who wrote up the most tolerable characters that is the furthest thing away from the norm. For example with the anime Zipang, for I am suprized the author didn't bend the way nationalists would have expected, or wanted.
Even if you have mastered your "Japanese-ness", the chances of having to sucessfully integrate and be accepted almost like family is probably far less than 50%. Integration must go two ways, meaning that Japanese society must accept in turn the integrated gaijin as an integrated member.
It seems that unlike in the west, even social integration can get you rejected too. I even heard that the Ainu populace is placed at the same level as the "gaijin class". Not to mention that you are already and permanantly negatively judged the moment you get off that airport.....
I guess its due to the part that the content in most anime and manga so misleading though. The plots have everybody from different races getting along like family, seems so far-fetched with reality and I sometimes wonder how anime and manga sold so well in Japan and that the nationalists are hovering over the authors asking them why they make their characters so liberal and tolerable etc, etc.
Where fear of difference is the norm in society, the authors who wrote up the most tolerable characters that is the furthest thing away from the norm. For example with the anime Zipang, for I am suprized the author didn't bend the way nationalists would have expected, or wanted.
