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Elizabeth said:I don't recommend passing as Japanese to find an intimate relationship for several reasons, but mainly they aren't likely going to make any concessions to Western ways and the novelty is going to wear off pretty quickly. Foreigners either have to have the temperment for it or not and there has to be something else besides Japan as a justification.
What's "passing"? I only know the term as used in football.
Did you start dating your boyfriend for the "novelty"?
Do you suppose the Chinese, Koreans, Thais, Vietnamese, Indians, or the Bangladeshis would be more willing to make concessions to Western ways?
Could it also be possible that the Japanese have to have the temperament for dating Westerners?
kirei_na_me said:Amen, Elizabeth.
I've said numerous times that an intercultural relationship can't be taken lightly. I'm sorry, but it's true. It's reality.
What makes different cultures, anyway? It's true that every culture has characteristics to make it unique. Those characteristics include everything from what they eat to what they wear to their skills to their ideas and how they communicate. If the Japanese were just like us, well, they wouldn't be another culture. One shouldn't go around blasting broad stereotypes, but there are things people of a particular group have in common that make them unique compared to others. That's how we get different cultures. Right?
Then why get involved with someone of a different culture (or race, for that matter) if you're gonna end up complaining about it?