KirinMan
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- 23 Jan 2007
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It happens frequently to me as well. I will be sitting by someone on the train during rush, even reading a Japanese newspaper, completely minding my own business, and the other person still gets up to move at the next available seat. Not as frequently as if I were doing nothing or reading English, but it still occurs.
It was similar to the situation I found myself in the other day in fact, next to a woman that took that last open bus seat with obvious reluctance and the look of surprise on her face when I continued reading without spraying her with germs or bugging her about something in English was priceless. .
So you mean an American woman did that to you as well. Where in the world do you buy Japanese papers in the states? Also I am glad to see it isn't just foreigners living in Japan that face this annomoly, that American's in the states as well.
So from reading your posts, this isn't just something a foreigner in Japan "feels" but an American in the USA as well. Wow, I wonder what part of the US that you live in that has such a large Japanese population that ride the trains everyday.
Hopefully if I stay here long enough (which I intend to do) I'll reach that tolerance nirvana that you and other long-timer posters seem to have reached ...
Well I will honestly admit that it took a few years to get over most of it. Then again there are times, depending on my "time of the month" that these things still bug me.
In my opinion much of this "feeling" of being shunned has a direct coorelation to the amount of time that one actually lives here in Japan. Also how the individual adapts to their surroundings, and the environment.