[ SECRET POST #353 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #353 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 200 secrets from Secret Submission Post #051.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom.
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Comments

[neon-geisha.livejournal.com]

Popping in here to add my experience, and to say that the xenophobia, while still there, is not as bad as it's made out to be on all sides. I'm Arab and Muslim (and look my ethnicity enough for people to notice), and the prejudice I've experienced living here in South Florida is far, far more than anything I experienced while I was in Japan. Here, I've been called everything: "terrorist", "Taliban", told to "go back to my country" (which is, by the way, Canada), and had people, Americans, be genuinely shocked that I do things like, I don't know, dye my hair, or not wear hijab, or swear.

In Japan, no one who I spoke to about my background was anything but appreciative, sympathetic, or even enthralled. I did get the usual curious stares, but no more than any other foreigner did. The only prejudice I experienced (and it wasn't just me, but also the Filipino friends I was with) was in Kyoto, and that was from a group of Korean student tourists who refused to even talk to us, but were eager to talk to the white American friend we were travelling with. I don't know how much this speaks to the situation in Japan towards other ethnicities, nor in Korea, but I just wanted to give perhaps another perspective on the issue. The US is by no means a bastion of political correctness.