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Re: The Empty Seat on a Crowded Japanese Train: Years on, the ‘Gaijin Seat’ Still Grates |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Oct 17 22:00:02 2018, in response to The Empty Seat on a Crowded Japanese Train: Years on, the ‘Gaijin Seat’ Still Grates, posted by heypaul on Wed Oct 17 07:08:26 2018. Ah yes I've noticed that too. I'll add some of my observations:1. School students will take that seat and think nothing of it. 2. Drunk businessmen will also take it. 3. People in face masks will also take the gaijin seat, probably because the empty seat also appears next to people wearing those face masks. 4. For white, tan, and other light skin colors the phenomenon is a gaijin seat. However there will sometimes be more than one empty seat next to a black person. I think the most awkward example of this was a manspreading black man wearing a wifebeater and shorts (which is an extremely un-Japanese ensemble) - he had a gaijin row of 4 seats on an otherwise standing room only train. |
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