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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 Fri Oct 19 18:34:10 2018, in response to Re: The Empty Seat on a Crowded Japanese Train: Years on, the ‘Gaijin Seat’ Still Grates, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Oct 18 21:42:30 2018. In that case I'll add the corollary I discovered: dressing or acting similarly to those around you goes a long way. To go to the extreme, a black man wearing a full blown suit has no problem getting seatmates. They're "culturalist" - showing signs of being a part of their culture leads to being welcomed, and showing enough signs of being from another culture will leads to being avoided. So having non-Asian skin is an immediate -1 or -2 points as it is a sign of another culture, but it can be made up for in other ways. Being a railfan is so common there I can imagine it being a +.For example I wore just a hoodie in 50 degree weather, because that's all I need. No joke, the locals wear winter coats (and often scarves!) in this weather. Needless to say I got a lot of dirty looks. For fall I now bring something which at first glance looks a lot warmer than it actually is, and no more dirty looks. |
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