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1 year ago
in Mixi.jp now hates foreigners. Now requiring a mobile email address to join. on Tofugu Comments
dam they wont hide how xenofobic they are....come ON! its not like the foreigners are turning mixi upside down
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xeli
ya, they love to exclude non-japanese pple
Anna
I'm disappointed too, as I was asked to sign up by various Japanese friends.
But I can kind of understand mixi's concern with misbehaving foreigners. I mean, everywhere where there's Japanese gathering, a bunch of rabid foreign anime-, manga-, game- or visual kei rock star fan(girl)s come crawling all over the place like cockroaches, harrassing good-looking Japanese people with their Japan-fangirl-ness and extremely annoying otaku-level Japanese language "skills" and even physically fighting over the right to talk to that divine Japanese being. I've been to Japan several times, as well as to anime- and J-Rock related events and it's the same everywhere. A Japanese person has to take alot of harrassment from foreign Japan-fanatics who think that Japan really is like their anime phantasy world (in which characters tend to hug strangers, but the real Japanese won't appreciate you clinging to them - nobody will).
And about signing up to practice your Japanese: has it ever occurred to you that not everyone wants to volunteer as a language tutor, listening to horrible, hardly understandable sentences and being expected to reply and to correct all errors? I wouldn't, that's for sure. I get lots of help requests over the internet on various things and like, NO? I have a life for chrissake! Sign up for language courses but leave me the fuck alone.
Sometimes it seems to me like with all the Japanese products such as anime, music, games, sushi etc. becoming accessible and affordable to the outside world, some people seem to think that they can "buy" or at least "claim" Japanese PEOPLE as well as their PRODUCTS. "ZOMG ur Japanese, u must be mah friend!"
Japan's xenophobia is a pain to me, too sometimes although I can adapt to their manners and speak their language instead of being an otaku and thinking that's enough to fit in. But hell, looking at my own country, Belgium, I can understand countries that try to exclude foreigners as much as possible.
But I can kind of understand mixi's concern with misbehaving foreigners. I mean, everywhere where there's Japanese gathering, a bunch of rabid foreign anime-, manga-, game- or visual kei rock star fan(girl)s come crawling all over the place like cockroaches, harrassing good-looking Japanese people with their Japan-fangirl-ness and extremely annoying otaku-level Japanese language "skills" and even physically fighting over the right to talk to that divine Japanese being. I've been to Japan several times, as well as to anime- and J-Rock related events and it's the same everywhere. A Japanese person has to take alot of harrassment from foreign Japan-fanatics who think that Japan really is like their anime phantasy world (in which characters tend to hug strangers, but the real Japanese won't appreciate you clinging to them - nobody will).
And about signing up to practice your Japanese: has it ever occurred to you that not everyone wants to volunteer as a language tutor, listening to horrible, hardly understandable sentences and being expected to reply and to correct all errors? I wouldn't, that's for sure. I get lots of help requests over the internet on various things and like, NO? I have a life for chrissake! Sign up for language courses but leave me the fuck alone.
Sometimes it seems to me like with all the Japanese products such as anime, music, games, sushi etc. becoming accessible and affordable to the outside world, some people seem to think that they can "buy" or at least "claim" Japanese PEOPLE as well as their PRODUCTS. "ZOMG ur Japanese, u must be mah friend!"
Japan's xenophobia is a pain to me, too sometimes although I can adapt to their manners and speak their language instead of being an otaku and thinking that's enough to fit in. But hell, looking at my own country, Belgium, I can understand countries that try to exclude foreigners as much as possible.
