gaijin in Japan

There is this more or less meaningless repetition of a gaijin's life in Japan. Yesterday as I was digging through the mess that is the Internet and found a way to locate interesting blogs to read, I notice a patterned phenomenon. The method is simple. Any blogsearch engine would do, go type in any Japan's city's name in English and you shall see hundreds of gaijin blogs coming up.

So there I was going through some of them to see what these strangers are up to. Suprisingly, everybody does the exact same things, has the same camera angle, hikes the same hill, discovers the same insights, is proud of the same Japanese friend, cooks the same food, loves the same bands, hates the same social injustice, has the same drunken pics, goes through the same inevitable, etc, etc.

The only things that are slightly different, names.

Under the sun, ain't nothing's new.