Here is a great quote:
Less than three weeks after I moved to Japan, I was invited to hanami with a bunch of my wife’s co-workers. She was a McEnglish drone, I confess, so that meant we were with a bunch of Brits, Yanks, Canucks, Aussies, and the odd Kiwi. It started to rain after a couple of hours, at which point we shuffled off towards an izakaya. As we hit the edge of the park, a totally pissed Brit passing by shouted…Read the Seven Stages of the Gaijinhood
“OY! That’s right, fuck off, you lot, this is MY Japan!”
2 comments:
Interesting post Todd, even though the circumstances are different for you and me, I too don't fall in the stereotypical "Anglo in Japan" category and that provides for a unique perspective. I like to think that our Niihama gang was pretty good about not being too garish in our gaijinhood, because I sure have encountered some "hen na gaijin" along the way. Of course, who knows ... people might say the same about me =)
I'm guilty of being obnoxious the first year or so.
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