I have no interest in your human right. If you have worked in Japanese industry,you'll know your human right doesn't mean anything. Moreover,jobs doesn't require you.it requires skills.
I'm amazed by their skills not nationality or race.
"ぺらぺら SKILL IS HARD TO OBTAIN" Would you agree that?
DADA Cut the guy some slack, nothing wrong with giving fellow gaijin some props. I thought this community was all about gaijin with awesome Japanese skills. I agree with 左斜め上, that it's probably not cool to identify the person with this topic.
I know you guys don't wanna get judged on face value, but lets learn to take a compliment. The way you guys make it sound, if you get complimented on your japanese it's an insult. If nothing else that's just arrogrance.
p.s. all the animal examples are retarded, a dead cat? How hard do you think some of these people studied? To equate complimenting that with making a fuss over dead cat in a school yard is just wrong. R needs to stop hating.
21 2009年04月20日 06:37
ダン@AmongMyFriends
>>DADA
I find it fascinating that you've chosen to reply in English using such casual language that few of the native Japanese speakers in this community will understand anything you've written. What's with the passive-aggressiveness?
I have nothing wrong with being complimented on my Japanese, but BAININ's post was basically a "oh, look at the cute panda" thing that he probably never expected a foreigner to read.
The dead cat analogy is a bit of a stretch but I can see the point: making a big deal over something that probably shouldn't be made a huge deal of.
The bigger issue at hand, I think, is how foreigners are perceived in Japan as a whole; I think it's telling that the front image for this community used to be a Japanese girl in blackface (ganguro) makeup up until very recently and I'm glad to see that's been changed. If a community like this were created on, say, Facebook ("Spanish people that are good at English!" for example), there'd be all sorts of people getting upset about it and claiming racism or at the very least discrimination. But the Japanese language is very much tied to Japanese culture and Japan as a whole, so when foreigners learn it there's a bit of a disconnect, and I can see that.
Anyway I'm going to miss my train if I don't run out the door but hopefully I'll reply to more of the comments later.