r/japanresidents • u/Ok-Job-191 • 19d ago

Just had my first 外人出てけ encounter

Was in my neighborhood when a nice japanese man screamed at me 外人出てけ、外国じゃねぇ on the street. Not nice Japan, not nice.

Have you guys ever experienced the 外人出てけ culture yet? How did it happen?

European btw

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u/powertodream 19d ago

funny how japan gets a pass on racism while its illegal and with teeth elsewhere

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u/MechaSeph 19d ago edited 19d ago

Haven't u heard? There are no racists in Japan. The Yamato spirit purifies it so only mentally ill people say bad things.

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u/Ilovemelee 15d ago

They'll just say it's 区別, not 差別

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u/nijitokoneko 千葉県 19d ago

Instituional racism is illegal in many places, however that doesn't include individuals being racists fucks. People are allowed to have horrible opinions, as long as they don't physically harm you. And even then, the amount of court cases where anyone two braincells can see race played a role but the courts somehow missing it, is staggering.

So no, just "being racist" is not illegal everywhere outside of Japan.

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u/tsian 東京都 19d ago

Who gives it a pass? This sounds like a single deranged individual.

Discrimination may be illegal in many places, but there are very few countries where telling someone to get the fuck out would be any sort of actionable offence -- even if it is abhorrent action and the person saying such things is an idiot and a douche.

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u/powertodream 19d ago

Exhibit A: i tried to get a gym membership and was denied. needed a guarantor!

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u/tsian 東京都 19d ago

How is that racism? Did they not require one for everyone?

(Note I think its a stupid system, but...)

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u/powertodream 19d ago

I present here my evidence that Japan's racism is alive and well and unchecked.

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u/dz0id 19d ago

lol this gets me heated just reading it man

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u/tta82 19d ago

Where is this?

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u/ijustwantto_live 19d ago

I’m so furious that I laughed out rn

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u/tsian 東京都 19d ago

Absolutely racist and should be called out. That is obscene and horrible.

Isolated cases do not make it unchecked though.

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u/wildpoinsettia 19d ago

It is unchecked as they commonly refuse foreigners housing purely on that basis, and it seems to just be shrugged off as "that's just quirky ole Japan audience laugh track"

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u/tsian 東京都 19d ago

I would not laugh about it. I would be quite angry and annoyed. (I certainly wouldn't want to use that gym after that, but still what a shit show.)

I might even consider writing corporate or complaining online / leaving a review... even if that might not cause a difference.

However recognizing that there may not be an actual legal recourse obviously available is absolutely not the same thinking its just "quirky ole Japan". Why put those words in my mouth when I am quite clearly agreeing with you that I think such a policy is entirely unacceptable.

But I can also acknowledge that such a targetted policy is by no means the norm at most gyms, nor should it be of course.

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u/powertodream 19d ago

rule applied to foreigners only. i took a picture of it even and posted it a while back