Warum Japans Gen Z eine wachsende Abneigung gegen Ausländer hat

That woman who claims that everyone has to speak English in America has never been to a Chinatown or deep into a Latin community. I’ve met friends parents or grandparents who couldn’t speak English, and I couldn’t care less because their children do and their children’s children will.

Is it just me, or is anyone else starting to interpret Japanese attitudes a lot less charitably?

They used to be more okay with tourists, and back in the 1980s and 1990s (when they actually relied on tourism *less*), tourists were almost certainly on average *much less* sensitive and respectful (you were lucky if Westerners remembered the no-shoes rule – the idea of learning the language first was just not even remotely expected).

My sense is that there’s a whole lot of jealousy and bitterness over foreign visitors having the money and free time to go there on holidays in the first place and enjoy the finer things in life.

When South Koreans likewise start to realise they’re falling behind not just China but the world at large, the reaction will be absolutely nuclear, if their attitudes towards Chinese visitors already is anything to go by (and because of how much they had bought into this lazy narrative that the West is the past, and they are the future).

I think most of their problems come from over tourism, which is caused by the weak yen for a big part.

That said, I understand their fear, I’d hate to see Japan lose their culture in favor of multi culturalism like happened in the west. They should resist the usual BS that immigration is needed to save them.

I am happy if they fight the creation of ethnic enclaves such as chinatown (or from any other culture in that matter) which ends of with zones totally detached from the culture of the host country.