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Originally Posted by Table 5
While the two countries do have fairly civil relationships, I'm not sure I'd call it that harmonious. While always polite, the Japanese are still very xenophobic when it comes to foreigners in their own land.....just try marrying a japanese girl as a white guy, and see what kind of response you get. An American in Japan will always be an outsider.....that's definitely not the case the other way around.
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In regards to the marriage stuff, I never had any problems, nor most of my friends. There are still pockets of that stuff, but largely that stuff is slowly going away.
The "outsider" thing is quite funny as well - I know a number of Japanese Americans who still feel barbs when they are in the states. To me there is no perfect model for this "insider/outsider" thing. ####ty people are ####ty, regardless of race.