but........you are gaijin!!

[barten]

More mature stuff from the jerk who didn't wake upo in new zealand this morning.

[barten]

I'm pissed off my tits, mate.

[barten]

Makes perfect sense, jerk.

Wait on, I'm still drunk.

Try again later.

[Bearcat]

You're not Christian?

Your wife is Japanese?

I've experienced something with my wife in the US that to me was about as offensive as the above things we complain about here.

The incessant use of Japanese words like sushi, samurai etc when they learn my wife is Japanese. They're not really saying it to her... but to me. "Oh Japan!" Samurai....! Sushi!! Hai! Domo arigatou mister robato!

If but only by the grace of Satan could these mediocratic pests be swallowed up in a screaming ball of hell fire.

Now this past xmas, my wife started getting miffed because everywhere she went the people in stores and eateries refered to her as Chinese. I laughed at her though and told her welcome to the club. She didn't agreed with my assessment saying that my situation in Japan was different?

Truly, I really think the Japanese are just about as ignorant as a backwoods redneck riding a goat(sheep for you NZ folks)

[allblacks]

Hey! Lay off NZ! Fucking NZ bashers!



Here, my wife gets the Chinese thing too. Only problem is that most CHINESE will talk to her in Chinese and that, my dear LJers, pisses her off to the enth degree. She doesn't look Chinese nor does she have Chinese heritage--family name is 800 years old and from Nagano-ken--but still we get the Chinese doing this.

[sirwanksalot]

Hey! Lay off NZ! Fucking NZ bashers!


She doesn't look Chinese

http://www.alllooksame.com/frameset-register.html

[allblacks]

Good point mate.

[Guest]

At the immigration counter after arriving at Narita one day:

Julia is standing in line where it says "Japanese passports" and an older Japanese lady taps her on the shoulder.

Older J-lady: "This line is for Japanese. You should go over there to the gaijin line" (I'm pretty sure that's what she said; I caught a little of it but not all.)

Julia: "I have a re-entry permit. This line is for foreigners with re-entry permits, as well as for Japanese" -- actually, I didn't say all that because my Japanese wasn't good enough, so I just showed her the re-entry permit in my passport and said, "Daijobu."

J-lady: "But you are gaijin! The gaijin line is over there."

Julia: "Daijobu."

The immigration officer waves Julia through after checking her passport. Before Julia passes through to the baggage claim area, she turns and gives the J-lady a smile and a thumbs-up sign.

[plaid_knight]

Older J-lady: "This line is for Japanese. You should go over there to the gaijin line" (I'm pretty sure that's what she said; I caught a little of it but not all.)

Julia: "I have a re-entry permit. This line is for foreigners with re-entry permits, as well as for Japanese" -- actually, I didn't say all that because my Japanese wasn't good enough, so I just showed her the re-entry permit in my passport and said, "Daijobu."

J-lady: "But you are gaijin! The gaijin line is over there."

Julia: "Daijobu."

The immigration officer waves Julia through after checking her passport. Before Julia passes through to the baggage claim area, she turns and gives the J-lady a smile and a thumbs-up sign.

Rating: Sufficiently Hardcore.

[Shawn]

Julia,

I've had that happen to me many times. I know that at Narita at least, near the sign that says "Japanese passports" there is a smaller, not-to-conspicous sign that reads in Japanese: "Re-entry permit holders." Ten bucks says most Japanese would be surprised to learn this.

[Privileged]

yeah excellent point. what a scam that re-entry permit thing is. after hauling my ass out to that office and waiting in line and filling out forms FUCK I'd gladly pay an extra Y3000 for multiple re-entry to save myself the fiasco next time.

anyway the only plus was the return. i'm looking at the signs: "FOREIGNERS" one direction, "RE-ENTRY PERMIT" the opposite. I figured that was one point for each so I chose the shorter (nonexistent) line. I walked right through; they didn't even notice the 11 year old Thai boy in my carry-on. After I got to the other side some Japanese guy actually called me over and asked to see my passport (note: not airport staff, just some guy). I held up my US passport and said "ii desu ne." He was friendly enough, I just had no way to explain it in Japanese.

Not worth Y6000 but at least you get something.

[MacGyver]

Yeah people tell me to go to the gaijin line all the time as well. I just ignore them.

The other day when I came back from Hawaii was funny though. Because the flight was from Hawaii and mostly J people, the Japanese lines were jammed but the gaijin lines were empty so I lined up in the gaijin line. The immigration guy tells me that I could have waited in the Japanese line. I said yeah I know but this line seemed faster so I came through here. Hehehe feels good using the system to one's own advantage.

[barten]

I'm thinking there must be some valuable "annoy the busybody locals" opportunities here. Try a
"Ah so desuka?" or a
"Benkyou ni narimashita"
when they tell you in the wrong queue, without moving. I'm sure you could give some Inakasville Town Hall Official a heart attack on his way back from Hawaii.

[Edogaijin]

I just tell them I'm Japanese.

[Tokyo_Joe]

Pointing to the (Japanese) sign and pulling out a "Yomenee-no-ka?" has worked pretty well for me in the past.

[nigerian_nampa]

Pointing to the (Japanese) sign and pulling out a "Yomenee-no-ka?" has worked pretty well for me in the past.

ha ha, and they didn't hit you?

[Tokyo_Joe]

Pointing to the (Japanese) sign and pulling out a "Yomenee-no-ka?" has worked pretty well for me in the past.

ha ha, and they didn't hit you?

No, just turned away in disgust.

[Bobo]

I told the tour group leader that she was in the wrong queue. This one was unfortunately for European passports only. She said "Ah so desu ka? Arigatou gozaimasu." Then she did a double take when she clicked that I'd spoken to her in Japanese. It was quite funny.

Because I there are few things I hate more than a Japanese speaking to me in English in Japan, I just can't bring myself to be the hypocrite and speak to them in Japanese when meeting them here in the US unless they ask me to, OR that I see that they don't understand my English. Anybody else here feel the same way?

[Tokyo_Joe]

Because I there are few things I hate more than a Japanese speaking to me in English in Japan, I just can't bring myself to be the hypocrite and speak to them in Japanese when meeting them here in the US unless they ask me to, OR that I see that they don't understand my English. Anybody else here feel the same way?

Yes.

[nigerian_nampa]

Because I there are few things I hate more than a Japanese speaking to me in English in Japan, I just can't bring myself to be the hypocrite and speak to them in Japanese when meeting them here in the US unless they ask me to, OR that I see that they don't understand my English. Anybody else here feel the same way?

Yes. I was on a day tour in Thailand and there were quite a few Japanese people, but I never spoke Japanese. It was funny, because I would comment in English on things they had said in Japanese, but nobody seemed to put two and two together and realize that I understood Japanese.

At lunch we were seated near two 20-ish J-girls and I couldn't bring myself to speak Japanese. I commented on things they said, and they finally figured out that I could understand them, but they seemed to enjoy speaking broken English more than fairly smooth Japanese (maybe they wanted to feel they were "on vacation" and not at home...I don't know. They definitely weren't English bandits). So I continued in dummy English.

edited to change "were" to "weren't"