I’m also sorry your reading comprehension is poor in English.

With you being both highly bigoted and poor at Engish its kind of funny you are teaching students English and how not to be prejudiced, when it seems those are two of your weak points. Its no surprise Japan is in such a poor state.

I guess the biggest problem with Japan is that it’s so bad at English it can’t hire any good English help. No wonder everyone thinks Gaijins are gits, I can see you’ll be doing all you can to avoid disabusing Japan of that notion.

Also you smell of poo.

“Perception
works in a biased way, you see what you look for, and if you look for
bad things you’ll find them.” No, you blithering moron. SOME BAD THINGS
ARE REAL.

And GUESS WHAT: I have worked in international
business. I am now working to teach young people to be fluent in English
so that THEY can work in international business. I have seen and
experienced the insularity of Japan’s thought; I have encountered her
prejudices and racism first hand, and through friends. I have been
hamstrung by people who have no interest in working with an overseas
company on anything but their own, ethnocentric terms. I have seen many
of Japan’s problems, and guess what: IT IS MY JOB TO HELP FIX JAPAN’S
PROBLEMS. It is my job to help young people get over their own biases
and prejudices – to work through the structure of their own language in
order to better understand the structure of another. It is my job to
help businesses understand how things work overseas and adapt to it.
EVERY DAY of my life is spent wrestling not just with my own prejudices
and biases, but with my STUDENTS’ and COWORKERS’ as well.

That’s
not even getting into my personal life and the struggles with having an
international marriage and Japanese step-children. And if you had even
the slightest notion of how HARD that is, you would not be spouting
your feel-good nonsense. You talk about finding myself on some
Gandalf-esque journey – son, I am in the MIDDLE of one, and I am at a
much, much higher level than you will ever reach.

So, yes. I am
who I want to be. Calling out racism in my friends, family and students
is absolutely, 100% who I want to be. If you don’t like it when I call
out racism, then…well…gosh, you can go fuck yourself, I guess? I
really don’t know what to say to someone who thinks racism is ok. I
don’t know what to tell you. I really don’t. If you want to sit and tell
me that the prejudices and racism I encounter are somehow in my head?
In my perception? I can give a hearty fuck you to you. If you want to
say that I shouldn’t call out racism, I can say you are wrong. But if
you think racism is fine and dandy…then…you are beyond any words I
can say to you.

Are you really who you want to be, really?

You ran away from America because it was a bad place with bad people and bad things, and you went to somewhere else, maybe somewhere you thought was better but found it was just the same thing, only without central heating.

You’re still in a bad place, a different place.

Perception works in a biased way, you see what you look for, and if you look for bad things you’ll find them.

Its really easy to make your life miserable, expect the worst and find it, is that how you want to live?

It doesn’t matter if you’re in America or Japan, you need to change yourself. Try smiling, try to not think the worst of people. And try to look for good things. It isn’t about ignoring the bad things or pretending they don’t exist, its about finding a balance.

You have a great chance in Japan to learn new things, meet new people and become more than you are. but you’ll have to leave your baggage behind, your preconceptions. Learn how to enjoy your life.

I lived in Paris for 4 years, I didn’t learn the language, I didn’t experience the culture, I didn’t meet the people. I wasted 4 years of my life, and I wasted it in one of the most awesome places in the world. On my last day I walked around Paris, I experienced it, I enjoyed it, and I realised what I had missed.

Don’t be that guy.(me) Be someone else.

So your quest is to answer your own question, find the Japan you are sure doesn’t exist, find the facts that prove you are wrong.

Peace out bruh.