Originally Posted by
joejones
When I hear stories like this I honestly wonder whether I live in the same country as these other people do. Perhaps this sort of thing was more common 20 or 30 years ago, but I can't imagine that anyone of room-temperature intelligence is still stuck in the mindset that foreigners don't speak Japanese, especially given all the Japanese-speaking foreigners who appear on TV these days.
Same here. Even over the past 6-7 years, I've noticed small but significant changes in how (non-Asian) foreigners are treated.