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Old Oct 19, 2005 | 2:12 pm
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Martinis at 8
 
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Originally Posted by jpatokal
Take it from a blue-eyed blond-haired white boy: the Japanese are racist towards everybody who is not Japanese. However, this usually only comes into play when renting apartments and marrying their daughters, and a tourist is unlikely to ever even notice (except maybe when all the hotels are mysteriously full...).
Yes, the horrors of racism! Why some Japanese tourists stopped my "blue-eyed blonde-haired white girl" wife and asked me to take pictures of she and them standing together. Then they actually touched her blonde hair. Sexual assualt! The horrors of racism!

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