Originally Posted by
LapLap
Your generalisation about 'Japanese people' and their reactions is crude and bordering on the offensive.
It goes much further in the way of assumptions than the 'he' used as a default in English you've picked jib71 up on.
Wow, re-read what I typed and come back to me.
Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners cannot use keigo. That statement is neither crude nor offensive. 99.9999% of foreigners either don't know the concept of keigo or don't use it properly, so why would it be offensive if Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners suck at Japanese?