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Well I haven't read anything really worth mentioning, maybe I missed the best parts
Soft victimization card sometimes pulled here and there aside, as far as I can tell they are basically saying that their reputation as a collective isn't following them over there and that's liberating
Which is understandable, I enjoy myself being an "anonymous", a "grey man", a tourist basically known to nobody, so I get what they are saying
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Now, the thing is, they are all upper middle class, there's no "dick-in-hand-retarded-ghetto-rapper" types/attitude - "It's the attitude stupid!" https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FZ_u-7ByWEo/maxresdefault.jpg http://image.blingee.com/images19/content/output/000/000/000/798/753813710_885611.gif
And yes, those upper middle class types, suffer from a bad image in the west, mostly steming from the ghetto types with whom they have little in common, skin color aside
Same could be said about arabs and latinos btw, especially in europe for arabs, and in the us for latinos
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Now, fi they believe there are more liberties in china... They'll fall from the wardobe at some point, you don't chimpout over there, you aren't entitled to a fuck around attitude over there, things get ugly real quick when it comes to it and there's no "I have my rights", you get rights as long as the state is willing to grant you some. It's not something you notice immediately, china is a "fun dictatorship", it's fun until you fuck around, you punch a local in the face, he falls in the stairs, it's 20 12 years. True story. And the local started it, attacked while trhowing racial slurs, and in the end he didn't suffer more than a broken arm.
That's china.
Now japan and korea are an entire different deal.
But still, if you think there's no "racism" over there you are delluded
You'll alaways remain an african, and no, you're not equal (to the natives). It won't necessarily be "in your face", but you'll find out at some point. And it's ok, it's just that you aren't one of them and never will be. You're ok with that there are no problem. You're a tourist essentially, know your place.
Don't fuck around.
Again, it's the attitude... The collective gets a bad reputation for a reason...
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