for whatever reason people in r/japanlife hate japan, life, and themselves
I think a lot of people on those subreddits have really subscribed to the idea of assimilation as the price of admission to living in Japan.
And maybe they don’t want to confront the reality that all the hard work they did toward that goal was actually not necessary. Anyone who challenges the notion of assimilation is met with fierce resistance because no one wants to admit that they did it for nothing.
my personal theory is that a lot of people come straight out of college and are actually dissatisfied with adult life as a whole rather than with japan.
@louie@pdx.social
I guess I’m not reacting much to people who are using the subreddits to vent, but more in the comments of any post, there seem to be a lot of people who give BAD advice based on their perception of the “right” way to do things in Japan. people who are very protective of what they consider to be Japanese culture. That is mostly what I’m in shock about.
for that one i wonder if it's an immigrant thing or a reddit thing.
reddit people do get so extreme with things where the right answer is usually "talk it out with the other person".
thought on the other hand i got chased off a japanese immigrant chatroom once because having an anime avatar meant i was a weeaboo larper and not actually in japan so who knows.
that you must despise all other foreign residents. You’re the good one. Whatever you like and do is correct, and what other people like and do is wrong. Only you understand Japan, not all the other 外国人
