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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by Klonoar on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:41PM (#44536126)
Replace foreigners with "white" and you're more or less spot on.

I know far too many non-Japanese-asian people who get held to the standards applied to Japanese people - not even over tattoos, but things like language, cultural understandings, etc. The aspect of this with white people is where the infamous "gaijin smash" came from.

Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by _rm on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:10AM (#44540533)
Maybe they view them more like a different species then - as if being strict towards them would be like demanding a buffalo be potty-trained?