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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 242475"><p>I don't think they all are either, but there is as we could call it in the UK instutionalised racism within facets of Asian society. There are a good many and when you have a situation where Westerners are barred from places like public bath houses and other places purely because of their ethnicity and when these people take their case to the courts find that the authorities are rarely sympathetic or even willing to enforce the rule of law.</p><p></p><p>I had some great times in Japan as well, ironically they tended to be in the places where Westerners least go in the rural parts of Central Japan and Shikokou. At times in Tokyo though the atmosphere towards westerners like myself was sometimes cold, other times slightly shocking but on the whole quite amusing in how you see businessmen in their early 30s and respectful old ladies moving a couple of seats away from..undesirables..on the London Underground too. Same thing, just that the skin colour of the perpetrator changes.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line, attitudes amongst younger people may be softening towards the West, the line of governments over there is still at the stage of when Asian Government so spectacularly sunk Paul Keating's charm offensive with its "trailer trash" jibes during the 1980s .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 242475"] I don't think they all are either, but there is as we could call it in the UK instutionalised racism within facets of Asian society. There are a good many and when you have a situation where Westerners are barred from places like public bath houses and other places purely because of their ethnicity and when these people take their case to the courts find that the authorities are rarely sympathetic or even willing to enforce the rule of law. I had some great times in Japan as well, ironically they tended to be in the places where Westerners least go in the rural parts of Central Japan and Shikokou. At times in Tokyo though the atmosphere towards westerners like myself was sometimes cold, other times slightly shocking but on the whole quite amusing in how you see businessmen in their early 30s and respectful old ladies moving a couple of seats away from..undesirables..on the London Underground too. Same thing, just that the skin colour of the perpetrator changes. Bottom line, attitudes amongst younger people may be softening towards the West, the line of governments over there is still at the stage of when Asian Government so spectacularly sunk Paul Keating's charm offensive with its "trailer trash" jibes during the 1980s . [/QUOTE]
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