Since violence and vandalism to property are generally exhibted on a lower scale in Japan(discounting the rash of knife stabbings lately, though generally these are domestic or romantic affairs gone bad), then it is very likely that xenophobia exhibited here will not be the aggressive type but rather the ostracizing type in many cases.

Whether this is better would depend on whether you think violence or dicrimination is a bigger problem (and also depend on your defintion of how wide spread either problem is in the country you’re talking about). Certainly if you have both rampant xenophobia and violence combined that probably is the worst of both worlds. Luckily that is not the case in Japan at the moment.

Somehow, if it’s anti-Japan in China or Korea, it’s not counted as nationalism because the Japanese deserve being thrown stones at.

Not so sounding from what I heard from Mongolians coming to Japan from Inner mongolia “autonomous”regions.
Yeah,China is multi-ethnic.But the potion isn’t that high.
And about xenophobia,when was the last time students and bystanders throw stones in foreign embassy in Japan? Perhaps that’s more to do with the so-called freedom of speech that so many expats use it so freely yet do not pay much respect into it.Expats can literally say what ever they want with the country in Japan Times.Not so in Beijing Review.

“Japanese speaking America equals “English teacher.””

At least she didn’t say that killing phrase”You speak Japanese real well”! or did she?

From what I understand, a lot of the first-generation Turks and others who were brought over to Western Europe a few decades ago were deliberately encouraged to live apart and to have their kids taught primarily in the language of their home country (with funding provided by the state) to enable them to return someday when their labor was no longer needed. Of course, they stayed and the second-generation “immigrants” were largely ill-prepared to actually belong in Western European society. Throw in the emergence of radical imams who were allowed to thrive due to the ever-expanding scope of political correctness and you can see where Europe is now headed.

She asked me 2 or 3 times before we parted if I would teach her small children English! No matter what I said, in her mind a Japanese speaking America equals “English teacher.”

Rather in her mind an American who speaks English is kind enough to teach her kids English.

Afterwards, I realized I should have asked if her husband could teach my kids Japanese.

She might have said, Yes, or instead she might have offered herself as a ‘Japanese teacher’

I’m sure if you were Japanese, you would feel strong animosity from the Chinese, and of course, the Koreans. I mean generally. It depends on where you come from.

There is a lot of love/hate going on about foreigners, but considerably less xenophobia than in Korea or Japan – probably because China is very multi-ethnic already.

The other thought was that there isn’t this large pool of pseudo-teachers in China just struggling to get by. Give it a few years maybe, but for now, they assume most foreigners come over with a talent or skill, or at least money.

Maybe one experience typifies this for me. I ran into a Japanese woman who lived in my building in China. Her husband was working for a Japanese trading company. She asked what I did. I told her that I was in the trading business as well (this was all in Japanese). She asked me 2 or 3 times before we parted if I would teach her small children English! No matter what I said, in her mind a Japanese speaking America equals “English teacher.”

Afterwards, I realized I should have asked if her husband could teach my kids Japanese.

(The very very worst form of cultural imperialism is that spread by those damnable missionaries….)

Ampontan: “It’s one of the reasons Europe is having so much trouble assimilating its Muslim population. They think assimilation is not a good idea, because our culture is our culture is our culture and your culture is your culture, and that’s they way they should stay.”
–Is this not the failure of the newcomers? Sure, the Europeans may say “this is our culture” but are they also saying “you better stay out of it”?

Ghoti: “Foreigners are not looked down upon in China, as they often are in Japan or Korea.”
–Really? I thought that Chinese thought of themselves as the centre of the universe and that foreigners were either barbarians to be fought, or barbarians to be allowed in to pay tribute. That’s the traditional Chinese view of the world anyway.