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A Foreigner Forever I live in Japan for about three years and managed to became fluent in Japanese, could find a good job here, married to Japanese girl and everything seems to be fine. Except the fact that it's impossible to be totally accepted by the Japanese, to be fully integrated in their society. I was told about this from people who already had some experience in living in Japan, I had read about this on the internet before I came here. But I didn't believe to anybody, I thought I'm different. Naive 25 years old guy without even slightest idea about how the world works. That is who I was. That's who I am still, maybe. We need to find compromises when we are living in another country, especially in a country which is so different from our motherland. Anyway, I can be fluent in Japanese, I can accept their culture and even enjoy it. But I will never be fully accepted by them. Here I'm a gaijin, it can't be helped. And the thing I realised is that I don't really need they to accept me or something like that. My wife totally accepts me, it's pretty enough to be happy, wherever I live, whatever I do. For some foreigners Japan might seem like another planet but... actually just a small part of our big Earth, a part where live wonderful people with the rich culture and history.

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A Foreigner Forever

I have lived in Japan for about three years and managed to became fluent in Japanese, could find found a good job here, and married to  a Japanese girl and everything seems to be fine. Except for the fact that it's impossible to be totally accepted by the Japanese, to be fully integrated in their society.
I was told about this from by people who already had some experience in living in Japan, I had read about this on the Internet before I came here. But I didn't believe to anybody, I thought it would be I'm different for me.  A naive 25 years old guy without even the slightest idea about how the world works. That is who I was. That's who I am still, maybe.

We need to find compromises when we are living in another country, especially in a country which is so different from our motherland.
Anyway, I can be am fluent in Japanese, I can accept their culture and even enjoy it. But I will never be fully accepted by them. Here I'm a gaijin, it can't be helped. And the thing I realised is that I don't really need them to accept me or something like that. My wife totally accepts me, that's it's pretty good enough to be happy, wherever I live, whatever I do. For some foreigners, Japan might seem like another planet but... actually just a small part of our big Earth, a part where live wonderful people live with their rich culture and history.

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Hello Karen. Thank you for your comment. I surely will check on YouTube for the video you mentioned. No doubt, it will be interesting and useful for me. Thank you once again.
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I forgot to mention, if you don't know who he is you can watch his NHK episodes on youtube....the program is called: Japanology, about different aspects of Japanese culture. Very interesting.
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I wonder how Peter Barakan feels though he has been there for over 30 years.

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