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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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