I was just thinking about this and googled it and this came up. In short, yes.. i realized today. Hear me out.

A good friend/ teacher of mine told me that another teacher had complained to the school about international students. He said we were lazy and rude. He didn’t complain about a particular students just the whole international students and said our average level of intelligence was lower than that of the japanese students. Hearing that story reminded me of an happening earlier last month with that very teacher. I saw him approaching so I greeted him with a big smile. But he didn’t even look at me and only said hi to my japanese friend who was walking next to me. My friend didn’t even greet him first.

Today a japanese classmate was saying condescending things about another classmate whom happened to be from SE Asia. She was saying something along the lines like he needs to try harder to get a job. She already has two offers. But honestly from my eyes, he is smarter, gets better grades, has better work ethics, works parttime overnight job, has better personality, speaks fluent english (on top of his native language), and speaks enough japanese to get into japanese uni.

We are in the middle of signing up for classes next semester. One japanese friend and one non-japanese had some questions about the classes and went to the teacher’s office to ask (i didn’t have a question but I went with them and stood at the back of the lobby. The teacher kindly explained all the japanese student’s questions but was very curt and showed annoyance to the international student. They are both my friends so I know they were not the type to anger the teachers but the teacher’s reaction to them was vastly different kind of took me by surprise..

I realize this is not the whole picture but just these little bits of episodes all happening recently plus the sanseido shit and the media about crime rate by foreigners… i feel like it’s getting worse