A junior-high school kid who cannot read or write Japanese...and wants to be treated like others will never happen. Being half-Indian is not the source of the problem, it's because she was illiterate in Japanese language and culture. If I were a school teacher, I'd have no idea how to deal with such kids. I remember studying 古文 and 漢文 at that age, and preparing for the high school entrance exam. And almost all Japanese kids raised abroad will attend Japanese school (either 補習校 or 全日校) so they can keep up with Japanese education when they return to Japan. And even with overseas Japanese schools, it's not sufficient to meet Japanese academic standards, so there are special entrance exams for Japanese children educated abroad (aka 帰国子女入試). I once saw a Bulgarian lady who's in graduate school in Japan on MEXT scholarship thanking Meiji for naming their product "Meiji Bulgaria Yogurt." She knows that otherwise most people in Japan would have little or zero knowledge of her country. In the case of India, the only things most Japanese people will know is Curry, Caste system, Buddhism/Hinduism, Indus civilization, or Taj Mahal. We think it's rude and invasive to be talking about caste and religion...so we end up talking about Curry as a "neutral" and safe topic. As for the Ganges River comment, you'll have to have grown up watching Japanese TV and RUclips to understand. Bathing in the Ganges or sending bodies in the river are often shown as part of traditional Indian culture and customs. And it's actually common for Japanese tourists to get sick in countries like India due to poor water standards. I suspect it's coming from ice-cubes and showers. I have friends who use bottled-water to brush their teeth while on business trips to India. I'm sure the Indian people are fine because they grew up with that water environment, but it's not the case with most Japanese people.
People talking about curry because you’re Indian is the same thing people talking about sushi, anime, ninja, samurai when I’m in other countries. It’s annoying but it’s not a Japanese thing. Everyone does that.
That’s absolutely true. One of the most common questions Japanese people get when traveling abroad is, "Do Japanese people eat sushi every day?" In the end, many people around the world either know very little about other countries or only have stereotypical images of them. Personally, I don't think we can blame anyone for that, especially if they live their entire lives in the country where they were born.
I think people in Japan is basically welcome foreigner as well as they respect Japanese culture, custom, social rules to keep safe and comfortable. But, unfortunately, some foreigner does not respect them and make a big problem. Ananya is excellent, also you can speak Japanese. It’s a good advantage ! Over 80% Japanese people do not go abroad and Japan is the comfortable country to live, so they do not need good English.
We don't need (good) English. That's an excuse we make for our poor level in the language. Despite years of studying, most Japanese can't even read simple articles in English. That's not normal.
9:36 a lot of people say this but funnily enough, most of the time i've had the opposite experience. i only moved to japan 6 months ago and my japanese is still pretty bad but i make an effort to speak japanese first and then the store staff, japanese person or whoever will usually start speaking to me in japanese as well. i've found that a lot of store staff give off this sense of relief that they dont have to try to speak english. i'm a brown dude too btw.
Great video, Ananya! Your Japanese skills are amazing, and you're also a great interviewer. One thing to keep in mind when watching interview videos is that sometimes the OP may intentionally edit them. I look forward to seeing more of your fantastic content as a fluent Japanese speaker who made the big decision to move to Japan. Wishing you continued success in your business as well. Greetings from a Japanese person living in the countryside!
Was there even an actual indian person in this video? For me indian means born and raised in India. Maybe they should say ethnically indian or has indian dna, but also, what does that mean? India is culturally and ethnically diverse. I don't like using colour words to describe I've people because I've been through a lot of racial trauma myself coming from Punjabi immigrants parents to Canada in the 70s.
Im a first nations person that goes to Japan here and there . when people in Japan find out im actually Native American they always seem so surprised , there always like , wow i thought you were chinese ! haha .
Be interesting if you look at how JET treats people Indian /Pakistani / Bangladeshi heritage. When I did it we had a British girl of Indian decent who was a Cambridge Uni english graduate. During orientation some staff were super weird with her and one questioned her knowledge of english.... as in, but do you know how to speak proper english? I later met two other people of Indian heritage who participated at different times, both massively over qualified and apparently received the same curt treatment. JET likes to say selection is competitive but judging by the white candidates I saw, it seemed they were far less qualified than poc - yet the JET team were fawning over them - one bubbly blond , very pretty American girl did not know the diff between a noun and an adjective?! She, along with several other white candidates were asked to be in group pics. Indians/Desi's were not. I mean c'mon! At least try to be a bit more subtle about your bias. Also, white applicants also seemed to get the 'best' locations whilst Indians were always sent to very rural remote places. The cambridge grad I mentioned said the place she was sent felt as if they were being punished for not getting a 'proper' English teacher.
In homogeneous societies if you are different, you are different, that's all. The concept of racial discrimination is a Western infatuation and is foreign to homogeneous societies where they have their own "discriminations" based on economics, family clans, region, ethnic groups, etc, etc. The Japanese passport is one of the two powerful passports in the world aside from Singapore, meaning they don't need visas to more countries than any other passports. The reason is that the percent of Japanese owning passports per capita is one of the lowest in the world which means countires won't have to worry the Japanese tourist won't become illegals. In Japan you won't find too many Japanese speaking English and why would they?
True. This video may as well be titled "being brown in a non brown country" because the answers would be exactly the same in Japan or in Finland for example.
Well, it's natural for the people of any country to change over time or across generations. At the same time, it's also true that in many European countries, excessive immigration has led to numerous issues, resulting in a backlash. Ultimately, I believe it’s up to the citizens themselves to decide how their country should evolve.
A junior-high school kid who cannot read or write Japanese...and wants to be treated like others will never happen. Being half-Indian is not the source of the problem, it's because she was illiterate in Japanese language and culture. If I were a school teacher, I'd have no idea how to deal with such kids. I remember studying 古文 and 漢文 at that age, and preparing for the high school entrance exam. And almost all Japanese kids raised abroad will attend Japanese school (either 補習校 or 全日校) so they can keep up with Japanese education when they return to Japan. And even with overseas Japanese schools, it's not sufficient to meet Japanese academic standards, so there are special entrance exams for Japanese children educated abroad (aka 帰国子女入試).
I once saw a Bulgarian lady who's in graduate school in Japan on MEXT scholarship thanking Meiji for naming their product "Meiji Bulgaria Yogurt." She knows that otherwise most people in Japan would have little or zero knowledge of her country. In the case of India, the only things most Japanese people will know is Curry, Caste system, Buddhism/Hinduism, Indus civilization, or Taj Mahal. We think it's rude and invasive to be talking about caste and religion...so we end up talking about Curry as a "neutral" and safe topic.
As for the Ganges River comment, you'll have to have grown up watching Japanese TV and RUclips to understand. Bathing in the Ganges or sending bodies in the river are often shown as part of traditional Indian culture and customs. And it's actually common for Japanese tourists to get sick in countries like India due to poor water standards. I suspect it's coming from ice-cubes and showers. I have friends who use bottled-water to brush their teeth while on business trips to India. I'm sure the Indian people are fine because they grew up with that water environment, but it's not the case with most Japanese people.
日本人が一番知っているインド人はお釈迦様…ブッダで、その教えを今でも忠実に守っています。
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People talking about curry because you’re Indian is the same thing people talking about sushi, anime, ninja, samurai when I’m in other countries. It’s annoying but it’s not a Japanese thing. Everyone does that.
That’s absolutely true. One of the most common questions Japanese people get when traveling abroad is, "Do Japanese people eat sushi every day?" In the end, many people around the world either know very little about other countries or only have stereotypical images of them. Personally, I don't think we can blame anyone for that, especially if they live their entire lives in the country where they were born.
They're trying to find a common interest or maybe showing interest in your culture.
I think people in Japan is basically welcome foreigner as well as they respect Japanese culture, custom, social rules to keep safe and comfortable.
But, unfortunately, some foreigner does not respect them and make a big problem.
Ananya is excellent, also you can speak Japanese. It’s a good advantage !
Over 80% Japanese people do not go abroad and Japan is the comfortable country to live, so they do not need good English.
We don't need (good) English. That's an excuse we make for our poor level in the language. Despite years of studying, most Japanese can't even read simple articles in English. That's not normal.
Good point English isn’t a priority unlike it is for Koreans
love this kind of content
9:36 a lot of people say this but funnily enough, most of the time i've had the opposite experience. i only moved to japan 6 months ago and my japanese is still pretty bad but i make an effort to speak japanese first and then the store staff, japanese person or whoever will usually start speaking to me in japanese as well. i've found that a lot of store staff give off this sense of relief that they dont have to try to speak english. i'm a brown dude too btw.
アナンヤさんインタビュー上手ですね。沢山のインタビュー楽しみです。
Great video, Ananya! Your Japanese skills are amazing, and you're also a great interviewer. One thing to keep in mind when watching interview videos is that sometimes the OP may intentionally edit them. I look forward to seeing more of your fantastic content as a fluent Japanese speaker who made the big decision to move to Japan. Wishing you continued success in your business as well. Greetings from a Japanese person living in the countryside!
Thank you so much!
Oh boy I use my hands a lot when I talk 😂 Thanks for having me on!
we love an expressive king hahaha big thanks for being in the video!
Great video Ananya! As a brown person myself I really appreciate you making this type of video and covering our unique experience in Japan.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
Love from Tamil nadu 🇮🇳❤️
Maybe you would like to change the title to "What's it like being desi/brown in Japan" ?
Was there even an actual indian person in this video? For me indian means born and raised in India. Maybe they should say ethnically indian or has indian dna, but also, what does that mean? India is culturally and ethnically diverse. I don't like using colour words to describe I've people because I've been through a lot of racial trauma myself coming from Punjabi immigrants parents to Canada in the 70s.
I’m moving there soon! This is great insight, thank you Ananya! 🙏🏽
What about East asian foreigners how do they get treated usually? Everytime it's always about white black or brown and hispanic
Great video.
ありがとう
wait omg wasn't the girl in the blue dress on love is blind japan?
Yes. She was also recently interviewed by Max D. Capo on his channel.
8:21 “micro aggressions” 😂😂😂😂
thank you.
4:30 bro probably gets a lot of digits with his height and physique. Looks like an NBA player.
Im a first nations person that goes to Japan here and there . when people in Japan find out im actually Native American they always seem so surprised , there always like , wow i thought you were chinese ! haha .
This is something I would like to know
Thanks for watching!
Miss Japan priyanka
根本的には皆んな外国人慣れしてないのが原因なんだよね。世界的にも見ても先進国で圧倒的に移民少ない＆島国だから民族mixも進んでないし。俺も大阪の公立校を高校まで経験したけど、移民どころか同級生で非アジアの血が入ってる人見た事無かった。田舎出身でもない自分でとそうだからそれが日本のマジョリティだと思うよ
もちろんだけど、ここでのポイントは、社会的な刷り込みによって、多くの日本人が白人の外国人をインド系や黒人っぽい人たちよりも好む傾向があるってことだよ
Be interesting if you look at how JET treats people Indian /Pakistani / Bangladeshi heritage. When I did it we had a British girl of Indian decent who was a Cambridge Uni english graduate. During orientation some staff were super weird with her and one questioned her knowledge of english.... as in, but do you know how to speak proper english? I later met two other people of Indian heritage who participated at different times, both massively over qualified and apparently received the same curt treatment. JET likes to say selection is competitive but judging by the white candidates I saw, it seemed they were far less qualified than poc - yet the JET team were fawning over them - one bubbly blond , very pretty American girl did not know the diff between a noun and an adjective?! She, along with several other white candidates were asked to be in group pics. Indians/Desi's were not. I mean c'mon! At least try to be a bit more subtle about your bias. Also, white applicants also seemed to get the 'best' locations whilst Indians were always sent to very rural remote places. The cambridge grad I mentioned said the place she was sent felt as if they were being punished for not getting a 'proper' English teacher.
Great video! What did you use to film? Just curious!
sony a6400!
皆んな英語ペラペラ凄いなぁ〜
In homogeneous societies if you are different, you are different, that's all. The concept of racial discrimination is a Western infatuation and is foreign to homogeneous societies where they have their own "discriminations" based on economics, family clans, region, ethnic groups, etc, etc. The Japanese passport is one of the two powerful passports in the world aside from Singapore, meaning they don't need visas to more countries than any other passports. The reason is that the percent of Japanese owning passports per capita is one of the lowest in the world which means countires won't have to worry the Japanese tourist won't become illegals. In Japan you won't find too many Japanese speaking English and why would they?
True. This video may as well be titled "being brown in a non brown country" because the answers would be exactly the same in Japan or in Finland for example.
What?! You mean they treat white foreigners different than brown foreigners?!? 😮 😲
Of course, you don’t know?😂
結論、日本に馴染める人は残るし馴染めなければ去るのみ。自分に合わせてもらおうというのは無理がある。どこの国でも同じです。
いや、歩み寄りでええやん？ていうか日本と自分はそれぞれに変容するやん？例出すよ。俺は鎌倉時代の日本に行って馴染める自信ないよ。同じ「日本」なのにね？なんでだろう？そのときの「日本」と現在(とはいつから続く時間か？)の「日本」が違うからだよね？変化したわけだ。じゃあなんで変化したんだろう？何が変化を促したんだろう？その複雑で変数だらけの過程を記述することなどもとより不可能だとしても、そのことに思いを馳せることは、あなたのような単純で固陋な二項対立論者にとっては必要なことかもね。
そうですね、最近は変わり方が早いので私が20代の頃と今の20代はだいぶ違います。同じ日本でもだいぶ違います。これからはどんどん国際結婚も多くなると思うのと、外国人も多くなると思うので、日本もこれからどんどん変わると思いますね。
Well, it's natural for the people of any country to change over time or across generations. At the same time, it's also true that in many European countries, excessive immigration has led to numerous issues, resulting in a backlash. Ultimately, I believe it’s up to the citizens themselves to decide how their country should evolve.
@@eisu9202鎌倉時代の人がアナタに合わせるとも思えないけど。「むくりこくり」という表現はあの時代に誕生した言葉だから、現代よりも厳しい時代。
@@yo2trader539
なんらかの合意形成を目指した議論というのは個人的にその有用性を疑っているのでふだんはあまり返信をしないのですが、いま筑前煮を煮ていて暇なので思いつくままに列挙してみます。とくに反論というつもりはありません。
①「むくりこくり」という言葉やその背後に連なる事情は初めて知りました。Wikipedia程度ですがざっと調べてみましたが、そのような言葉がかつてあったのですね。勉強になりました。
②鎌倉時代の人が私という現代人に歩み寄りの姿勢を見せないか？理解を最初から拒絶するか？それは私にはわかりかねる問題ですが、私のそもそもの主題はなんら毀損しないと考えます。それよりも、かつてむくりこくりという言葉があったということ、それにも関わらずその言葉が表舞台から姿を消したこと。それは私のもっとも重要な主張である変容ということをむしろ証立てているように思えます。「むくりこくり」では済まされなくなったのか、必要なくなったのか。いずれにしても変化や変容が起こったのでしょう。
③そもそもですが、私の意見にしても私がそのあまりの単純さゆえにはしたなくも茶々を入れてしまった意見にしても、およそあらゆる意見は無意味であるか、あるいは意味が生じるとしても意見を発した当人の狙いや思惑にまったく無関心なある集合的な力学に取り込まれ、思ってもみなかった効果へと生まれ変わるのだと思います。論破だとか理解だとかにさほどの意義を見出せないのは私のそのような世界認識のゆえです。思ってもみなかった効果のゆえに思ってもみなかった姿へと絶えず変容していく。波のように、うねる大地のように。その中にあって泡のひとつにもなりえるか怪しい個人の意見など、私は結局のところはどうでもいいと思っています。
あなたもやべえ奴の絡んだと思っておられるでしょうが、私もまあ何を言ってんだろうね？とは我ながら思っているところです。
それでは筑前煮に戻ります。
You should have picked up French or Dutch or something. Japan is an insulated country... no room for foreigners, by language or color!
Wth did that guy really has a name cigar?
shrikhar , dumbass
Tokyo Createのカメラマンの日が出演してますね！
世の中は狭いなあ〜
そうです！！
@@hiananyaa やっぱり！
Love from Andhra Pradesh (తెలుగు)
Wait isn't it indian worship korean why do they in japan?.
Never heard of Indians worshipping koreans. Maybe just some BTS army fanboys/girls. Most Indians wouldn't care much about korea, positive or negative.
Lol most of them hate koreans
The filthiest and the cleanest Countries crossroad ;)
jealous hater and a meat rider in the same person wow
You have a filthy mind and westerners are filthy people from what I know about their private lives. Indians are quite clean in their private lives.
Indians are rent free in your head
This is very good have you ever done or you should do a interview with Takashi from Japan? He’s very similar to you.
Yes! I’m in a couple of his videos haha