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The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train (japantimes.co.jp)
26 points by brandonlc 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | favorite | 2 comments





My god, it must be so unpleasant to be the kind of person who thinks about that for the hours necessary to write an essay like the one he wrote ten years ago, and to continue stewing on it for ten years.

I’ve lived in China for more than seven years and I definitely have an empty seat beside me on the metro more often than Chinese people and children and tourists say 老外(foreigner) regularly enough. So what? Life is good. I’m never going to be Chineses, same as he’s never going to be Japanese. If that bugs him why not go home? No one’s making him stay in Japan.

Change the things you can, accept the ones you can’t and if you can’t deal with that get out.


This was truly lovely to read. A peek into how cultures change.



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