Sometimes the differences between our country and other countries are just so overwhelmingly fascinating and it's the same way for me
I am so fascinated by some of the smallest things in japan because it's simply just not something that I grew up around.
Hi I'm Anming and I've been living in. Japan for quite a long time as a foreigner
So today we're going to be talking about what that's like
Well any discussion about foreigners in japan would be quite incomplete
If we didn't talk about the biggest groups of foreigners living in japan, which is not people that are from western countries
It is the chinese koreans and vietnamese and i've interacted with all these groups of foreigners quite a lot
But especially the group of chinese immigrants and there's a large group of chinese immigrants
Not too far from where I live in tokyo in ikebukuro and i've gotten quite friendly with them
That's the guy that works at the chinese supermarket around here now I got friends now I said hi to people
And I just walk around I see people I know
I have been fascinated by chinese and japanese culture and language for many years now, and I really like these countries
But the unfortunate fact is they don't like each other very much
Well, at least from a political perspective, but what about foreigners living here? What about chinese living their everyday lives here in japan?
well
I think you'd be surprised to find that they get along quite well that they are
Interested in learning japanese eating japanese food learning about japanese culture and studying at schools here
We have so much in common, and we can enjoy japan together
But for people that don't know me and don't know my background and situation
Local people here in japan are quite surprised to hear me walking around speaking chinese
We are going on a road trip today and we have a little bitty car and seven people
Hi, i'm Anming. I live with six chinese people in Japan. I don't know why I just do. Okay. Let's go
Japanese neighbors are some of the best neighbors in the world
They're so clean and quiet and if you live next to the right person
Some of them are very very friendly and very talkative like our neighbor
He's already used to us
But I can't help but notice that a lot of people are rather surprised when I walk around with my group of chinese friends
So I tried to do a little experiment where I walked around with other foreigners foreigners from my own country
To see if we got the same response
We ended up walking around for over an hour speaking only in japanese and the result of which was
Nobody really looked at us. Nobody really cared
which just proves that it's not that big of a deal but I can't help but feel like when I walk around with my
Chinese friends the reaction is quite different
I think it's perfectly fine to be fascinated with things that are different from the
Place that you grew up in but at the same time as a foreigner here in japan, I can't help but feel that
A lot of things the basic things are exactly the same as back home. You can go to the arcade
You can go to the park. You can even go roller skating and it's not that different
This is kelly's first time doing this since middle school
Yeah, that's true
Mine are cool. This lights up.
Yeah, mine doesn't oh wow fancy pants
Very cool
Mine doesn't light up at all. I love this kid over here. He's just walking. Awww he fell.
Boom
Here we go skating let's go you're doing it yeah
You're doing well
Kelly they're like tearing it up over there. They're like really good
Dang it and I thought I was doing okay now, I feel like uh, I don't know anything about skating
I'm going backwards
We're gonna hit the wall no, just kidding
It's your friend anming in a bamboo forest, where are we off to next I don't know how did I even get in here?
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it's a bamboo forest
I'm, so silly. I got so excited the first time I ever saw a bamboo forest and my friends
were like local people and they were kind of embarrassed or confused at least like
So what?
They they didn't get it. They didn't get that
It was new and cool to me because I had never seen bamboo like this in michigan
I mean you get those lucky bamboo the little ones you can grow in a pot but nothing like this