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'You can never become a Westerner:' China's top diplomat urges Japan and South Korea to align with Beijing and 'revitalize Asia' | CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/04/china/wang-yi-china-japan-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html

China’s top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of “strategic autonomy” from the West and cooperate with Beijing to “revitalize Asia,” amid rising tensions between China and the two neighboring American allies.

'You can never become a Westerner:' China's top diplomat urges Japan and South Korea to align with Beijing and 'revitalize Asia' | CNN

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Azerick

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Can confirm. Taught in Japan for 20 years. Married there, had 3 kids there, lived there for 24 years and even on the day we left I was called foreigner by parents whose kids I taught for 8 years. Even my colleagues I knew for 20 years called me it.

20 years in they used to ask stupid questions or on staff nights out thought hey were being PC by asking if we should eat at McDonalds for my benefit.

Lovely place, however its Institutionally racist to the core unfortunately. A westerner can never be accepted over there.