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Sounds familiar? or are you surprised?
I encounter these people sometimes in abroad.
They try hard enough to blend in the local people.
They feel embarrassed by other Japanese tourists,
behaving and speaking in different way.
Some try to pretend they are not Japanese.
I'd say they are too harsh for their own people.
I guess they have some great complex being Japanese
and it mortivates them to go on at the same time, too.
I see the same type of people among people
who write about learning English in their blog.
Native speaker does this, does not say that,
it's true because I heard it from native speakers, etc...
These words come from who are not native in the language.
with a great admiration to the native speakers of English.
Since Japan does not accept many immigrants,
we are not used to see different kind of people in general,
so some create their own ideal image about so called native English speakers.
A little isolated image from reality, which are often fantasized with few information.
It happens to the observations, too.
Ideal image of how they look, for their fashion and food,
how they behave and talk, and for their culture and politics,, etc..
Some have very biased image for both Westerners and Japanese,
though they would complain Americans are such, french are such, too,
whenever the trouble comes onto them.
This can be also seen in some women who are married to foreiners.
Is it because she adore her husband so much,
or her husband is the result of her admiration of Westerners?
I don't know which comes first, but to me they seem to look down
the pople from their origin.
I guess this comes from their low self esteem,
and they are easily affected and influenced by whom has less complex
like water goes down to a lower place.
Some are very tough in action and speech, too,
maybe because they had to survive in different culture and different pople?
"Oh, Italians are always like this. I am not any special nor different."
It could be their excuse, but I think they were already tough from the beginning,
tough enough to be called self centered and impatient.
Women and gay men are usually more social crimbers in my opinion.
Their upward mobility goes with marriage and love, too.
This crimbing spirit makes them stay away from the people in poor English skill.
People I just mentioned are a little old fashioned, I think.
I'm not talking about the age though.
I see very little pride and great myth of this "native speakers" in younger generation.
I think it's natural for them and it's not only for English,
because they have little experience and learning in the life yet.
It's been 30 years since air fare dramatically dropped,
and about 15 years? sice internet became common.
Meeting and communicating with foreign people is not special occation any more,
Some people befriend each other
without the myth that Native English Speaker is always right.
More people are aware of the value of their own culture and origin,
and keep active in abroad, introducing Japan and advocating other people about Japan.
They have a pride and confidence in their origin while learning others to combine with it.
Instead of trying to be like native speakers, expressing their origin among them.
Biased pespective and prejudice for the people from their origin
are only coming from their low self esteem.
Distinction can be sometimes necessary but discrimination is not.
I'd say it's more like monkey society if you do,
and it would make evolution backwards.
Instead of crimbing it's only pushing down other people.
Though it's a pitty if one socialize only with Japanese,
Japanese who try to stay away from their origin would be even more so.
It shows their habit to keep privacy and distant
among so many people in a small land of Japan.
I think it's very Japanese and and interesting irony they have.
If one was born in Japan and studied English in Japan,
no need to be embarrassed with its Japanese accent and mistakes in English grammar.
Make friends and communicate with them without fear and learn from them.
We are equal as human beings with pride and respect.
I think it is the most important thing we learn from Western culture,
and that's what we should keep in our mind.
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