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After getting back from Thailand I realized America is very different in some regards. There are a lot of countries you can move to and become a citizen but the people wont ever see you are truly one of them. For example, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Norway are all great places to live but you wont really become “one of them”. In America and Canada if you are a citizen you are seen as one of us waaaaay more so than almost anywhere in the world, this makes us stop at “im american” or “im canadian” because we accept it but other places just see things differently culturally l.
Exactly. There are people born and raised in Japan, who were not ethnically Japanese and in spite of growing up there, speaking the language, etc. were never accepted as Japanese.
In Thailand there is a certain level of “Thainess” one needs to possess to be accepted even as a local and an ethnic classism that favors the Thai-Chinese.
I never knew this, thank you!