Hey guys, for all the japan residents, may I get some perspective here?
(I hope this post can go here)
Firstly I'd like to acknowledge that I'm ignorant of the situation in japan, more because I just got interested on japan like three weeks ago, and I'm very young (18 years old) I'm from Colombia (Latin America country), and I know how to communicate in English (I hope so hahaha). So I'm studying at University systems engineering, and I started learning Japanese as well.
So, I wanted to ask if Japan is as discriminatory with foreigners as many people in social media says and how bad is it? I know that I don't have to idealize any country, that's obvious, I'm not coming from the perspective of a weeb who thinks that Japan is the best thing of the world, but after some research, I noticed the issues with the country (just like many countries do).
So I'll admit that I'm somewhat scared, because future can be scary, and even more considering I'd be leaving my comfort zone. And I've seen this constant rhetoric of japan being very discriminative.
I really just want to work, live and make some sort of social circle there, and well, also enjoy the country with all the cultural things. So I'd like to know how's the situation for many immigrants there? Is immigration that hard? Are Japanese people really so bad with foreigners?
I tried to investigate, but I always get very polarized answers, and I don't know what to do.
There's also this thing about generalizing the country, but I don't have the criteria to tell if it's right or wrong. Maybe it'll depend on the subjective situation, maybe some did great, maybe not, I don't really know. But how's the gray areas in this topic? It's really impossible for a foreigner to live there? How hard is it?
Thanks to anyone who reads this.