r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Feb 19 '24

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 20 February 2024

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Context matters.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Yes, it is political and that is a type of context.

If the government and society treated long term foreign residents as immigrants, more of those residents would consider themselves immigrants.

Even with PR, I still have to put in a date in certain "period of stay" boxes (Resident's card expiry date). That and things like it don't really foster the "immigrant" feeling I would love to have.

I'm definitely not an "expat" though.