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If you go into someone else's house, you need to be respectful of their space.
Many Chinese and Indian tourists regularly trample the alpine flower fields at Mt. Rainier National Park for selfies or just as a shortcut when they get tired of walking on the hiking paths.
When confronted, instead of being apologetic, they get defensive and diminish the impact of their actions by demeaning American culture and spaces.
"It's just some flowers. They'll grow back!"
Yeah, maybe. But that will take eighty years and it may not even happen due to climate change.
These kind of behaviors are what sours locals against tourism, especially when it is consistent across a cultural tourist groups.
We all need to do better when visiting each other's spaces, and that starts by owning our cultural shortfalls and poor behavior, with the goal of personally improving our own.
Ironically, I've never heard any complaints about Japanese tourists, as they often arrived well-educated about local customs and behave respectfully.
It's almost time to take a walk up on the Sunrise side to see the flowers, isn't it?
There's a difference between being respectful of the space and racial exclusion. What they are backing is racism.
Japan is a nation that has intense issues with racism that they have never confronted and it is fucking weird how often people are willing to forgive their overt racism.
We got plenty of our own problems, best to leave it to Japan to figure out their own.
Japanese people have a right to ask questions about issues they are concerned about.
Asking whether or not you have actively participated in crimes against humanity is a reasonable question to ask, and if you do not want to answer it, then you can just go elsewhere.
That is different from their "Japanese people only" spaces.
Japan is an overtly racist nation and the history of their racism is just as evil as any European colonial power. We did not leave Germany to solve its problem with racism and we should not trust Japan to do the same. They have made little effort to do soup to this point
From what I've heard, there are "Japanese Nationals" only spaces. But there are also many (if hazard to guess a majority of these locations) places that, due to their lack of English skills, put signs that mean to them "Japanese language only", that is to say, they the proprietors of said location can only speak and write in Japanese, and therefore if you try to speak to them in your language, will not likely be able to service you properly. Some of these places will try their best to service you and let you in as well. Granted there are also places that will deny service if you don't speak any Japanese, and that is ridiculous, but I'd like to think those places are few and far between as well.
What country you even from, that you do not have your own racism problems to deal with?
Start at home.
complaining about Chinese and Indian tourists on american soil is so ironic considering what american tourists usually do when abroad
Ooh ooh I have a good one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
They're not rude, just very upset.
This one is comical to me.