I mean, fear of the unknown and unfamiliar is essentially what racism is. I don't think we should shy away from the idea that there's racism in such a monocultural nation anymore then we do about those in China or multicultural USA. It's a response, and I understand it.

Most aren't trying to me malicious I get that. But it still doesn't feel good when you're the target of it. I've lost count the number of times people in the metro here in China either move away when I sit down, even to a significantly more crushed space or even just stand up. I'm so often the one with the empty seat next to me. It's gonna so much worse for black people.

But, I understand it. It's not malicious.

I'm sure it's easy if you live there to find these moments, combined with being outgoing. But for any travellers like me you just don't see or feel it. It all feels strangely... Well like I said, suffocating.

I remember being in a park and little were training some dance choreography. But the music was turned way down and they were literally whispering to communicate.

Same with the ones playing frisbee. We could hear the silence like some weird noise cancelling technology cloaked the sky, it was bizarre.

Then again maybe it's just stuck a huge contrast from here where everybody is yelling and spitting All. The. Time.

Lol.

Final point, when I was eating some Japanese news I saw that debt, and debt related suicide, has skyrocketed, and I wonder about the hidden despair going on as its economy slowly turns to dust (and whether the same inevitability will happen in the UK)