Sounds more like a very bad analysis than racism that you can get angry about. This is more on the level of laughing because of how dumb his logic is.
Pretty sure being a foreign girl (especially white girl) is worse than man (of darker skin or not) in daily life. Basing this on the stories I've heard of sexual harassment and so on.
Like, exactly as your anecdote shows. Not sure why I would prefer that over being treated like a generic foreigner as a brown man.
Guess it depends on what you consider "worse". I've been harassed here yeah, but I've been harassed more in the US to be honest. I feel like people are less intimidated by women and generally treat us more nicely so we don't have to put up with some of the disrespect that guys face. Yeah there's still discrimination but in work particularly, I think my whiteness overrules my gender and I have to deal with that more. But ymmv.
As for the shoulder pillow on trains thing, it's not sexual harassment or anything and it happens to people of the same sex too. I just meant people don't avoid me, people are incredibly superficial about height and color I think here.
I wouldn't say Japanese people are individually more racist than Americans (where I was raised), but it is more accepted in the media in general culture...or so I thought, but I've seen some pretty heinous shit coming out of the US lately so I'm not so sure anymore.
