Wyndham is actually a publicly traded company. Whose stock is at an all time high, yet they can't afford to pay their employees a living wage. I work for Wyndham and they are quite possibly the cheapest company on the planet. My coworkers and I make barely above minimum wage (which is impossible to live on in a…

Meanwhile, Herry Patel, the Days Inn general manager, told Harlan the wage increase is, in his words, "bad for Arkansas. Everybody wants free money in Pine Bluff."

Oh fuck. I work for this company. In a right-to-work state. And if those are the Patels I think they are.... damn. I'm not surprised, just a little sick in my stomach now.

You told a minimum wage employee to talk a reporter on the subject of living on minimum wage & you fired her when she said how tough it is? That's like encouraging someone to kick you in the balls & then having them arrested for assault. What the hell did you think would happen?! I know I've used this analogy before…

Crap, I was gonna make a joke about how they should call the campaign "We Shall Overshare."

I recently hosted a Japanese student who was visiting the US as part of a fellowship program. She and her fellows were investigating attitudes toward "foreigners", immigration, and mixed-race Japanese people.

It was really interesting to talk to them about it. Because Japan has not historically been an immigrant…

Being blasian myself (half central african, half indonesian) I've dealt with these kinds of people my entire childhood in the US. I was never black or asian enough. Nowadays though, it's drastically different, and as I've grow to embrace it, so have a lot of people. It actually has become a blessing now, in many…

This is one of the things about Japan that really turns me off of Japan. The world isn't that isolated anymore but Japan sometimes seems like it's trying to act like it's a tiny island by itself. You see it not only in comments about Miss. Miyamoto by some people (not all of course) and even in things like games. …

For people not familiar with Japan it is a blatantly racist culture. It also has an incredibly small population (relative to other nations) of people who are not ethnically Japanese. Even Koreans aren't good enough for them. And you can forget about trying to get them to admit that they committed atrocious war crimes…

I watch some Vloggers that live in Japan and are from America.

I'm Hafu, born in Japan but raised in the United States. My parents felt my life would be easier because of it.

I wish I could pretend to be shocked at Japan's extreme xenophobia but that's practically part of the national culture. You have famous authors arguing for Apartheid-style segregation or the courts claiming foreign-born citizens don't have the right to welfare and people act shocked... unless you're a foreigner…

My father and I have both worked for predominately Japanese-managed companies (he in electronics, I in fashion) and experienced extreme racism. Neither of us felt comfortable going to HR or to a lawyer with our very legitimate complaints, but both of us were in a miserable working environment, in which no matter how…

This is one of the reasons I'm not so eager to have our kids grow up in Japan. I don't want my daughter to have to excuse and explain herself when she grows up. Hell, I remember one kid when I taught English in middle school who was "full Japanese" but had lived overseas for a few years and he was desperate for this…

America has racism, sure , but no other entity in human history has represented more human-civilization-assimilation on a grander scale (keyhole into the here and now excluded) than us.

I work for an extremely large Japanese company - based on personal observations, Japan, China, Korea, and all the other Asian countries/cultures have tendencies toward extreme racism/sexism, mostly from the older generation. Most of it toward other Asians, some of it toward whites, and then the darker your skin tone…

I'm hafu with a white American father and Japanese mother. When I was younger I looked obviously mixed and I was treated like a novelty, and now that I'm an adult and look more Caucasian, it is EXHAUSTING to try to "prove" to Japanese people that I'm "Japanese enough". In the US I worked at a Japanese company and…

You're very exotic looking...

Man...not to get all political, but wow, issues involving minorities may be bad here, but it's probably a lot worse elsewhere. This seems like a really alien discussion.

Interesting context, noting the ancient intermingling of ethnic Japanese with Chinese, Korean, etc. But you're pussyfooting around the big, damning fact, the one that hangs like a shadow over the country's dire birthrate and declining population. This "Pure Japanese" thing that they've embraced for centuries makes…