in article 4219fa36@news.broadpark.no, Hallvard Tangeraas at inv@lid.email
wrote on 2/22/05 12:12 AM:

> Declan Murphy wrote:
>> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
>> 
>>> But those people generally become even more bitter than English teachers.
>> 
>> I don't believe it is possible to be more bitter than an English
>> teacher. Doesn't "Charisma Man" make it down to Okinawa?
> 
> What's all this bitterness about?
> I'm sort of ignorant not having *lived* in Japan, but I assume it has
> something to do with Japan in general treating foreigners badly if the
> stuff I've read here and there is correct.
> Or is it all just whining I've caught up on?
> 
> Are foreigners generally treated differently and/or badly than their
> Japanese co-workers?
> 

They are treated differently, not necessarily badly.