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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/AshNero_1998 on 2023-09-09 02:02:02.
I hear a lot of stories about Japanese people (mostly waiters and waitresses) pretending not understand foreigners even if they speak Japanese well enough, situations like "I had to use google translator and pretend I don't know Japanese" or "I had to make my Asian looking friend who doesn't know the language speak on my behalf"
now I know Japan is an ethnically (and probably culturally) homogenized society but feigning ignorance when a foreigner speaking the same language sound childish and disrespectful