I am not Japanese, and I hate that every website out there thinks I am! Just because I'm in Japan and my IP address shows that I am in Japan, all these websites I visit think they need to default to Japanese writing. It even occasionally happens on MySpace. I go to log in and can't figure out where I start typing. It's happened enough here, though, that I can maneuver my way through the site to make it go back to English.
Tonight I was updating my books on Good Reads and had to figure out how to do it there. I ended up having to sign out and sign back in again. Not so bad.
Sometimes it also happens on Amazon.com.
It's nice that these websites are trying to be accommodating -- "Let's give her Japanese instead of making her find it on her own." But I wish they'd let me just have my English!
I'm also kind of not happy that every website out there knows my IP address. They know that I'm in Japan, and some websites even discriminate against me because I'm in Japan. For instance, there are some radio stations I can't listen to online because they know I'm in Japan and they don't allow you to listen to them outside the US. Same thing with some TV station websites -- won't let me watch videos because of the same reason.
Oh well. If I could have learned to speak Japanese in my five and a half months here, I would have, but this isn't exactly an easy language to learn. But at least I can order chicken rice and water. I'm keeping fed.
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