Following are are a selection of readers' responses to "Mind the gap, get over it" by Charles Lewis (Zeit Gist, Dec. 28):
While living in Japan from 2007 to 2010, I experienced my fair share of discrimination. I was denied housing, I was regularly stopped and searched by police, I was excluded from cafes and other institutions. All the while, I was encouraged not to get angry about this by longer-term residents, who seemed oddly willing to give Japanese society a pass on these problems.
Charles Lewis' article is yet another example of this bizarre attitude. While I'm happy to hear that a select few extremely successful, high-profile foreigners have managed to achieve some level of integration, using them as exemplars for why the rest of us should just "get over it" is quite ridiculous.