... in your own life? When and why?
2007-06-10 23:44:58 · 15 answers · asked by Pavic 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I speak three other languages besides English so I can get by in most countries in Europe and South America. The first business trip I made to Japan taught me the real meaning of the word "foreigner". It was a Sunday, I was alone and decided to take a walk in Tokyo. I managed to get lost, and suddenly realized that I could not ask anyone for directions, nor could I make a phone call because I did not even know how much money to put in the public phone, and even if I did, I would not understand the person at the other end. I could not take a taxi because I could not tell the driver where to take me. For the first time in my life I learned what it was like to be a "foreigner". I solved the future problem by having one of my Japanese friends write me a note, to hand to a taxi driver telling him where to take me.
2007-06-11 00:02:05 · answer #1 · answered by Alfie333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have felt like a foreigner. A few times. And each time, well I guess I was a foreigner. I was in another country several times while in the Marine Corp. Hence I was a foreigner as I wasn't from the country I was in.
2007-06-11 06:58:58 · answer #2 · answered by GRUMPY 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because I was a foreigner. I lived in Spain for 6 yrs and visited many European countries.
2007-06-11 12:12:30 · answer #3 · answered by DAS 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about a foreigner but I worked at a place where I was not able to be myself and had to walk on eggshells. I quit before I exploded into a million pieces.
2007-06-11 06:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by sideways 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when i lost my passport to pickpockets and had to go through intense interview by the immigration ppl when i went to re-apply a new one...it took three years before i was allowed to apply for a new one and i really felt like a foreigner then...
2007-06-11 06:50:15 · answer #5 · answered by faris j 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
when i was working in UK for a year
because it is another country and all people are much different and actually it is all completely different
i liked it a lot
and as i am back at home now i think it was wonderful time there
2007-06-11 06:54:43 · answer #6 · answered by lanithka 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ya i do
the company in which i work
there are most of americans
and i am only the asian in them
so i do feel like foreigner some times
2007-06-11 06:47:36 · answer #7 · answered by luv2yas 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
sometimes when I´m sitting in a train or bus and look around or sometimes when nobody understands me I feel like I was from another planet
2007-06-11 06:51:11 · answer #8 · answered by geminisoul1984 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup. Lately cause I'm confused what path to take.
2007-06-11 06:53:02 · answer #9 · answered by Meeya 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes many times in my social and work life, as Hank Williams Jr. said "I just don't fit in and I'll never come back again"
2007-06-11 06:50:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋