> To mention one more thing, I think what really frustrates me about this and incited me to comment a lot here is that to make his effort seem like a big deal,

> To mention one more thing, I think what really frustrates me about this and incited me to comment a lot here is that to make his effort seem like a big deal, Patrick is presenting everyone else in Japan as fools and building up this white savior narrative. Whatever about any legitimate criticisms you may have this is just being one or both of being an asshole or a racist. If Patrick had spent his entire adult life in Sweden and he was writing about how the Swedish government had messed up you wouldn’t be calling him anything equivalent.