Gaijin Smash!

So as I think I've mentioned before being a gaijin in Japan gives you a great deal of freedom in an otherwise fairly structured and hierarchal society. No one expects us to be aware of their various and sundry social rules and not only that, in such a polite society everyone is very hesitant to approach us if we do act wrongly. I like to attribute this to what I call 'gaijin fear' or the deeply instilled xenophobia that Japan is historically known for. However this isn't entirely true as my Japanese friends have told me that most people are just too nervous to approach us because of the language barrier and their culture of ignoring instead of confronting as one sees in America and other Western countries. A great many gaijin don't care and love the freedom they are given here and now we are finally getting to the 'Gaijin Smash'. My friend Nathan termed the gaijin smash to describe behavior in which gaijin just blatantly intimidate and ignore any thing that gets in their way. The smash comes from when gaijin come off the last train just wasted and having lost or never bought a ticket just 'smash' through the ticket gate and ignore the Japanese staff who hesitantly call after them. Now behavior like this earns us the reputation we have here, but I mean come on...that is just hilarious. Seeing gaijin out of control over here is like watching Godzilla destroy Tokyo, the Japanese people just flee in terror. Hilarity.