Advice on how to deal with xenophobia?

[Macoleco]

I’ve been living in Japan for around 5 months already for my postgraduate studies.

The experience has been amazing so far. But unfortunately there are some xenophobic classmates in the laboratory.

This has been stressing me lately, although it is partially my fault, as I have been dedicating too much unnecessary thought to it. It is just that it is the first time in my life that I experience something like this.

I have met some very friendly Japanese, and they are what makes it worth it living here. But of course, the laboratory is where I research and spend a a lot of time there.

I decided to post this in Philosophy in case anyone wants to share some writings about a philosopher or philosophy.


Any advice is welcomed. Thank you.

It's hard to do and it takes time but you just have to get over caring what other people think of you, especially the concrete-bound, anti-conceptual mentalities that abound.  It's their problem and not yours.  Find some conceptual people to hand out with and forget about those others.

I’ve been trying. Sometimes I manage to, but then I get the memories back and start wondering the why if their behavior. I need to learn to stop thinking about why people act how they do.

But indeed not caring what they think or say is the best approach. Just need to learn to do it in real time lol