A commonly met scene at language training schools in Japan is this one: A Western student says to a Chinese student, with a mixture of envy and admiration, "You know kanji. Learning Japanese for you is easy!"
在日本語學校，經常碰到這樣的場面：一名金髮碧眼的「老外」，帶著欽羨又崇拜的口氣，對黑眼黃膚的「老中」說：「你們懂漢字，學日文容易！」