In contrast with some advocates I don't think these processes are malicious so much as middle class forgetting everyone isn't like them.
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My life gets thrown into (brief) chaos every time Japan decides to change the spelling of "McKenzie", which has happened three times.
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While I haven't been successful at convincing the government to not misspell my name I'm capable of understanding it and managing ID fanout.
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Japanese folks naturally don't understand that this could be a thing -- your official name is the one on your family register, "duh."
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"Americans don't have a family register." "Wait what." "I know." "Then you... can't complete this form?" "No, ministerial regulation 136."
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"What's that?" "It's the one that says, in the event a foreigner doing procedure, you write citizenship rather than location of register."
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"That doesn't even make sense." "I mean I agree with you but get out the book." *we get out the book* "Wow you, um, you're not wrong."
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I have a blue folder at home. It includes every non-redundant scrap of paper I've been issued by the government and lots of notes.
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As you might imagine, involvement in the community sometimes exposes me to people who are less sophisticated with regards to compliance.
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This can be very unfortunate for them, of the general flavor "Get run around by state machines because you forgot to get a piece of paper."
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That piece of paper might be e.g. a thing attesting to you being a resident of X City prior to moving from it to Tokyo.
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That piece of paper is something that reads to socially established people as "Trivially available; you just ask for it and pay $3."
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It is rather less trivially available when you find out you needed it by two weeks ago to enroll a kid in school, and must get it in person.
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