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fandomsecrets2007-12-24 05:46 pm
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[ SECRET POST #353 ]
⌈ Secret Post #353 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 200 secrets from Secret Submission Post #051.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 25th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Not OP
You can't really say the level of racism in Japan is the same as the US. In the US we're all pretty diverse (depending where you are of course), whereas Japan throughout is overwhelmingly homogeneous. Racism (including just getting a lot of stares or people pointing at you) is made much more apparent/obvious/blatant in these types of environments that generally don't deal with the issue upfront, and where a lot of the conceptions people have of other cultures/people is based on stereotypes and little else. Certainly there are places in the US that are similar to this, but in general, diversity isn't exactly a novel concept here... It's more a fact of life, right? (Or at least ideally. :P)
Anyway, that's just my take on it... One thing I can appreciate about being American is generally we're quite diverse. A lot of my friends are half this, half that, quarter that (myself included), which I think is really cool.
Re: Not OP
It's fair to assume that racism in Japan is more blatant---it's a more homogeneous society, so they don't necessarily have to cater to the needs of everyone (not saying that this is okay, but the minority populations are so small that blatant racism will have less of an impact on social interactions).
That being said, when my friends tell me that the racism they experienced their was not too different from what they've experienced here, I feel inclined to believe them. Racism in the U.S. probably isn't quite as blatant, but it's taken a more covert form that, in my opinion, is actually much more annoying than overt racism. The United States is a rather diverse country (strictly speaking in numbers, at the very least), but many perceptions are still grounded in stereotypes despite this, and racism is still somewhat of a guarded issue.
But I dunno, perhaps I'm just jaded.
Re: Not OP
Although I don't think covert racism is worse than overt. I'd rather someone not say anything at all than try to declare/show in any way that because I'm different from him/her, I'm somehow less a person.