[ SECRET POST #3125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3125 ⌋

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Comments

[herpymcderp]

Ehhhhh they kinda are. Not in an intentional way (mostly) but in a very unaware of international social custom and what actually constitutes racism in other cultures way.

There's also a lot of culture that encourages xenophobia. It's not strictly racist, per se, but it definitely is an issue.

[(Anonymous)]

b-b-but poc can't be racist!

(adding fuel to this amusing fire)

[(Anonymous)]

Japanese people are white, though. What's the matter, don't you watch anime?

[(Anonymous)]

But most people who don't know much about other cultures don't know what actually constitutes racism in other cultures (that includes even the "enlightened" tumblr users that rant about racism in other countries without knowing about the culture there).

Blaming people of being racist only because of that is an issue itself imo.

[(Anonymous)]

Japanese are racist. Mostly to other Asians, though, not to white people as much. I have a pretty strong memory of when I was in university there (as an exchange student) and at some event some students did this skit that was basically just doing a caricature of Koreans and putting on a Korean accent. Everyone laughed. I think a lot more people would be cringing at that sort of thing in North America.

Some of the most overtly racist people I've ever met were Japanese. I worked at a Japanese restaurant (in Canada) and the owner would say such racist stuff in Japanese so customers couldn't understand. She would badmouth Chinese and Koreans and give special service to Japanese. We had a Korean guy working in the kitchen (he could speak okay Japanese) and he called like an hour or two before his shift one day saying he couldn't come because he was sick. That was not enough notice for her, apparently, and she fired him and talked shit about him to me... "Oh, because he's Korean."

It's exceedingly common for Korean Japanese, as second or third generation, to change their surnames to a Japanese one, because otherwise they will be openly be discriminated against by employers. Plus there's the whole thing where third generation Korean Japanese aren't even Japanese citizens, legally speaking, they're "special residents."

So yeah, Japan is pretty fucking racist.

[herpymcderp]

Well, I wasn't going to get into Japanese-Korean race relations since that's... well. A lot like you said, and would take a really, really long post to try to fully explain. It's even more complicated than a few paragraphs can really convey, but tl;dr Japanese people are genetically Korean and they hate being reminded of it.

Because, reasons. Many of those reasons are the same reasons they're xenophobic in general and have a lot to do with traditions about racial "purity" that have been essentially written into law.

But yes, there's real racism at work there, and not the innocent/ignorant kind I was mentioning that they display toward other cultures.