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Frankly I've no idea what any of that had to do with my post. Japan is not America; in a country that's (considered) 98-99% monoracial the sorts of issues you'r
by fenomas 11y ago
Frankly I've no idea what any of that had to do with my post. Japan is not America; in a country that's (considered) 98-99% monoracial the sorts of issues you're talking about basically don't come up.
More broadly, Japan doesn't really concern itself with "race" at all - rather it sees race, culture, ethnicity and nationality as one big indivisible clump. When someone experiences bias or discrimination here, in most cases it'll be all those things at once - i.e. a matter of "not being Japanese", rather than race per se. That's what my friend was commenting on.
- lsaferite 11y agoI think they were just pointing out that equating the racism seen in the US to the racism seen in Japan skews opinions. Racism is racism, no matter how overt or covert. Racism is defined as "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior." While in Japan you may not face much overt 'antagonism', you do, from what I'd read frequently, encounter overt and covert 'prejudice' as a non-Japanese. So, your post referenced a person from the US as an example of Japan not being racism, but that seems like a simple matter of severity based on previous experience.